In November 2017, Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, discussed her recently published book Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Sinovision and with the Association for Asian Studies' Asia Now blog. Professor Gao's book provides the … [Read more...]
“Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire,” Co-Edited by Theodore Hughes, Named Daesan Prize Finalist
We are pleased to announce that Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire, co-edited by Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, was named a Finalist for the Daesan Literary Translation Prize. The Daesan Literary Translation Prize, South Korea's most … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the State of the Vietnam War in 1967 on C-SPAN3
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, discussed the state of the Vietnam War in 1967 on a C-SPAN3 forum on November 11, 2017. Professor Nguyen joined historian Mark Atwood Lawrence of the University of Texas at Austin to take viewer calls and answer tweets about the war in Vietnam, … [Read more...]
Asian Security Journal Features Articles from WEAI Conference on Southeast Asian Foreign Policy
We are pleased to announce that a special issue of the journal Asian Security features papers from the November 10, 2016 Weatherhead East Asian Institute conference "Great Power Rivalries, Domestic Politics and Southeast Asian Foreign Policy," which received funding from the Dorothy Borg Research Program. The collected papers are available in Asian Security, Volume 13, … [Read more...]
Chinese Fashion Project “Thunderclap” Spreads Writings Featured in the Weatherhead Book on Asia “The Birth of Chinese Feminism”
A steganographic fashion zine in China called "Thunderclap" has used clothing to politically instrumentalize the writings of He-Yin Zhen (1886-1920?), whose groundbreaking theoretical texts on Chinese feminism were translated into English for the first time in the 2013 Weatherhead Book on Asia The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, co-edited by … [Read more...]
