Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in the October 31, 2017 Washington Post article "Xi Showed His Hand, Now It's Trump's Turn to Play His Cards in Asia." The article is about Xi Jinping's recent address at the 19th Communist Party Congress that asserted that China should play a more dominant role in Asia. … [Read more...]
Sheena Greitens’ Study of the WEAI “Dictators and Their Secret Police” Wins APSA and ISA Best Book Awards
We congratulate Sheena Chestnut Greitens, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence was named the co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Comparative … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Makes Video Presentation to the UNDP about Universal Basic Income in China
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, recently made a video presentation to the United Nations Development Programme about lessons from China's Dibao system that might help inform a Universal Basic Income (UBI) program for China. Professor Gao's presentation was part of an event about UBI that … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, October 20, 2017. Professor Nguyen's lecture is titled "Rethinking the Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later." Although the Tet Offensive … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Hilary A. Smith’s “Forgotten Disease”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
