On July 13, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosted an alumni reception and the latest talk in the Reporting Asia series at the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. The event was well attended and drew a crowd of more than 130 attendees. Keith Bradsher, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times and the company's senior … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Tenzin Dongchung
Tenzin Dongchung is a second year PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department (EALAC) and a recipient of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation (SYLFF) summer grant through the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI). Her research explores the Tibetan Buddhist material culture history through the spread of printing houses during the Qing dynasty. … [Read more...]
Qin Gao publishes new article in Journal of Asian Public Policy
Professor Qin Gao (with coauthors Fuhua Zhai and Xiaoran Wang) published a new article entitled "Education and Gender Gap in Couples' Time Use: Evidence from China" in the Journal of Asian Public Policy. Using the 2010 China Family Panel Studies data, this article provides new evidence on education and gender gap in time use among Chinese couples. Across urban and rural areas … [Read more...]
Andrew Nathan writes Foreign Affairs article on US-China trade war
Professor Andrew Nathan discussed the Chinese perspective in Sino-US trade talks in a new article for Foreign Affairs titled "How China Really Sees the Trade War." According to Nathan, US President Donald Trump must "decide whether to accept the Chinese offer that has been on the table ever since early 2017 and end the trade war or to allow the US and Chinese economies to drift … [Read more...]
Yokohama’s economic history threads together two WEAI titles in JAS review
A review of two titles in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's publication series roster was recently published in the Journal of Asian Studies. In the journal's May 2019 issue, Eric C. Han, author of Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama 1894-1972, discusses Yasuhiro Makimura's Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, … [Read more...]
