The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 8, 2016 video in which Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, discusses the possible ways the Trump Administration may affect U.S.-East Asia economic and political relations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsaiJKOaBM4& Please click here to see the … [Read more...]
Learn About New 2016-17 Books in the Studies of the WEAI Series
We are pleased to showcase new and forthcoming titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series. The Studies of the WEAI series was inaugurated in 1962 to bring to public attention the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia. The books are published by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of East Asia … [Read more...]
Gerald L. Curtis talks to Reuters about Shinzo Abe’s Pearl Harbor Visit
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, was quoted in a December 5, 2016 Reuters article on Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming historic visit to Pearl Harbor. "The planning for a Pearl Harbor visit has been in the works ever since Obama visited Hiroshima. It's mostly a reciprocal gesture and symbolic of the U.S. … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Nicholas Bartlett
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society at Barnard College, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Bartlett, who earned his PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, specializes in medical and psychological anthropology, addiction and recovery, civil … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Paul Kreitman
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Kreitman, who earned his PhD from Princeton in 2015, specializes in environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. In the following Q & A, Professor Kreitman discusses his scholarship and … [Read more...]
