Tucker Harding is the 2015-2016 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Digital Humanities at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is an educator and theorist working on questions pertaining to the nature, qualities and consequences of educational thought and forms of study. His current focus is on the pedagogy of culture and the history of educational thought in East … [Read more...]
WEAI welcomes faculty member Yao Lu
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Yao Lu, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Lu, who earned her PhD from UCLA, focuses on social stratification and inequality by primarily examining the social and political development in contemporary China, and how migration intersects with micro- and macro-level social and … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks with CNN about China’s Shutdown of Foreign Tourism to Tibet
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) talked with CNN on February 25, 2016 about China's shutdown on overseas travel to Tibet through the end of March 2016. In the article, Professor Barnett discusses the importance of foreign tourism to Chinese businesses and to the Tibetan economy. Read the article here. … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin to Deliver Keynote Speech at NC State’s History Weekend
Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, will give a keynote speech at North Carolina State University's History Weekend on March 19, 2016. The 2016 History Weekend theme is "Rethinking the Roots of Modern China." Professor Zelin's talk is titled “Freedom and the Economy of Late Imperial China." Professor … [Read more...]
Columbia University Press Publishes Final Book by JaHyun Kim Haboush
Columbia University Press has recently published the final book by JaHyun Kim Haboush (1940-2011), who was a WEAI faculty member and the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University. Titled The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation, Haboush's book explores the Imjin War (1592–1598), which was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the … [Read more...]
