The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University is excited to introduce you to Asia For Everyone, a one-of-a-kind new website that offers the public a bridge to cutting-edge resources for teaching and learning about East Asia. Visitors to Asia For Everyone are greeted with a portal to seven websites that supply free teaching modules, sample syllabi, and learning … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI author Celeste Arrington Publishes Op-Ed on Comfort Women in the Washington Post
Celeste Arrington, author of the forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2016), wrote an op-ed in the January 13, 2016 Washington Post about the agreement between Japan and South Korea surrounding redress over the "comfort women" issue. … [Read more...]
Gray Tuttle Discusses Tibetan Studies on the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, recently spoke on the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast about The Tibetan History Reader (Columbia University Press, 2013), which he co-edited with Kurtis Schaeffer, and Sources of Tibetan Tradition (Columbia University Press, 2013), which he co-edited with Schaeffer … [Read more...]
Andrew Nathan Discusses China in 2016 in ChinaFile
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, recently offered his thoughts about the issues that China may face in 2016 in ChinaFile. In the article, Professor Nathan discusses that the dangers that President Xi Jinping's concentration of power may cause. Please click here to read the article. … [Read more...]
The Asahi Shimbun interviews Gerald L. Curtis about Japan’s Diplomacy
The Asahi Shimbun recently interviewed Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, about Japan's current diplomacy efforts. In the article, Professor Curtis argues that the nature of Japan’s diplomacy can best be characterized as a “coping strategy." “A coping strategy does not seek to set the international agenda; instead it takes the … [Read more...]
