The Japan Times recently paid tribute to Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science, on the eve of his retirement from teaching at Columbia. In the December 12, 2015 article "Gerald Curtis, the Ultimate Insider in Japanese Politics, Retires," Jeff Kingston, a Columbia PhD who teaches at Temple University in Japan, talked with leading academics about Professor … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI “The Age of Irreverence” is featured in the media
Christopher Rea's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press, 2015) has recently been the focus of media attention. Rea, an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, discussed his book with host Carla Nappi on the New Books in East Asian Studies … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes co-edits special issue of “The Journal of Korean Studies”
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes and Dickinson College's Jina Kim have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies entitled Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art. Published in December 2015, Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art takes up the question of what lies in between and across the large spectrum of media that includes … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Wishnick publishes article on “The New China-Russia-U.S. Triangle”
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth A. Wishnick has published a new brief titled "The New China-Russia-U.S. Triangle" for the National Bureau of Asian Research. Professor Wishnick, a Columbia PhD who teaches at Montclair State University, focuses on international relations in Asia and Chinese foreign policy. … [Read more...]
“Aesthetic Life,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives Meiss/Mellon Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Miya Mizuta Lippit's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Aesthetic Life: The Artistic Discourse of Beauty in Modern Japan, has received a 2015 Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award from the College Art Association. Professor Lippit's book, which will be published by the Harvard University Asia Center, is an interdisciplinary … [Read more...]
