The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Ying Qian, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, to the Columbia faculty. Professor Qian, who earned her PhD from Harvard University, studies Chinese film, literature, and media. Her current research focus is on Chinese documentary cinema. In the following Q & A, Professor Qian discusses her scholarship … [Read more...]
Lydia H. Liu appointed director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Lydia H. Liu, the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, has been appointed the Director of Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) provides institutional support for cross-disciplinary and cross-regional comparative work, acknowledging the force of recent changes in the … [Read more...]
WEAI director Eugenia Lean discusses the Institute with China Review News
WEAI director Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, was recently interviewed by China Review News about the history and current activities of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. To read the article (in Chinese), please click here. … [Read more...]
Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt co-edit new book on Chinese State Capitalism
In November 2015, Oxford University Press will publish a new book co-edited by WEAI professors Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt titled Regulating the Visible Hand?: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism. The book examines the domestic and global consequences of Chinese state capitalism, focusing on the impact of state-owned enterprises on … [Read more...]
Steffen Rimner to chair panel on “Memory and the Legacy of Violence in East Asia”
WEAI's 2015-2016 INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar Steffen Rimner will chair a panel at the conference "The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence, and Contested Memories of the Past," which will take place from December 3 through December 5 at Columbia University. Organized by Columbia University's Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network, the three-day conference … [Read more...]
