WEAI director Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, is one of thirteen Columbia faculty members selected by the University to serve in its 2015-2017 Provost Leadership Fellows Program. The program is designed for faculty members at Columbia who seek to complement their research and scholarly activities with administrative and leadership responsibilities. … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers Chinese Language FLAS to an Eligible CUNY Student
The Columbia University East Asia National Resource Center for the expansion of the study of the languages and culture of East Asia is making one Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) summer grant for the study of Chinese language available to eligible CUNY students. Summer FLAS fellowships are intended to help students gain the equivalent of a year's worth of … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan discusses the China-Taiwan Summit Meeting in The New York Times and in ChinaFile
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discusses the summit meeting between Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and China President Xi Jinping in Singapore in The New York Times and in ChinaFile … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck moderates events on War and Memory at Columbia Global Centers I East Asia in Beijing
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, participated in the October 15, 2015 Global Think-in: Facing History Squarely - "The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere" at Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, Beijing. Moderated by Professor Gluck, panelists discussed the politics of memory of … [Read more...]
“Inheritance of Loss,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives AAS Subvention Award
We are pleased to announce that Yukiko Koga's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Inheritance of Loss: The Political Economy of Redemption After Empire, has received a First Book Award subvention from the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Koga's book, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016, explores how the current … [Read more...]
