We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920, published by Stanford University Press. The book’s author is Shellen Xiao Wu, an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In this study about the international … [Read more...]
GROWING UP WITH GODZILLA
WEAI professor Gregory M. Pflugfelder has launched an interactive educational resource about the history of the Japanese monster movie GODZILLA. … [Read more...]
Fellowship Report: Junjie Jiang
Columbia University senior Junjie Jiang describes her research on Phoenix, a work by contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing, and the Weatherhead Undergraduate Summer Training Grant that made it possible. For more information regarding fellowships, please click here. Junjie Jiang WEAI Undergraduate Training Grant Fellowship Report 09/04/14 I am a senior in East … [Read more...]
Conference: “Beyond Modernity: Understanding Change in China”
Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, has been a key member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute community since joining Columbia’s faculty in 1979. In addition to directing the Institute from 1992-1993 and from 1995-2001, she has mentored generations of undergraduates, MARSEA students, and PhD students. During the 35 years that Professor Zelin has … [Read more...]
A New Retrospective on Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Discussion with Organizer Richard Suchenski
On Friday, September 12, 2014, the Museum of the Moving Image will launch a retrospective of the films by Taiwan's celebrated director Hou Hsiao-hsien. The internationally-touring series, titled "Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien," runs through October 17 in New York and includes all of the director's seventeen feature films. The retrospective will also showcase … [Read more...]
