Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four … [Read more...]
Andrew Nathan quoted in Washington Post article on Bloomberg ties to China
Professor Andrew Nathan was quoted in a January 1 article in the Washington Post titled "Bloomberg’s business in China has grown. That could create unprecedented entanglements if he is elected president." The article highlighted potential conflicts of interest for Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, who, if elected to the presidency, would need to negotiate … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin awarded 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History, was named a recipient of the 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. This announcement follows another recent honor: In November 2019, Professor Zelin also delivered the annual Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture. Professor Zelin delivered three lectures on the theme: "China … [Read more...]
Year in Review: 2019
In 2019 the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) marked 70 years of groundbreaking scholarship on East and Southeast Asia. As a dynamic hub for research, teaching, and public programming on the region, the Institute brought together scholars from across the academy with a year of initiatives and events that honored the Institute’s founding, celebrated … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin delivers 2019 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
Professor Madeleine Zelin delivered three lectures as part of the 27th Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture series on November 11, 18, and 25, 2019. In her lectures on the theme of "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century," Professor Zelin discussed her scholarship on Chinese legal history, beginning with the … [Read more...]
