Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has published the new article "China: Back to the Future" in the May 10, 2018 edition of The New York Review of Books. In the article, Professor Nathan writes about Xi Jinping's efforts to centralize his power, including the recent constitutional amendment in China that abolished term … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Daniel Koss’s “Where the Party Rules”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China's Communist State, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Daniel Koss, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica, Taipei, who earned his PhD in Government … [Read more...]
New Q&A with Takako Hikotani
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a Q&A with Takako Hikotani, who is serving a term appointment as the Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Columbia University. Professor Hikotani focuses on civil-military relations and Japanese domestic politics, Japanese foreign policy, and comparative civil-military … [Read more...]
WEAI Adjunct Prof. Stephen Noerper Appears on Bloomberg Markets to Discuss U.S.-North Korea Talks
Stephen E. Noerper, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, appeared on Bloomberg Markets TV on April 18, 2018 to discuss the potential high level talks between the United States and North Korea and the potential Inter-Korean summit meeting. Watch Professor Noerper's Bloomberg Markets TV appearance here. Professor Noerper's … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin Speaks at Fordham About Late Imperial Chinese Business Practice
On April 13, 2018, Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, spoke about the customary and legal context for late imperial Chinese business practice at the Fordham Workshop on Business Organization in History, a program sponsored by the Fordham Corporate Law Center. A pioneering scholar of the study of Chinese legal and economic … [Read more...]
