Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Center for Social Policy, at Columbia University, was quoted in the November 26, 2017 South China Morning Post article "Tales from Beijing and Hong Kong Show Challenge of Fighting Poverty, Especially Among Working Poor." Professor Gao, a leading expert on social policy in China, told the newspaper that … [Read more...]
WEAI Publishes Spring 2018 Graduate and Undergraduate Course Bulletins
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to report that its Spring 2018 Graduate and Undergraduate Course Bulletins are now available. For the graduate bulletin, please click here. For the undergraduate bulletin, please click here. The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Course Bulletins are intended to provide a listing of East Asia-related graduate, undergraduate, and … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Talks with Sinovision and Asia Now About Her New Book on Social Assistance in China
In November 2017, Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, discussed her recently published book Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017) with Sinovision and with the Association for Asian Studies' Asia Now blog. Professor Gao's book provides the … [Read more...]
“Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire,” Co-Edited by Theodore Hughes, Named Daesan Prize Finalist
We are pleased to announce that Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire, co-edited by Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, was named a Finalist for the Daesan Literary Translation Prize. The Daesan Literary Translation Prize, South Korea's most … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the State of the Vietnam War in 1967 on C-SPAN3
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, discussed the state of the Vietnam War in 1967 on a C-SPAN3 forum on November 11, 2017. Professor Nguyen joined historian Mark Atwood Lawrence of the University of Texas at Austin to take viewer calls and answer tweets about the war in Vietnam, … [Read more...]
