We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Diana Fu’s “Mobilizing Without the Masses”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Diana Fu, an assistant professor of Asian politics at the University of Toronto. Mobilizing Without the Masses was awarded the 2018 Gregory … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Writes About “The Chinese World Order” in The New York Review of Books
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has published the new article "The Chinese World Order" in the October 12, 2017 edition of The New York Review of Books. In the article, Professor Nathan reviews three new books on China's global power: The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Alexander Zahlten’s “The End of Japanese Cinema”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times, and Media Ecologies, published by Duke University Press. The book's author is Alexander Zahlten, an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. In The End of … [Read more...]
The Center for Korean Research is Offering 2018-19 AKS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Korean Studies
The Center for Korean Research in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University is currently inviting applications for its 2018-2019 Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Center is searching for a scholar who conducts Korea-related research in any discipline in the humanities or social sciences. We are particularly interested in … [Read more...]
