Stephen E. Noerper, Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, spoke on both CNN and NY1 on August 11, 2017 about the escalating threats between North Korea and President Trump. Professor Noerper, who is also a senior director with The Korea Society and a former senior analyst at the U.S. Department of State, discussed the realities … [Read more...]
Eugenia Lean meets in Summer 2017 with Taipei’s Mayor and Columbia Alumni in Taiwan
Eugenia Lean, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, met on August 1, 2017 with Ko Wen-je, the Mayor of Taipei, to discuss continued cooperation between Taipei and the Columbia University community. Mayor Ko Wen-je and Professor Lean were joined by Steven Pan, a Columbia Business School alumnus and … [Read more...]
The Columbia University Community Remembers Prof. Wm. Theodore de Bary (1919-2017)
Members of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute community and the larger Columbia University community have been paying tribute to the late Wm. Theodore de Bary, the John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus, who helped pioneer the study of the Asian humanities in the United States and who was a dedicated teacher and mentor to generations of Columbia students. … [Read more...]
Bloomberg News Reports on Takatoshi Ito’s Career and the Possibility He Could be Considered to Lead the Bank of Japan
Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, was the subject of a July 26, 2017 Bloomberg article that discussed his distinguished career as an economist and the possibility he could be considered for the job of Governor of the Bank of … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Remembers Liu Xiaobo in Foreign Affairs Magazine
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote a July 13, 2017 article in Foreign Affairs titled "Remembering Liu Xiaobo: The West's Responsibility in Upholding His Legacy." Following the death of Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who had been jailed for the last eight years of his life, Professor Nathan discusses the … [Read more...]
