We are pleased to announce that the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, co-edited by Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, and Ben Hillman, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's Crawford School, was listed as … [Read more...]
Duncan McCargo writes in Nikkei Asian Review about Cambodia’s 2018 General Election
Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds, wrote a June 8, 2017 article in the Nikkei Asian Review titled "Local Poll Leaves Hun Sen Looking Vulnerable in 2018 Election" about what the outcomes in recent local elections in Cambodia may mean for the general election in 2018. … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Hosts International Exchange between the China Association of Social Workers and Columbia’s School of Social Work
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Centre for Social Policy, at Columbia University, hosted the first international exchange between members of the China Association of Social Workers (CASW) and the Columbia School of Social Work. The meeting took place on April 3, 2017 at Columbia University. “Working with CASW is an historic opportunity … [Read more...]
Watch Min Jin Lee Discuss Her Acclaimed New Novel “Pachinko”
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share an April 11, 2017 interview with Min Jin Lee, author of the acclaimed new novel Pachinko. During the interview, Ms. Lee discusses the experiences and research that led her to write the novel, which follows four generations of an ethnic Korean family living in Japan from 1910 to … [Read more...]
Gerald L. Curtis Writes in East Asia Forum About the Current State of Japan’s Democratic Party
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, wrote about the current state of Japan's Democratic Party in an April 30, 2017 East Asia Review article titled "Japan's Democratic Party Doomed to Opposition." "Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, may have taken a hit in the polls over recent weeks, but the prospect that the … [Read more...]
