We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Alexander C. Cook, a Columbia PhD who teaches history at the University of California, Berkeley. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers 2017-2018 Funding Opportunities to Graduate & Undergraduate Students
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is currently offering funding for research, language acquisition, unpaid internships, and dissertation write-up during the summer and the academic year to selected Columbia students committed to professional and academic engagement with East and Southeast Asia. The deadline for summer 2017 and academic year 2017-2018 WEAI fellowships and … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI receive recognition from the Association for Asian Studies
We are delighted to share the news that two recent titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series, Christopher Rea's The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China and Federico Marcon's The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, have been recognized for their outstanding scholarship by the Association for … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: G. Clinton Godart’s “Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book's author is G. Clinton Godart, who teaches history at Hokkaido University. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan writes in Foreign Affairs about Xu Zhiyong and the democracy movement in China
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "A China of Citizens: Xu Zhiyong's Quest for a Free China" in the January 13, 2017 edition of Foreign Affairs. In the article, Professor Nathan writes about democracy activist Xu Zhiyong, noting "Xu’s strategy involved using social media to draw attention to the … [Read more...]
