WEAI professor Theodore Hughes and Dickinson College's Jina Kim have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies entitled Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art. Published in December 2015, Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art takes up the question of what lies in between and across the large spectrum of media that includes … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Wishnick publishes article on “The New China-Russia-U.S. Triangle”
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth A. Wishnick has published a new brief titled "The New China-Russia-U.S. Triangle" for the National Bureau of Asian Research. Professor Wishnick, a Columbia PhD who teaches at Montclair State University, focuses on international relations in Asia and Chinese foreign policy. … [Read more...]
Lydia H. Liu appointed director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Lydia H. Liu, the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, has been appointed the Director of Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) provides institutional support for cross-disciplinary and cross-regional comparative work, acknowledging the force of recent changes in the … [Read more...]
Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt co-edit new book on Chinese State Capitalism
In November 2015, Oxford University Press will publish a new book co-edited by WEAI professors Benjamin L. Liebman and Curtis J. Milhaupt titled Regulating the Visible Hand?: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism. The book examines the domestic and global consequences of Chinese state capitalism, focusing on the impact of state-owned enterprises on … [Read more...]
WEAI director Eugenia Lean selected for Columbia’s 2015-17 Provost Leadership Fellows Program
WEAI director Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, is one of thirteen Columbia faculty members selected by the University to serve in its 2015-2017 Provost Leadership Fellows Program. The program is designed for faculty members at Columbia who seek to complement their research and scholarly activities with administrative and leadership responsibilities. … [Read more...]
