Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History, was named a recipient of the 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. This announcement follows another recent honor: In November 2019, Professor Zelin also delivered the annual Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture. Professor Zelin delivered three lectures on the theme: "China … [Read more...]
Year in Review: 2019
In 2019 the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) marked 70 years of groundbreaking scholarship on East and Southeast Asia. As a dynamic hub for research, teaching, and public programming on the region, the Institute brought together scholars from across the academy with a year of initiatives and events that honored the Institute’s founding, celebrated … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin delivers 2019 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
Professor Madeleine Zelin delivered three lectures as part of the 27th Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture series on November 11, 18, and 25, 2019. In her lectures on the theme of "China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century," Professor Zelin discussed her scholarship on Chinese legal history, beginning with the … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Fei-Hsien Wang’s “Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China published by Princeton University Press. The book’s author, Fei-Hsien Wang, is assistant professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also a research associate at the Centre for … [Read more...]
Shang-Jin Wei quoted in Xinhua article on US-China economic decoupling
Professor Shang-Jin Wei was quoted in a December 7, 2019 roundup article by Xinhua news agency titled "Experts say US-China economic decoupling to leave US decoupled from world." "Contrary to the notion that China is the most important economic competitor to the United States, Wei, also former chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, said that the two economies are … [Read more...]
