Andrew Wortham is a graduate student of Anthropology at Columbia Teachers College, where his work is focused on emerging LGBT communities in China. He has received support from WEAI in various forms since 2016, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) awards and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, for Chinese language study to support his … [Read more...]
Qin Gao publishes new article linking Dibao welfare participation and life satisfaction in rural China
WEAI's Professor Qin Gao has published an article with Beijing Normal University's Professor Huawei Han in the Journal of Happiness Studies. The article, titled "Does Welfare Participation Improve Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Panel Data in Rural China" uses recent national longitudinal survey data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2012 and 2014 and a combination of … [Read more...]
July 13 Event: Alumni Reception & Reporting Asia Panel
On July 13, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosted an alumni reception and the latest talk in the Reporting Asia series at the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. The event was well attended and drew a crowd of more than 130 attendees. Keith Bradsher, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Shanghai bureau chief for The New York Times and the company's senior … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Tenzin Dongchung
Tenzin Dongchung is a second year PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department (EALAC) and a recipient of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation (SYLFF) summer grant through the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI). Her research explores the Tibetan Buddhist material culture history through the spread of printing houses during the Qing dynasty. … [Read more...]
Qin Gao publishes new article in Journal of Asian Public Policy
Professor Qin Gao (with coauthors Fuhua Zhai and Xiaoran Wang) published a new article entitled "Education and Gender Gap in Couples' Time Use: Evidence from China" in the Journal of Asian Public Policy. Using the 2010 China Family Panel Studies data, this article provides new evidence on education and gender gap in time use among Chinese couples. Across urban and rural areas … [Read more...]
