The Weatherhead East Asian Institute mourns the death of William Z. Hwa, a donor and supporter who established the Institute's Julie How Fellowship. Named in honor of Mr. Hwa's late wife, who graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Chinese history, the Julie How Fellowship provides support for doctoral students at Columbia who study China in a social science … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes takes part in landmark Korean Literature workshop
Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, travelled to Seoul in July 2016 to take part in the Korea Foundation’s first-ever Korean Literature workshop for PhD students from outside of Korea. The Korean Literature workshop, held on the occasion of the … [Read more...]
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth Wishnick meets with Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth Wishnick (second from right) met in July 2016 with Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a member of a delegation of eight scholars from the United States. The group met with policymakers and scholars to discuss issues in cross-straits and U.S.-Taiwan relations. Since 2002, Professor Wishnick has been a research scholar at WEAI. A … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Discusses Donald Trump’s Potential China Policy in ‘ChinaFile’
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, was one of several experts who contributed to a July 22, 2016 ChinaFile article about what Donald Trump's China policy might look like. "If I were a policy-maker in Beijing, I would love to see Trump as president," Professor Nathan wrote. "With his criticism of the war in Iraq, praise … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks with The New York Daily News about the Dalai Lama
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) talked with The New York Daily News in a July 6, 2016 Q & A about the reality of the Dalai Lama's life on the eve of the spiritual leader's 81st birthday. "His birth name was Lhamo Dhondup. After he was recognized as the Dalai Lama, he was also given a religious name — Tenzin Gyatso. In Tibetan, Gyatso … [Read more...]
