We are pleased to announce that Sean Hsiang-lin Lei's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China's Modernity has received the 2016 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. Published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press, Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Discusses Xi Jinping’s New Military Position in ChinaFile
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discussed Xi Jinping's new military position in ChinaFile. Professor Nathan wrote this assessment after President Xi recently assumed the title of Commander in Chief of China’s Military, a position that he now holds in addition to his role as Chairman of the Central Military Commission. … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Delivers the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at The Wilson Center
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, delivered the Fourth Annual Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2016. Professor Gluck's lecture was titled "Present Pasts: The Politics of Memory in East Asia." Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (1948-2012), … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Asks “Who is Xi?” in The New York Review of Books
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has published the new article "Who is Xi?" in May 12, 2016 edition of The New York Review of Books. In the article, Professor Nathan explores the political identity of China's President Xi Jinping by analyzing several recent books and articles about the Xi Jinping and about Chinese … [Read more...]
Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, and David Lurie Publish “The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature”
WEAI professors Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, along with Columbia University professor David Lurie, have recently co-edited the landmark book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature. The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. … [Read more...]
