The Center for Korean Research at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that it has launched its newly redesigned Journal of Korean Studies website. Please visit the new address at http://jks.archive.weai.columbia.edu/ The Journal of Korean Studies (JKS) is dedicated to publishing quality articles, in all disciplines, on a broad range of topics … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Justin Reeves, the Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Modern Japanese Politics
Justin Reeves is the 2015-2016 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Modern Japanese Politics at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He holds a B.A. in both Japanese and Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and recently obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include comparative … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Tucker Harding, the Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Digital Humanities
Tucker Harding is the 2015-2016 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Digital Humanities at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is an educator and theorist working on questions pertaining to the nature, qualities and consequences of educational thought and forms of study. His current focus is on the pedagogy of culture and the history of educational thought in East … [Read more...]
WEAI welcomes faculty member Yao Lu
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Yao Lu, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Lu, who earned her PhD from UCLA, focuses on social stratification and inequality by primarily examining the social and political development in contemporary China, and how migration intersects with micro- and macro-level social and … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks with CNN about China’s Shutdown of Foreign Tourism to Tibet
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) talked with CNN on February 25, 2016 about China's shutdown on overseas travel to Tibet through the end of March 2016. In the article, Professor Barnett discusses the importance of foreign tourism to Chinese businesses and to the Tibetan economy. Read the article here. … [Read more...]
