WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth A. Wishnick has published a new brief titled "The New China-Russia-U.S. Triangle" for the National Bureau of Asian Research. Professor Wishnick, a Columbia PhD who teaches at Montclair State University, focuses on international relations in Asia and Chinese foreign policy. … [Read more...]
“Aesthetic Life,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives Meiss/Mellon Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Miya Mizuta Lippit's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Aesthetic Life: The Artistic Discourse of Beauty in Modern Japan, has received a 2015 Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award from the College Art Association. Professor Lippit's book, which will be published by the Harvard University Asia Center, is an interdisciplinary … [Read more...]
WEAI welcomes new faculty member Ying Qian
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Ying Qian, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, to the Columbia faculty. Professor Qian, who earned her PhD from Harvard University, studies Chinese film, literature, and media. Her current research focus is on Chinese documentary cinema. In the following Q & A, Professor Qian discusses her scholarship … [Read more...]
Lydia H. Liu appointed director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Lydia H. Liu, the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, has been appointed the Director of Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) provides institutional support for cross-disciplinary and cross-regional comparative work, acknowledging the force of recent changes in the … [Read more...]
WEAI director Eugenia Lean discusses the Institute with China Review News
WEAI director Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, was recently interviewed by China Review News about the history and current activities of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. To read the article (in Chinese), please click here. … [Read more...]
