Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discusses the summit meeting between Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and China President Xi Jinping in Singapore in The New York Times and in ChinaFile … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck moderates events on War and Memory at Columbia Global Centers I East Asia in Beijing
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, participated in the October 15, 2015 Global Think-in: Facing History Squarely - "The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere" at Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, Beijing. Moderated by Professor Gluck, panelists discussed the politics of memory of … [Read more...]
“Inheritance of Loss,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives AAS Subvention Award
We are pleased to announce that Yukiko Koga's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Inheritance of Loss: The Political Economy of Redemption After Empire, has received a First Book Award subvention from the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Koga's book, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016, explores how the current … [Read more...]
WEAI Invites Columbia Faculty & PhD Students to Apply for Workshops and Conferences Program
This year we are continuing the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Workshop and Conference Program, established thirteen years ago as one of a number of exciting new programs supported by the Richard W. Weatherhead Fund. The purpose of the Program is to encourage faculty members to explore new ways of looking at the modern East Asian Region through small-scale conferences, … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan presents lecture on the “Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class”
On October 20, 2015, Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, presented the National Endowment for Democracy's 2015 Lipset Lecture, "The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class," at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. Watch the complete video of the lecture below: The Lipset lecture is named for one of the great … [Read more...]
