China’s Philological Turn by Ori Sela earns AAS Joseph Levenson Prize – Honorable Mention - Ori Sela’s Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century, won an honorable mention for the 2020 Joseph Levenson […]
Myron Cohen interviewed on his work in Chinese anthropology - Professor Myron Cohen was recently interviewed on “Collaborations, Legacies, and Shifts in Chinese Anthropology” for the International Sociological Association’s e-Symposium July issue on his long career studying Chinese anthropology. In […]
Michael C. Davis writes on Hong Kong’s loss of autonomy from mainland China - In a July 2 article in Foreign Affairs titled “Hong Kong is Part of the Mainland Now,” WEAI Research Scholar Michael C. Davis wrote about recent developments in Hong Kong, […]
Andrew Nathan and Michael Davis discuss Hong Kong as new security law takes effect - WEAI Professors Andrew J. Nathan and Michael C. Davis participated in two virtual panels hosted by Hong Kong Democracy Council US on Beijing’s new security law over Hong Kong, which […]
Yao Lu wins two ASA awards for article on migration and collective action in rural China - Professor Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, has received two prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA) for her recent publication on migration and collective action in rural China. […]
Michael C. Davis quoted in New York Times article on Chinese security law in Hong Kong - WEAI Research Scholar Michael C. Davis was quoted in a June 20 article in The New York Times titled “Law Will Tighten Beijing’s Grip on Hong Kong With Chinese Security […]
WEAI Author Q&A: Benno Weiner’s “The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier” - We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier published by Cornell University […]
WEAI Author Q&A: Andrew Liu’s “Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India” - We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India published by Yale University Press. […]
Interview: Eugenia Lean on her new book “Vernacular Industrialism in China” - Early 20th-century romance novelist Chen Diexian (1879-1940) is best remembered today for his contribution to the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies” genre of fiction. But Chen’s literary background served him far […]
WEAI hosts student discussion with writer, translator, and alumnus Mike Fu - On Wednesday, February 26th, writer and translator Mike Fu spoke with a group of students from the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) department and the MA in Regional […]
Exploring Hybrid Identities with Writer and Filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - WEAI Writer-in-Residence Xiaolu Guo explored the concept of hybrid identities in a dialogue on February 25, 2020, with Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of […]
WEAI and Hunter Chinese Flagship Center cohost innovative workshop for Chinese teachers - On Saturday, February 15, 2020, Hunter College’s Chinese Flagship Program and Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute had the honor of jointly hosting a Professional Development Workshop under the direction […]
Interview: Xiaolu Guo on the universal human narrative and creating a hybrid voice - Xiaolu Guo is a British/Chinese novelist, essayist, and filmmaker. She currently holds a position as Writer-In-Residence at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia […]
Memoir of China’s Past Offers Lessons for Present - A newly translated memoir by the Chinese business leader Lan Yan provides an eye-opening view into China’s past. Published more than 50 years after the start of China’s Cultural […]
Interview: Maria Adele Carrai on Sovereignty in China - Sovereignty has become something of a modern buzzword, used by world leaders and diplomats in the United Nations and other international settings to further states’ political goals. But where did […]
Alumni Feature: Mike Fu, translator of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao - In 1973, a Taiwanese woman by the name of Sanmao made her way to the turbulent Spanish Sahara. She trekked through cultural and linguistic barriers, romance, solitude, and mirages, before […] Michael Davis writes Nikkei Asian Review opinion piece on new Hong Kong leadership - In a recent opinion article in the Nikkei Asian Review titled “Listening should be first job for Beijing’s new man in Hong Kong,” WEAI Research Scholar Michael C. Davis highlighted […]
Forum examines impacts and future of urbanization in China - The 6th Urban China Forum was successfully held in Avery Hall on October 5, 2019. The event was organized by the Urban Planning Program and Urban China Center (GSAPP) and […]
Madeleine Zelin to deliver 2019 series of Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures - Professor Madeleine Zelin has been selected to deliver the 27th series of the prestigious Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures. This year’s lecture series is titled “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for […]
Shang-Jin Wei quoted in NPR article on China’s economic slowdown and the trade war - Professor Shang-Jin Wei addressed the ongoing trade war and its effects on China’s economy in a recent National Public Radio news article, “Has the Trade War Taken a Bite Out […]
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Joshua Wong and Brian Leung Hold Dialogue with Students - Joshua Wong and Kai Ping (Brian) Leung, two vocal activists in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition bill protests, visited Columbia on September 13 to speak with students about demonstrators’ aims and […]
Student Profile: Andrew Wortham - Andrew Wortham is a graduate student of Anthropology at Columbia Teachers College, where his work is focused on emerging LGBT communities in China. He has received support from WEAI in […]
Qin Gao publishes new article linking Dibao welfare participation and life satisfaction in rural China - WEAI’s Professor Qin Gao has published an article with Beijing Normal University’s Professor Huawei Han in the Journal of Happiness Studies. The article, titled “Does Welfare Participation Improve Life Satisfaction? […]
July 13 Event: Alumni Reception & Reporting Asia Panel - On July 13, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosted an alumni reception and the latest talk in the Reporting Asia series at the Columbia Global Center in Beijing. […]
Andrew Nathan comments on US-China “visa war” in SCMP report - Professor Andrew Nathan was quoted in a recent South China Morning Post article titled “US and China must stop ‘race to bottom’ in blocking academic visas, say American scholars.” In […]
“China’s Real Estate Boom: Opportunities and Challenges” - The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, and the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate are pleased to announce the Ninth Annual N.T Wang […]
WEAI Author Q&A: Corey Byrnes’s “Fixing Landscape” - Corey Byrnes. Fixing Landscape. Columbia University Press, 2019.Tues. Feb. 5th “The Worldliest Minority: Chinese Muslims and the Global History of Guomindang Nation-Building, 1927-1949” - Brown Bag Lecture with John Chen, Lecturer and Wm. Theodore de Bary Postdoctoral Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 12:00 PM-1:30 PM in IAB, Room 918.
Tues. April 9th: “Garu Lobzang Sherap: A Tibetan Painter at the Qing Court” - This Brown Bag Lecture features Tsangwang Gendun Tenpa, Director and Chief Curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum and will be moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. In International Affairs Building, Room 918: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM
WEAI Author Q&A: David Ambaras’s “Japan’s Imperial Underworlds” - Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society and the Insane in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
WEAI Author Q&A: Emily Baum’s “The Invention of Madness” - Emily Baum. The Invention of Madness: State, Society and the Insane in Modern China. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism - Robert Culp. The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China - Martin Fromm. Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 - Alyssa M. Park. Sovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2019)
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines - Reo Matsuzaki. Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines (Cornell University Press, 2019)