Remote Educator Resources

Asia for Everyone

A one-stop portal featuring free educational resources for teaching and learning about East Asia at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels.

Asia for Educators

Online educational content on East Asia for students and teachers

WEAI on Youtube

A channel updated regularly with interviews, lectures, and panel discussions highlighting the latest in East Asian studies.

Michael Sharpe describes the pros and cons of online…

In an article for the American Association of University Professors, Robin A. Harper and WEAI Research Scholar Michael O. Sharpe, both professors at York College, outlined the benefits and shortcomings of online teaching and learning. “For the administration, students, and faculty, online learning provides some apparent advantages. The administration saves money on infrastructure and the[Read More…]

Qin Gao’s new publication examines COVID-19 as a…

In a new publication, Qin Gao, Professor and Director of the Columbia China Center for Social Policy, joins a team of international interdisciplinary scholars to examine the impacts of COVID-19 and understand policy challenges using a capability framework. The article, titled “COVID-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges,” will appear[Read More…]

Professor Jinyu Liu Develops Guide for Older Adults…

Professor Jinyu Liu has developed a guide to help Chinese caregivers design culturally meaningful indoor activities for their family members with dementia. Click to access the Chinese and English versions of Tips for Caregivers: Indoor Activities for Older Adults with Dementia.

Plans for the Coming Academic Year…

An announcement from the President’s Office Dear fellow members of the Columbia community: It is now the moment to focus our attention on how the University will operate in the coming academic year. As you might imagine, no decisions in our history have been taken with more seriousness, care, or rigor than the ones[Read More…]

Ann Marie Murphy writes NBR essay on the geopolitical…

In a new essay for the National Bureau of Asian Research titled “What’s Past is Prologue: The Geopolitical Significance of COVID-19 for Southeast Asia,” WEAI Research Scholar Ann Marie Murphy discusses the impact of COVID-19 on Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on relations between the US, China, and the countries of the region. “In Southeast Asia,[Read More…]

Read Marie Myung-ok Lee’s op-ed: ‘President…

In a May 13 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Marie Myung-ok Lee, writer-in-residence at Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, compares responses to COVID-19 in the US and in South Korea. Read the article here.

Lydia Liu writes article: ‘The Incalculable:…

In a May 26 post for Critical Inquiry‘s “Posts from the Pandemic” blog, WEAI Professor Lydia Liu discusses the US’s failure to prevent and contain the COVID-19 outbreak despite having “the world’s most advanced biosecurity regime.” “With our best-funded research, farsighted preparations, carefully designed simulation exercises, and timely warnings, we are supposed to outperform all[Read More…]

Gerald Curtis quoted in Reuters article ‘Own…

A May 25 article in Reuters describes how a “string of controversial missteps [that has] slashed public approval ratings for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [could] could threaten to end his term early, even as he lifted a state of emergency after the rate of coronavirus infections declined.” Abe’s response to the pandemic, which critics[Read More…]

WEAI launches 2020 issue of The Reed in newly…

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce the release of the Spring 2020 issue of The Reed. Starting this issue, the long-running newsletter series is taking on a new format, with each issue curated around a specific topic determined by student essay contest. This year, we congratulate GS student Jaimee Prass for her[Read More…]

Thomas J. Christensen authors policy brief, “A…

Professor Thomas J. Christensen’s policy brief titled “A Modern Tragedy? COVID-19 and U.S.-China Relations” appeared in Brookings this month. In the brief, Christensen invokes the standards of ancient Greek drama to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential tragedy in U.S.-China relations and a potential tragedy for the world, in which initial mismanagement of the[Read More…]