Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four … [Read more...]
The East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia: Seeding the future of East Asian studies
When the East Asian National Resource Center (NRC) was established at Columbia in 1960, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were not yet widely studied in the United States. Recognizing its importance as a center of excellence engaged in the cultivation of American international experts, the US Department of Education included Columbia among its first Title VI grantees, tasked with … [Read more...]
Alumni Profile: Trevor Menders
Trevor Menders is a 2018 graduate of Columbia’s East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and a former student worker at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He recently completed a year as a Fulbright Research Fellow in affiliation with Tokyo University of the Arts. Beginning in September he will be a Toshizo Watanabe Fellow at the Yokohama Inter-University Center for … [Read more...]
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 various forms since 2016, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) awards and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, for Chinese language study to support his … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Tenzin Dongchung
Tenzin Dongchung is a second year PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department (EALAC) and a recipient of the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Foundation (SYLFF) summer grant through the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI). Her research explores the Tibetan Buddhist material culture history through the spread of printing houses during the Qing dynasty. … [Read more...]
