We are delighted to share the news that two recent titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series, Li Chen's Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics and Yoshikuni Igarashi's Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers, have been recognized for their outstanding scholarship by the Association for … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes featured in Chosun Ilbo Article on AAS-in-Asia’s Korean Studies Roundtable
Theodore Hughes, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University, was featured in a Chosun Ilbo article about a special roundtable discussion about the state of Korean Studies that was held on June 26, 2017 at the AAS-in-Asia Conference in Seoul. Featuring scholars from around the … [Read more...]
WEAI Professors Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman Presenting at AAS-in-Asia in Seoul
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that faculty members Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman will be presenting at this summer's Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia Conference, which will be held in Seoul from June 24, 2017 to June 27, 2017. Full conference details are available here. Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor … [Read more...]
Christopher Rea Receives 2017 Levenson Book Prize for his Study of the WEAI “The Age of Irreverence”
The Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series is pleased to share video footage of Christopher Rea receiving the Association for Asian Studies' 2017 Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize (China) for his Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. Timothy Brook of the University of British Columbia … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI receive recognition from the Association for Asian Studies
We are delighted to share the news that two recent titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series, Christopher Rea's The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China and Federico Marcon's The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, have been recognized for their outstanding scholarship by the Association for … [Read more...]
