The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society at Barnard College, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Bartlett, who earned his PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, specializes in medical and psychological anthropology, addiction and recovery, civil … [Read more...]
Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption After Empire
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yukiko Koga (University of Chicago Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Winner, 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize, American Anthropological Association Winner, 2017 Anthony Leeds Book Prize, American Anthropological Association How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen Receives the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, received the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs on September 10, 2016 at the opening ceremony of the Fourth Taiwan International Conference on Hakka Studies. The Hakka Affairs Council presented … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen’s Photographs and Research to be Exhibited at the Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that the Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center will create an immersive exhibit of the anthropological photos and research of Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director. Opening on August 28 and running through November 2016, the exhibit will introduce visitors to a … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen to Receive 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, will receive the 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award from the Shanghai Society of Anthropology. Professor Cohen, who earned his PhD from Columbia in 1967 and has taught at the University since 1966, … [Read more...]
