Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, spoke on a Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs podcast about being "Banned in China." Professor Nathan, who has not been issued a visa to travel to China since 2001, talked with the Carnegie Council's Senior Program Director Devin T. Stewart on an August 15, 2018 episode … [Read more...]
The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction Edited by Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (2018) "Science fiction is the most important literary phenomenon in twenty-first-century China. In a culture dominated by realism of various brands throughout the twentieth century, the surge of science fiction in the … [Read more...]
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Tsering Döndrup. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories Translated by Christopher Peacock (2018) "This volume makes accessible some of the new and exciting work in Tibetan literature from inside China. It will be of interest both to general readers and to scholars of Tibetan and Chinese literature." - Janet Gyatso, Harvard University "Tséring … [Read more...]
The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Jia-Chen Fu (University of Washington Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the "Land of Famine." Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Max Oidtmann’s “Forging the Golden Urn”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
