We are pleased to announce that John Phan, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, has, along with collaborator Erica Brindley of Penn State University, received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to hold the international conference "Contact Zones and Colonialism in China’s South." The conference will be part … [Read more...]
Diana Fu’s Study of the WEAI “Mobilizing Without the Masses” Wins APSA Book Award
We congratulate Diana Fu, assistant professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The book, published in … [Read more...]
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Anne Reinhardt (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. China’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Kathlene Baldanza’s “Ming China and Vietnam”
We are excited to announce a recent title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia, now in paperback from Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Kathlene Baldanza, an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University who earned her PhD in … [Read more...]
Qin Gao to Give Keynote Address at FISS 25th Anniversary International Conference
We are pleased to announce that Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Center for Social Policy, at Columbia University, will give the keynote address "China's War on Poverty: Will it Succeed?" at the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS)'s 25th Anniversary International Conference, which will take place from June 4 to … [Read more...]
