On Wednesday, February 26th, writer and translator Mike Fu spoke with a group of students from the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) department and the MA in Regional Studies – East Asia (MARSEA) program about his process of translating Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao. Born in Chongqing in 1943 and raised in Taiwan during an era in which few women traveled … [Read more...]
Exploring Hybrid Identities with Writer and Filmmaker Xiaolu Guo
WEAI Writer-in-Residence Xiaolu Guo explored the concept of hybrid identities in a dialogue on February 25, 2020, with Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work. Guo, who is a novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, read passages from her published works, weaving her vividly descriptive writing into the discussion centered around identity … [Read more...]
Revolutionary Diplomacy, Diasporic Politics: China, Indonesia and the Cold War
NYSEAN Event This event has been CANCELLED due to travel restrictions. Please join us for a lecture with: Taomo Zhou, Assistant Professor of History Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Moderated by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia Columbia … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – Parental Migration, Caretaking Arrangements, and Children’s Delinquency and Victimization in Rural China
Weatherhead East Asian Institute and China Center for Social Policy Event Please join us for a lecture with: Xiaojin Chen, Associate Professor, Tulane University Moderated by: Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Columbia University Xiaojin Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – The Ambitious Push for Clean Energy in East Asia: Developmental Environmentalism in China and South Korea
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a talk with: Elizabeth Thurbon, Deputy Head of School (Research), Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations / International Political Economy at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales Moderated by: Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor, AMEC/EALAC, Barnard … [Read more...]
