Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History, Institute for Advanced Study Moderated by: Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University Three decades of climatological research in Mongolia and neighboring regions have … [Read more...]
Memoir of China’s Past Offers Lessons for Present
A newly translated memoir by the Chinese business leader Lan Yan provides an eye-opening view into China’s past. Published more than 50 years after the start of China’s Cultural Revolution, The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History reveals the Yan family’s painful memories of that significant historical upheaval. Yan, who is vice … [Read more...]
Interview: Maria Adele Carrai on Sovereignty in China
Sovereignty has become something of a modern buzzword, used by world leaders and diplomats in the United Nations and other international settings to further states' political goals. But where did this concept come from? Is it still relevant today? And how have interpretations of this concept evolved, particularly in China, one of the world's most vocal proponents of … [Read more...]
Alumni Feature: Mike Fu, translator of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
In 1973, a Taiwanese woman by the name of Sanmao made her way to the turbulent Spanish Sahara. She trekked through cultural and linguistic barriers, romance, solitude, and mirages, before publishing her experiences of the desert in the form of a book. Now, more than four decades after its original publication in Chinese, Sanmao's groundbreaking 1976 debut Stories of the Sahara … [Read more...]
Killing the Chickens, Scaring the Monkeys? Demonstration Effects from PRC Coercion and its Limits
Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Event Please join us for a lecture with: Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of political Science, National University of Singapore Moderated by: Thomas Christensen, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University A common claim about PRC economic statecraft is that it aims to discourage … [Read more...]
