Lecture “Making Confucians in Confinement: Imprisoned Officials in Ming China (1368-1644)” Ying Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University Dorothy Y. Ko, Professor, Department of History, Barnard College Monday, December 4, 2017 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM International Affairs Building Room 918 No registration required Co-sponsored by the … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Hilary A. Smith’s “Forgotten Disease”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Alexander Cook’s “The Cultural Revolution on Trial”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Alexander C. Cook, a Columbia PhD who teaches history at the University of California, Berkeley. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, … [Read more...]
February 26 Event: “Makers and Markets: Drivers of Fashion in Chinese History:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the February 26, 2015 event “Makers and Markets: Drivers of Fashion in Chinese History.” The event featured a lecture by BuYun Chen, Assistant Professor of History at Swarthmore College and Rachel Silberstein, Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. Their presentation was moderated by Dorothy Ko, Professor of History at … [Read more...]
November 18 Event: “China: East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the November 18, 2014 event “East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective: What History Is, Knows, Does: China.” The event, co-sponsored by the Department of History, featured Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, and Harry … [Read more...]
