Advertisements for the new "Godzilla" are ubiquitous this summer. Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty member Gregory Pflugfelder is well acquainted with such images. Pflugfelder, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University, has collected around five thousand posters and promotional materials for Godzilla films and other Japanese monster flicks. His archive of … [Read more...]
March 31 Event: “China and the Environment:” Photos and Audio
A Report on the March 31, 2014 China and the Environment panel discussion featuring Chinadialogue editor Isabel Hilton, Georgetown University professor Micah Muscolino, Yale University professor Peter Perdue, and moderator Eugenia Lean. Audio for the event is available on iTunes here: In an in-depth conversation, three of the leading experts in the field … [Read more...]
Meet the WEAI Authors Event: Emily T. Yeh and “Taming Tibet”
A Report on the Meet the WEAI Authors event featuring Emily T. Yeh, author of the Study of the WEAI Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, on March 25, 2014: Emily T. Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and moderator Robert Barnett, director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program … [Read more...]
Columbia professor Lydia H. Liu on Phoenix and the art of Xu Bing
Now is the ideal time for those in New York to experience the work of Xu Bing (1955-), the world-renowned contemporary Chinese artist. Through January 2015, his monumental installation Phoenix, featuring two giant birds fabricated from construction debris, will be displayed inside the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Book from the Sky, the work that … [Read more...]
INTERACT fellow Shi-Yan Chao discusses the Marriage Equality Movement in Taiwan
Shi-Yan Chao, 2013 – 2014 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, discusses the recent debates about marriage equality in Taiwan, which could be the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Chao, who received his PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University, wrote his dissertation “Processing Tongzhi Imaginaries: Chinese Queer … [Read more...]
