The Weatherhead East Asian Institute warmly congratulates faculty members Dorothy Y. Ko and Chün-fang Yü, both of whom were elected Academicians of the Academia Sinica on July 5, 2018. Professors Ko and Yü were among 21 scholars elected at the 2018 biennial Convocation of Academicians. They will join Academia Sinica's society of Academicians, a group of individuals who have … [Read more...]
Chinese Fashion Project “Thunderclap” Spreads Writings Featured in the Weatherhead Book on Asia “The Birth of Chinese Feminism”
A steganographic fashion zine in China called "Thunderclap" has used clothing to politically instrumentalize the writings of He-Yin Zhen (1886-1920?), whose groundbreaking theoretical texts on Chinese feminism were translated into English for the first time in the 2013 Weatherhead Book on Asia The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory, co-edited by … [Read more...]
Dorothy Ko discusses her Study of the WEAI “The Social Life of Inkstones” with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
Dorothy Ko, Professor of History at Barnard College and faculty member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, recently discussed her new book The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China with the New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast. Published by the University of Washington Press in 2017, The Social Life of Inkstones is in the Studies of the … [Read more...]
“The Social Life of Inkstones”
Panel Discussion "The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China" Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College; Author of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (2017) Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University Jonathan Hay, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts, New York … [Read more...]
The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Dorothy Ko (University of Washington Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are … [Read more...]
