Workshop "Postimperial Japan and East Asia" Kim Brandt, Columbia University Leo Ching, Duke University Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto Chris Hill, University of Michigan Monica Kim, New York University Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William & Mary Louise Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison Marilyn Young, New York University 1:00 PM - 6:00 … [Read more...]
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620–1720
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Xing Hang (Cambridge University Press, 2015) For information from the publisher, please click here. The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of … [Read more...]
March 26 Event: “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America”
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 26, 2015 event “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America.” The event featured a lecture by Yoshiko Ikeda, Associate Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and was moderated by Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of … [Read more...]
March 24 Event: “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 24, 2015 event “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences.” The event featured a lecture by Andrew Fischer, Associate Professor of Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and was moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate … [Read more...]
February 24 Event: “East Asia’s Changing Security Environment and Japan’s Response”
Photographs and audio are now available from the February 24, 2015 event “East Asia's Changing Security Environment and Japan's Response.” The event featured a lecture by Hitoshi Tanaka, Chairman of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute; Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange; and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School … [Read more...]
