STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Anne Reinhardt (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. China’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin Co-Organizes First AAS Workshop on “Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia”
Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, has co-organized the first Association for Asian Studies workshop on "Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia." Co-organized by Siddharth Chandra at Michigan State University, the workshop will focus on economic history and will take place from June 10 to June 11 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Professor … [Read more...]
Conference: “Beyond Modernity: Understanding Change in China”
Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, has been a key member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute community since joining Columbia’s faculty in 1979. In addition to directing the Institute from 1992-1993 and from 1995-2001, she has mentored generations of undergraduates, MARSEA students, and PhD students. During the 35 years that Professor Zelin has … [Read more...]
