Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Chenjian (C.J.) Li, University Chair Professor Peking University Moderated by: Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science Columbia University Event Description: This third seminar is subsequent to the first seminar on analysis of progresses and challenges … [Read more...]
Associate Research Scholar Kumiko Makihara’s New Book “Dear Diary Boy” Receives Media Attention
Kumiko Makihara, an Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, has recently received media attention for her new book Dear Diary Boy: An Exacting Mother, her Free-spirited Son, and Their Bittersweet Adventures in an Elite Japanese School, which was published by Arcade Publishing in 2018. An excerpt from the book was featured in Salon and an op-ed by … [Read more...]
Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Margaret Mih Tillman (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for … [Read more...]
Columbia Offers de Bary Undergraduate Summer Language Fellowships to Non-U.S. Citizens
The University Committee on Asia and the Middle East (UCAME) at Columbia University announces the de Bary Undergraduate Summer Language Fellowship for non-U.S. citizen students who are working on East Asian, Middle Eastern, and South Asian studies. This year, one award of $8,000 will be made for each of the three regions. Interested applicants should submit a one-page … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers 2018-2019 Funding Opportunities to Columbia Graduate & Undergraduate Students
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is currently offering funding for research, language acquisition, unpaid internships, and dissertation write-up during the summer and the academic year to selected Columbia students committed to professional and academic engagement with East and Southeast Asia. Beginning this year, all fellowship applications will be accepted via a new … [Read more...]
