We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Yulia Frumer, the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of History of Science … [Read more...]
Madeleine Zelin’s Co-Edited Book “Chinese Law” Now Available in Paperback
We are pleased to announce the paperback publication of Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, a book co-edited by Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, and Li Chen, a Columbia PhD who is Associate Professor of History, Global Asia Studies, and Sociolegal Studies at University of Toronto. Published … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Speak about Vietnam on March 5 & 9 at the New-York Historical Society and at Vassar College on March 7
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will discuss the history of Vietnam at the New-York Historical Society on Monday, March 5, 2018 and Friday, March 9, 2018, and at Vassar College on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. Professor Nguyen will discuss the 1968 Tet Offensive on March 5 with Max … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the Tet Offensive at the Council on Foreign Relations
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, took part in a panel discussion titled "Fifty Years After the Tet Offensive: Lessons from the Vietnam War" on February 8, 2018 at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Nguyen was joined in the discussion by Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Presents at Panel in Berlin About Memorial Museums and the Historical Past
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, gave a talk titled "The Past is a Moving Target" at a conference on Memorial Museums and the Historical Past at the Topography of Terror in Berlin on February 6, 2018. The Topography of Terror is a widely visited place of remembrance in Berlin. During the … [Read more...]
