STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Nicolai Volland (Columbia University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literature from the Mao era, proposing to read Chinese socialist literature as world literature. China after 1949 engaged with the world beyond its borders in myriad … [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...]
Carol Gluck discusses Asia’s changing power dynamics on BBC Radio 4
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke on BBC Radio 4's program The New World about the changing power dynamics in Asia in an episode titled "Axis of Power." The episode, hosted by Gideon Rachman, explores the implications of changing international geo-politics and asks how world … [Read more...]
Watch Howard French and Jeff Wasserstrom Discuss China’s Past and Present
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 12, 2016 conversation between Howard W. French, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, about the influence of China's political history on current events. Howard W. French is … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck discusses Shinzo Abe’s Pearl Harbor visit in The New York Times and The Japan Times
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, was quoted in the December 24, 2016 New York Times article "In Pearl Harbor Visit, a Symbol of Reconciliation in Japan" and the December 28, 2016 The Japan Times article "Leaders’ Hawaii Remarks Include Veiled Message for Trump: Experts." Both articles … [Read more...]
