WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Paek Nam-nyong. Friend: A Novel from North Korea Translated by Immanuel Kim (2020) Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. A woman in her thirties comes to a courthouse petitioning for a divorce. As the judge who hears her statement begins to investigate the case, the story unfolds into a broader … [Read more...]
The Cultural Turn in Arabic Literary Production
Conference Events will be held over the course of three days in Faculty House, Garden Room 2 and Knox Hall, Room 509. For a detailed schedule of events, click here. Sponsored by: Columbia University’s MESAAS Department, Middle East Institute, SoF/Heyman Center, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Division of Humanities/ … [Read more...]
“Tibetan Literature in Translation: Pema Tseden’s Stories of Tibet”
Join us for a discussion with the translators of Enticement, the first English-language anthology of short stories by Pema Tseden. About this Event Pema Tseden is Tibet’s most prestigious filmmaker and an accomplished fiction writer. Enticement: Stories of Tibet translates his stories originally written either in Tibetan or in Chinese. His writing uses a variety of literary … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Corey Byrnes’s “Fixing Landscape”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China’s Three Gorges, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Corey Byrnes, an Assistant Professor Modern Chinese culture at Northwestern University. Dr. Byrnes was the co-winner of the Weatherhead East … [Read more...]
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
