We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Kerim Yasar, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California who … [Read more...]
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Kerim Yasar (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of … [Read more...]
Thomas S. Mullaney’s Study of the WEAI “The Chinese Typewriter” Wins Lewis Mumford Award
We congratulate Thomas S. Mullaney, associate professor of history at Stanford University and Columbia alumnus (M.A. 2004, Ph.D. 2006), whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Chinese Typewriter: A History was awarded the 2018 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics from the Media Ecology Association (MEA). The book, … [Read more...]
“Reaching the Chinese Public through the Barriers of Censorship: The View from the New York Times Chinese Language Website”
Discussion "Reaching the Chinese Public through the Barriers of Censorship: The View from the New York Times Chinese Language Website” Ching-Ching Ni, Editor-in-Chief, New York Times Chinese Moderated by Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Monday, April 16, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 … [Read more...]
“Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy Of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion”
Discussion "Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy Of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion" Ling Hon Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley Wei Shang, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Moderated by Ying Qian, … [Read more...]
