Brown Bag Lecture Featuring Li Weidong, retired publisher of China Reform Magazine, editorial member of "China Strategic-Analysis" Moderated by Andrew Nathan Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University About the Speaker Li Weidong is the retired publisher of China Reform magazine. He is a member of the editorial committee of … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Photography of North Korea”
Colloquium Featuring with Associated Press Lead Photographer Wong Maye-E AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E shares images of North Korea and its people, in conversation Stephen Noerper, Columbia University Adjunct Professor in Political Science and Korea Society Senior Director The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Robert Tuck’s “Idly Scribbling Rhymers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Robert Tuck, an Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at Arizona State University who received his PhD … [Read more...]
April 16 Event: “Reaching the Chinese Public through the Barriers of Censorship:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the April 16, 2018 event "Reaching the Chinese Public through the Barriers of Censorship," which featured Ching-Ching Ni, the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Times Chinese website. Her presentation was moderated by Sun Zhe, adjunct senior research scholar and co-director of the China Initiative at Columbia University’s School of … [Read more...]
Ying Qian Receives 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant
We congratulate Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, who will share a 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant for the project "Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies." The grants, awarded by Columbia University, support projects that engage collaboratively with scholars outside of the United States, with a focus on any topic that brings … [Read more...]
