STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sidney Xu Lu (Cambridge University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as … [Read more...]
Yao Lu Receives Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute congratulates faculty member Yao Lu, who, with co-author Ran Tao, received the 2018 Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements for "Organizational Structure and Collective Action: Lineage Networks, Semiautonomous Civic Associations, and Collective Resistance in … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Qin Gao
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW) and Faculty Affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and WEAI. Professor Gao, who joined Columbia's faculty in the fall of 2016, is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing … [Read more...]
WEAI welcomes faculty member Yao Lu
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Yao Lu, assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Lu, who earned her PhD from UCLA, focuses on social stratification and inequality by primarily examining the social and political development in contemporary China, and how migration intersects with micro- and macro-level social and … [Read more...]
Weiping Wu
Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Email: weiping.wu@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Research Interests: Global urbanization, migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities Weiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. … [Read more...]
