Brown Bag Lecture Featuring Klaus Muehlhahn, Chair Professor of Chinese History and Culture, FU Berlin Moderated by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In this talk, Klaus Muehlhahn will discuss his new book, Making … [Read more...]
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Thomas S. Mullaney (The MIT Press, 2017) Winner, 2018 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association For information from the publisher, please click here. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered … [Read more...]
Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Hilary A. Smith (Stanford University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese physicians had been writing about for over a millennium acquired new identities in Western medicine—sudden turmoil became cholera; flowers of heaven became smallpox; … [Read more...]
Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
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...]
Conference: “Beyond Modernity: Understanding Change in China”
Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, has been a key member of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute community since joining Columbia’s faculty in 1979. In addition to directing the Institute from 1992-1993 and from 1995-2001, she has mentored generations of undergraduates, MARSEA students, and PhD students. During the 35 years that Professor Zelin has … [Read more...]
