Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press inquiries, please … [Read more...]
Mon. March 11th: “A Note from Japan on Contemporary Tibet: The CCP’s Religious Policies and the Emergence of Religious Space in Eastern Tibet”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures 4:10 PM-6:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Juhn Ahn’s “Buddhas and Ancestors”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea, published by the University of Washington Press and included in its Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies series. The book's author is Juhn Ahn, an Associate Professor … [Read more...]
Raising China’s Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Margaret Mih Tillman (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Max Oidtmann’s “Forging the Golden Urn”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet, published by Columbia University Press. The book's author is Max Oidtmann, an Assistant Professor of Asian History at Georgetown University Qatar. In 1995, the People’s Republic of China … [Read more...]
