Lecture "#MeToo and Big Brother in China" Leta Hong Fincher, Scholar and Journalist Lu Pin, Activist and graduate student, SUNY-Albany Wednesday, October 17, 2018 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. International Affairs Building Room 918 A dialogue between Leta Hong Fincher and Lu Pin on the past strategies and future prospects of the feminist movement in China. … [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...]
Diana Fu’s Study of the WEAI “Mobilizing Without the Masses” Wins APSA Book Award
We congratulate Diana Fu, assistant professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The book, published in … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Celeste Arrington’s “Accidental Activists”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea, published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author is Celeste L. Arrington, Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The … [Read more...]
