Lecture "China 1979: A Year of Great Significance - As Experienced by an American Exchange Student" Thomas B. Gold, Professor of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley Moderated by Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. … [Read more...]
Sept. 28 Event: “The China Boom-Why China Will Not Rule the World:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the September 28, 2017 event "The China Boom-Why China Will Not Rule the World." During the standing-room-only event, Ho-Fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Associate Professor in Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University, discussed his new Columbia University Press book The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule … [Read more...]
Borrowing Together: Microfinance and Cultivating Social Ties
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Becky Yang Hsu (Cambridge University Press, 2017) For information from the publisher, please click here. In Borrowing Together, Becky Hsu examines the social aspects of the most intriguing element of group-lending microfinance: social collateral. She investigates the details of the social relationships among fellow borrowers and … [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...]
“The Significance of Guanxi in China Today”
Lecture "The Significance of Guanxi in China Today" Yanjie Bian, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota Moderated by Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. … [Read more...]
