Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, discussed his new book, co-edited with Ben Hillman, Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, in a Q & A with The New York Times on May 26, 2016. The book, a Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute published by Columbia University … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Adam Bronson’s “One Hundred Million Philosophers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Adam Bronson, who will become Lecturer in the History of Japan at Durham University in the fall of … [Read more...]
April 26 Event: “Imperial Power and Politics of Difference:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the April 26, 2016 event “Imperial Power and Politics of Difference” During the discussion, University of Toronto professor and Columbia PhD Li Chen talked about his Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes:Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics (Columbia University Press, 2015) with … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI “Neither Donkey nor Horse” Wins 2016 William H. Welch Medal
We are pleased to announce that Sean Hsiang-lin Lei's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle Over China's Modernity has received the 2016 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. Published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press, Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of … [Read more...]
One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Adam Bronson (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of … [Read more...]
