Professor Myron Cohen was recently interviewed on "Collaborations, Legacies, and Shifts in Chinese Anthropology" for the International Sociological Association's e-Symposium July issue on his long career studying Chinese anthropology. In the interviewer's words: "I had approached Myron Cohen who, to my knowledge, is the longest-practicing Chinese anthropologist today, for an … [Read more...]
LIVESTREAM — Covid-19 in Taiwan: Domestic and International Implications
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Syaru Shirley Lin, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics, Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia C. Jason Wang, Director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes, and Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine Vincent Wang, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Adelphi … [Read more...]
WEAI hosts student discussion with writer, translator, and alumnus Mike Fu
On Wednesday, February 26th, writer and translator Mike Fu spoke with a group of students from the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) department and the MA in Regional Studies – East Asia (MARSEA) program about his process of translating Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao. Born in Chongqing in 1943 and raised in Taiwan during an era in which few women traveled … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – Dangerous Youth (1969): Taiwan Dialect Cinema of the 1960s screening and discussion
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a film screening with: Chun-chi Wang 王君琦, director Taiwan Film Institute Moderated by: Ying Qian, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Taiwan cinema has been mostly known by its New Wave in the 1980s and its New Wave auteurs Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward … [Read more...]
Alumni Feature: Mike Fu, translator of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
In 1973, a Taiwanese woman by the name of Sanmao made her way to the turbulent Spanish Sahara. She trekked through cultural and linguistic barriers, romance, solitude, and mirages, before publishing her experiences of the desert in the form of a book. Now, more than four decades after its original publication in Chinese, Sanmao's groundbreaking 1976 debut Stories of the Sahara … [Read more...]
