Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Event Please join us for a lecture with: Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of political Science, National University of Singapore Moderated by: Thomas Christensen, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University A common claim about PRC economic statecraft is that it aims to discourage … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – Parenting Needs of Chinese Parents of Children with Autism from America, Macau, and Taiwan
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join for a lecture with: Hsu-Min Chiang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education University of Macau Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work Many studies have focused on parenting stress in … [Read more...]
“Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism”
Brown Bag Lecture Book talk with Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of History at International Christian University, Tokyo Moderated by: Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In the spring of 1874 the Japanese government sent … [Read more...]
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Reo Matsuzaki (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United … [Read more...]
Nation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Sayaka Chatani (Cornell University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial … [Read more...]
