Film Screening and Discussion "Minority Media in Taiwan" Robert Chen, Professor of Radio-TV, National Chengchi University Chun-chi Wang, Associate Professor of English, National Dong Hwa University Introduction by Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 2:00 PM - 5:10 PM Butler Library, Room 203 Registration Required; … [Read more...]
Eugenia Lean meets in Summer 2017 with Taipei’s Mayor and Columbia Alumni in Taiwan
Eugenia Lean, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, met on August 1, 2017 with Ko Wen-je, the Mayor of Taipei, to discuss continued cooperation between Taipei and the Columbia University community. Mayor Ko Wen-je and Professor Lean were joined by Steven Pan, a Columbia Business School alumnus and … [Read more...]
April 26 Event: “Dictators and Their Secret Police:” Photos
Photographs are now available from the April 26, 2017 lecture "Dictators and Their Secret Police in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines," which featured speaker Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and author of the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge … [Read more...]
“Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines”
Lecture “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines” Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Center for East Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution Welcome by Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of … [Read more...]
Watch Howard French and Jeff Wasserstrom Discuss China’s Past and Present
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 12, 2016 conversation between Howard W. French, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, about the influence of China's political history on current events. Howard W. French is … [Read more...]
