We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author, Benno Weiner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University and co-editor of Contested Memories. In The Chinese Revolution on the … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – When Leather becomes a Frog: Traditional and Contemporary Amdo Pastoralists
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Chenaktsang Dorje Tsering (Jangbu) Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INACLO), Paris Moderated by: Eveline Washul, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, WEAI Columbia University Event summary: The last 120 years has been a time of … [Read more...]
Edward Wong discusses covering Tibet as diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Wong began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four … [Read more...]
Understanding Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau: Environmental Conservation Research and Climate Science Approaches
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a panel discussion with: Yonten Nyima, Visiting Research Scholar, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Brendan Buckley, Lamont Research Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University Tsering Bum, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Emory University Chenxi Xu, Associate … [Read more...]
Reporting Asia: Tibet
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent The New York Times Moderated by: Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University About the Speaker Edward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New … [Read more...]
