We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Yulia Frumer, the Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Assistant Professor of East Asian Science and Technology in the Department of History of Science … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Contributes to TIME Article Debunking American Myths
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, contributed to the September 26, 2017 TIME article "7 Things People Get Wrong About American History." The article featured a collection of short essays by renowned scholars who dispelled myths about the U.S. and its foreign relations. In Professor … [Read more...]
