We are pleased to announce that the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, co-edited by Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, and Ben Hillman, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University's Crawford School, was listed as … [Read more...]
New Courses Offered for Fall 2016
WEAI is pleased to share several newly added Fall 2016 courses with the Columbia University community: New for Fall 2016 GLOBAL HONG KONG Professor Peter E. Hamilton, Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in the Making of the Modern Pacific World Thursdays, 10:10 AM - 12:00 PM Fayerweather Hall, Room 301 M History: East Asian GU 4844 Call Number 75954 Open to … [Read more...]
Gray Tuttle Discusses His New Co-Edited Book with The New York Times
Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, discussed his new book, co-edited with Ben Hillman, Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, in a Q & A with The New York Times on May 26, 2016. The book, a Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute published by Columbia University … [Read more...]
“Land Evictions and New Uyghur Elites in Kashgar: Transformation, Power Dynamics and Contemporary Xinjiang”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "Land Evictions and New Uyghur Elites in Kashgar: Transformation, Power Dynamics and Contemporary Xinjiang" Alessandra Cappelletti, American University of Rome 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM International Affairs Building, Room 1219 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the Inner Asia Curricular Development Project … [Read more...]
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle (Columbia University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Despite a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands have experienced a wave of ethnic unrest not … [Read more...]
