We congratulate Diana Fu, assistant professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto, whose Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book in Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The book, published in … [Read more...]
China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Writes “China: Back to the Future” in The New York Review of Books
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, has published the new article "China: Back to the Future" in the May 10, 2018 edition of The New York Review of Books. In the article, Professor Nathan writes about the Xi Jinping's efforts to centralize his power, including the recent constitutional amendment in China that abolished term … [Read more...]
“The Return of Authoritarianism in China: Why Is It Happening and What Does It Mean?”
Discussion "The Return of Authoritarianism in China: Why Is It Happening and What Does It Mean?" Feng Chongyi, Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology, Sydney; Adjunct Professor of History, Nankai University, Tianjin Moderated by: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science Monday, April 23, … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Daniel Koss’s “Where the Party Rules”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China's Communist State, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Daniel Koss, an Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica, Taipei, who earned his PhD in Government … [Read more...]