We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Emily Baum, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Throughout most of history, in China the … [Read more...]
The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Culp (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Robert Culp explores the world of commercial publishing to offer a new perspective on modern China’s cultural transformations. Culp examines China’s largest and most influential publishing companies during the late Qing and Republican … [Read more...]
“Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit”
Conference Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister, Commonwealth Of Australia Linpeng Wang, Chairman And CEO, Beijing Easyhome Investment Holding Group Ian Bremmer, President And Founder, Euraisa Group Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate In Economics - Director, Center On Capitalism And Society, Columbia University David Zhu, … [Read more...]
“Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit”
Conference Global China Connection: 2018 Global Summit Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister, Commonwealth Of Australia Linpeng Wang, Chairman And CEO, Beijing Easyhome Investment Holding Group Ian Bremmer, President And Founder, Euraisa Group Edmund S. Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate In Economics - Director, Center On Capitalism And Society, Columbia University David Zhu, … [Read more...]
“China’s Latest Strongman Leader: Putting Xi Jinping Into Historical and Comparative Perspective”
Panel Discussion "China's Latest Strongman Leader: Putting Xi Jinping Into Historical and Comparative Perspective” Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, historian and writer Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University Nina Khrushcheva, Professor … [Read more...]