The Weatherhead East Asian Institute supports three main book series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute: scholarly monographs on modern and contemporary East Asia, published by both academic and trade presses.
- Weatherhead Books on Asia: high-quality translations of works in Asian languages that are intended for scholars, students, and the interested general reader and published by Columbia University Press.
- Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture: works that cross the usual boundaries between scholarly monographs and general interest titles, all published by Columbia University Press.
Click on the respective links, above, for more information on each book series, and scroll further down this page to access our latest Publications Catalogue.
The Institute's publications program also encompasses several other print and digital items.
- The Annual Report (an overview of the Institute’s activities and membership);
- The APAC Journal, which is prepared each year by the Asia Pacific Affairs Council, Weatherhead's one formally affiliated student group;
- The Reed, an annual student-focused journal;
- The Year in Review, a web compendium of the previous year's highlights.
For all inquiries, please contact Communications Coordinator Jeff Tompkins at [email protected].
2026 Publications Catalogue
Revised and expanded for 2026, the Weatherhead East Asian Insitute's Publications Catalogue offers a comprehensive overview of new and recent titles in all three Weatherhead book series, recent award winners, and the latest winner of the Seldon First Book Award.
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Publications News
Paul Kreitman calls history of Japan's national icon, a recent title in our Studies series, "an exhilarating journey."
Translator Michael Berry accepts award for 2001 novel that “still has the power to connect and resonate with a new generation . . . through translation."
First book argues that Tibetan senses of history and place-making have fostered unanticipated outcomes of state-led urbanization among Tibetans in China.
Joshua Schlachet's new monograph investigates how 18th- and 19th-century Japan related healthy eating to a healthy society.
The newest Studies title, co-authored by two Columbia alumnae, benefits from unusual access to an insular community who chose to stay in Japan after WWII.
This year's expanded edition gives a comprehensive overview of WEAI's three book series, recent award winners, and more.
The Japan scholar's absorbing ARB conversation touches on Hokusai, the transformation of the Japanese landscape, and even a Godzilla movie.
MJHA hails a literary study for exploring the Japanese novel as "a uniquely capacious instrument for social critique and political agency."
Selection committee says EALAC professor’s study “breaks new ground in the field of contemporary media.”
A new Weatherhead Studies title untangles the many "conflicting and almost contradictory interpretations" of the 1954 relocation of more than 800,000 Vietnamese.
China Books Review praises two novels that demonstrate the Wuhan Diary author's commitment to truth-telling.
Early-20th-century Japanese writers understood literature as both an art of beauty and emotion and a way to respond creatively to real life.