The Weatherhead East Asian Institute supports three main book series: the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Weatherhead Books on Asia, and Asia Perspectives. Scroll down this page for more information on each series.
The Institute's publications program also encompasses the following print and digital items:
- The Annual Report (an overview of the Institute’s activities and membership);
- The APAC Journal, which is prepared by the graduate student group known as the Asia Pacific Affairs Council;
- The Reed, an annual student-focused newsletter;
- the eblast (a weekly email events, opportunities, and news digest);
- 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 book series, recent award winners, and the latest winner of the Seldon First Book Award.
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
The Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute were inaugurated in 1962 to bring to public attention the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia. To date more than 250 titles have been published, by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of Northeast Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia from around the world.
2025–2026 Editorial Committee:
Ruth Barraclough, Nick Bartlett, Carol Gluck, Lauran Hartley, John Phan, Ying Qian
Browse the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
This series, initiated in 2001, is designed to produce and publish high quality translations of works in Asian languages intended for scholars, students, and the interested general reader.
Editors: David D. W. Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University) for fiction; Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University) for history, society, and culture.
Published by Columbia University Press.
Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
This series presents works that cross the usual boundaries between scholarly monographs and works of general interest. Its aim is to publish serious original writings and significant translations for the general reader and for classroom use.
Editor: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University.
Published by Columbia University Press.
Watch: Min Jin Lee Recognizes Weatherhead's Publications
Accepting an award at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's 75th anniversary gala in 2024, novelist Min Jin Lee (Free Food for Millionaires, Pachinko) delivers a stirring and heartfelt tribute to the Institute's publications program. Lee expresses her debt to both the translated literature and the scholarly works published through Weatherhead, which she hails as "the premiere space for the development of new knowledge about Asia." (6 min., 18 sec.)
Publications News
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.
Lin Yutang's one-of-a-kind prototype rediscovered after decades-long disappearance.
Student Awards Committee hails her work as "an exemplar against which all other books we read had to measure up."