Greater China
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is home to over 30 faculty and research scholars of China from across the disciplines of anthropology, business, history, law, literature, political science, social work, and urban planning, among others. Each year, guests from academia, government, the nonprofit sector, and the arts are invited to speak at public events and workshops addressing the history, politics, economics, and culture of the greater China region.
Additionally, the Institute supports undergraduate and graduate research as well as publications about the region and works closely with affiliates such as Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the China Center for Social Policy, the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, the Center on Chinese Education, and others. Through its Master of Arts in Regional Studies - East Asia program, the Institute provides graduate students the opportunity to take courses on a wide variety of topics concerning mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
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Affiliated Faculty & Scholars
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Nicholas Allyn Bartlett
Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle East, Barnard College
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Thomas P. Bernstein
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science
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Jim Cheng
Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Starr East Asian Library
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Thomas J. Christensen
James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program
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Myron Cohen
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
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Nicola Di Cosmo
Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
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Alex Eble
Associate Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College
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Qin Gao
Professor of Social Work and Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, School of Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy
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Junyan Jiang
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko
Professor, History, Barnard College
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Eugenia Y. Lean
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Benjamin L. Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law, School of Law; Director of the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School
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Lydia H Liu
Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Xiaobo Lü
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
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Yao Lu
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
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Roberta H. Martin
Director, Asia for Educators; Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
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Andrew J. Nathan
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Dept of Political Science
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Ying Qian
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Morris Rossabi
Adjunct Professor of East Asian Language and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
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Wei Shang
Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities; Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture; Chair, Department of East Asian and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Nick R. Smith
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College
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Gray Tuttle
Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Chengzhi Wang
Collection Development/Reference Librarian (Chinese); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Starr East Asian Library
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Shang-Jin Wei
N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Business
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Elizabeth A. Wishnick
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Professor of Political Science and Law, Montclaire State University
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William Wooldridge
Adjunct Research Scholar; Associate Professor of History, Lehman College, City University of New York
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Weiping Wu
Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director of the MS Urban Planning Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Madeleine H. Zelin
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History
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Michael C. Davis
Research Associate; Professor of Law and International Affairs, Jindal Global University
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Leta Hong Fincher
Research Associate; Journalist
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Yukiko Koga
Research Associate; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
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Carl A. Riskin
Research Associate; Distinguished Professor of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York
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Mark Selden
Research Associate; Professor Emeritus of Sociology and History, State University of New York at Binghamton
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James D. Seymour
Research Associate
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Research Scholars
Daniel Asen
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar; Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark
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Maria Adele Carrai
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar; Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai; Marie Curie Fellow, KU Leuven School of Law
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Mary Phillips
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
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