Takako Hikotani Publishes the Article “The Japanese Diet & Defence Policy-making” in International Affairs
WEAI Author Q&A: Corey Byrnes' “Fixing Landscape”
April 9 Event: “The Future of the US-Japan Alliance”
Modern Tibetan Studies looks back on 20 years
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Slide 1: Keith Bradsher speaks in Beijing as part of the Reporting Asia series.
Slide 2: WEAI Director Eugenia Lean welcomes alumni in Beijing.
Slide 3: Reporting Asia panel discussion with Keith Bradsher, WEAI Director Eugenia Lean, and WEAI Professor Xiaobo Lü.
July 13 Event: Alumni Reception & Reporting Asia Panel
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activists Joshua Wong and Brian Leung Hold Dialogue with Students
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Slide 1: Fudan University Professor Guangyao Jin spoke at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at an October 1 event titled “The Role of United States-educated Students in China’s US Policy during the Republican Period: A Case Study of Wellington Koo.” The event was moderated by WEAI Director Eugenia Lean.
Slide 2: From left to right: Professor Guangyao Jin (Fudan Unversity); Professor Eugenia Lean (Columbia); Wellington Koo’s step-daughter Shirley Young; Koo’s granddaughter Ying-Ying Yuan; Columbia doctoral student Chloe Estep (current recipient of the V.K. Wellington Koo fellowship); and C.V. Starr East Asian Library Director Jim Cheng.
Columbia alum and diplomat V. K. Wellington Koo’s legacy highlighted in a talk by Guangyao Jin
Interview: Lien-Hang Nguyen discusses the old and new in Vietnam
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Slide 2: Columbia Professor Lien-Hang Nguyen and Vietnam National University Professor and Rector Pham Quang Min
Slide 3: From the audience, H.E. Mr. Dang Dinh Quy, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations, asks panelists a question.
Colloquium on Global Hồ Chí Minh and the future of international Vietnamese Studies
WEAI Author Q&A: Fei-Hsien Wang’s “Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China”
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Slide 1: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at Columbia University, answers questions following her lecture titled “Urban Poverty in China: Driving Forces and Policy Responses.
Slide 2: Weiping Wu, Professor and Director of the Urban Planning Program at Columbia University, marked the end of the forum with her talk “Paying for Urban Infrastructure: Land Finance and Impacts.”
Slide 3: 2019 Urban China Forum
"Urbanization and China: Understanding Impacts, Projecting Future"
WEAI hosts panel on “Women, Modernity, and Sustainable Fashion in Contemporary Vietnam”
Veteran journalists Bill Emmott and Tomoko Kubota discuss current challenges and changes to come for Japanese women in “Reporting Asia: Japan”
Neng 能 (capacity/energy) and China’s Long 1980s: A Re-evaluation
As teaching on Asia expands from niche to national, Asia for Educators’ repository of tools for teachers evolves
Xubei Luo Delivers Tenth Annual NT Wang Distinguished Lecture
WEAI Author Q&A: Claire E. Edington’s “Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam”
Despite global turbulence, Japan-US alliance is unshakeable, Japanese Ambassador Yamanouchi says
Edward Wong discusses covering Tibet as diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Student Feature: Thu Anh Le
Year in Review: 2019
Memoir of China’s Past Offers Lessons for Present
Yao Lu wins two ASA awards for article on migration and collective action in rural China
Nationalism and Populism Around the World: Is Japan an Exception?
WEAI and Hunter Chinese Flagship Center cohost innovative workshop for Chinese teachers
Interview: Xiaolu Guo on the universal human narrative and creating a hybrid voice
Exploring Hybrid Identities with Writer and Filmmaker Xiaolu Guo
Former diplomat Noriyuki Shikata shares goals and challenges for Japan’s Diplomacy in 2030
Adrienne Minh-Châu Lê, recipient of the 2020 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, shares her personal exploration of the Vietnam War
Interview: Duncan McCargo discusses his new book, Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand
WEAI Author Q&A: Tatiana Linkhoeva’s “Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism”
Watch Kumiko Makihara’s recent interview
CKR announces new publication by Si Nae Park
Interview with NHK’s Ayako Takada on US and Japanese media, immigrant stories, and COVID-19
WEAI Author Q&A: Chad Diehl’s ‘Resurrecting Nagasaki’
Gerald Curtis quoted in Reuters article on WWII anniversary
Lien-Hang Nguyen addresses dignitaries at a virtual commemoration of Vietnamese foreign relations
'Friend: A Novel from North Korea' from the WEAI Books on Asia series reviewed in The Japan Times
Tom Christensen releases new report on US-China strategic competition
Qin Gao discusses poverty eradication efforts in SupChina podcast
Dorothy Ko to appear in Heinz Emigholz film, 'The Last City'
Michael Sharpe discusses Race and Immigration in Japan in new podcast
Stephen Noerper discusses Korea-Japan relations with Arirang News Center
WEAI Author Q&A: John Person's 'Arbiters of Patriotism'
WEAI seeks proposals for two new remote research grants
Morris Rossabi discusses assimilation of China's ethnic Mongolians
CJEB Event: Whither the Suga Administration— a Conversation with Gerald Curtis & Takenaka Heizo
Interview with new WEAI member Sarah Kovner
Tenzin Dorjee discusses US WeChat ban in Washington Post opinion article
Andrew Nathan discusses changing dynamic between US and China in Project Syndicate
Call for APAC Board Members
WEAI mourns the loss of James Morley
Stephen Noerper discusses the Political Impact of President Trump's Diagnosis with Arirang News Center
Taiwan’s New Representative to the United States Outlines Challenges and Opportunities in Bilateral Relations
Indonesia's Genocide: New Perspectives 55 Years On
WEAI Author Q&A: Nicholas Bartlett's 'Recovering Histories'
Andrew Nathan discusses the US election and implications for US-Sino relations
Qin Gao coauthors article on creating hope during COVID-19
Carol Gluck delivers keynote address, "Remembering Forward: The Future of the Comfort Women"
