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Alumni Feature: Mike Fu, translator of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
Madeleine Zelin awarded 2019-2020 Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award
Year in Review: 2019
Student Feature: Thu Anh Le
Edward Wong discusses covering Tibet as diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times
Despite global turbulence, Japan-US alliance is unshakeable, Japanese Ambassador Yamanouchi says
Madeleine Zelin delivers 2019 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures
WEAI Author Q&A: Claire E. Edington’s “Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam”
Xubei Luo Delivers Tenth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture
Scholars from the US and Japan discuss “New Directions in Japanese Studies”
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
Veteran journalists Bill Emmott and Tomoko Kubota discuss current challenges and changes to come for Japanese women in “Reporting Asia: Japan”
Women, Modernity, and Sustainable Fashion in Contemporary Vietnam

Designer Vũ Thảo and fellow panelists discussed the urgent need for alternatives to fast fashion. 

WEAI hosts panel on “Women, Modernity, and Sustainable Fashion in Contemporary Vietnam”