The Weatherhead Books on Asia 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.
All Weatherhead Books on Asia titles are published by Columbia University Press. Scroll down the page for a complete list of books in the series, and click on cover thumbnails for information on individual titles.
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 of our book series, recent award winners, and the latest winner of the Seldon First Book Award.
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