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Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Established in 1949, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research, publishing, and public programs on the countries, peoples, and cultures of East and Southeast Asia. Through its research activities, conferences, and seminars, the Institute creates an international forum on social, economic, political, and security issues facing East Asia.
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• April 30, 2024 Legacies of the Vietnam War - Napalm Girl: After the Dragons Left
  By: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Nick Ut, Fox Butterfield, Tony Bui
• April 30, 2024 Legacies of the Vietnam War - Scars of War in Indochina
  By: George Black, Elizabeth Becker, Sera Koulabdara, Peter Osnos
• April 30, 2024 Legacies of the Vietnam War - War Reporting: Lessons from Vietnam
  By: Peter Arnett, Fox Butterfield, Edith Lederer, Nancy Trieu Giang Bui, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, James Bennet
• April 26, 2024 Korea: A New History of South and North – A Book Talk by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo
  By: Victor D. Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Jonathan Corrado
• April 24, 2024 Mainline Islam: Islamic Associational Life in Indonesia
  By: Kevin W. Fogg, Sidney Jone
• April 17, 2024 Is Guanxi Changing? Referral Hiring and Social Networks in China
  By: Elena Obukhova, Yao Lu
• March 27, 2024 Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control
  By: Dali Yang, Qin Gao, Junyan Jiang, Xiaobo Lü
• March 27, 2024 Japan’s Strategic Cooperation with NATO: Connectivity between Ukraine and Taiwan Crises
  By: Tomonori Yoshizaki, Ayumi Teraoka
• March 27, 2024 Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
  By: Michael Davis, Junyan Jiang
• March 12, 2024 The White Crane of Alagśa: Legends of the Sixth Dalai Lama in Mongolia
  By: Sangseraima Ujeed, Gray Tuttle
• February 22, 2024 China and Latin America: A New Assessment
  By: Parsifal D'Sola Alvarado, Xiaobo Lü
• January 26, 2024 Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China
  By: Lynette Ong, Junyan Jiang
• December 19, 2023 Chengdu Youth
  By: Zhang Feng, Andrew J. Nathan
• December 06, 2023 PLA Views on US-China Relations
  By: Yawei Liu, Andrew J. Nathan
• December 06, 2023 Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China–Book Talk, Wenkai He
  By: Wenkai He, Junyan Jiang
• December 05, 2023 And Now What? The Life, Status, and Education of Newly Fully Ordained Nuns in Bhutan
  By: Dorji Gyeltshen, Lauran Hartley
• December 04, 2023 COSCO in Piraeus: Investment Embeddedness and the Question of Chinese 'influence'
  By: Konstantinos Tsimonis, Andrew J. Nathan
• November 27, 2023 Japan’s Role in Indo-Pacific Security
  By: Satoru Mori, Ayumi Teraoka
• November 21, 2023 As Equals: The Oei Women of Java – A Book Talk by Daryl Yeap
  By: Daryl Yeap, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Jim Cheng
• November 09, 2023 Book Launch & Talk: Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
  By: Mireya Solís, Gerald Curtis
• November 08, 2023 Why Columbia Should Invest in Vietnam and Vietnamese Studies: Conversation with Peter Mach
  By: Peter Mach, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
• October 25, 2023 The Fruits of Opportunism: The Making of the World’s Largest For-profit Education Industry in China
  By: Le Lin, Qin Gao
• October 20, 2023 Why will Indonesia become more important and what does that mean for Japan and the US?
  By: Masafumi Ishii, Gerald Curtis
• October 17, 2023 Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Environmental Management on the Tibetan Plateau
  By: Yangjee Sherpa, Hung T. T. Nguyen, Eveline Washul, Lauran Hartley
• October 17, 2023 Book Talk with Jessamyn Abel, Author of "Dream Super-Express"
  By: Jessamyn Abel, Takuya Tsunoda, Ariana King
• October 11, 2023 Rise From the Fall, Unmasking the Vietnamese-American Identity: A Conversation with Author Lan Cao
  By: Lan Cao, Naja Pham Lockwood
• September 26, 2023 Book Talk: The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
  By: Suisheng Zhao
• May 09, 2023 Imperfect Partners: The United States and Southeast Asia
  By: Scot Marciel, Ann Marie Murphy
• May 03, 2023 Understanding Qing Officialdom Through Big Data
  By: Cameron Campbell, Junyan Jiang
• April 28, 2023 History and Development of the Library of Congress Tibetan Collection with Susan Meinheit
  By: Susan Meinheit
• April 28, 2023 Narratives of Civic Duty – A Book Talk by Aram Hur
  By: Aram Hur, Andrew J. Nathan
• April 26, 2023 Rethinking "China" and the "Cold War"
  By: Chien Wen Kung, Eugenia Lean
• April 20, 2023 Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
  By: Ethan Michelson, Yao Lu
• April 20, 2023 Perfect Spy: The Arc of Pham Xuan An’s Life from War to Peace
  By: Larry Berman, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
• April 13, 2023 Government Courtesans in the Northern Military Areas -- A Lecture with Hyun Suk Park
  By: Hyun Suk Park, Jungwon Kim
• April 13, 2023 Conceptualization and Operationalization of Ambiguous Loss Among Left Behind Children in Rural China
  By: Xiaojin Chen, Yao Lu
• April 13, 2023 In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms
  By: Matthew W. King, Gray Tuttle
• April 11, 2023 Crossing Rivers by Yakhide-Boat and Horsehead-Ferry: Waterways in Pre-1959 Tibet with Diana Lange
  By: Diane Lange
• April 06, 2023 Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping
  By: Bates Gill, Elizabeth Wishnick
• March 21, 2023 Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
  By: Jérôme Doyon, Andrew J. Nathan
• March 17, 2023 A Dialogue with Chairman of the Taiwan People's Party, Dr. Ko Wen-je
  By: Wen-je Ko, Andrew J. Nathan
• March 10, 2023 Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Academy with Jan Willis
  By: Jan Willis
• March 09, 2023 Japan's New Security Strategy and the Changing Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific
  By: Sheila Smith, Gerald Curtis
• March 08, 2023 Factual Fiction Versus Autobiography – Marie Myung-Ok Lee on The Evening Hero
  By: Marie Myung-Ok Lee
• March 06, 2023 Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan – A Book Talk by Maya Stiller
  By: Maya Stiller, Seong Uk Kim
• February 23, 2023 Public Attitudes Towards Social Spending: Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore
  By: Alfred M. Wu, Qin Gao
• February 21, 2023 Photography and Tibet with Clare Harris
  By: Clare Harris, Lauran Hartley
• February 09, 2023 Reading The Backstreets in Ürümchi: Translation as Ethnographic Method and Practice of Refusal
  By: Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan
• February 06, 2023 Mongolia Between Two Giants: Cold War Lessons and Today’s Realities
  By: Batbayar Tsedendamba, Segey Radchenko, Morris Rossabi, Elizabeth Wishnick
• February 03, 2023 The Seventh Dalai Lama's Residence in Kham with Yudru Tsomu
  By: Yudru Tsomu, Gray Tuttle
• January 31, 2023 Treason by the Margins of the Book: Censorship, Philology, History and Memory in 18th Century China
  By: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Eugenia Lean
• December 20, 2022 Studying Maltreatment Through Polyvictimization: Evidence from the Salar Ethnic Group in Qinghai
  By: Clifton R. Emery, Qin Gao
• December 19, 2022 Migrant Worker Rights in Singapore: Advocacy, Legal Frameworks and Prospects for Change
  By: Debbie Fordyce, Laavanya Kathiravelu
• December 08, 2022 Organized Shinto’s Efforts to Restore the Imperial Rescript on Education in Postwar Japan
  By: Hirokazu Yoshie, Paul Kreitman
• December 01, 2022 The Urbanization of People- The Politics of Development in the Chinese City
  By: Eli Friedman, Yao Lu
• November 15, 2022 On Dangerous Ground: America’s Century in the South China Sea
  By: Gregory Poling, Anne Marie Murphy, Andrew J. Nathan, Thomas J. Christensen
• November 02, 2022 Assessing the Chinese Communist Party 20th Party Congress
  By: Thomas J. Christensen, Shang-Jin Wei, Junyang Jiang, Xiaobo Lü, Sun Zhe, Andrew J. Nathan
• October 25, 2022 Religion and Politics in Japan after the Abe Assassination
  By: Levi McLaughlin, Benjamin E. Goldsmith
• October 14, 2022 Thailand: The New Monarchy Under King Vajiralongkorn?
  By: Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Ann Marie Murphy
• September 30, 2022 Power and Restraint in China's Rise
  By: Chin-Hao Huang, Nick R. Smith
• September 16, 2022 Taiwan Update: Local Elections and Cross-Strait Relations
  By: Hungdah Su Dean, Yeong-Kang Chen, Min-Hua Huang, Eric Yu, Yeh-Chung Lu, Andrew Nathan, Thomas J. Christensen
• September 16, 2022 From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
  By: Dan Slater, Daniel M. Smith
• May 27, 2022 A Pilgrim’s Diary: Khatag Dzamyag’s nyindep and Tibetan diary-keeping practices
  By: Lucia Galli, Gray Tuttle
• May 12, 2022 Toward an Intellectual History of Vietnam - A Book Talk
  By: Martina Nguyen, Claire Edington, Duy Lap Nguyen, Yen Vu, Lien-Hang Nguyen
• April 26, 2022 Financial Cold War – A Book Talk
  By: James Fok, Shang-Jin Wei
• April 25, 2022 China's Colonial Boarding Schools in Tibet
  By: Lhadon Tethong, Freya Putt, Jia Luo, Tenzin Dorjee, Andy Nathan
• April 14, 2022 Inflamed Publics: Social Media, Violence, and Resistance Panel 1
  By: Wanning Sun, Radhika Gajjala, Daniel Mann, Jinsook Kim
• April 08, 2022 Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
  By: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Manan Ahmed, Lien-Hang Nguyen, Jeffrey Ngo
• April 04, 2022 We Uyghurs Have No Say: A Roundtable on the Writings of Ilham Tohti
  By: Rune Steenberg, Abdürreşit Celil Karluk, David Brophy
• March 30, 2022 Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture
  By: Shengqing Wu, Ying Qian, Alexander Alberro
• March 22, 2022 Family and Inequality: “Diverging Destinies” in Japan
  By: James M. Raymo, Daniel Smith
• March 22, 2022 The Buddhist Dream Tale: Past and Present
  By: Francisca Cho, Seong Uk Kim
• March 10, 2022 How Transnational Education Transforms Privilege
  By: Yingyi Ma, Yao Lu
• March 01, 2022 Prospects for Japan's National Security Policy in 2022 and the US-Japan Alliance
  By: Yuki Tatsumi, Daniel Smith
• February 28, 2022 Twelfth Annual N.T Wang Distinguished Lecture: China is Not a Donor
  By: Deborah Bräutigam, Thomas J. Christensen
• February 22, 2022 Russia in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, Russia, and the United States
  By: Gaye Christoffersen, Ying Liu, Artyom Lukin, Elena Feditchkina Tracy, Elizabeth Wishnick
• February 17, 2022 Chinese Trust in Government: A Response Pattern Approach
  By: Cary Wu, Yao Lu
• February 15, 2022 The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization of Rural China
  By: Weiping Wu, Xiaobo Lü, Nick R. Smith, Wing-Shing Tang, Deborah Davis, Andrew Kipnis
• February 11, 2022 The Wuhan Lockdown
  By: Guobin Yang, Qin Gao
• February 11, 2022 A conversation with Loden Sherab Dagyab Rinpoche
  By: Loden Sherab Dagyab Rinpoche, Pema Bhum, Riga Shakya
• February 09, 2022 Cross-Strait and U.S.-Taiwan Relations from the Kuomintang Point of View
  By: Alexander Huang, Eric Huang, Johnny Chiang, Thomas J. Christensen, Andrew Nathan
• February 08, 2022 Rise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History
  By: Yasheng Huang, Madeleine Zelin
• February 01, 2022 One Year after the Myanmar Coup
  By: Esther Ze Bamvo, James C. Scott, David Thang Moe, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
• January 25, 2022 Japan on the Front Line
  By: Noah Sneider, Philip Lipscy, Daniel Smith
• December 03, 2021 Family Caregivers in the Post-COVID Labor Market in China
  By: Haijing Dai, Qin Gao
• December 02, 2021 Open Science: Sino US Collaboration in an Age of Surveillance
  By: Xiaoxing Xi, Ben Liebman, Aruna Viswanatha, Robert Mawhinney, X. Edward Guo, Jennifer La'O, Eurgenia Lean
• November 17, 2021 Human Rights in Southeast Asia and China
  By: Donald Emmerson, Sarah Cook, Amy Freedman
• November 10, 2021 Japan's 2021 Elections: What Happened, What's Next?
  By: Yusaku Horiuchi, Yesola Kweon, Charles McClean, Daniel Smith
• October 29, 2021 Book Launch: A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery
  By: Dominique Townsend, Janet Gyatso, Lauran Hartley
• October 26, 2021 Japan's 2021 Elections: What to Watch For
  By: Tobias Harris, Amy Catalinac, Kenneth McElwain, Daniel Smith
• October 20, 2021 Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places
  By: Laurel Kendall, Lesley Sharp, Max Moerman, Myron L. Cohen
• October 15, 2021 The Dilemma of the Chinese Diaspora in the Decoupling Era
  By: Rong Xiaoqing, Qin Gao
• October 15, 2021 Book Launch: Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China
  By: Nicole Willock, Gray Tuttle
• September 24, 2021 China’s COVID Response and the State of Local Finance in the Xi Jinping Era
  By: Christine Wong, Carl Riskin, Qin Gao
• September 23, 2021 Japan, Parasitology, and Framing Developmental Ambitions
  By: Alex Bay, Aya Homei, John P. DiMoia, Simon Toner, Paul Kreitman
• September 23, 2021 Mobility and Empire in Japanese History
  By: David Ambaras, Martin Dusinberre, Takahiro Yamamoto, Youjia Li, Paul Kreitman
• July 19, 2021 Understanding Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau: Climate Data and Community Knowledge
  By: Emily Yeh, Huatse Gyal, Kelly Hopping, Hung Nguyen, Boniface Fosu, Brendan Buckley
• May 04, 2021 Collecting Tibet: A Roundtable Discussion with Four Curators
  By: Karl Debreczeny, Elena Pakhoutova, Kurt Behrendt, Jeff Durham
• May 03, 2021 Flying Blind: Vietnam’s Decision to Join ASEAN
  By: Tung Vu Nguyen, Dinh Quy Quy, Andrew Nathan, Anne Marie Murphy, Lien-Hang Nguyen
• April 30, 2021 Trauma and Memory in Vietnamese America: Anti-Communism, Authoritarianism, and Anti-Asian
  By: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hoi Trinh, Lan Cao, Eugenia Lean, John Phan, Lien-Hang Nguyen
• April 20, 2021 Stories of Kinship, Care, and COVID-19: Connecting Nepal and Himalayan New York
  By: Sienna Craig
• April 14, 2021 The Ideal of a Tree: Ju Kelzang on his Life as a Poet
  By: Ju Kelzang, Pema Bhum, Kristina Dy-Liacco, Palden Gyal, Eveline Washul
• April 01, 2021 Vietnamese Representation, Queerness, Nostalgia in Leon Le's Song Lang
  By: Leon Le, Ronald Gregg, Takuya Tsunoda, Ying Qian, John Phan
• March 29, 2021 Thailand Update: Protests Revisited (Part 1)
  By: Thongchai Winichakul, Duncan McCargo, Tyrell Haberkorn, Prajak Kongkirati, Aim Sinpeng, Saowanee Alexander, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul
• March 29, 2021 Thailand Update: Protests Revisited (Part 2)
  By: Duncan McCargo, Saowanee Alexander, Aim Sinpeng, Kanokrat Lertchoosakul
• March 18, 2021 How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions
  By: Luke Patey, Elizabeth Wishnick
• March 17, 2021 Climate Variability and Steppe Empires: New Findings and Future Directions
  By: Nicola Di Cosmo
• March 10, 2021 Educational Policies and Healthy Aging in China
  By: Xi Chen, Qi Gao
• February 19, 2021 The Evolving Cross-Strait Policy of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan
  By: Jason Po-Nien Chen
• November 30, 2020 Thailand's New Political Generation: Forward to the Future?
  By: Duncan McCargo, Andrew J. Nathan
• November 24, 2020 Immigration and Racism in Japan: Litmus test for liberal democracy?
  By: Eric Chung, Atsuko Abe, Garcia Liu-Farrer, Michael Sharpe, Takako Hikotani
• November 20, 2020 Therapeutic Politics of Care: New Ethnographies of Asia
  By: Felicity Aulino, Nicholas Bartlett, Lyle Fearnley, Ting Hui Lau, Emily Ng, Saiba Varma
• November 06, 2020 Public Transfers and Inequality in China
  By: Wang Feng
• November 06, 2020 Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China
  By: Xian Huang
• November 06, 2020 New Developments in China's Financial and Economic System
  By: Ronald Schramm
• October 29, 2020 Challenges and Opportunities in US-Taiwan Relations
  By: Bi-khim Hsiao
• October 28, 2020 The Future of US Alliances and Partnerships in Asia
  By: Abe Denmark
• October 09, 2020 Chinese Civil Society in the Times of Covid-19
  By: Diana Fu, Elizabeth Knup, Jing Wang, Nick Bartlett
• October 06, 2020 Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: China from a Global Comparative Perspective
  By: Rong Zhao
• August 20, 2020 The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19
  By: Andrey Makarychev, Elizabeth Wishnick, Andrew J. Nathan
• May 22, 2020 Covid-19 in Taiwan: Domestic and International Implications
  By: Syaru Shirley Lin, C. Jason Wang, Vincent Wang, Andrew J. Nathan
• February 26, 2020 Japan’s Diplomacy in 2030
  By: Noriyuki Shikata, Takako Hikotani, Gerald Curtis
• January 10, 2020 Lecture: Reporting Asia: Tibet
  By: Edward Wong, Gray Tuttle
• May 10, 2019 Lecture: China's and Russia's Sharp Power
  By: Christopher Walker, Andrew J. Nathan, Alexander Cooley, Takako Hikotani
• March 01, 2018 "Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System"-The 8th Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture
  By: Hanming Fang, Yi Zhang
• February 08, 2018 The Trump Administration’s Policy Toward East Asia
  By: Takako Hikotani
• February 07, 2018 Social Entrepreneurship in Japan - a talk with Lin Kobayashi
  By: Lin Kobayashi
• February 07, 2018 How to Think About Postwar Asia: Demobilization in the Former Japanese Empire
  By: Victor Louzon
• December 14, 2016 Taiwan and US-China Relations in a Trump Administration
  By: Andrew J. Nathan
• March 17, 2016 The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture
  By: Yukari Fujimoto, Hikari Hori
• February 04, 2016 The South China Sea: The View From the Philippines
  By: Antonio T. Carpio
• April 30, 2015 Modern Taiwan Lecture Series: Native Peoples of Taiwan in Present-day Society
  By: Scott Simon, Myron L. Cohen, Murray Rubinstein
• April 14, 2015 Modern Taiwan Lecture Series: Taiwan's Feminist Movement
  By: Ya-chen Chen, Myron L. Cohen, Murray Rubinstein
• October 16, 2014 Around 1948: Human Rights and Global Transformation
  By: Rashid Khalidi, Lydia H. Liu, Samuel Moyn, Deborah Nelson, Eurgenia Lean
• November 05, 2009 The Rise and Fall of KEDO: A Case of Multilateral Engagement with North Korea
  By: Joel Wit, Robert Carlin, Charles Kartman
• March 05, 2005 Can America Rebuild the Crumbling State of U.S.-Asia Relations?
  By: Kishore Mahbubani