435-9529_WEAIarCOVERr2 7/12/07 2:50 PM Page 1 WEATHERHEAD EASTASIANINSTITUTE WEATHERHEAD ANNUAL REPORT 2006–2007 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT 2006–2007COLUMBIAUNIVERSITY ANNUAL REPORT WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE Columbia University MC 3333 International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027 Tel:212-854-2592 Fax: 212-749-1497 www.columbia.edu/weai 435-9529_WEAIarCOVERr2 7/12/07 2:50 PM Page 2 CONTENTS 1| Letter from the Director . 1 7| Graduate Teaching Program . 38 Graduate and Doctoral Studies . 38 2| The Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Certificate Program at Columbia University . 3 SIPA Regional Concentration in East Asian Studies Master of Arts in Regional Studies–East Asia (MARSEA) 3| The Research Community . 4 Graduate Study at the Department of East Asian Faculty . 4 Languages and Cultures (EALAC) Research Scholars . 16 Liberal Studies Master of Arts in East Asian Studies Visiting Professor 2006–2007 . 20 WEAI Undergraduate Initiative Senior Visiting Research Associate 2006–2007 . 20 Modern Tibetan Studies Program Visiting Scholars 2006–2007 . 20 Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) Professional Fellows 2006–2007 . 20 Weatherhead Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Institute Associates 2006–2007 . 21 Southeast Asian Studies Doctorates Awarded in 2006–2007 . 21 Faculty . 41 Doctoral Candidates Preparing Dissertations . 22 East Asian Course Offerings 2006–2007 . 43 4| Publications . 25 8| Students and Alumni . 45 Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute . 25 Students . 45 Asia Perspectives . 25 Program Assistants Weatherhead Books on Asia . 25 Student Organizations Works by Institute Faculty and Scholars . 26 Asia Pacific Affairs Council CU-EAST 5| Programs and Centers at Columbia Greater China Initiative Affiliated with the Weatherhead Nihon Benkyokai/Japan Exchange Program East Asian Institute . 29 Korea Focus Columbia Center for Chinese Economy and Society . 29 Southeast Asia Student Initiative Next Generation Network . 29 Taiwan Focus C.V. Starr East Asian Library . 29 Zhongwen Luntan/China Forum APEC Study Center . 30 Master of Arts in Regional Studies–East Asia Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Center for Chinese (MARSEA) Graduates 2006–2007 . 46 Cultural and Institutional History . 30 SIPA East Asian Regional Concentrators . 47 Toyota Research Program . 30 Weatherhead East Asian Certificate Awarded Center for Korean Research . 31 2006–2007 . 47 Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture . 31 Student Support . 47 Center on Japanese Economy and Business . 31 The First Books Endowment of WEAI Center for Chinese Legal Studies . 32 Fellowships Administered by the Institute Center for Japanese Legal Studies . 32 Alumni Notes . 48 Center for Korean Legal Studies . 32 9| Asia for Educators Program . 50 6| Conferences, Meetings, Lectures, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia . 50 and Seminars . 33 Hosting National Communication Sites on the Web . 51 The Third Annual Weatherhead East Asian Asia for Educators (AFE) Online . 51 Institute China Symposium . 33 East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP) for Korea, China, International Relations: Pre-College Level . 52 A Colloquium in Honor of Samuel S. Kim . 34 Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum (PACC) for Objects and Images: Exploring Visual and College Level . 52 Material Culture in Japan . 34 New Directions in Undergraduate Education in the Wutaishan and Qing Culture Conference . 34 Twenty-first Century . 52 The Soviet Impact on China: Politics, Economy, Society, and Culture, 1949–1991 . 34 10| Studies of the Weatherhead East Weatherhead Policy Forums . 34 Asian Institute (full list) . 53 The Borton-Mosely Distinguished Lecture on Eurasia . 35 Program in Contemporary Culture and Arts 11| Administrative Staff of the of East Asia . 35 Weatherhead East Asian Institute . 58 Korea Events: Contemporary Korean Affairs Seminar . 35 Research Lunches . 35 12| Funding Sources . 59 Special Lecture . 35 Brown Bag Lunch Lectures . 35 13| Map . .60 Seminars . 37 1 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR n 2006–2007 the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) continued to maintain its position as Columbia University’s most vigorous regional institute. During an academic year when almost I every week was characterized by the programming of multiple events, the Institute sponsored major international conferences, symposia, policy forums, and film series, as well as numerous and lively brown bag seminars and presentations. Highlights included the Third Annual China Symposium, “Becoming a Stakeholder: China in International Affairs,” co-chaired by Senator George J. Mitchell and sponsored by The Center for Chinese Society and Economy, under WEAI auspices. There were also the five Weatherhead Policy Forums and the Borton-Mosely Distinguished Lecture. The Brown Bag Lectures provided broad professional and disciplinary coverage of contemporary and modern East and Southeast Asia. Included was “Making Sense of the North Korean Test,” a joint and most timely presentation by Professors Armstrong and Kim. Given only three days after the explosion in North Korea, it attracted a large, standing-room-only audience. WEAI faculty also support and participate in the multidisciplinary Columbia University Seminars: “China: International Business,” “Modern East Asia: China,” “Modern East Asia: Japan,” and “Southeast Asia in World Affairs.” Undergraduate and pre-college education has long been a major WEAI focus, as demonstrated through our nationally prominent outreach activities and our Expanding East Asian Studies Program. This year marked another major expansion of Institute activities and programming for undergraduates. WEAI gave support to a new undergraduate student group, CU-EAST: the Columbia Undergraduate East Asian Studies Network, whose inaugural event was an internship and career panel organized to give undergraduates interested in East Asia some exposure to available career tracts and internship opportunities. Subsequent meetings of the new group have been held to introduce its mission and for a discussion of anime and Japanese pop culture. With Institute backing, CU-EAST also launched Soundings: East Asia Monthly, a newsletter for undergraduates. This publication, broadly distributed on campus, aims to provide undergraduates access to information about East Asia-related activities. With East Asia one of the most dynamic regions in the world today, WEAI’s increasing involvement in undergraduate education lends support to Columbia University’s enhanced emphasis on bringing into education issues of globalization, as in the new Undergraduate Initiative on Global Thought. Letter from the Director 1 As with its programmed events, the WEAI research community reflected the Institute’s engage- ment with and service to the interconnected worlds of scholarship, education, and public service, as well as its outreach to the private sector. Together with WEAI’s regular Columbia teaching and research faculty were research scholars, senior visiting research associates, professional fellows, visiting scholars, and Institute associates. While the Institute maintained at a high pitch the teaching, research, and public programs involving regions that it has long been concerned with, further intellectual excitement was provided by research and activities of the new Modern Tibetan Studies Program. The fall semester of this year marked the retirement of Professor Samuel Kim, a key scholar in Korean studies, whose many years of teaching and service to the Institute were acknowledged and recalled by friends and colleagues at a symposium held in his honor. The end of this academic year also brings the retirement of Professor Thomas Bernstein, an internationally eminent scholar of Chinese society, government, and politics, after a teaching and research career at Columbia of more than thirty years. We at WEAI wish Professors Kim and Bernstein much enjoyment of their post-retirement lives, while at the same time we move vigorously to maintain our strength in the areas of scholarship they so well represented. This, my first year as WEAI director since 1976, has been exciting, but, for reasons unconnected to this position, also a most trying one. So for their support, well beyond the call of duty, I am most grateful to my colleagues and to the extremely capable staff that I have been so fortunate to be able to work with. I especially want to express my appreciation to Waichi Ho for all she has done, and congratulate her on her promotion to WEAI associate director. Myron L. Cohen 2 Letter from the Director 2 THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ince its establishment in 1949 as the East Asian University’s renowned C. V. Starr East Asian Library and the Institute, the Institute has been the center for modern Institute’s extensive ties to the business, diplomatic, legal, Sand contemporary East Asia research, studies, and pub- and media communities in New York City, the nation, and lication at Columbia, covering China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong abroad. The Institute is also one of the leading centers for Kong, Korea, Mongolia (Inner Asia), Tibet, and, increasingly, developing K–12 teacher resource and training programs in the countries of Southeast Asia. In 2003 the Institute was the United States. renamed the Weatherhead East Asian Institute to honor the The importance of East Asian studies at Columbia is generosity of the Weatherhead Foundation. recognized by a wide variety of funding sources, including The faculty of the Institute are members of Columbia’s the U.S. Department of Education, which,