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Annual Report 2017-2018 Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University International Affairs Building 9th Floor, MC 3333 420 West 118th Street New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212-854-2592 ANNUAL REPORT Fax: 212-749-1497 WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA 2017–2018 REPORT INSTITUTE ANNUAL ASIAN EAST WEATHERHEAD weai.columbia.edu 2017-2018 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAP: MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS & ENVIRONS Table of Contents 1 Letter from the Director 2 2 Weatherhead East Asian Institute 4 3 Research Community 6 4 Publications 24 5 Research Programs of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Affiliated Columbia Centers 28 6 Public Programming 34 7 Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies 46 8 Students 48 9 Asia for Educators Program 52 10 Staff of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute 55 11 Funding Sources 56 12 Columbia University Map: Morningside Campus and Environs 57 1 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR WEAI’s public forums: His Excellency As the community of Southeast Asia Cho Tae-yul, ambassador of the Republic scholars at Columbia burgeons, we were of Korea to the United Nations; Her delighted to welcome John D. Phan, an Excellency Ambassador Lily L. W. Hsu, the expert on Vietnam, to the WEAI faculty director-general of the Taipei Economic this year. An assistant professor in the and Cultural Office in New York; Derek Department of East Asian Languages James Mitchell, former U.S. Ambassador and Cultures, John conducts research to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; on Vietnamese writing systems and Ching-Ching Ni, editor-in-chief of the New vernacular scripts as well as on linguistic York Times Chinese website; Daniel Russel, contact between Vietnam and China. We former assistant secretary of state for East are excited that John is collaborating with Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Admiral WEAI faculty member Lien-Hang Nguyen, Tomohisa Takei, former chief of staff of the the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. in the History of the United States and It was a privilege for Madeleine Zelin and East Asia, to offer Columbia students me to serve as WEAI’s acting directors This year’s programming also reflected unparalleled guidance in the study of in 2017–2018. Although our tenure as WEAI’s ongoing commitment to Vietnamese history and humanities. director—Matti’s in the fall semester and furthering knowledge and discussion mine in the spring—was brief, we enjoyed about Southeast Asia. We were proud to The Institute was also excited to welcome leading the Institute during an eventful present such international conferences Seong Uk Kim, the Il Hwan and Soon and successful academic year. as “Watching the Philippines, Reporting Ja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean Duterte”; “Thailand Update 2018”; and Culture and Religion in the Department This year, WEAI offered the Columbia “The Trump Administration and Southeast of East Asian Languages and Cultures. community and the public the opportunity Asia: Strategic Implications and We look forward to seeing Seong Uk, who to take part in a remarkable range of Southeast Asian Responses.” The events studies religion and politics in modern discussions and conferences. We kicked allowed Columbia students and faculty and premodern Korea, and our other off the fall semester with two significant to collaborate with leading scholars of new faculty members develop research events. The first, held on September 21, Southeast Asia from around the world projects and event programming that will was the only public address in the United and opened new avenues of research encourage professors, students, and the States by Japan’s foreign minister, His about this vital and complex region. public to look at the cultures and societies Excellency Tarō Kōno, who took time of East Asia from fresh angles. to answer insightful questions from We were thrilled to learn that Southeast Columbia students about diplomacy. Asian studies will expand even further This year, we were pleased to have The following day, the Institute held at Columbia and at institutions in the Tyran Grillo join us as the 2017–2018 its second large-scale event: a World greater New York area now that the Henry Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Leaders Forum in which His Excellency Luce Foundation has awarded a major East Asia and the Americas. A scholar of M. Jusuf Kalla, the vice president of the new grant to the New York Southeast contemporary Japanese literature whose Republic of Indonesia, discussed current Asia Network (NYSEAN). Established work involves translation, animal studies, concerns in Southeast Asia with WEAI in 2015 with a seed grant from the and media, Tyran offered Columbia faculty member Andrew J. Nathan. Both foundation and based administratively students unique and thought-provoking events gave Columbia students the rare at WEAI, NYSEAN has been creating a courses on disability in East Asia and on occasion to engage in direct dialogue with network among scholars, students, and Hollywood remakes of Japanese films. dignitaries about pressing global issues. the public at eleven partner institutions. The foundation recently gave NYSEAN an During the 2017–2018 year, members Following those memorable events, additional three-year grant to consolidate of our community earned noteworthy the Institute presented a host of talks the network, boost levels of activity, and recognitions. Theodore Hughes, the Korea by diplomats, scholars, and our own provide financial support for partners to Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in faculty that helped the public better initiate conferences and other projects. the Humanities, received both promotion understand the historical contexts and With this support, we are excited to see to full professor and a 2018–2019 possible outcomes of recent political ambitious new Southeast Asia–focused Heyman Center Fellowship. Dorothy Ko, and diplomatic developments. A small programming take shape at Columbia in professor of history at Barnard College, sample of this year’s speakers reflects the near future. and Chün-fang Yü, Sheng Yen Professor the range of experts who took part in Emerita of Chinese Buddhism, were both elected as Academicians of Academia 2 Sinica in recognition of their important study of the Chinese diaspora, Adam contributions to the study of China. helped lead the shift toward transnational Eugenia Lean, associate professor of approaches to historical research. We Chinese history and WEAI director (on were also saddened by the death of leave 2017–2018), was awarded a grant Jayne Werner, who served as a research from the National Endowment for the scholar at the Institute from 2010 through Humanities. Lydia H. Liu, the Wun Tsun 2015. Jayne was a leading expert on the Tam Professor in the Humanities, was contemporary politics of Vietnam and named the 2017–2018 Frank M. Updike had been a past cochair of the University Memorial Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Seminar on Southeast Asia in World Visiting Scholar Program and elected as Affairs. We will long remember Adam and a member of the Institute for Advanced Jayne and the enormous contributions Study in 2018–2019. Yao Lu, associate they made to our community and to their professor of sociology, and her coauthor, fields of study. Ran Tao, received the 2018 Best Article Award from the American Sociological As Eugenia Lean resumes her role as Association section on Collective Institute director in fall 2018, I am eager Behavior and Social Movements. John D. to collaborate with her and with all of Phan, assistant professor of East Asian our community members to prepare languages and cultures, was awarded an to celebrate WEAI’s 70th anniversary American Council of Learned Societies in 2019. This landmark anniversary grant. Ying Qian, assistant professor will allow us to both look back on the of East Asian languages and cultures, Institute’s remarkable history and look received a 2018–2019 Global Humanities forward to new opportunities for growth Projects Grant. Madeleine Zelin, the Dean and innovation. The major events and Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, was scholarly expansion that took place reelected to the International Society during this academic year well illustrate for Chinese Law and History’s Board the Institute’s consistent ambition and of Directors. Kristy E. Kelly, associate dynamism. With political and economic research scholar, was awarded a research developments in East and Southeast grant from the Luce Foundation. Yukiko Asia carrying global consequences, I Koga, associate research scholar, have no doubt that WEAI will build upon received the American Anthropological its distinguished legacy to meet the Association’s 2017 Francis L. K. Hsu challenge of educating students, scholars, and Anthony Leeds Book Prizes for her and the wider public about all aspects book in our Studies of the WEAI series, of this fascinating, pivotal, and ever- Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the changing part of the world. Political Economy of Redemption after Empire. Finally, Elizabeth Wishnick, senior research scholar, received a Fulbright Sincerely, Global Research Award. We congratulate our faculty and scholars for their outstanding achievements. Xiaobo Lü Sadly, this year saw the loss of two Acting Director (Spring 2018) members of the Institute community. We mourn the death of Adam McKeown, who was a WEAI faculty member and professor of history at Columbia from 2001 through 2013. A pioneering scholar in the field of global history and in the 3 2 WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE Since its establishment in 1949 as the East leading centers for developing K–12 teacher Asian Institute, the Institute has been the resource and training programs in the center for modern and contemporary East United States. Asia research, studies, and publication at The importance of East Asian studies at Columbia, covering China, Japan, Taiwan, Columbia is recognized by a wide variety Hong Kong, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, and, of funding sources, including the U.S. increasingly, the countries of Southeast Department of Education, which, since Asia.
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