EALAC Faculty Profiles

Faculty Profiles
Paul J. Anderer is the deBary/Class of ’41 Professor of Asian Humanities at Columbia. He holds degrees from Michigan (BA ’71), Chicago (MA ’72), and Yale (Ph.D. ’79). He joined the Columbia faculty in 1980. From 1989 until 1997, he was the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has also served the University as Vice Provost for International Relations, as Associate Vice-President for Academic Planning and Global Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences, and as Acting Dean of the Graduate School. His writings include Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction (Columbia, 1984); and Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo—Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 (Stanford, 1995), along with numerous articles exploring the culture of the city (Tokyo) and Japanese modernity. His work has been awarded support from the NEH, the SSRC, and the Fulbright Commission. He teaches Japanese fiction, film, and cultural criticism in addition to Asian Humanities. He is currently writing a book on the black and white films of Kurosawa Akira, in their relationship to the Japanese post-war and to the era of silent film-making.
Charles K. Armstrong, Associate Professor (History Department) specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1984 his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. His published works include The North Korean Revolution, 1945 - 1950 (Cornell, 2002), Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State (Routledge, 2002), "The Cultural Cold War in Korea," Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming February 2003), "America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam," Critical Asian Studies (December 2001) and "The Origins of North Korean Cinema," Acta Koreana (January 2002). Center for Korean Research: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ckr Personal web-page: http://www.columbia.edu/~cra10
Weihong Bao, assistant professor of Chinese film and media culture, received her Ph.D. from University of Chicago (2006). Trained in both film studies and East Asian literature and culture, she focuses on early Chinese cinema, with broad interests in Chinese cinema, drama, and visual culture from late Qing to the contemporary period as well as international silent cinema, film theory, and film history. Her Ph.D. dissertation deals with questions of spectatorship and aesthetic affect across Shanghai (1896-1937) and Chongqing (1938-1945) cinema and their impact on New China cinema. Her teaching interests cover late Qing visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions, Asian American cinema, and contemporary new media and experimental art. Her research interests center on film and intermedial aesthetics, spectatorship and the history of perception, visual and acoustic modernity, and genre connections across modern Chinese literature, drama, and cinema. Her recent publications include “Fish, Water, Stone: From City Symphony to Urban Ecology, Towards an Ecoaesthetics of new Chinese Cinema” (forthcoming in Ecocinema), “Biomechanics of Love: Reinventing the Avant-Garde in Tsai Ming-liang’s Wayward ‘Pornographic Musical,’” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1:2 (2007); “From Pearl White to White Rose Woo, Tracing the Vernacular Body of Nüxia in Chinese Silent Cinema, 1927-1931,” Camera Obscura 60 (2005); “A Panoramic Worldview: Probing the Visuality of Dianshizhai huabao,” Journal of Modern Chinese Literature 32 (March 2005).
Robert Barnett is Lecturer in Modern Tibetan Studies for EALAC, a member of Columbia's East Asian Institute, and a Consultant for the Centre d'Analyse et de Pre'vision in Paris. He has edited or written a number of books on modern Tibet, including A Poisoned Arrow - the Secret Petition of the 10th Panchen Lama (1998), Leaders in Tibet - A Directory (1997), Cutting Off the Serpent's Head - Tightening Control in Tibet 1994-95 (1996) and Resistance and Reform in Tibet (1994). From 1987-98 he was Director of the Tibet Information Network, an independent news and research project in London. He has also worked as a journalist for the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), the BBC, the Observer, the Independent (London), and other news outlets.
Hans Henrik August Bielenstein is former Chairman of Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University (1969-1977) and Dean Lung Professor Emeritus of Chinese at Columbia University (1985). Some of his writings include The Restoration of the Han Dynasty vols. 26, 31, 39, 51 (1954,1959,1967,1979), The Chinese Colonization of Fukien Province (Copenhagen 1959), Lo-yang in Later Han Times (1976), ‘Is there a Chinese Dynastic Cycle” (1978), The Bureaucracy of Han Times (1980), “Later Han Inscriptions and Dynastic Biographies. A Historiographical Comparison” (1982), “Han Portents and Prognostications” (1984), “Pan Ku’s Accusations against Wang Mang” (1987), Chinese Historical Demography (1987), The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch’ing (1992), and “Notes on the Shui-ching” (1993), The six Dynasties vols.I-II (1996, 1997).
Irene Bloom, Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle East Cultures (Barnard), received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1976. Prof. Bloom specializes in East Asian intellectual history. She is co-editor of Religious Diversity & Human Rights (Columbia, 1996), Meeting of Minds: Intellectual & Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought (Columbia, 1996), and Approaches to the Asian Classics (Columbia, 1995), and is author of Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The K'un-chih chi of Lo Ch'in-shun (Columbia, 1987).
Wm. Theodore de Bary, AB Columbia 1941, MA '48, PhD '53; D. Litt St. Lawrence '68; LHD Loyola (Chicago) '70; D. Litt. Columbia '94. John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus. Teaches Asian Humanities and Civilizataions, Chinese and Japanese Thought, Neo-Confucianism in China, Korea and Japan. Recent Publications: Sources of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Tradition (Columbia, 1999-2001); Asian Values and Human Rights (Harvard 1998); Confucianism and Human Rights (Columbia 1997); Waiting for the Dawn (Columbia 1992); The Trouble with Confucianism (Harvard 1991); East Asian Civilizations (Harvard 1987).
Wiebke Denecke Wiebke Denecke is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. She teaches and writes about thought and literature of pre-modern China and Japan, and more generally literatures of the ancient world and strategies of crosscultural comparison. She is completing a book manuscript that recaptures the development of early Chinese "philosophy" as a history of the traditional Chinese genre of "Masters Literature" [zhuzi baijia]. Her second book project, entitled "In the Footprints of Others: Latin and Early Japanese Writers and their own Literature," examines how early Japanese and Latin authors wrote their literature through and against Greek, respectively Chinese, precedents. B.A. (equal.) and M. A.: George August University (Gottingen, Germany) Ph.D.: Harvard University For CV and publications see: http://www.barnard.edu/amec/profiles/wdenecke.html http://www.barnard.edu/amec/profiles/denecke.html
Shigeru Eguchi is a Lecturer in Japanese.
Bernard Faure is the Kao Professor in Japanese Religion, received his Ph.D. (Doctorat d’Etat) from Paris University (1984). He is interested in various aspects of East Asian Buddhism, with an emphasis on Chan/Zen and Tantric or esoteric Buddhism. His work, influenced by anthropological history and cultural theory, has focused on topics such as the construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the Buddhist cult of relics, iconography, sexuality and gender. His current research deals with the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism and its relationships with medieval Japanese religion. He has published a number of books in French and English. His English publications include: The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism (Princeton 1991), Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition (Princeton 1993), Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Princeton 1996), The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton 1998), The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Princeton 2003), and Double Exposure (Stanford 2004). He is presently working on a book on Japanese Gods and Demons.
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, specializes in the history of modern Japan, nineteenth century to the present. She received her B.A. from Wellesley in 1962, and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1977. Her publications include Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton, 1985), Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (Norton, 1992), Asia in Western and World History (Sharpe, 1997), Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History (University of California, 2008, and Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
JaHyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professsor of Korean Studies A native of Seoul, Korea, Professor Haboush completed her graduate studies at the University of Michigan (MA 1970 in Chinese Literature) and at Columbia University (Ph. D 1978 in Korean and Chinese History). A cultural historian of pre-modern and early modern Korea, particularly from 16th to 19th centuries, she is also interested in and teaches literature. Her current areas of interest include political culture, pre-modern nationalism, diglossia, language and ideology, genre, gender, and historiography. Her publications include A Heritage of Kings: One Man’s Monarchy in the Confucian World (1988), The Confucian Kingship in Korea: Yôngjo and the Politics of Sagacity (2001), and The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyông: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (1996) for which she won the Korean Arts and Culture Foundation’s Grand Prize in Translation and Criticism in 1977. She also coedited The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea (1985), Culture and the State in Late Chosôn Korea (1999), and Women in Pre-Modern Confucian Cultures in China, Korea and Japan (2003).
Theodore Hughes, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, attended Grossmont Community College and received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego (1990) and his M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2002) from the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research interests include narratives of collaboration and occupation in immediate postliberation Korea; representations of the body in colonial-period proletarian literature; Cold War authoritarianism and developmentalism; national division. Publications include “Development as Devolution: Nam Chŏng-hyŏn and the ‘Land of Excrement’ Incident” (Journal of Korean Studies, Fall 2005), “Producing Sovereign Spaces in the Emerging Cold War World Order: Immediate Postliberation ‘North’ and ‘South’ Korean Literature” (Naengjŏn segye chilsŏ sok esŏ ŭi haebang konggan: haebang chikhu ŭi nam/bukHan munhak) (Han’guk munhak yŏn’gu, Fall 2005), Panmunjom and Other Stories by Lee Ho-Chul (Norwalk: EastBridge, 2004), “Locating the Revolutionary Subject: Hwang Suk-Young’s The Shadow of Arms” (Hyôngmyôngjôk chuch’e ûi charimaegim: Mugi ŭi kŭnŭllon), in Hwang Suk-Young munhak ŭi segye (Seoul: Ch’angbi, 2003).
Robert P. W. Hymes, H. Walpole Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, received his B.A. from Columbia College (1972), and his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1979) from the University of Pennsylvania. His work so far has focused on the social and cultural history of middle period and early modern China, drawing questions and sometimes data from cultural anthropology as well as history, and using the methods of the local historian to study elite culture, family and kinship, medicine, religion, gender, and (currently) the changing role and form of Chinese social networks from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries. His publications include Statesmen & Gentlemen: The Elite of Fu-chou, Chiang-hsi, in Northern & Southern Sung (Cambridge, 1987); Ordering the World: Approaches to State & Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993, co-edited with Conrad Schirokauer); and Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China. Both Statesmen and Gentlemen and Way and Byway won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book on pre-1900 China in their years of publication. Prof. Hymes is currently department chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Donald Keene received his B.A. (1942), M.A. (1947), and Ph.D. (1949) degrees from Columbia University, and his Litt. D. from Cambridge University in 1978. He is the recipient of the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture (1962); the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (1993) and Third Class (1975); the Japan Foundation Prize (1983); the Yomiuri Shimbun Prize (1985); the Shincho Grand Literary Prize (1985); the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize (1987); the Radio and Television Culture Prize (1993); and the Asahi Prize (1998). He has received honorary degrees from St. Andrew's College (1990), Middlebury College (1995), Columbia University (1997), Tohoku University (1997), Waseda University (1998), Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku (1999), and Keiwa University (2000). He was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese version of Travelers of a Hundred Ages) and he was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (Grand Prize of Japanese Literature) for the same work. In 1991 he received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award, and in 1994 he won the Inoue Yasushi Prize. Professor Keene has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1986; and in 1990 he became an honorary member of the Japan Academy. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989; he is currently a University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus. Professor Keene has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of both classical and modern literature, and edited works including two anthologies of Japanese literature and the collection Twenty Plays of the No Theatre. His major publications include a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Professor Keene's Japanese publications include approximately 30 books, some written originally in Japanese, others translated from English. The Japanese translation of his history of Japanese literature has appeared in 18 volumes. His biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes was published in October 2001 by Shinchosha. The English text, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, is scheduled to be published by Columbia University Press in early 2002.
Eugenia Lean received her BA from Stanford University (1990), and her MA (1996) and PhD (2001) from UCLA. She is interested in a broad range of topics in Chinese history with a particular focus on the history of late imperial and modern China, urban culture, gender and the history of emotions, politics of modernity, and issues of historiography and critical theory. Her publications include Politics of Passion: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Public Sympathy in Nineteen-thirties China (UC Press, forthcoming), "The Making of a Public: Emotions and Media Sensation in 1930s China," Twentieth Century China (April 2004) and "Reflections on Theory, Gender and the Psyche in the Study of Chinese History," Funu lishi yanjiu fukan [Research on Women in Modern Chinese History] (August 1998). Articles based on her research have also been translated and published in Chinese. Her current project examines Lux Soap and the discourse of health and beauty in Republican China's consumer culture
Gari K. Ledyard is King Sejong Professor Emeritus of Korean Studies, and a specialist in Korean history. He received his B.A. (1958), M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) from the University of California (Berkeley).
Feng Li, Assistant Professor of Early Chinese Cultural History. Received his B.A. (1983) from Northwestern University (Xi’an); M.A. (1986) from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; studied for Ph.D. in the University of Tokyo; received his Ph.D. (2000) from the University of Chicago. Professor Li is both a historian and an archaeologist specializing in Bronze Age China. He is interested in a wide-range of subjects in early Chinese history and culture. In recent years he focuses on the Western Zhou period especially on evidence from the bronze inscriptions and archaeology. His new book Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou 1045–771 BC (Cambridge, 2006) addresses the complex relationship between geography and political process in the context of the weakening and fall of this prominent Bronze Age state. His other publications include “Periodization and Dates of the Ritual Bronze Vessels from Western Zhou Tombs in the Valley of the Yellow River,” Kaogu xuebao 4 (1988), “On the Content and the Origins of the Pre-dynastic Zhou Culture,” Kaogu xuebao 3 (1991), “Ancient Reproductions and Calligraphic Variations: Studies of Western Zhou Bronzes with ‘Identical’ Inscriptions,” Early China 22 (1997), “‘Offices’ in Bronze Inscriptions and Western Zhou Government Administration,” Early China 26 (2002), “Feudalism and Western Zhou China: A Criticism,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 63.1 (2003), “Succession and Promotion: Elite Mobility during the Western Zhou,” Monumenta Serica 52 (2004). His new book manuscript, Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Evidence from the Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Zhou Time 1045-771 BC, examines the performance of the earliest bureaucracy in China as well as the nature of the early Chinese state. He is co-chairing the Columbia Early China Seminar, and a list of his publications can be found at the webpage of the Columbia Center for Archaeology: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/archaeology/fac-bios/li/faculty.html http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/EarlyChina/ecs.html
Le-ning Liu, Professor in Chinese Language and Director of Chinese Language Program. Le-ning Liu holds a Master in the History of Chinese Language and a Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Florida. He also did one year advanced study of Historical Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Since his appointment at Columbia in 1995, he has taught Chinese language courses at all levels and has been the director of Columbia's Summer Language Program in Beijing since 1999. Prof. Liu is currently teaching Classical Chinese, Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese, and History of Chinese Language. Prof. Liu's research interests are in the fields of Historical Linguistics, the History of Chinese Language, Syntax, Phonology, Discourse Grammar and Language Pedagogy. His Ph.D. dissertation was a careful description of Chinese conjunctive adverbs in the conceptual framework of grammaticalization. His other publications involve the evolution of Chinese auxiliaries (Focus on Linguistics, Vol. 5, 1996), the traditional Chinese Linguistics (Shaanxi People's Press 1990) and the phonological history of Mandarin (Zhonghua Shuju, 1988). Prof. Liu is also interested in Chinese literature and film.
Lydia Liu, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, specializes in modern Chinese literature and culture, critical translation theory, postcolonial empire studies, as well as semiotics and media studies. Professor Liu received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (1990) and has taught at UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan before joining Columbia University in 2006. Her work has focused on literary modernity in translation, the movement of words, ideas, and artifacts across cultures, sovereign thinking in the nineteenth century, and the evolution of writing, textuality, and technology. Her current research focuses on the relationship between literature and science in general and the interaction between modernism and technology in particular. She has published a number of books in English and Chinese. Her English publications include Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity (1995), The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (2004), Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (edited, 1999), and Writing and Materiality in China (co-edited with Judith Zeitlin, 2003). Her published research in the field of English literature includes “Robinson Crusoe’s Earthenware Pot” in Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (ed., Noah Heringman) and a recent article titled “iSpace: Printed English After Joyce, Shannon, and Derrida” in Critical Inquiry (spring 2006). She is currently finishing a book on literary theory and New Media.
David Lurie, Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Literature (EALAC), received his B.A. from Harvard (1993) and his M.A. (1996) and PhD. (2001) from Columbia. He is completing a book manuscript on the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period, entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. Publications include "Language, Writing, and Disciplinarity in the Critique of the 'Ideographic Myth': Some Proleptical Remarks," Language & Communication 26 (2006); A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, 2nd edition (coauthored with Conrad Schirokauer and Suzanne Gay, 2006); and "On the Inscription of the Hitomaro Poetry Collection: Between Literary History and the History of Writing," Man'yoshu kenkyu 26 (2004). In addition to the history of writing systems and literacy, his research interests include the literary and cultural history of seventh- through twelfth- century Japan, the Japanese reception of Chinese literary, historical, and technical writings, the development of Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias, and the history of linguistic thought. http://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/selfintro.html
Tenzin Norbu was born in Lhasa, Tibet. He graduated from Tibet University in 1990 with a degree in biology, and went on to teach Tibetan language in Lhuntse middle school in southern Tibet. Later he taught political science and biology in Lhasa Middle School, one of the leading secondary schools in Tibet, in both Chinese and Tibetan languages. He has published a two-volume study in Tibetan about endangered species in Tibet, as well as a book about environmental conditions on the plateau. In 1996 he came to the United States, and in 1999 became the principal language instructor in Columbia's Modern Tibetan Studies Program. He has also taught Tibetan at the University of Virginia, and is assistant librarian at the Latse - Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in New York.
Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Associate Professor, specializes in Japanese history and gender studies. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1981, his M.A. from Waseda in 1984, and his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1996. His books include Seiji to daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undôshi (Politics and the kitchen: a history of the women¹s suffrage movement in Akita prefecture), which received the 1986 Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. His current work engages the the historical construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity.
Barbara Ruch, Professor Emerita of Japanese Literature and Culture and Director of the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, received her B.A. from Earlham College in 1954, her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960 and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1965. She previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Columbia faculty in 1984. She is the founder of the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies (1968~) and the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture (1986~). Her field of specialization is medieval culture, especially as revealed in the popular narratives of the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries. Her special focus has been on hand-illuminated manuscript books known as Nara ehon, the otogi zoshi genre of popular tales, and “media literature” such as heikyoku and etoki. Since 1993 she has been directing the Imperial Buddhist Convent Research, Conservation and Restoration Project in Kyoto and Nara. Professor Ruch received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1970. In 1991 she was selected as the first Minakata Kumagusu Prize winner for her interdisciplinary and international scholarship in the Japanese humanities. In 1992 she was the first foreigner to be awarded the Aoyama Nao Prize for Women’s History for her book (in Japanese) M? hitotsu no ch?sei z? (Another perspective on Medieval Japan). The imperial decoration, The Order of the Precious Crown, with Butterfly Crest, was conferred on Professor Ruch by the Japanese Government in 1999. In 2000 she was the winner of the Yamagata Bant? Prize for scholarly leadership and creativity in the study of Japanese culture. In 2002, she was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award from Earlham College, and in the same year the multi-authored book, Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan, in which Professor Ruch served as General Editor and contributor, was published by the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies. It is the first book in a Western language on this subject. In 2006, she received the Cultural Bridge Award (New York), and joined the ranks of such previous award winners as Donald Keene, Kurt Masur and Midori. In 2008, she was named the 42nd annual winner of the Cultural Award, given by the Bukky? Dend? Kai (BDK). The prize recognizes Professor Ruch’s work over the past decades in resurrecting the lost histories of the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Japan. Former prize winners include novelist Inoue Yasushi; painter Hirayama Ikuo; philosopher Umehara Takeshi; and poet Gary Snyder. The selection of Professor Ruch marks the first time a woman (and a foreign woman) has received this prize in its main categories. Professor Ruch’s publications in English include “The Other Side of Culture in Medieval Japan,” Cambridge History of Japan, (Vol. III, Medieval, 1990); “Coping with Death: Paradigms of Heaven and Hell and the Six Realms in Early Japanese Literature and Painting” in Flowing Traces: Buddhism in the Literary and Visual Arts of Japan (Princeton, 1992) and Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan (Michigan, 2002, author and editor). She is currently also the head of the Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism and Culture at Daikankiji Convent in Kyoto.
Conrad Schirokauer, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor, is a Professor Emeritus of History at the City University of New York .He studied at Yale (BA) and Stanford (PhD) as well as a year in Paris, and conducted research mostly in Kyoto but also in China . His published papers and articles are mostly on Zhu Xi and Hu Hong. Together with Professor Robert Hymes, he edited Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (1993). His current research interest is in Song perceptions of and attitudes toward history. An article, “Hu Hong as Historian” is in press. Schirokauer was associated with a New York University summer graduate program for teachers in Japan and China and remains interested in how history is taught. A textbook author, he has published A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations (2nd ed 1989), with separate volumes of China (1990) and Japan (1993) . A new volume, Modern East Asia: A Brief History, written with Donald N. Clark, will appear in spring 2003. Also worth mention, is his translation of China’s Examination Hell by Miyazaki Ichisada (1976,1981), which he recommends to any student who feels burdened by examinations at Columbia.
Carol H. Schulz, Senior Lecturer, Director of Korean Language Program, received her B.A. from Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea (1963), and her M.Ed. from Boston University (1969) and M.S. from Columbia University (1973). Carol H. Schulz joined Columbia faculty in 1973. Her publications include The Korean Proficiency Guidelines, co-authored with others, National Foreign Language Resource Center, (University of Hawaii, 1992), Integrated Korean, Beginning 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), Workbook for Integrated Korean, Beginning 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1 and 2, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), Workbook for Integrated Korean, Intermediate 1, (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), and forthcoming books include The Korean Language in Culture and Society, co-authored with others, (University of Hawaii Press), Listening Comprehension in Elementary Korean, co-authored with others, the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, (Yale University), and Online Listening Comprehension in Korean (Columbia University).
Wei Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, received his B.A. (1982) and M.A. (1984) from Peking University, and his Ph.D. (1995) from Harvard. Professor Shang specializes in pre-modern Chinese culture and literature, especially fiction and drama of late imperial times. His book on The Unofficial History of the Scholars (Rulin waishi) addresses the issues essential to the eighteenth-century intellectual discourse and literature: the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. It reveals Rulin waishi as both a product and a powerful response by a Confucian intellectual to cultural transformation in late imperial China—transformation that eventually brought to an end the Confucian world order. In other studies Professor Shang focuses particularly on popular culture and publishing business of the Ming and Qing periods. He is currently working on a book to be titled Commercial Publicity: Jin Ping Mei Cihua and late Ming Culture. His publications, which are in both English and Chinese, include Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2003); “Jin Ping Mei and Late Ming Print Culture,” in Writing and Materiality in China, Harvard, 2003; “Ritual, Ritual Manuals, and the Crisis of the Confucian World: An Interpretation of Rulin waishi,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 58 (1998); “Prisoner and Creator: The Self-Image of the Poet in Han Yu and Meng Jiao,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 16 (1994); “The Tendency Toward Fu in Early Tang Poetry,” Beijing daxue xuebao (Journal of Peking University) 5 (1986). He is the author and co-editor of Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation: From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond (Harvard, forthcoming in 2004), and the co-editor of The Columbia Book of Yuan Drama (Columbia, forthcoming).
Haruo Shirane,Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, received his B.A. from Columbia College (1974) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1983). He is a specialist in premodern and early modern Japanese literature and has written widely on prose fiction, poetry, literary theory, and cultural history. Recently he has explored the issues of canonization, popularization, and visual culture. He is the recipient of NEH, SSRC, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation fellowships. His major publications include The Bridge of Dreams: Poetics of The Tale of Genji (Stanford University Press, 1987) which was translated into Japanese as Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku (Chūō kōronsha, 1992) and won the Kadokawa Gen'yoshi Prize for the best study on Japanese literature, and The Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho (Stanford University Press, 1997) which was published in Japanese by Kadokawa shoten (2001) and received the 2002 Ishida Hakyō Prize. He has recently completed a manuscript on the role of nature in Japanese poetry and visual culture called Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Poetry, and Time-Space in Japan. Haruo Shirane is editor of Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Social Imaginary, Media, and Cultural Production (Columbia University Press, 2008), Kōza Genji monogatari kenkyū: Kaigai ni okeru Genji monogatari kenkyū (Ōfū, 2008), and Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford University Press, 2000), which appeared in Japanese (1999) and Korean (2002) and was co-edited with Tomi Suzuki. He has translated and edited Classical Japanese Literature, An Anthology: Beginnings to 1600 (Columbia UP, 2006) and Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Columbia University Press, 2002). He was also co-editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and edited The Tales of the Heike (Columbia University Press, 2006). He is the author of Classical Japanese: A Grammar (Columbia University Press, 2005) and Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary (Columbia University Press, 2006). Click the following link for Professor's Shirane's personal website.
Henry Smith, Professor of Japanese History. B.A., Yale University (1962), Ph.D., Harvard University (1970). Professor Smith wrote his dissertation on the Japanese student movement of the 1920s and 1930s (published as Japan's First Student Radicals, Harvard, 1972, and Shinjinkai no kenkyû: Nihon gakusei undô no genryû, Tokyo University Press, 1978). He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been at Columbia since 1988. His research has dealt primarily with diverse aspects the history of urban culture in modern Japan, particularly that of the city of Edo-Tokyo from the 18^th through the 20^th century. He is especially interested in the history of printing and publishing in Japan, and has written widely on woodblock prints, including the books Hiroshige, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1986), Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji (1988), and Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan (1988). He is also interested in the history of Japanese architecture, having written a book on Taizansô and the One-Mat Room (Tokyo: International Christian University, 1994), and he is currently editing a volume of essays on the theme of “Architecture and Modern Japan.” More recently, he has embarked on research on the history and legend of the “47 Ronin” of Akô, and on the relationship between historical understanding and changing technologies of mass media in Japan. The most recent fruits of this exploration have appeared in a series on “400 Years of Chûshingura” in the journal Monumenta Nipponica. His teaching has included graduate seminars on the history of visual culture and material culture in modern Japan, the syllabi of which, together with a list of his publications, may be found on his web page at http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/.
Tomi Suzuki, is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her B.A. (1974), and M.A. (1977), from the University of Tokyo, and her Ph.D. from Yale University (1988). She joined the faculty at Columbia in 1996. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism, her research interests include literary and cultural theory, particularly theories of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; modern Japanese thought; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories. Her publications include Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity (Stanford, 1996) and its Japanese edition, Katarareta jiko: Nihon kindai no shishōsetsu gensetsu (Iwanami Shoten, 2000), the Korean translation of which was published in 2004; Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford, 2000, author and co-editor); Sōzōsareta koten: kanon keisei, kokumin kokka, Nihon bungaku (Shin'yōsha, 1999, author and co-editor), the Korean translation of which was published in 2002. She is currently completing a book manuscript on gender and literary modernism in Japan, investigating the formation of modern literary and cultural fields from the late 19th-century to the postwar period and examining modernist reconstruction of Japanese literary and linguistic traditions. Suzuki teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on modern Japanese literature and criticism, gender and genre in Japanese literature, and Asian humanities: major texts of East Asia as well as the modern East Asian literary texts.
Wendy Swartz, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, specializes in pre-modern Chinese poetry, especially Six Dynasties to Tang, traditional and modern literary theory and criticism. She received her B.A. (1995) from University of California, San Diego and Ph.D. (2003) from University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently completing her manuscript, Reclusion, Personality and Poetry: Tao Yuanming’s Reception in the Chinese Literary Tradition, which examines how shifts in hermeneutical practices and cultural demands shaped the very different pictures of Tao Yuanming and the different ways of reading his works in traditional China. Her other interests include comparative poetics, the history of Chinese aesthetics and early philosophical poetry.
Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, department of East Asian Lanaguages and Cultures. Gray Tuttle received his Ph.D. in Inner Asian Studies at Harvard University in 2002. He studies the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet's relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. In his Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia UP, 2005), he examines the failure of nationalism and race-based ideology to maintain the Tibetan territory of the former Qing empire as integral to the Chinese nation-state. Instead, he argues, a new sense of pan-Asian Buddhism was critical to Chinese efforts to hold onto Tibetan regions (one quarter of China's current territory). His current research project, "Amdo Tibet, Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing (1578-1865)," is a historical analysis of the economic and cultural relations between China and Tibet in the early modern periods (16th - 19th centuries) when the intellectual and economic centers of Tibet shifted to the east, to Amdo -- a Tibetan cultural region the size of France in northwestern China. Deploying Richard White's concept of the "Middle Ground" in the context of two mature civilizations -- Tibetan and Chinese -- encountering one another, this book will examine how this contact led to three dramatic areas of growth that defined early modern Tibet: 1) the advent of mass monastic education, 20 the bureaucratization of reincarnate lamas' charisma and 3) the development of modern conceptions of geography that reshaped the way Tibet was imagined.Other long term writing projects include editing The Rise of the Modern in Tibet and co-editing Sources of Tibetan Tradition for the series Introduction to Asian Civilizations, The Tibetan History Reader, and Wutaishan and QIng Culture.
Paul Varley, Professor Emeritus at Columbia and, presently, Sen Soshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural History in the History Department of the University of Hawaii. He served as Chairman of EALAC 1983-89. In 1988 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Lehigh University, and in 1996 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays With Rosette from the Government of Japan. His field is the cultural history of medieval and early modern Japan, and his writings include: The Onin War (Columbia, 1967), The Samurai (Weidenfeld, 1970), Imperial Restoration in Medieval Japan (Columbia, 1970), A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns (Columbia, 1980), Tea in Japan, Essays on the History of Chanoyu (Co-Editor; Hawaii, 1989), Warriors of Japan, As Portrayed in the War Tales (Hawaii, 1994), Japanese Culture (4th Edition, Hawaii, 2000), Kaigai no Chado (The Way of Tea From Abroad) (Editor, Tankosha, 2000), and Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 1 (Co-Editor, 2nd Edition; Columbia, 2001).
Pei-yi Wu studied at National Central University (Nanking, China) before came to this country. He received his Ph.D.(1969) from Columbia. An adjunct professor and a member of the Columbia Society of Senior Scholars, he is mainly interested in Chinese cultural history. Among the courses he teaches is Chinese 8028 (Directed Readings in Chinese), which purports to help students to use primary sources and read difficult texts. His publications since 1990 include The Confucian's Progress: Autobiographical Writings in Traditional China (Princeton, 1990); "Mingdai wanqi de Wutaishan" in Zhongguo fojiao sixiang yu wenhua (Beijing, 1992); "An Ambivalent Pilgrim to T'ai-shan in the Seventeenth Century," in Pilgrims and Sacred Sites China, ed. Naquin & Yu (Berkeley, 1992); . "Memories of K'ai-feng," New Literary History, 25:1 (Spring 1994); and "Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China 800 to 1700," in Chinese Views of Childhood, ed. Kinney (Honolulu, 1995); and "Yang Miaozhen: A Thirteenth-Century Woman Warrior," NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China, 4:2 (2002).
Hyunkyu Yi, Lecturer of Korean, received his B.A. in history from Yonsei University (1982), Seoul, Korea, and received his M.A. in East Asian history from Graduate School of Yonsei University (1987). He taught Korean at Korean Language Institute in Yonsei University from 1988 to 1996. Hyunkyu Yi joined Columbia faculty in 1996 and has been teaching Intermediate and Fourth-year Korean. His publication includes Korean Language 1-Easy to Learn, co-authored with others, Korean Language Center in New York (Seoul, 2000) and forthcoming media instructional material includes Online Listening Comprehension in Korean (Columbia University).
Chun-fang Yu was born in China and educated in Taiwan. She graduated from Tunghai University in 1959 with a double major in English Literature and Chinese Philosophy. She came to the States for graduate study and received a M.A. degree in English from Smith College in 1961 and Ph.D. degree in Religion from Columbia University in 1973. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, from 1972 until 2004, serving the chair of the Religion Department since 2000. Her primary field of specialization is Chinese Buddhism and Chinese religions. She is interested in the impact of Buddhist thought and practice on Chinese society as well as the impact of Chinese religious traditons on the domestication of Buddhism in China. She is the author of The Renewal of Buddhism in China: Chu-hung and the Late Ming Synthesis (Columbia University Press, 1981), Kuan-yin, the Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Columbia University Press, 2001), and the co-editor of Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China (Univ of California Press, 1992). She is completing a study of Buddhist nuns in contempory Taiwan, focusing on the roles they have played in the revival of Buddhism in Taiwan during the last three decades.
Madeleine Zelin, Professor (History Department), specializes in modern Chinese history, and in particular economic and legal history. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1970 and her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1979. Her publications include The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China (1984) and Rainbow (1992) and co-editor and author of Contract and Property Rights in Early Modern China (2003). Professor Zelin is currently completing a book entitled The Merchants of Zigong which explores the role of the state and legal institutions in China’s industrial development and a book with Jonathan Ocko entitled Contract Law and Civil Procedure in Qing and Republican China: A Text-Based Approach. Her new research focuses on comparative legal institutions. Prof. Zelin is Director of the Columbia University National Resource Center.