September 12, 2018

Q&A: Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx on Media U

“This book powerfully demonstrates that universities have been media institutions all along, well before the mobile phone and the MOOC. Cooper and Marx challenge us to consider what is at stake when universities approach the educated class as an “audience”...

September 12, 2018

Richard F. Calichman on Translating Abe Kōbō’s Beasts Head For Home

Today’s post for our National Translation Month feature is written by Richard F. Calichman, professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY and translator of the novel Beasts Head for Home by Abe Kōbō. Remember to enter...

September 11, 2018

Book Excerpt! Smarter New York City: How City Agencies Innovate

“Cities today are hotbeds of innovation for sustainable development, and Smarter New York City presents a compendium of fascinating and insightful case studies of how New York City is building a smarter, fairer, and greener city. This is a brilliant, timely, and...

September 11, 2018

New Book Tuesday! GMO China, Mind Beyond Brain, Social Empathy and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Raising China’s Revolutionaries Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s Margaret Mih Tillman GMO China How Global Debates Transformed China’s Agricultural Biotechnology Policies Cong Cao The Stigma Effect Unintended...

September 11, 2018

A Reluctant Translator: Reflections from John Nathan

As part of our month-long feature celebrating National Translation Month, today we have a guest post by John Nathan, author of Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist and translator of Natsume Sōseki’s final novel Light and Dark. Remember to enter our drawing...

September 8, 2018

Book Excerpt! For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems by Cho Oh-Hyun

September is National Translation Month. On Saturdays throughout the month we will be featuring our translations of poetry. Today, we are focusing on selections from For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems by Cho Oh-Hyun, including section 2 from Kwon Youngmin’s...

September 7, 2018

On Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and the Translation of “Zainichi”

As part of our National Translation Month feature, today’s guest post is written by Christina Yi, a scholar of Modern Japanese literature and the author of Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea. •  • ...

September 6, 2018

Almost Sixty Years of Publishing in Asian Humanities

Research and teaching on Asian civilizations have formed the bedrock of Columbia’s list for close to sixty years. Under the direction of Wm. Theodore de Bary, the Press published and revised influential anthologies, the Sources of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Korean Tradition, that...

September 6, 2018

A New Light on Sino–North Korean Relations

“Anyone who reads this groundbreaking study will gain a new perspective on current Sino-North Korean relations… It will be a must-read for all who are interested in the Cold War in East Asia.” ~ Gregg Brazinsky, George Washington University, author of Winning...

September 6, 2018

Janet Poole on Yi T’aejun and the Literature of Two Koreas

Today’s National Translation Month post is written by Janet Poole, a scholar of Korean literature and the translator of Dust and Other Stories by Yi T’aejun and other works. Remember to enter our drawing for a chance to win a copy...

September 5, 2018

Book Excerpt! Nuclear North Korea A Debate on Engagement Strategies, revised and updated edition

“[Cha and Kang’s] contribution is important for its frank discussion of the possibility of a nuclear attack and their presentation of potential courses of action.” ~ Concepción De León, The New York Times This week we’ve been featuring works of...

September 5, 2018

Book Excerpt! Meeting with My Brother by Yi Mun-yol

In celebration of National Translation Month, today we are sharing an except from Heinz Insu Fenkl’s introduction to Meeting with My Brother by Yi Mun-yol. Fenkl discusses the importance of the work and translating it for an English language audience....