Tag: Asian studies

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...

April 3, 2015

A Tutorial on Japan-China Relations

Watch four short videos featuring Sheila Smith, author of INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA, which provide an overview of many of the issues that make Japan-China relations tense.

April 2, 2015

Japan’s Adjustment to Geostrategic Change

Read a post by Sheila A. Smith, author of INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA, in which she looks at recent events in Japan-China relations, and explains how they relate to her book’s argument.

April 1, 2015

Watch Sheila Smith discuss Intimate Rivals

Watch Sheila Smith discuss her new book, INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA.

March 31, 2015

Contending with China

Read an excerpt from “Contending with China,” the first chapter of Sheila A. Smith’s INTIMATE RIVALS: JAPANESE DOMESTIC POLITICS AND A RISING CHINA.

April 19, 2013

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp – The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas

Read “The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas,” by Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, excerpted from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 18, 2013

The Epic of King Gesar

A few excerpts from the Epic of King Gesar, “often described as the Tibetan national epic and as the longest poem in the world,” taken from Sources of Tibetan Tradition.

April 17, 2013

"History as Myth," by Peter Schwieger

Read “History as Myth,” by Peter Schwieger, from The Tibetan History Reader.

April 16, 2013

Timeline of Tibet

Read a timeline of Tibetan history, from Sources of Tibetan Tradition.