East Asia Railway Map of China, 1918. Source: Flickr, No known copyright restrictions. Affiliated Faculty photo of Ruth Barraclough Columbia Faculty Ruth Barraclough Korean Foundation Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of History, Faculty Director, MA/MSc in International and World History Research Interest 1900-1945 Post 1945 East Asia Gender and Sexuality Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Social History photo of Antony Best LSE Faculty Antony Best Professor, Department of International History Research Interest East Asia Europe Intellectual and Cultural Nationalisms and Identity Ethnicity and Race 1900-1945 photo of Robert P. Hymes Columbia Faculty Robert P. Hymes Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Social History Intellectual and Cultural Religion Gender and Sexuality Pre-17th Century 17th Century photo of Elizabeth Ingleson LSE Faculty Elizabeth Ingleson Assistant Professor Department of International History Research Interest North America East Asia Politics and Institutions Economic, Business, and Finance Post-1945 photo of Matthew Jones LSE Faculty Matthew Jones Professor, Head of Department, Department of International History Research Interest Southeast Asia East Asia Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial War, Violence, and Genocide 1900-1945 Post-1945 photo of Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko Columbia Faculty Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko Professor, History, Barnard College Research Interest East Asia Gender and Sexuality Science and Technology Pre-17th Century 17th Century photo of Paul B. Kreitman Columbia Faculty Paul B. Kreitman Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Pacific/Australasia Science and Technology Environment Economic, Business, and Finance 1900-1945 Post-1945 photo of Eugenia Y. Lean Columbia Faculty Eugenia Y. Lean Professor of Chinese History, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Research Interest East Asia Media and Communications Science and Technology Gender and Sexuality Economic, Business, and Finance Law 19th Century 1900-1945 Post-1945 photo of Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Columbia Faculty Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of the History of American-East Asian Relations, Department of History Research Interest Southeast Asia East Asia War, Violence, and Genocide Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Post-1945 photo of Gregory M. Pflugfelder Columbia Faculty Gregory M. Pflugfelder Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Gender and Sexuality Intellectual and Cultural 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century photo of Ronald C. Po LSE Faculty Ronald C. Po Associate Professor, Department of International History Research Interest East Asia Science and Technology Politics and Institutions 18th Century photo of Gray Tuttle Columbia Faculty Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Politics and Institutions Religion Intellectual and Cultural 1900-1945 Post-1945 photo of Qingfei Yin LSE Faculty Qingfei Yin Assistant Professor Department of International History Research Interest Cold War War, Violence, and Genocide Politics and Institutions East Asia Southeast Asia Post-1945 photo of Madeleine H. Zelin Columbia Faculty Madeleine H. Zelin Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Politics and Institutions Social History Economic, Business, and Finance Law 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 1900-1945 Affiliated Graduate Students Walter Kenneth Buskirk Master's Student Research Interest East Asia Modern Japanese History Historical Memory and Politics in East Asia Andy Xizhe Guan Master's Student Research Interest Post-1945 East Asia Media and Communications Science and Technology Noah Lagoe Master's Student Research Interest Comparative History South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia Yiqing Lin Master's Student Research Interest 18th Century Pre-17th Century East Asia Europe Intellectual and Cultural Science and Technology Social History Migrations and Diasporas Affiliated Dissertations The Development of the Hong Kong Triads, 1949-1978 The International Background of the North Korean Aggression, 1966-1969 Operation Third Force: The Red Menace, McCarthyism, and U.S. Central Intelligence Activities in China, 1947-52 Strait-Collision Course: North Korean Refugee Assistance and the Community of Help “The Last Will Be the First” Fascist Imperialism and the Italian Arms Trade to Nationalist China: 1929-1937 China’s Prima Donna: The Politics of Celebrity in Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s 1943 U.S. Tour The Politics of Dispersal: British immigration anxieties and the creation of a global Ugandan Asian diaspora (1967-1974) An Appeal to the World Powers: The Transnational Korean Independence Movement in the United States and Europe, 1919-1922 Protection Against Good Intentions: The Campaign to Ban Proxy Adoption, 1956-1961 Excluding by Inclusion: Liminal Colonialism and Malleable Identities in Rural Colonial Korea during the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-1945 Shaping the Elites: Experiences, Thoughts, and Identities of Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1920 Pacific Destinies: The Asian People's Anti-Communist League (1953-1962) and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Asia Pacific Using the Old to Serve the Present, and the Foreign to Serve China: Chinese Nationalism and Chinese Identity in Cultural Revolution Media Beaten Tracks in Japan: Western Travelers Encounter a Changing Country, 1868-1899 Lines Between Water and Land: The Landing of Western Telegraphs in China, 1860-1887 Organization Efforts and the Reintegration of Japanese War Orphans from China After 1980s Killer Queens: Women, Loyalty, and the Mongol War Machine Mobilizing Motherhood: Gendered Discourses of War and Empire in Colonial Korea, 1937-1945 Politicizing Science: China and the World Federation of Scientific Workers, 1956-1966 “Shadow Governor” Xu Jiatun and Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong: 1983-1989 Invisible Strings in a Forgotten War: How America’s Influence in the Russo-Japanese War Shaped the First Half of the 20th Century Unwelcome Friendship: Israel’s Failed Attempts to Establish Diplomatic Relations with China, 1949-1956 The Fascistization of Academic Exchange: Nichii Kyokai in Italo-Japanese relations 1936-1945 Evaluating the role of Hong Kong's colonial autonomy in the Sino-British Joint Negotiations: 1979-1984 Literature as a Space: Identity, Belonging, and the Question of Wentan in Manchukuo, 1932-1945 Becoming Tibetan, Becoming Chinese: The Experimental Sino-Tibetan Administration in Central Tibet 1951-1956 At Home Abroad: A study of the Asia Society’s domestic legacy and transnational activity in New York and Hong Kong (1956-2018) From Democracy to Development: Modernization Theory in Postwar Japan Clash of a Trio of Divergent Groups and Their Interests: The 1967 Disturbances of Hong Kong under the Auspices of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Orientalism or Modernity on Display: the Representation of China at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition A Preliminary Application and Critical Evaluation of Samuel Moyn’s Revisionist Human Rights History: A Revisit of China’s Renquan History, 1900-1949 “Camaraderie in the Field” Sino-Soviet science cooperation in paleontology and the Sino-Soviet Paleontological Expedition, 1956-1960 Old China to New China: How and Why the People’s Republic of China Replaced the Republic of China in South Korea in 1992 Dream of Chinese Christendom: Hong Rengan and the Taiping Religion (1859-1864) edit edit edit edit
photo of Ruth Barraclough Columbia Faculty Ruth Barraclough Korean Foundation Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of History, Faculty Director, MA/MSc in International and World History Research Interest 1900-1945 Post 1945 East Asia Gender and Sexuality Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Social History
photo of Antony Best LSE Faculty Antony Best Professor, Department of International History Research Interest East Asia Europe Intellectual and Cultural Nationalisms and Identity Ethnicity and Race 1900-1945
photo of Robert P. Hymes Columbia Faculty Robert P. Hymes Horace Walpole Carpentier Professor of Oriental Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Social History Intellectual and Cultural Religion Gender and Sexuality Pre-17th Century 17th Century
photo of Elizabeth Ingleson LSE Faculty Elizabeth Ingleson Assistant Professor Department of International History Research Interest North America East Asia Politics and Institutions Economic, Business, and Finance Post-1945
photo of Matthew Jones LSE Faculty Matthew Jones Professor, Head of Department, Department of International History Research Interest Southeast Asia East Asia Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial War, Violence, and Genocide 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko Columbia Faculty Dorothy Yin-Yee Ko Professor, History, Barnard College Research Interest East Asia Gender and Sexuality Science and Technology Pre-17th Century 17th Century
photo of Paul B. Kreitman Columbia Faculty Paul B. Kreitman Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Pacific/Australasia Science and Technology Environment Economic, Business, and Finance 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Eugenia Y. Lean Columbia Faculty Eugenia Y. Lean Professor of Chinese History, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Research Interest East Asia Media and Communications Science and Technology Gender and Sexuality Economic, Business, and Finance Law 19th Century 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Columbia Faculty Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of the History of American-East Asian Relations, Department of History Research Interest Southeast Asia East Asia War, Violence, and Genocide Cold War Empires, World Orders, and Post-Colonial Post-1945
photo of Gregory M. Pflugfelder Columbia Faculty Gregory M. Pflugfelder Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Gender and Sexuality Intellectual and Cultural 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century
photo of Ronald C. Po LSE Faculty Ronald C. Po Associate Professor, Department of International History Research Interest East Asia Science and Technology Politics and Institutions 18th Century
photo of Gray Tuttle Columbia Faculty Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Politics and Institutions Religion Intellectual and Cultural 1900-1945 Post-1945
photo of Qingfei Yin LSE Faculty Qingfei Yin Assistant Professor Department of International History Research Interest Cold War War, Violence, and Genocide Politics and Institutions East Asia Southeast Asia Post-1945
photo of Madeleine H. Zelin Columbia Faculty Madeleine H. Zelin Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, East Asian Langs & Cultures Research Interest East Asia Politics and Institutions Social History Economic, Business, and Finance Law 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 1900-1945
Walter Kenneth Buskirk Master's Student Research Interest East Asia Modern Japanese History Historical Memory and Politics in East Asia
Andy Xizhe Guan Master's Student Research Interest Post-1945 East Asia Media and Communications Science and Technology
Noah Lagoe Master's Student Research Interest Comparative History South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia
Yiqing Lin Master's Student Research Interest 18th Century Pre-17th Century East Asia Europe Intellectual and Cultural Science and Technology Social History Migrations and Diasporas