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Patrick Booz

Patrick Booz

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office Hours: W 9:00 am-12:00pm
Email: prb2126@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: University of Wisconsin (’78)
MPhil: University of Oxford (’06)
DPhil: University of Oxford (’11)

Classes Taught

ASCE 1359                 INTRO TO EAST ASIAN CIV: CHINA

Research Interests

Borderland Studies, Economic History, Transport Geography, Tea, Material Culture, History of Printing

I wrote my thesis on “Tea, Trade and Transport in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.” This work focuses on the convergence of geography, history, and anthropology, particularly in the regions of southwest China. Border issues and commodity economics, especially the history of Sino-Tibetan economic relations, are main areas of research. In addition to tea, I have a strong interest in the development of printing, bookmaking and manuscripts in Chinese civilization. In the area of visual culture, I spent several years researching color and painting, and also locating, documenting and preserving historic photographs, art historical and other visual materials related to China and Tibet.

Selected Publications

“Tibet and Tea: A Summary of Trade, Social Customs and Sino-Tibetan Relations Dealing with Ja/Cha.” In Commerce and Communities – Social Status and Political Status and the Exchange of Goods in Tibetan Societies (Mid 17th to mid 20th centuries). Berlin 2018.

“To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham”: Trade Routes and “Official Routes” (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review. Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, e-journal, June 2016.

“In and Out of Borders: The Beifu Tea Porters Encounter Tibet.” Cahiers no. 23, 2014 d’Extrême-Asie. École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), centre de Kyoto. 29 Kita-shirakawa bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyōto 606-8276, Japan.

“Fear of Indian Tea and the Failure of British India to Break the Chinese Tea Monopoly in Tibet.” In Buddhist Himalaya: Studies in Religion, History and Culture. 2011. Gangtok, Sikkim: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology.

Nicholas Bartlett

Nicholas Bartlett

Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese
Culture and Society, Barnard College

Office: 321-A Milbank Hall Barnard College
Office Hours: W 10-11 AM/R 1:15-2:15 PM, calendly.com/nickbartlett
Phone: (212) 854-2125
Email: nbartlet@barnard.edu

Educational Background

BA: Pomona College
MIA: Columbia University
PhD: University of California, Berkeley

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3844 Culture, Mental Health and Healing in East Asia

EAAS GU4236 China’s Long 1980s (with Prof. Ying Qian)

EAAS GU4840 China and the Politics of Desire

FYS BBC1740 Approaching Trauma

Research Interests

Addiction and recovery, labor, civil society, psychoanalysis, groups and authority

Nicholas Bartlett is an anthropologist of China with training in medical anthropology and psychoanalysis. His first book, Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China (University of California and Columbia Weatherhead 2020), offers a phenomenological account of long-term heroin users’ experiences recovering from addiction in a tin mining city. His current research explores the introduction of group relations conferences to China. In events designed to provoke phantasy and conflict, everything from geopolitical tensions to intimate dreams is made available for attendees to connect, critique, and reflect upon. Fieldwork in staff and member roles at conferences and in visits to workplaces explores how the negotiation of meanings in and around GRCs contributes to imagining authority and collective life in contemporary China and beyond.

He did his undergraduate degree at Pomona College and studied and worked in international public health before completing his PhD in medical anthropology at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Prior to coming to Barnard, he taught anthropology courses at USC and UCLA and was a research analyst candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.

Selected Publications

Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China. University of California Press and Columbia Weatherhead Series, 2020.

“The Ones Who Struck Out: Entrepreneurialism, Heroin Addiction, and Historical Obsolescence in Reform Era China,” positions: asia critique 26.3 (2018).

“Idling in Mao’s Shadow: Heroin Addiction and the Contested Therapeutic Value of Socialist Traditions of Laboring,” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (2018) 42.1.

Filed Under: Emeritus

Paul Anderer

Paul Anderer

Fred and Fannie Mack Professor
Emeritus of Humanities

Office: 414 Kent Hall
Office Hours: F 3:00-5:00 or by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-1525
Email: pja1@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Michigan University (’71)
MA: Chicago University (’72)
PhD: Yale University (’79)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
EAAS UN3901 Senior Thesis
JPNS GR8020 Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature

Research Interests

Japanese fiction, film, and cultural criticism
Asian Humanities

Paul Anderer 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. He has written 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 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.

Selected Publications

Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films (Pegasus, 2016)

Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 (Stanford, 1995)

Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction (Columbia, 1984)

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