Faculty

Shuichiro Takeda

Shuichiro Takeda

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email:  st3377@columbia.edu
Office Hours: By appointment

Educational Background

Master of Educational Technology, University of British Columbia
BA, Psychology, Hunter College
BA, English and American Literature, Nanzan University

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy

After completing his master’s program in Canada, Shuichiro Takeda contributed to the establishment of a Japanese language program for adults at Centre Japonais de Québec in Quebec City as their first instructor until 2015. He has been teaching language courses at all levels at Hunter College, New York University, The New School, and the Japan Society. He has also developed cultural courses (Japanese Pop Culture, History of Manga and Anime, Society in Japan) and Japanese Business Etiquette workshops. Outside of academic circles, he was the Japanese language coach for the American lead in a TV series filmed in Japan for WarnerMedia Entertainment.

Filed Under: Affiliated

Lauran Hartley

Lauran Hartley

Adjunct Lecturer In Tibetan Literature

Phone: (212)854-9875

Office Hours: T 4-5:30 PM, and by appointment
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Northwestern University (’85)
MA: Indiana University (’98)
PhD: Indiana University (’03)

Classes Taught

EAAS GU4553 Survey of Tibetan Literature

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies

Lauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and occasionally serves as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has also taught courses on Tibetan literature and religion at Indiana and Rutgers universities. In addition to co-editing the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008) and serving as Inner Asian Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, she has also published several literary translations and articles on Tibetan intellectual history. Her current research focuses on literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present.

Selected Publications

Co-editor, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008)

“The Advent of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry in the Tibetan Language” in A New Literary History of Modern China (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017)

“Self as a faithful public servant: The autobiography of Mdo mkhar ba Tshe ring dbang rgyal (1697–1763)” in Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2006 (Andiast, Switzerland: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH, 2011)

“Ascendancy of the Term rtsom-rig [literature] in Tibetan Literary Discourse” in Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007)

“Tibetan Publishing in the Early Post-Mao Period.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 15 (2005)

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Madeleine Zelin

Madeleine Zelin

Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies,
 History East Asia coordinator

Office: 611 Kent Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:30-12:30 Link for appointment https://calendar.app.google/GUxE5JGxp18TULmc6

Phone: (212) 854-2592 [I do not use my phone, please email]Email: mhz1@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Cornell University (’70)
PhD: University of California, Berkeley (’79)

Selected Classes Taught

HSEA GU4891 Law in Chinese HIstory
HSEA GU4880 History of Modern China I
HSEA GU4884 Merchants, Markets and the State
HSEA GR8888 Colloquium on Chinese Legal History
HSEA G8861 Industrial Revolutions

Research Interests

Modern Chinese Legal and Economic History, Comparative History of Law and the Economy
Madeleine Zelin has, since her Ph.D. work at the University of California at Berkeley, taken an
iconoclastic approach to the complex forces shaping modern China. Professor Zelin’s recent
research has focused on legal history, the role of law in the Chinese economy and the interface
between law, culture and the market in early modern China. She has written on state handling
of economic disputes as well as the role of Chambers of Commerce as new sites for economic
mediation. Her chapter on “Economic Freedom in Late Imperial China” (in William Kirby, ed.,
Realms of Freedom in Modern China, Stanford, 2004) challenges the assumption that the
politically autocratic late Ming and Qing imperial regimes were restrictive in their handling of
the private economy. Her latest book, The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Enterprise in Early
Modern China, is a study of an advanced industrial community in southern Sichuan from the
eighteenth to the early twentieth century and provides new insights into the role of customary
legal and business practices in China’s early modern economic development. It has been
awarded the Fairbank Prize (American Historical Association), Alan Sharlin Memorial Award
(Social Science History Association) and the Humanities Prize of the International Conference on
Asian Studies (ICAS). As part of her commitment to mentoring younger scholars in legal and
economic history of East Asia Professor Zelin serves as co-director of the first AAS New
Directions Workshop: Economic History of Asia and is a founding board member of the
International Society for Chinese Law and History. She is currently completing a book on China’s
earliest company and bankruptcy law reforms at the onset of the twentieth century.

Selected Publications

Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600‐1980 (co-editor, Pickering and Chatto, 2015)

The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005)

The Magistrate’s Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch’ing
China (University of California, 1984)