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Dongxin Zou
Lecturer in Discipline
Office Hours: M 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Office: 915 IAB
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu
Educational Background
BA: Beijing Foreign Studies University
MA: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PhD: Columbia University
Classes Taught
HSEA GU4222 China’s Global Histories
ASCE UN1359 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China
ASCE UN1359 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: China
Research Interests
Chinese history, history of medicine, global health, science and technology studies, Sino-Arab relations
Dongxin Zou is a historian of modern China, with special interests in the history of medicine, global production and circulation of knowledge and expertise, and the complex dynamics of China’s relations with the Arabic-speaking world. She is working on a book manuscript on Chinese medical missions to postcolonial Algeria and accompanying processes of technology transfer and knowledge production from the 1960s. It examines China’s health model of socialist medicine, medical humanitarianism, as well as the ongoing ramifications of globalization and world health politics in varied contexts across the global South then and now.
Dongxin received her PhD in History from Columbia University. Prior to coming back here, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Selected Publications
Co-Author. “Heat, Cold, and Climatic Determinism in China’s Urban Epidemics.” Urban Studies (2022, online first).
“Economizing Socialist Aid: China’s Failed Surgical Plant in Algeria, 1973–80.” Technology and Culture 63, no.3 (July 2022): 718–48.
“Orientalism without Power?: Chinese Female Ob-Gyns in Rural Algeria and Morocco in the Post-Mao Era.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 18:1 (March 2022): 105–133.
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Temporary Closure, Summer & Fall 2023
At the Libraries, the safety of our users and the stewardship of our collections are among our highest priorities. We work diligently to ensure reliable access to library collections and spaces, enabling research and scholarship to thrive at Columbia. To that end, following Commencement in May 2023, we will be making necessary upgrades to the C.V. Starr East Asian Library in Kent Hall to install critical fire alarm and fire suppression technologies. This work will require all Starr Library stacks and reading rooms be closed starting the week of May 22, 2023, with Starr’s full reopening scheduled for January 2024.
We are very pleased to announce that access to Starr Library collections and services will continue during this time, with the following modifications:
General collections:
- Effective May 22, 2023, circulating and non-circulating general collections will be requestable in CLIO and available for pickup at the Butler Library Circulation Desk. Non-circulating general collections will continue to be “In-Library-Use-Only” at Butler.
- Access to general collections will be restricted to Columbia students, faculty, staff, alumni, retirees, and emeriti with an active CUID card. External researchers not affiliated with Columbia will be encouraged to consult their home library to gain access to materials through partner libraries.
- Starting January 20, 2023, all Starr Library collections checked out or renewed will have due dates extended to February 20, 2024.
Rare and special collections:
- Rare and special collections will be served via the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) in Butler Library by appointment only.
Reference and course reserve materials:
- In consultation with faculty, a selection of the Starr’s reference materials will be identified in Spring 2023 and temporarily placed and made accessible in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library in May 2023 and throughout the Starr Library closure.
- All course reserve materials for the Summer and Fall Semesters of 2023 will be made accessible in Avery Library.
In-person reference services:
- In-person reference, research consultation, and bibliographic instruction services will continue to be provided by Starr’s librarians in other library locations.
A faculty advisory group was formed in December 2022 to assist the Libraries in planning for this temporary closure. The Libraries will also be engaging with student groups in the Spring semester to ensure the needs of as many user communities as possible are captured. Our planning efforts will center first and foremost around limiting impact on faculty, students, and staff. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we embark on this critically important project to ensure the enduring safety of Starr Library’s users and collections.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at starr@library.columbia.edu.
Zhongqi Shi elected as the Vice President of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
After serving as VP for one year (2023-24), he will become the President of CLTA. The last EALAC faculty member who undertook the Chair role at CLTA is Chih-p’ing Sobelman (1982). Please join us in congratulating him on this amazing achievement!
CLTA, established in 1962, is the largest and most influential professional organization devoted exclusively to the study of Chinese language, culture, and pedagogy in the USA. CLTA has about 1,000 members and represents Chinese language teachers in all educational settings. For more about CLTA, please check https://clta-us.org.
Charlie Wallace, a double major in political science and East Asian languages and cultures, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholars program seeks to promote international understanding, peace, and collaboration and selects scholars for their identified leadership potential, intellect, and strength of character. Once admitted, Scholars pursue a one-year Master’s degree in Global Affairs at Tsinghua with a core curriculum focused on leadership, global affairs, and China. For more information on Charlie and this amazing achievement, please visit Columbia’s Undergraduate Research & Fellowships website.
Columbia’s Vietnamese Language Program was featured in a segment of VTV4 (Vietnam National Television) “Gala Tiếng Việt ơi” on Vietnamese Teacher’s Day (11/20/2022) in Vietnam. This episode discussed how the Vietnamese language is taught all over the world. Kudos to our Vietnamese Studies team and our wonderful students at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
To view the video, please click this link.
Please join us in congratulating Sophia A. Bryant, CC’23, who was named a Rhodes Scholar!
Sophie was among the 32 Americans chosen for the prestigious scholarship, which provides funding for two or three years of postgraduate study at Oxford. Rhodes candidates must be nominated by their university before going through an extensive application process. Criteria include academic excellence, a commitment to the welfare of others and to contributing to good in the world, and evidence of good character and promise of great leadership. The 2023 selection process for international candidates is still ongoing; more than 100 total scholars will be named, from more than 60 countries. For more information on this amazing achievement, please visit this link.
Where are you from? What brought you to Columbia?
I’m originally from Porter Ranch, California, a sunny suburb in northwest Los Angeles. I came to Columbia as a transfer sophomore, enthralled by its world-class scholars and research in China studies, its location at the crossroads of international diplomacy, and the soaring skyscrapers that surround our campus. Luckily, Columbia turned out to be everything I dreamed of and more.
Where are you in your career as a student in EALAC?
This past February, I graduated from Columbia College with a double major in EALAC and Political Science. Right now, I research U.S. policy in the Asia-Pacific and China’s foreign relations for Professor Thomas Christensen with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.
How would you describe your experience as an undergraduate student in the EALAC Department?
My experience with the EALAC Department was both academically rewarding and personally fulfilling. Instructors like Professor Madeleine Zelin, Professor Ulug Kuzuoğlu, and Dr. Benjamin Kindler challenged my preconceptions and strengthened my understanding of China’s dynamic history. Outside the classroom, I befriended incredible graduate teaching assistants willing to sacrifice their time to review concepts with me and provide helpful feedback on assignments. I also met a group of intellectually curious and like-minded students with whom I plan to stay in touch long after we leave behind the cobblestones of College Walk.
What are your plans after commencement?
This summer, I’ll be studying Bahasa Indonesian in Malang, Indonesia, with the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship before pursuing a two-year master’s degree in International Governance and Diplomacy as the 2022 Michel David-Weill Scholar at Sciences Po in Paris. After that, I will attend Harvard Law School.
Who is your greatest inspiration?
Gary Locke, the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China and governor of a U.S. state, inspires me with his political courage, personal journey, and steadfast commitment to public service.
If you could have any superpower what would it be?
The ability to write—unimpeded by writer’s block, procrastination, or temptation to doomscroll on Twitter—would be much appreciated.
Give us a fun fact about yourself.
My claim to Hollywood fame is serving as a background extra on episodes of Fresh Off the Boat, Henry Danger, and True Detective. If you don’t blink, you might spot me. Look for the kid with spiky hair and a big smile who’s just thrilled to be there.
What has your greatest success as a student?/ What has been your greatest loss? What did it teach you?
My greatest success as a student has been developing long-lasting relationships with professors by regularly attending office hours. In retrospect, my greatest loss is that I did not take more courses outside my specific interest in U.S. relations with East Asia, such as those related to U.S. foreign policy in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and more. Yet these experiences ultimately taught me the importance of keeping an open mind and showed me the joys and privileges of being a lifelong learner.
What are your favorite ways to de-stress? What is your favorite thing to do outside your research/classes?
I enjoy writing stories, watching stand-up comedy and Broadway shows, and playing tennis, squash, and basketball.
What advice would you give to current undergraduate students in your field? What about prospective students?
To students like me who are interested in the U.S.-China relationship, it is critical to learn and know the history behind it. We cannot understand China’s present-day behavior without understanding the historical forces, memories, and experiences that drive it. For prospective undergraduate Columbia students interested in these topics, pick up an EALAC major or concentration! I can’t recommend the experience highly enough.
A Columbia delegation of WEAI’s Professor Lien-Hang Nguyen, Director of the Vietnamese language program at Columbia Chung Phuong Nguyen; adjunct lecturer Vinh Quoc Nguyen; and WEAI Fulbright scholar Minh Quang Pham met with Vietnamese Prime Minister PHAM Minh Chinh at a recent ceremony hosted by Vietnam’s UN ambassador, DANG Hoang Giang.
For more coverage on this event, please visit the Weatherhead East Asian Institute website or watch the video of the event (in Vietnamese) here.
Yuki Ishida
Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University
Email: yi2182@columbia.edu
Office Hours: W 4-5 PM and by appointment
Educational Background:
BA: University of Tokyo (’06)
MA: Saint Petersburg State University (’15)
PhD: Columbia University (’22)
Classes Taught:
Fall 2022: AHUM UN3830: Colloquium on Modern East Asian Texts
Spring 2023: Disability and Corporeality in Modern Japanese Literature and Media Culture
Research interests:
Modern Japanese literature and criticism; the intellectual and cultural history of modern Japan; translation studies; literary and cultural theory in comparative context; modern Russian literature and Russo-Japanese literary relations.
Yuki Ishida is a scholar of Japanese literature and culture whose research focuses on modern literature, criticism, and translation. She received her PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Envisioning Literary Modernity through Translation: Futabatei Shimei and the Formation of Modern Literary Discourse in 1880s–1910s Japan,” examines how translation helped to forge and in turn problematized the literary-artistic values and evaluative criteria of the Japanese language reforms taking place in the 1880s–1910s. Focusing on the work of the writer and Russian–Japanese translator Futabatei Shimei (c. 1862/1864–1909), her project reveals the complex interrelations between translation practice, the formation of evaluative criteria for modern Japanese literature, and language reform—a process with long-lasting ramifications on the shaping of the discourse surrounding literary modernity. In addition to preparing her dissertation as a book, she is pursuing a second project, which extends her inquiry into the Taishō and early Shōwa periods (1910s–1930s). Its major focuses are the transformative role of translation in the introduction and impact of Russian literary and artistic theories and movements on Japanese aesthetic discourse, covering not only texts but also visual media, such as cinema. This project also explores the increasing significance of the work of Dostoevsky in the period, which was avidly translated, becoming a locus of discussion on what constitutes literary modernity.
Hayeon Lee
Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Vietnamese Studies
Educational Background
PhD: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MSW: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA: American University of Beirut
BS: Cornell University
MSW: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MA: American University of Beirut
BS: Cornell University
Research Interests
Feminist ethnography, gender, intersectionality, transnational migration, mixed marriages, labor, sexuality, selfhood, narratives, life histories.
Hayeon Lee is an anthropologist of Vietnam and Korea, who is also trained as a social worker. She earned her PhD in 2022 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research, based on three years of field work in Vietnam, focuses on the migration process and narratives of Vietnamese marriage migrant women to South Korea. She is presently working on an article manuscript on ethnographic research methods and intersectionality.
