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WM. THEODORE de BARY MEMORIAL SERVICE

The memorial service for Wm. Theodore de Bary, former Provost of the University, noted Columbia educator, Sinologist, and alumnus, will be held on Thursday October 5th, at 5:00 p.m. in St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, followed by a reception at 6:30PM in the CV Starr East Asian Library.

Please join us in celebrating his life and work with Professor de Bary’s family and colleagues. No RSVP is required, but please arrive early as seating is limited. Those requiring accessibility assistance to Campus level should use elevator by the Dodge Hall.

More information about the reception can be found here.

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures have received outpouring of condolences and inquiries about his memorial service, with some of his colleagues and former students making plans to attend from as far away as Japan. You can read some of the tributes to Professor de Bary from here:

Professor Donald Keen’s Tribute

Professor Carol Gluck’s Tribute

Tribute from Larry Hong (CC ’17)

Obituary from the Taipei Times

President Lee Bollinger’s Statement

Obituary from the New York Times

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Mengheng Lee

Mengheng Lee

Field: Pre-Modern Korean History, Early  Modern Sino-Korean Relation
Advisor: Jungwon Kim & Robert Hymes
Email: ml4052@columbia.edu

Mengheng is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Korean history. His research interests include social, legal, and political history of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) and contemporary Korean historiography. He also specializes in early modern Sino-Korean relations (Ming-Qing-Chosŏn relations). In his M.A. thesis, Mengheng discussed border-crossing issues between Chosŏn and Manchu in the early 17th century, dealing with the repatriation of ukanju and Manchu-Chosŏn relations. Now he is working on examining the formation of the borderland between Qing and Chosŏn, and the social status system of Chosŏn. Before joining Columbia, he received both his B.A. (2011) and M.A. (2015) in Department of History at National Taiwan University and spent one year at Korea University, Korea (2013-2014) for his personal research.

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Chris Kim

Chris Kim

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Li Feng
Email: cfk2123@columbia.edu

Chris is a Ph.D. student in early Chinese history. His research investigates the long-term developments in the sociopolitical institutions and economic systems of the Zhou period, with a focus on the Spring and Autumn period. His approach is multi-disciplinary, drawing on textual and paleographic studies, archaeology, spatial analysis, and anthropological theory. Chris holds an A.M. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Brown University.

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