Adjunct

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Leta Hong Fincher

Leta Hong Fincher

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office Hours: By appointment only
Email: lh2793@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Harvard University
MA: Stanford University
PhD: Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Dissent Magazine and others on the subject of women and feminism in China. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting.

Leta’s first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014), was named one of the top 5 China books of 2014 by the Asia Society’s ChinaFile, one of the best foreign policy books in 2014 by FP Interrupted and one of the best Asian books of 2014 by Asia House. In 2018, Leftover Women was named on the New York Times list of recommended books on China. Her second book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018), was named one of the best books of 2018 by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle. The newly released, 10th anniversary edition of Leta’s book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, was named one of the five best books to understand modern China by The Guardian in 2024 and one of the best books of 2023 by China Books Review.

http://www.letahongfincher.com

Named by the Telegraph as an “awesome woman to follow on Twitter,” you may follow Dr. Hong Fincher @letahong.

Selected Publications
Author, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury 2023)

“What’s #MeToo in China All About?” in The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China Relations (Harvard University Press, 2022)

Author, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018)

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Yongjun Choi

Yongjun Choi

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Email: yjc2126@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
BA: The Kyoto University of Education

Research Interests

YongJun Choi received his M.A. in Comparative Linguistics from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His research focused on the verb systems of Korean and Japanese. From 2001 to 2011, he taught Korean at language schools in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. He has also taught at CUNY, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Beekman School and the Korea Society, at all levels, from beginning to advanced. He currently teaches Korean and Japanese at Montclair State University, the Korean Education Center, New York University and Columbia University.

Filed Under: Adjunct, Lecturer, Tibet

Lauran R. Hartley

Lauran Hartley

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Tibetan Literature;
Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Office:  608 Kent Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:30-11:30am; Thursdays, 1-2pm; and by apppointment
Phone: (212)853-8795
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

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

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1365  Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
EAAS GU4553  Survey of Tibetan Literature
EAAS GU4565  Tibet in the World: Cultural Production and Social Change
EAAS GU4615  Tibetan Rivers and Roads: Infrastructure, Environment, and Urban Lives

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies, Social Theory

Lauran Hartley is an Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. 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 research interests include literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present, as well as contemporary cultural production and society. From 2007-2021,  she served as Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library and taught previously at Rutgers University and Indiana University. From 2019-2022, Hartley served on the advisory board of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, and for more than six years on the Board of Directors of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.

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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