Weiping Wu, Professor of Urban Planning, and Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, both at Columbia University, co-edited a book titled “China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions”, which was released by the University of Pennsylvania Press in September 2022.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy will hold its 2022-2023 Lecture Series on the theme of “Urbanization, Well-being, and Public Policy: China from Comparative Perspectives” This series covers a wide range of topics related to COVID-19 and is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Columbia University’s School of Social Work, one of the world’s leading research universities and oldest schools of social work, and Committee of 100, a non-profit membership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, today announced they are commencing joint research on the economic and sociopolitical condition of today’s Chinese American population. The announcement comes on the heels of national Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, where “our nation recognizes the innumerable contributions, vibrant cultures, and rich heritage of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and…
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans, especially Chinese Americans, have faced heightened racially-motivated harassment and violence. The surges in anti-Asian discrimination and hate have been particularly high on the East and West coasts due to the concentration of Asian Americans in both areas.
The Columbia China Center for Social Policy is proud to celebrate the graduation of six Center fellows this May. We applaud the graduates’ perseverance, breakthroughs, and many achievements. Congratulations and best wishes!
Li Fangzhou, a doctoral student from the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China, is a visiting scholar at the Columbia School of Social Work and the Columbia China Center for Social Policy from February 2022 to January 2023. She shared her background, interests, and Columbia expectations in a recent written interview.
Yujie Sui, an associate professor from the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at Renmin University of China, is a visiting scholar at the Columbia School of Social Work and the Columbia China Center for Social Policy from March to August 2022. She shared her background, interests, and Columbia expectations in a recent written interview.
The lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, one of the early epicenters of the virus, continue to shape daily life, and have posed particular challenges for the Asian community here. During a virtual discussion on February 4, 2022, titled “Pandemic, Economy, and Community: Asian New Yorkers in Focus,” The New York Times reporter Nicole Hong and China Center for Social Policy Director and WEAI Professor Qin Gao discussed the multifaceted consequences of the pandemic, from the toll of the virus itself on a disproportionately elderly population to virulent anti-Asian hate…
The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated social workers to reconsider and transform traditional forms of service delivery. A new publication in Qualitative Social Work evaluated how “Garden on the Balcony,” an innovative social work service, provided rapid response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing. The research team includes Yixuan Wang, Qin Gao, Fei Pei, Yi Wang, and three frontline social workers from the Beijing Zhong Qing Social Work Development Center - Zhen Cheng, Ji Zhang, and Yang Wu.
In a new article published in the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Xia Li, Qin Gao, and Jie Tang examined the process and outcomes of poverty identification in the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy (TPA) in rural China. TPA was launched in 2013, with the aim of eliminating rural extreme poverty by 2020.
In a new article published in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Rong Zhao and Adam Lilly examined the role of state mobilization for volunteerism in China. Rong Zhao is a faculty affiliate of the Columbia China Center for Social Policy and an assistant professor in the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.
In a new article published in the Child Indicators Research, Qin Gao, Fuhua Zhai, and Yi Wang examined the effects of participating in China’s primary social assistance program, Dibao, on severe child multidimensional poverty in rural China.