Programs

Behind the Headlines: China

Behind the Headlines: Japan

NCTA Alumni Online Book Discussion Group: Let Only Red Flowers Bloom by Emily Feng

Understanding and Teaching Diversity in Japan

Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains with author Anita Yasuda

Understanding the 228 Incident: A Turning Point in Taiwan’s History

Learning Behind Barbed Wire: A Look at Schools in a Japanese American Incarceration Camp during World War II

The House Before Falling into the Sea with Author Ann Suk Wang and Illustrator Hanna Cha

Film in the Classroom: What’s Korean about K-Pop Demon Hunters?

Starting Over: Japan’s Occupation Years

Film in the Classroom: China

Teaching Biography Through East Asian Picturebooks: Korea and Japan

China’s Space Dream: Teaching China’s Space Program

Modern Korea: Science, Science Fiction, State & Society

Teaching Biography through East Asian Picturebooks

East Asian Under Mongol Dominance: Subjects, Allies & Adversaries

Exploring East Asia for K-12 Educators: Common Foundations, Different Journeys

East Asia Through the Lens of Visual and Material Culture

Webinar on Chinese Government

Teaching East Asian Literature Workshop

Fermentation in Japan

Femininity in Colonial Korean Literature

Spring 2026 East Asian Book Club

The Elephant Vanishes and Other Short Stories

K-Pop Demon Hunters: Understanding the Movie and Exploring Ways to Use It in the Classroom

Trading Spaces: Teaching Asia through the Five Themes of Geography

Refugee Admission in Japan

Blossoms on a Poisoned Sea Freeman Book Award 2024 Honorable Mention with author Mariko Tatsumoto

Gambare Hiroshima–Don’t Give Up! with author Stephen Miwa

Urban China in Contrast: Everyday Life and Cultural Identity in Shanghai and Chengdu

Free Spirits: Katsushika Oi and Her Father Hokusai

Culture and Society in Contemporary Japan

The Jesuit Mission to China: Intellectual Exchange between China and Europe, 17th-18th c

Layers of History and Identity: Summer Study in Taiwan

Taiwan Today with TECO Boston

Summer Study Tour to South Korea

Teaching Through Chanoyu at Shoseian Teahouse

Freeman Awards Book Talk: Explores Vietnamese Culture via “A Banh Mi for Two”

Imprinting the Past: Learning about East Asia Using Woodblock Prints and Printing Techniques

Asian Topic Discussions: Korean Poetry

Asian Topic Discussions: Poetry of Vietnam

Asian Topic Discussions: Tale of Genji

Asian Topic Discussions: Haiku and Haikai

Asian Topic Discussions: Tang Poetry Highlights

Asian Topic Discussions: China’s Literary Tradition, 1050-771 BCE

Asian Topic Discussions: Chinese Poetry, The Book of Songs

Using Education about Asia in the Classroom

Cycling Korea

Outcasts in Medieval Japan: Lives, Stigmas, and Agency

Japan at War: The Rising Sun During World War Two

“Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang

Granny & Me: A Documentary

Using Education about Asia in the Classroom

Music in Early Chinese Society

Economy and Family in Post-War South Korean Cinema

Tokaido, Origami, Temples and Shrines (TOTS) Japan Series: A Virtual Japan Experience

East Asian Book Club

Japan 1945 Series: Imperial Redefinition

Japan 1945 Series: Setting A New Course

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Yun Suknam (b. 1939) and Her Friends

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Chaekgeori – Books and Things in Late Joseon Korea

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Buncheong Ceramics from Joseon

Art in the Classroom: Korea – The Water-Moon Avalokiteśvara of Goryeo

Art in the Classroom: Korea – Silla Gold Crowns

Biography Through East Asian Picture Books: China

From Bandung to the Belt & Road: China’s Evolving Role in Africa

Japan 1945 Series: Ending and Beginning

China’s Demographic Transition: Population Decline in the Post-One-Child Era

Religion in East Asia: Diversity and Diffusion

Modern China Transformed: Xi Jinping’s Policies and their Human Impact

Teaching Biography through East Asian Picture Books

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

In Prints: Japanese Art and Culture

Pitt NCTA Alumni Book Group – Three Tigers One Mountain

Chinese Fantasy in Literature

Teaching with the Japanese Garden at the Huntington

China and the World

Unfolding Futures: Chinese Genre Fiction and Cultural Crossovers

Japan Society – Meiji era (How Japanese were doing during 1931-1945)

Teaching with the Chinese Garden at The Huntington

Modern Japan Emerges: Tradition in Transition – Tea, Samurai, and Gardens in Japan’s 19th Century

Modern Japanese Literature

East Asia Since 1800

Epochs & Change-Makers in East Asian Urbanism, Architecture & Art

Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Care, Crisis Discourses, and Collaborative Responses

Social Change Projects in East Asia

Dream of Ding Village: Crises and Controversies in Contemporary China

Chinese Socialist Culture

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories

Studying China in Early Modern Europe

World of Terracotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum

Exclusion and Belonging: Teaching Chinese American History through Story and Image

Asian Art Adventure

Asian Herstory – First they Killed My Father

Asian Herstory – Secret History of the Mongol Queens

Asian Herstory – Wild Swans

Violence in East Asian Literature

Currency in Asia: Constructing National Identity in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan

Two Koreas