Programs

Gender and Generations in Contemporary South Korea

Storytelling: From the Individual to Society and Beyond featuring Bing’s Cherries

Buddhism across Asia

East Asia: Origins To 1800

Teaching Migration Through Stories: Southeast Asian Voices in Taiwan Literature and Documentaries

Shifting Global Orders: Teaching the Next 50 Years

Bluff City Chinese with Director Thandi Cai and Community Historian Emerald Dunn

U.S. Allies: Japan and South Korea and Their Impact on U.S.-China Relations

U.S.-China Relations: Competition, Trade Disputes, Demonization

U.S.-China Relations: Domestic Pressures within China

U.S.-China Relations: Chinese Security Issues

Japanese Culture via Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter

The Tea Ceremony, Samurai Aesthetics and Japanese Garden Traditions During the Edo Period

Contemporary China

Exploring East Asian Artistic Expressions: Format, Function, and Conservation

An Exploration of East Asian Visual Narratives

U.S.-China Relations: The One China Policy and Taiwan

U.S.-China Relations: The Cold War and Nixon’s China Trip

U.S.-China Relations-20th Century: Nationalists, Communists, and U.S. Involvement

U.S.-China Relations – 19th Century: Opium, Missionaries, and War

Lone Star Lens on Asia: Engaging Students in Global Learning

Behind the Headlines: Hong Kong

Behind the Headlines: Xinjiang

Behind the Headlines: Taiwan

Behind the Headlines: North and South Korea

The Silence of Bones with author June Hur

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth

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 Asia 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