Programs

Lu Xun: The Father of Modern Chinese Literature

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei

Journey to China: Through Tese’s Eyes and Footsteps

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

East Asia Through the Lens of Visual and Material Culture: An NCTA Foundational Seminar

Samurai, Kissing Circles, and the Geometry of Shinto Shrines: an NCTA workshop for K-12 Educators

“Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan” online book discussion for NCTA seminar alumni

America’s China Dream and Realities: An NCTA mini-course for K-12 Educators

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

The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies

Art in the Classroom

Japan 1945: A Workshop Series

South Korea’s Fight for Democracy

Environmental Relations in Japan

Hong Kong: Resistance and Activism

Taiwan’s Turbulent Times: Reading “The Boy from Clearwater”

Geography Through East Asian Picture Books​

Mommy’s Hometown with author Hope Lim

Toilet Tales for Teachers: Japan Edition with Sharon Domier

Listening to Trees with author Holly Thompson

“We Are Not Free” and the Japanese American Wartime Incarceration

The Body as Mirror: Hair, Feet, and Skin in East Asian Culture

Japanese, Russians and Ainu: Contacts before the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05

Modern East Asia: Korea

Modern East Asia: Japan

Modern East Asia: China

Layers of History and Identity: Summer Study in Taiwan

Taiwanese Cinema in the Classroom

Ties That Bind: Honolulu

Integrating Korea in the Classroom: Culture and Politics

Multigenerational Migration & Transformation in “All Our Ordinary Stories” by Teresa Wong – Online Book Club

Asian Topics Discussion Series: Meiji Japan meets the West: 1868-1912

Asian Topics Discussion Series: The Qing: Dynastic China and its Height 1644-1911

Asian Topics Discussion Series: China under the Ming Dynasty

Asian Topics Discussion Series: Tokugawa Japan

Asian Topics Discussion Series: Teaching the Mongols in World History

Asian Topics Discussion Series: Medieval Japan in History and Literature

Asian Topics Discussion Series: Classical Japan in History and Literature

Asian Topics Discussion Series: The Silk Roads in History and Today

Asian Topics Discussion Series: China under the Tang and Song Dynasties

“Other Rivers: A Chinese Education” by Peter Hessler – NCTA Online Book Club

An Echo in the City: online literature workshop

Samurai: The Making of a Warrior

Mr. Pei’s Perfect Shapes with Author Julie Leung

Riding the Strong Currents: 20th and 21st Century Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum

On Translation: Process and Language Play with Takami Nieda

Write About Asia

Geostrategic Forecasting: a workshop on Asia

Innovative Ways to Teach about Asia

Movie Night: A Chinese Odyssey

Asia and the Cold War

Freeman Awards Book Talk: “An Echo In The City” By K.X. Song

Freeman Awards Book Talk- “Chinese Menu: The History, Myths And Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods”

Learning And Teaching about Japanese American Incarceration

Panels from the Past: Using the Graphic Novel, The Boy From Clearwater, to Teach about 20th Century Taiwan

Pop Culture and Teaching About Asia Forum for K-12 Educators

Asian Book Club: Women from East Asia

Behind the Headlines

Pacific Maritime Trade: Visit to the New Bedford Whaling Museum

What is Nori? with Yoko Segerstrom

Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific

Exploring Gender Intersections in Contemporary South Korea

Fermentation in Japan

The Medieval Samurai – Myths and Realities

Modern Chinese Women Writers

The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag

Sonoko Sakai, author of Mai and the Missing Melon

Kōdo Kimura, co-author and illustrator author of Yukie’s Island: My Family’s World War II Story

Japan Through Children’s Literature: Children’s Lives in Mid-20th Century Japan

Our Story: A Memoir of Love & Life in China

East Asia in National Geographic Perspectives

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

Poetry in the Classroom: Korea

Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History

Teaching Geography Through East Asian Picture Books

NCTA Alumni Online Book Discussion Group: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

Chinese Gardens with Philip Bloom

East Asia Since 1800

Japanese Religions

Virtual Green Tea Tasting

Virtual Green Tea Tasting

A History of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples and the State

Understanding Korean Society Through Popular Culture

Reinventing Japan, 1945 – 1989

Femininity in Colonial Korean Literature

Shattering Myths: Teaching About the Cultural Diversity of East Asia in the K-12 Classroom

Teaching Korea in a Global World

Economy and Family in Post-War South Korean Cinema

Exploring East Asian Visual Culture

Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form

Graphic Novels Teacher Workshop

Teaching Modern China: A Century of Revolution

Write About Asia: 2023 Freeman Award Winners

Exploring Asian Art: Form, Function, and Interpretation

Precarious Japan

Asia Through the Eyes of Youth – Book Study

Graphic Memoir: “The Boy from Clearwater”

Agriculture and Agricultural Products in Taiwan, with Prof. James Lin

The Phantom 1940 Tokyo Olympics, with Prof. Robin Kietlinsk

Author Julie Checkoway and Prof. Kelli Nakamoto discuss ‘The Three Year Swim Club’ and Soichi Sakamoto