Programs

Exploring Japanese Art and Aesthetics: The Beauty of Wabi-Sabi

Viewing Socialist China Via Propaganda Posters

Chinese Fantasy in Literature – Drawing on the Past to Imagine the Present

Summer Online Book Club Explores Japanese Culture

The Age of the Samurai: Teaching Tokugawa Japan

Centering Southeast Asia: Teaching Modern Vietnam

The Curious Relevance of Japan

Exploring Asian Art: Trade, Transmission, and Cultural Exchange

Write About Asia: 2022 Freeman Award Winners

East Asian Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism

Real and Imaged Rivers of Japan and China

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde: Workshop and Film Screening at Minneapolis Institute of Art

Exploring the Two Koreas II

Walking the Tōkaidō Virtual Seminar

Eric Carle ❤️ Japan

Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence

Teaching East Asia: A Virtual Workshop in Honor of Arlene Kowal

Online Book Talk – Mind, Body & Soul in “Shadow Life” by Hiromi Goto

China’s Cultural Revolution featuring Professor Andrew G. Walder

Vietnam Today: MAIKA, the Girl from Another Galaxy; a workshop for K-12 Educators

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: War Trash by Ha Jin

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: Freedom Swimmer by Wai Chim

A Journey Through Time – Book Study on Asia: You Gotta Have Wa by Robert Whiting

Teaching East Asia Foundational Summer Seminar: Art & Literature

The Dalai Lama at 89: Looking Back and Reflecting Toward the Future

Disaster and Resilience: Lessons from Minamata

Foundational Seminar: Exploring East Asia Through Illustrative Juvenile Literature

Teaching about China: Resources for teaching about timely topics

Arts of Protest in Modern Korea

The Music of Vietnam

East Asian Culture

Objects And Ritual In Japanese History

Great Books of East Asia: Tale of the Heike

Strike the Zither, with author Joan He.

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance by Louisa Lim

The Red Palace, with author June Hur

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden, with author Zhuqing Li

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden

Huawei, 5G, and the China-US Technology Race

East Asian Cultures: Influencing the Globe

Memories of Trauma: The Carnegie International Exhibition and Social Emotional Learning

Women in Premodern East Asia: De-marginalizing Their Lives and Voices

Image, Text, and Language at the Intersection of Cultures – East Asia and Beyond

The World of Origami: Intersection of Japanese culture, history, people, religion, society, and beyond

Teaching East Asian Literature

The View from Ground Zero: Teaching the Bomb through Literature

Two Koreas

China and the World

East Asia: Origins To 1800

Collaboration and Subversion—Reconsidering Colonial Era Cinema in “Tuition”(1940)

Wabi Sabi: The perfection of imperfection

Journey to the West: Empire, the Arts, and Modernity

Chinese Acrobatics, Priscilla Tse

Indigenous Taiwan, Margaret Yun-Pu Tu

Taiwan and the World, Dr. James Lin

China and Japan in Wartime, 1936-1945: War Experiences Through Literature

Wings of Defeat: Bringing the WWII kamikaze story into the K-12 classroom

Mountains and Rivers, Blue and White: A Brief Introduction to Chinese Art

Religion in East Asia: Diversity and Diffusion

Japan through Children’s Literature: Picturebook Biographies

Visualizing the Taste and Season in Edo

Green Island, with author Shawna Yang Ryan

Democracy in Taiwan, Dr. Sara Newland

Freedom Swimmer, with author Wai Chim

Dragonfly Dreams, with author Eleanor McCallie Cooper

The Mao Era in Chinese History

What’s Happening to China’s Uyghurs and Why It Matters

China’s Search for a Green Future: Clean Energy, Air, and Water

The Death of Woman Wang

Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

China and Japan Between 1912 and 1939

Looking Ahead – Chinese Youth

Folding it into the Curriculum: Origami and STEAM in the K-12 Classroom

Foundational Seminar: Crossroads of East Asia, STEAM, and SEL

Spectacle and Speculation: Teaching East Asian Pasts, Presents, and Futures through Science Fiction

Journeys: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

Investigating Japan’s Edo Avant Garde

Judiciary System with John Head, University of Kansas

Legislative System with Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

Economics with Junyan Jiang, Columbia University

Social and Political Cleavages with Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

Executive System with Xiaobo Lu, Columbia University

Elections with John Kennedy, University of Kansas

Teaching Peace with “The Last Cherry Blossom”: A Conversation with Japanese American author Kathleen Burkinshaw

Okinawan History, Contemporary Issues, and Culture: A Conversation with Jacques and Yoshimi Fuqua

Seminar: China – Japan – Korea

Taiwan: Identity and Place in the World Today

China Town Hall

Teaching About Asia

Asian Book Club: The Dreams of Two yi-min & Made in China

Asian Book Club: Shadow Life & A River in Darkness

Teaching Throne of Blood, Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth

Ties That Bind: Honolulu

Inspired Learning through Manga and Anime

Baseball’s Bridge to the Pacific: Celebrating the Legacy of Japanese American Baseball

Sencha (green tea) Tasting

Sencha (green tea) Tasting

Sashiko: A Japanese Needlework Art