The Japanese Postwar Constitution, promulgated during the US Occupation of Japan, was once understood to have been written entirely by a US committee. Scholarship in the past 35 years has complicated that narrative, revealing a complex negotiation with …
Focusing on Taiwan’s Hehuan Mountain Dark-Sky Park, this presentation explores issues involving landscape, scientific knowledge, and Indigenous peoples. It will introduce and trace the historical development of the Hehuanshan region in Taiwan, including …
Join humanitarian Kathi Zellweger and journalist Mike Chinoy for a webinar on “Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea.” North Korea is one of the world’s poorest and most reclusive countries, and one of the most challenging places to deliver humanitarian …
In this seminar, we will read selected short stories to introduce five modern Chinese women writers: Xiao Hong, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, Fan Yusu, and Wang Anyi. Class meetings will include a lecture component that situates the text in modern Chinese …
Join Andrew Macomber, Associate Professor of East Asian Religions, Oberlin College, for a webinar on Buddhism and Shinto in Japan. Session includes discussion and materials covering key points, questions, and teaching approaches.
In this session, with Melanie King, we will examine the historical and contemporary significance of the handscroll within an East Asian context. Through a deep dive into this singular, yet dynamic format, we will consider it as an artistic creation, a …
China’s influence on the global south is one of the most important issues of our time. “Made in Ethiopia” offers a rare opportunity to follow three women, a Chinese factory director, a local factory worker, and a nearby farmer, as a massive Chinese …
Did you know that Hello Kitty turned fifty last year? While it may seem that Kitty and her Sanrio pals are ever-present characters in Japan’s kawaii (“cute”) cultural landscape, their creation is tightly linked to Japan’s post-war boom that is most often …
Join Janet Hoskins, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Southern California, for a webinar on Cao Dai in Vietnam. Session includes discussion and materials covering key points, questions, and teaching approaches.
Join us for a Freeman Book Talk featuring “Dragonfly Eyes” by acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan. Set in China during a period of profound social and historical change, this young adult novel explores themes of family, ethnicity, heritage, identity, and …
During World War II, the United States advanced across the Pacific through a strategy commonly known as “island-hopping”. After 1945, many of these wartime footholds became part of a more permanent network of American military power in East Asia. As the …
Join Donald Clark, Professor of History, Trinity University, for a webinar on Christianity in Korea. Session includes discussion and materials covering key points, questions, and teaching approaches.
Join Sara Ann Swenson, Assistant Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College, for a webinar on Buddhism in Vietnam. Session includes discussion and materials covering key points, questions, and teaching approaches.
Join Sungha Yun, Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, St. Olaf College, for a webinar on Buddhism in Korea. Session includes discussion and materials covering key points, questions, and teaching approaches.
Go beyond the battlefield to examine the Korean War as both a civil conflict and a Cold War flashpoint. Join Jennifer Jung-Kim for a look at the war’s origins, the roles of the United States, China, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations, and the war’s …
The seeds of Japan’s emergence to global prominence were planted during the Edo period, which spanned from 1600 to 1868. This seminar traces Japan’s transformation during this remarkable rule of the Tokugawa shoguns, also known as the Edo period. Our …
Join us for a discussion of “The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park” by Michiko Aoyama, sharing our reactions to this warm and uplifting novel while exploring the broader phenomenon of “healing fiction” from Japan, a genre that has recently taken off with …
Join Takami Nieda for this online workshop where participants will try their hand at translating a poem into English. No knowledge of another language required! We will learn by doing: explore how translation can strengthen close reading skills, deepen …