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 …
The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) at the University of Colorado Boulder and the USC U.S.-China Institute (USCI) are hosting a summer institute in Taiwan. In this two-week NCTA summer institute, 14 participants will learn about Taiwan’s history and …