Write About Asia is a recurring, annual writing workshop offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday …
Back by popular demand this six-week NCTA course, taught by Cecilia Boyce, will equip teachers with the knowledge and resources needed to incorporate the short fiction of Haruki Murakami into their literature classrooms. Through the exploration of …
How has science and technology altered modern Korean society and states? How has science and technology influenced Korean people’s speculative narratives of the future? What messages do sf literary voices convey about Korean history, society and …
East Asia today represents a broad mosaic of ethnic, economic, geographic, and cultural diversity. Even in our current period of rapid political and economic globalization, within which the region has played a major transformative role, East Asia retains …
This seminar explores Japan and China during World War II, with presentations covering topics such as military victories and defeats, the first six months of 1942, Japan’s six aircraft carriers that reshaped global history, and the diplomatic, economic, …
As the third nation to independently send humans into space, China reached a major milestone in 2003 with the Shenzhou 5 mission. Since then, its space achievements have accelerated. In 2022, China completed Tiangong, its permanently crewed modular space …
This course explores four picturebook biographies that share the lives and experiences of Korean and Japanese individuals. Teachers will gain broader understandings about Korean and Japanese history, society, and culture and discuss the use of these …
Using films in the classroom can engage students by bringing lessons to life through visual storytelling. Films promote critical thinking and discussion by encouraging students to analyze themes, setting, characters, and cultural perspectives. Join this …
This online seminar will provide educators all you need to help students see that East Asia is NOT one entity. While China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan do indeed share some cultural underpinnings, they each embarked on different pathways that make it …
John W. Dower’s seminal work, Embracing Defeat (2019), fundamentally reshaped the understanding of the Occupation period and postwar Japan. It challenged conventional postwar historiography that narrated the Occupation as a top-down, largely American …