Marking the 80th anniversary of WWII’s end, this program offers three week-long workshops exploring the final months of Japan’s war through civilian experiences, narratives, and primary sources. Each workshop includes a live webinar, six days of …
Taught by Cecilia Boyce, this six-week NCTA course 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 Murakami’s short stories …
This seminar is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of the geography, history, and culture of East Asia. The hope is that the participants will incorporate what they learn in the seminar into their own curriculum in an effort to teach more about …
Join the Five College Center for East Asian Studies (FCCEAS) for this module on modern Korea for a combination of synchronous presentations by Korea scholars from around the country and asynchronous online work.
Join Professor Xiaobo Lü for a discussion on China’s Cultural Revolution. The famine of the early 1960s, resulting from ill-conceived agricultural policies of the Great Leap Forward, led to economic retrenchment and political struggles in China that …
Great works of literature like “The Tale of Genji” and “Dream of the Red Chamber” have influenced the way that many of us think about the culture, history, politics, and traditions of China and Japan. Yet these and other canonical works are largely the …
Join NCTA and Thomas Conlan, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University, for a workshop on the the life of William Adams, the Englishman on which the famous Shogun novel and films are based. The half-day session will provide …
In this course participants will explore Cultural Anthropology’s study of the Native, the discipline’s complicity in legitimizing forms of violence on Indigenous Peoples, and the recent rise of Indigenous East Asian Anthropologists and Scholars responding …
This seminar will introduce four popular Sinophone films released around the turn of the new millennium, each from a distinct and pluralistic cultural context: Yi Yi (2000), Farewell My Concubine (1992), Chungking Express (1994), and Lust, Caution …
Join translator Takami Nieda for a webinar about “The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart” where a Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora.