Yunchen Tian’s article, “Workers by any other name: comparing co-ethnics and ‘interns’ as labour migrants to Japan,” has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, which is one of the top journals in the migration field. Tian is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and is currently working as the EAS graduate student […]

Marvin C. Ott is an adjunct lecturer and visiting scholar in Southeast Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, in addition to teaching Southeast Asia and U.S. Security on the Homewood campus. Since the beginning of 2018, Professor Ott has published three articles surrounding China’s priorities in Southeast Asia. […]

On April 12th, author Min Jin Lee gave a talk entitled“Afterlives of Empire: A Symposium on History, Family, and Fiction in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko,” as part of the East Asian Studies Speaker Series. The event was co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.

On April 3rd, The Program in East Asian Studies hosted Yang Zhang, Assistant Professor of in the School of International Service at American University, for a talk entitled “Factions in Action: A Romance of Reformers and Conservative in China, 1977-1992.”

On April 2nd, Sheldon Garon, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University, gave a talk entitled “On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II.” The talk was co-sponsored by the History Department and the Japan Foundation.

Dr. Jin Zeng, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University, gave a talk entitled “We don’t want land certificates! – Property Rights and Rural Land Reform in Contemporary China” on March 26th.

On March 9th, Johns Hopkins Sociology Professor Priscilla Tse gave a talk entitled “Performing Female Masculinity and Queer Overtones in Cantonese Opera and Contemporary Cinema in Hong Kong.”She discussed her paper which examines the female masculinity and queer overtones that renowned twentieth century actress Yam Kim-Fai (1913-1989) embodied on different “public stages.” The talk was […]

East Asian Studies hosted Paul Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, for a talk on “The Emergence of Non-Normative Families in South Korea.” Professor Chang discussed the dramatic shifts in demographic patterns affecting family formation in South Korea.

On February 27th, School of Advanced International Studies Professor Marvin Ott lead a workshop on career paths for students interested in foreign policy. Drawing in his extensive experience in the US State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, The Central Intelligence Agency, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Institute for […]

On February 13th, East Asian Studies hosted a Lunar New Year Celebration with food and music.