The East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar series kicks off the semester with a syllabus workshop for graduate students. Working collectively, attendees will produce a syllabus for a class tentatively titled “Introduction to East Asian Studies.” 

The paper is extracted from Yushuang’s thesis for the degree of M.Phil. in anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It presents a later version of the grave-relative relationships that she wrote for her first-year paper at Hopkins. Her FYP mainly dealt with practices related to grave-tending and the interpersonal interactions around these practices […]