Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University Ethnic Orders: Social Categories and the Politics of Identity in the Malay World Ethnicity is central to politics throughout the Malay world, but the meaning and significance of ethnicity—and of social categories like “Malay”—is contested, dynamic, and multifaceted. This talk is an overview of […]
Patient or Martyr of Imperialism: Uncertainty of Disease and "Germ Warfare" During the Korean War-Yemok Jeon The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS seminar is free […]
Graduate students Yushuang Zheng and Fan Mang will present their research as part of the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. Yushuang Zheng's presentation is titled “Producing Silk in Mukden: Sericulture and Frontier Management of Qing Rule, 1740-1861,” and Fan Mang will present on “The World of Books in a Changing Beijing, 1860s-1930s.” The EAS Seminar […]
Between Fields and Factories: The Rural Roots of Hyper-Flexible Employment in China Graduate student Guowei Liang will present on “Between Fields and Factories: The Rural Roots of Hyper-Flexible Employment in China” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by […]
East Asian Studies and International Studies host a lunch time lecture with Professors Hung Ho-Fung (SAIS-KSAS) and John Yasuda (KSAS Political Science) on the what a second Trump administration could potentially mean for US-Asia relations.
Comparative History Matters: Health Insurance, Medicine, and Ideology in China and Taiwan For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Wayne Soon, Associate Professor, Program of the History of Medicine in the Department of Surgery; Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, will present on comparative histories of health insurance. using […]
Graduate student Jingting Liang will present on “A Comparative Study on US and Chinese Food-delivery Platforms: Platform Architecture and Union Interventions” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, […]
Feather Satins and Orangutan Felts: A Material History of English Woolens in Qing China For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Rachel Silberstein will introduce her book project, which focuses on the East India Company’s export of British woolens to Qing period China. By considering the EIC’s motives and strategies alongside analysis of Chinese textile […]
Graduate student Julia Wu will present on “Illicit Marriages in Mukden Before 1690” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series In collaboration with the Gender Seminar. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate […]
This is a Virtual Event via Zoom.Zoom Link: https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/94689909734 Join us for an engaging dual book workshop featuring scholars Anand Venkatkrishnan and Pierce Salguero as they share their works-in-progress on transformative biographical writing. This interactive session invites students to explore innovative approaches to biography through a trans-Asian feminist lens. Featured Speakers: Anand VenkatkrishnanAssistant Professor of […]
Graduate student Yihan Lulu Wang will present on “Negotiating Grief Work in a Chinese Role-Playing Science Fiction” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses […]
For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Yueran Zhang will speak about the topic: Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Remaking of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980. This talk provides a transnational account of the crystallization of socialist workers’ class consciousness at a pivotal historical moment. Specifically, it reveals how, in China’s early […]