BOOK CELEBRATION: H. Yumi Kim’s Madness in the Family
Mergenthaler 526Join us in a celebration of H. Yumi Kim’s new book, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2022). During the book talk, the […]
Join us in a celebration of H. Yumi Kim’s new book, Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2022). During the book talk, the […]
Andréa Worden, William A. Reinsch Practitioner-Instructor in East Asian Studies, will give an overview of some of the different kinds of organizations that students might explore if they are interested […]
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 […]
Doing Transnational Intelligence History, Reflections on Writing "Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China" From Mao Zedong’s founding of the People’s […]
The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown In the past ten years, China has rapidly emerged as South Korea’s most important economic partner. With […]
Jae H. Ku, PhD, Johns Hopkins University; CEO, LifeLong Lessons LLC will speak as a part of the East Asia Unscripted Speaker Series. The event is co-sponsored by the International Studies […]
In “Surgical Miracle: South Korea as a Developmentalist State,” Ga Eun Cho will discuss post-Korean War South Korea’s emergence as a developmentalist state. The South Korean military junta used economic […]
Why Does Japanese Fertility Remain So Low? Lessons from a Misguided Policy Approach. Japanese government policies to increase mothers’ labor force participation and simultaneously raise the country’s very low birth […]
Yize Hu will be presenting “Neoliberal Technocracy in 1980s’ Japan'' in which he will discuss how conservative intellectuals and systems engineers used the systems approach as the epistemological tool to […]
With a panel of invited faculty, we will have a Q&A regarding methodologies that can be applied interdisciplinarily.
Papers will be circulated one week in advance, if you would like to attend but have not received the paper,please email one of the organizers. Feel free to contact us: […]
What was “revolutionary” about Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement in 2019? This talk assesses the breakthroughs and limits of the historic uprising, against an entrenched colonial hegemony co-produced by British and […]