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.”
Granary of the Province": Science and Subjects in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. India embraced a “new strategy” in agriculture to raise yield around high-yielding variety seeds of wheat and paddy between 1964 and 1966. This adoption of a package program involving credit facilities, government’s support price and subsidies and infrastructures led to the beginning of […]
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 author will share some of the book’s main ideas while reflecting on the process of writing a history of kinship and disease. The talk will […]
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 in pursuing internships, jobs, or a career in human rights with a focus on East Asia. This is her fifth and final year teaching a […]
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 […]
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 Republic of China in October 1949 until Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in February 1972, US-China political relations were by definition sub rosa. The two […]
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 the surge of goods and resources between the two countries, large waves of Korean migrants have opened small ethnic firms in Beijing’s Koreatown, turning a […]
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 Program.
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 development as a justification for its coup d’état and the postponed transition to democracy. As such, the state defined those unconforming to the goal as […]
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 rate have met with mixed success. Meanwhile, gender inequality in Japan has remained higher than in nearly every other postindustrial country. Why? In this talk […]
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 envision a neo-liberal society in Japan and created a new technocracy in the 1980s. Different from the old technocracy characterized by a strong belief in […]
With a panel of invited faculty, we will have a Q&A regarding methodologies that can be applied interdisciplinarily.