Shellen Wu (University of Tennessee) will discuss the Growing Empire: Agricultural Experimental Stations and New Imperialism. More information forthcoming. This event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program Zoom Meeting Link: : https://zoom.us/j/98702654439
Against the Odds in Asia, 1901-2021: On Activists, Autocrats, Exiles and Empires in Several Eras This presentation, which will move between the early 20th century and the early 21st century, will explore some of the ways that people working for change in different parts of East and Southeast Asia have periodically paid close attention to […]
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 […]