Northeast Asian countries have been engaged in disputes over history. While their historical contentions have caused suspicions and frictions among them, I argue that they have also served as a medium of…
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| Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School
Bob (Xiqiu) Fu and a group of Chinese human rights lawyers and scholars will be speaking as part of the China and International Human Rights Seminar and Colloquium Series. Bob and his delegation will address…
North Korea is now experiencing a leadership transition. But since the great famine of the mid-1990s, North Korea has been undergoing a broader social transformation as well. Drawing on an analysis of the famine and…
Middle-school and high school teachers are invited to an information session in which they will see a slide show highlighting earlier years' activities, learn what the project will offer them, meet with project…
In the context of the rapid internationalization of the American undergraduate student body – in which South Koreans figure largely -- Abelmann will discuss intra-ethnic othering practices, both among Korean…
Women sumo wrestlers in Japan. A glimpse of life in an atypical profession, the physical difficulties and triumphs. Speaker: Dr. Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania East Asian studies. Sponsorship thanks…
Sex ratios at birth are abnormally male in China, leaving millions of Chinese families with sons who will find it difficult to marry. Son preference and sex selection is of long standing in Chinese society, and so is…
China's rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections, is a national day of…
Since the Reform Era began in 1978, China has pursued a series of reforms in governance and civil society. What have been the principal achievements, breakthroughs and trends? What are significant recent…
From individuals tagging graffiti to mass candlelight vigils, from popular remembrances of the Korean War to ritual observances at monuments, the so-called ‘public space’ has been fertile ground for Koreans to…
