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| Nathaniel Isaacson, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies, North Carolina State University
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This paper examines filmic representations of trains in the PRC from 1949 to 1976, as a figure for modernization and the formation of a national body. Within these narratives, I examine how PRC cultural production…
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| Sun Joo Kim, Professor, Harvard University
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This lecture investigates the relationship between human emotions and slavery in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) by examining the legislative processes as well as private practices concerning the status of the offspring of…
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| Manduhai Buyandelger, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT
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Professor Buyandelger's first book Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Gender, and Memory in Contemporary Mongolia won a 2014 Francis L.K. Hsu book prize from the Society of East Asian Anthropology and was shortlisted as one…
CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students…
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| James D. Sidaway, Professor of Political Geography, National University of Singapore
NOTE: This event has been postponed to a later date TBA. [updated 23 Nov 2020]
This presentation first navigates the now sprawling secondary literature on China’s and Road Initiative (BRI). One productive strand of analysis conceptualizes BRI as a moment of “planetary urbanization” (in…
CEAS is partnering with the Freedom Crossing Institute on an East Asia religious studies-focused film festival throughout the month of November! Due to this co-sponsorship, University of Pennsylvania students…
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| Jerome A. Cohen, Founder and Faculty Director Emeritus at the US-Asia Law Institute of New York University School of Law, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
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Please join us for a special online Distinguished East Asia Lecture by Jerome A. Cohen, where he will reflect on "A Lifetime of Adventures in East Asia".
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| Dayhe Kim, Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
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Have Korean technocrats, who have served as the one of the major driving forces behind the “miraculous” industrialization of South Korea since the 1960s, ever produced a literary form or genre of their own? Written…
