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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| Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge
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In this talk, Ha-Joon Chang will use the first ever non-English-language winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Parasite, by Bong Joon-ho, in order to analyse the political economy of inequality in today’s…
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| Reo Matsuzaki, Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College
with coauthor Fabian Drixler, Yale University
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Around 1900, at least 97 percent of homicide victims in Japan were newborn children. Official statistics obscured this fact by reporting only a handful of infanticides each year, but they also preserved it in the…
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| Jing Liu, Filmmaker from China
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This terrific film is about a secret written language, Nu Shu, developed by women over many centuries in South China. Though as a rule and by custom women were unable to become officially educated, in one region they…
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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| Celeste L. Arrington, Professor, George Washington University
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In the past two decades, South Korea and Japan have enacted stricter regulations to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, signaling more legalistic modes of governance. Whereas both countries previously depended on…
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| Jessica LeGare, Princeton University
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Among the memoirs authored by former prisoners of war, ŌOKA Shōhei’s Taken Captive (Furyoki, 1948; trans. 1996) stands as an acclaimed contribution to the collection of works on postwar memory and military detention…
