Weixia Gu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Originated from Shanghai, she obtained her MCL and SJD degrees from HKU. Prior…
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| Stiteler Hall, Room: B26 (208 South 37th Street)
This presentation explores the history and politics of US-funded food demonstration buses (“kitchen cars”) in postwar Japan, 1954-1960. The kitchen cars’ express mission was to transform the Japanese national diet by…
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| The Forum, 2 nd Floor, Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
The 2018 trade conflict between the United States and the People’s Republic of China has affected not only bilateral trade, but also disrupted supply chains and production networks globally. Foreign…
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| Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, Kislak Center for Special Collections (6th floor Van Pelt Library)
What was Perry’s crew doing while he was negotiating, and what was everybody, including Commodore Perry himself, doing when the ships visited Shimoda and Hakodate, Japan? They were shopping! They bought lacquerware,…
When democracy went wrong in so many countries, Malaysia's peaceful regime change in May 2019 that ended the world's longest one-party rule with elections after Mexico's…
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| Stiteler Hall, Room: B26 (208 South 37th Street)
Natsume Sōseki, perhaps the most renowned writer of early-twentieth century Japan, stated that his aim in writing the novel Kusamakura (1906) had been purely aesthetic: “I would be satisfied if a kind of…
Backtracking from his suicide as a broken and depressed man, this film recounts the life of Yong-ho (Kyung-gu Sol), from his tragic demise to his innocent and idealistic youth, in reverse order. In between, he…
Anime Apocalypse: The Fall of the City is a February film series, co-sponsored by the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of…
