Past Events

This talk examines several remarkable, far-reaching efforts undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party to reshape Chinese society: state-led development projects that have displaced millions; the One Child Policy,…

Tenshin(2013, directed by Katsuya Matsumura, 122min, Drama)

Tenshin is the story of the 19th-century artist and scholar, Kakuzo Okakura. An influential…

Human rights lawyering in China played  an important role in the human rights movement since 2003, but it is facing harsh crackdown since Xi Jinping took power. The rising of human rights lawyering reflected the…

A “Race to the Bottom” or Variegated Labor Regimes? Capital Mobility and Labor Politics in China’s Electronics Industry

CEAS Humanities Colloquium

Distinguished East Asia Lecture

CEAS Humanities Colloquium

The Song dynasty (10th-13th centuries) was a time of dramatic social and cultural change, not least in the realm of gender relations. In this talk, I examine forms emotional…

Created by and for adolescent girls and women, boys love (BL) media, depicting romantic and sexual relationships between males, took root in commercial shō…