Past Events

Film representations of the Ainu people have existed since the inception of cinema, which is the result of the Euro-American fascination for Ainu images since the late 19th century. However, visual representations…

The King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen…

This talk focuses on our ongoing research project on career opportunities among overseas Japanese workers. Japanese career trajectory is characterised as long-term employment in the same company with a job-rotation-…

The Graduate Student Research Colloquium for East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the 5th Annual University of Pennsylvania East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. Our 2023 conference, “Untold Narratives…

The growing economic and political relationships between China and the African continent in the past two decades are well documented in social science and policy studies. As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt-and-…

Create a book in the Japanese tradition. We will practice several variations of the stab binding stitch, from simple to more decorative stitches, on sewing cards. We will then use one of these stitches to bind a book…