Past Events

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…

Inu-Oh (Japanese: 犬王) is a 2021 Japanese animated musical film directed by Masaaki Yuasa and based upon the novel Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh by Hideo Furukawa.

A large-scale and consequential game of substitution is playing out in kitchens worldwide as sustainable seafood advocates try to replace over-harvested fish like salmon and tuna with more abundant species. Such…

Economic history requires the use of numbers and units. Nevertheless, numbers and units themselves as recorded in Chinese historical sources could be problematic, due to misprints and copyists’ errors, variations in…

The lessons from archaeology are critical in allowing us to situate our current climate crisis in context. Using an example from China and Southeast Asia, this talk will illustrate both how our current climate crisis…