Starting with a revenue collection funtion, Customs has evolved its mission to include a contribution to economic competitiveness by improving transparency and efficiency of supply chain while protecting health,…
Talk abstract: The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) was one of a constellation of successor states to emerge out the collapse of the Mongol empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Polities and peoples in much of…
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| Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
For more than 30 years, the annual variety show on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) called Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan) has been a state-sponsored enactment of the Chinese nation. For its 2014 installment, some…
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| Silverstein Forum in the Stiteler Hall 1st Floor
Beijing's extensive engagement with the developing world suggests an inexorably rising China, securing a degree of economic and political dominance unthinkable a decade ago. Yet, China’s experience with its…
The brilliant and influential statesman and first prime minister of modern Japan, Ito Hirobumi (1841-1909), has been badly misunderstood. The son of a poor farmer, he showed exceptional talent as a boy and was sent…
In the early summer of 1592, over 150,000 Japanese soldiers landed in quick succession on the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula and launched an all-out offensive against Korea. Faced with this sudden invasion…
This paper explores the nature of religion in the rhetorical, built and embodied landscapes of the Qing imperial Mountain Estate for Escaping the Summer Heat, or Bishu shanzhuang. By considering the diverse array of…
Huizong came to the Song throne in the first month of 1100, three months after his seventeenth birthday, and reigned almost twenty-six years, till the end of 1125. He was the most artistically accomplished of all…
