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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…
The conventional wisdom among China watchers is that political reform in China has not kept pace with the wide-ranging economic reforms of the past few decades. China remains a classic example of a one-party…
Beginning in the late 1950s,the harshness of late Maoism brought to Chinese society a bifurcation of language--clearer and sharper than it is in most other societies--between official and unofficial language. People…
The World Food Day theme for 2013 is “sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition.” Speakers will shed light on perspectives and strategies for food justice outside of the US. This event is part of the…
The speculation over China’s foreign policy shift on North Korea has been particularly feverish during this year’s Korean crisis owing to the fact that there are new leaders in Beijing and Pyongyang and many reports…
Ironically, the prose works that are generally taken to inaugurate the Japanese literary tradition have rarely been analyzed as literary texts. Western-language scholarship generally treats the mythic…
