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Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University - "Rural Migrant Children in China’s Urban Schools: Patterns and Conceptual Issues"

- | McNeil 169

China’s contemporary rural migration has brought to Chinese cities over 200 million adults and more than fifty percent of these adults’ children by 2011. What are the educational opportunities for children of rural…




Film Screening - "Gamera, Guardian of the Universe/ガメラ 大怪獣空中決戦"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Kaneko Shūsuke, 1995

Giant turtle saves the world from huge flesh-eating bats armed with laser beams.
* CEAS Monsters of Japan Film Series

D. Max Moerman, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College - "Contesting Cartographies: Buddhist Cosmology and the Japanese World Map, 1364-1865"

- | Williams Hall 844

This talk analyzes the role of Buddhist maps in the construction and contestation of worldviews in medieval and early modern Japan. By attending to the ideological implications of objects of visual and material…




Sharon J. Yoon, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania - "Cultural Brokerage and Co-Ethnic Relations in the Korean Enclave in Beijing"

- | Stiteler Hall B21

* James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, Korean Studies Colloquium

Film Screening - "Nausicä of the Valley of the Winds"/風の谷のナウシカー

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Miyazaki Hayao, 1985

In a post-apocalyptic world, giant insects and poisonous mold spores threaten a village of peaceful farmers.
* CEAS Monsters of Japan Film Series

*CANCELLED* Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University - "Magical Food and Spatiotemporal Displacement in Early Medieval Chinese Narratives"

- | 844 Williams Hall

*CANCELLED*

*CANCELLED* CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections - featuring U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, and Douglas Spelman of the Kissinger Institute - "US-China Relations: Challenges Ahead"

- | Stiteler Hall, B21, University of Pennsylvania

*CANCELLED*
Starting at 7:00pm, Dr. Douglas Spelman of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States will speak on "US-China Relations: Challenges Ahead." Both the US and China will soon experience…




G. Cameron Hurst III, Professor Emeritus of Japanese and Korean Studies - "I Did it My Way, Part II: Korea"

- | McNeil 169

* Sponsored by the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies…




Film Screening - "Return of Godzilla"/ゴジラ

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Hashimoto Kōji, 1984

Godzilla reappears to attack fishing boats, a Soviet submarine, and Tokyo.
* CEAS Monsters of Japan Film Series

Donald L. Baker, Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia - "Rulers and Rituals: Supernatural and Secular Foundations of Political Power in Korea"

- | Room B21, Stiteler Hall

An ancient Chinese text, the Zuozhuan commentary to the Chunqiu [Spring and Autumn Annals], states that “the great affairs of a government are force and ritual.” Koreans over the centuries have taken that message to…