From 1949 to 1982, Chinese society was buffeted by political upheavals from the "the Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution." China was in tumult and the PRC was all but closed. Zhang Letian, a Fudan University professor, and his team...
What can present-day children learn from the stories of monks from centuries past? And how can stories of eminent Buddhists be adapted to appeal to modern sensibilities?
Looking at picture books published by Taiwanese Buddhist...
This talk examines a series of increasingly contentious and violent protests and counter-protests in Japan’s “high growth era” from roughly 1950 to 1970. These clashes arose out of fundamental contradictions in the policies of the U.S....
One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, "Flavor of Green Tea over Rice" is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous...
The 2019 Triangle East Asia Colloquium is focusing on the theme of "Transnational Korean Cinema & Media," and will be hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill. The conference will feature short films and panelists from around the U.S.
How is colonialism understood as persisting in the absence of formal colonial rule? How does this question become rooted in notions of language, race, and personhood? This talk considers questions of postcoloniality that connect across...
This thematic conversation will revolve around two aspects: in the fall of 2018 Duke University Libraries acquired the personal photo album of Sir Percy Sykes, the famous British Brigadier-General and Diplomat of his travels to Kashgar in 1915....
February 19, 2019, marks the 77th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of all people of Japanese descent, including American citizens and lawful permanent residents.
