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Past Program Resources

Online Resources from Past Programs

Explore our collection of online resources from our most recent programs, available for download. Educators are encouraged to use these materials in their classrooms to enhance their teaching experience. If you are looking for resources related to an older program, please send us an email at earc@uw.edu and we will be happy to share them with you.

Spring 2026

Movie and Book Study: “Rental Family” and “Rental Person Who Does Nothing” – Online NCTA Program
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by program leader.

The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet – NCTA Online Book Study
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by program leader.

An Exploration of East Asian Visual Narratives – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by program leader.

Perfect Days (2023) – NCTA Online Movie Study
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

Winter 2025/2026

Dream of Ding Village: Crises and Controversies in Contemporary China – Online NCTA Seminar
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

“Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang – NCTA Online Book Study
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Care, Crisis Discourses, and Collaborative Responses – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

Social Change Projects in East Asia – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories – NCTA Online Seminar
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by the program leader.

Fall 2025 

Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Care, Crisis Discourses, and Collaborative Responses – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by program leaders.

Social Change Projects in East Asia – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link to view the presentation made by the the program leader.

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories – NCTA Online Seminar
Follow this link for the Padlet with the program resources made by program leaders.

Chinese Socialist Culture – NCTA Online Program
Follow this link to view the presentation made by the the program leader.

Summer 2025

Write About Asia: 2024 Freeman Award Winners 
Click here for the Padlet site with the links and the resources for the program.

“The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei”- NCTA Summer Program in Seattle, WA
Click here for the Padlet site with the links and the resources for the program.

Spring 2025

The Dalai Lama’s “Voice for the Voiceless” NCTA Online Book Study
Click here for the Padlet site with the links and the resources for the program.

Other Japans: A Film Series – NCTA Online Seminar
Click here  for the Padlet site with the discussion questions explored by participants during the program.

Sinophone Cinema – NCTA Online Seminar
Click here for the Padlet site with the links and the resources for the program.

Winter 2025

Journey to China: Through Tese’s Eyes – NCTA Online Seminar
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

“We Are Not Free” and the Japanese American Wartime Incarceration – NCTA Online Book Study
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Multigenerational Migration & Transformation in “All Our Ordinary Stories” by Teresa Wong – Online Book Study
Click here for the online resources created by the program leader.

Fall 2024

“Other Rivers: A Chinese Education” by Peter Hessler (2024)- NCTA Online Book Study (December 2024)
Click here for the online resource packet with links and resources for the program.

Modern Chinese Women Writers – NCTA Online Seminar (October – November 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific – Online Book Group (September – October 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Summer 2024

Exploring Asian Art: Form, Function, and Interpretation – NCTA in-person Summer Program (August 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Exploring the Material Culture of Edo Japan – NCTA in-person Summer Program (July 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Write About Asia: 2023 Freeman Award Winners – NCTA Online Program (June – August 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with the links and the resources for the program.

Post-postwar Japan: Its Fall and Rise – NCTA in-person Summer Program (June 2025)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Graphic Memoir: “The Boy from Clearwater”- NCTA Online Book Club (June 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Spring 2024

Father Knows Best: Sex, Love, and Kinship in Ang Lee’s “Eat Drink Man Woman”  – NCTA Film Club (May 2024)
Click here to download the Power Point presentation shared by the program leader.

East Asian Visual Culture – NCTA Online Workshop Series (April – May 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Double Desire: Navigating Post-3/11 Relationships in Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Asako I & II” (2018)  – NCTA Online Film Club (May 2024)
Click here to view the PowerPoint Presentation compiled by the program leader.

Outer Space Policy in US-China Relations – NCTA Online Program (April 2024)
Click here to view the Curriculum Resource Guide for Educators for this program (compiled by the World Affairs Council in Seattle, WA).

Global Asia Book Group  – NCTA Online Program (April – June 2024)
Click here to view the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

CTA Day 2024: Stories of Asian Art: In Consideration of a Decolonial Narrative – NCTA In-Person Program (March 2024)
Click here for the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.

Winter 2024

Hey! We Gotta Talk about This! China Matters! – NCTA Online Seminar (February – March 2024)
Click here to view the Padlet site with links and resources for the program.