Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change in East Asia Projects in East Asia

Join Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Professor of Japan and East Asia Studies and Cultural Anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies, for an online program exploring the newly published  volume Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia, which she curated and edited. This collection brings together a cross-national, interdisciplinary group of

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories – NCTA Online Program

Join us for this six-week course exploring the politics of memory in and about Asia through consideration of museum collections, memorials, and personal ephemera. The politics of memory refers to the ways that societies remember, and sometimes intentionally forget, past events, and how those memories are shaped, controlled, and contested. Through a series of case

Call for Peer Reviewers – Education About Asia Journal

The Education About Asia (EAA) journal is looking for classroom teachers to serve as peer reviewers! This is a great opportunity for educators to engage with new scholarship in Asian studies and contribute their classroom perspective to the field. The review process is simple, with manuscripts capped at 4,000 words and clear guidelines provided. If

Write About Asia: 2024 Freeman Award Winners

This program is currently full and registration has closed. Write About Asia: 2024 Freeman Award Winners The National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA), the Committee on Teaching about Asia (CTA) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and Asia for Educators (AFE) at Columbia University sponsor the annual Freeman Book Awards for new young adult and children’s literature. The awards recognize quality books for

Currency in Asia: Constructing National Identity in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan – NCTA Online Seminar

  This 21 hour professional development seminar series explored how currency serves as a lens for understanding national identity and national narrative making in China, Taiwan, and Japan. By examining the figures, images, and places depicted on banknotes and coins, educators gained new strategies for teaching about modern Asia in the classroom. The course starts

The Dalai Lama’s “Voice for the Voiceless” NCTA Online Book Study

In Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People, the Dalai Lama reflects on both his pain and optimism as he looks back on his life and Tibet’s history, expressing hope for a peaceful resolution to Tibet’s ongoing struggle for freedom and dignity. Participants joined NCTA seminar

In Memory of Paul Dunscomb

Other Japans: A Film Series – NCTA Online Series

  This online series centered on films that represented historically marginalized communities in Japan: LGBTQIA+ ( Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969), Okinawans ( Untama giru, 1989), Zainichi Koreans ( Chong, 2000), and Japanese-Brazilians ( Saudade, 2011). The instructor provided historical background on each group and shared information on the production and reception of each film

Lu Xun: The Father of Modern Chinese Literature – NCTA Online Book Study

“Never to Cease Fighting”, a portrait of Lu Xun by painter Tang Xiaoming, is on display at the National Art Museum of China. Photo from The China Project. Ah Q-ism? Kong Yiji literature? What’s all this talk about the “iron house” and “eating people”? From Maoist appropriations to contemporary internet memes, allusions to Lu Xun’s

Sinophone Cinema – NCTA Online Seminar

  This seminar introduced four popular Sinophone films released around the turn of the new millennium, each from a distinct and pluralistic cultural context: Yi Yi (2000), Farewell My Concubine (1992), Chungking Express (1994), and Lust, Caution (2007). Class meetings included a lecture component that situated the film in modern Chinese cultural history and introduced