April 10, 2025
This 18 hour professional development seminar series explores 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 will gain new strategies for teaching about modern Asia in the classroom. The course starts
Program Start Date: May 19 2025
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. Join NCTA seminar leader
March 10, 2025
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Paul Dunscomb, a beloved colleague, esteemed scholar, and dear friend to many in our community. Paul was deeply passionate about working with educators, and his enthusiasm for life was truly infectious. He found great joy in collaborating with teachers, leading numerous programs for the
Program Start Date: Apr 23 2025
This online seminar centers on films that represent 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 will provide historical background on each group and information on the production and reception of the film before segueing to a
Program Start Date: Mar 6 2025
“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
Program Start Date: Apr 30 2025
This seminar will introduce 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 will include a lecture component that situates the film in modern Chinese cultural history and introduces context about
Program Start Date: Feb 26 2025
Teachers joined Tese Wintz Neighbor, an experienced NCTA seminar leader with a deep connection to China, as she lead her final seminar session. Tese’s journey with China began in 1976 when she was captivated by a professor’s lecture on “Red China” at Indiana University. Since then, she has never looked back. Among the first
Program Start Date: Feb 20 2025
Teachers joined historian Tracy Lai and art historian Melanie King for an exploration of Japanese American Incarceration through an examination of first person accounts, visual culture, and literary expressions. Taking place over three sessions, this program centered around Traci Chee’s We Are Not Free and included the work of other Japanese American artists, authors, poets, and activists
Program Start Date: Jul 14 2025
When: July 14 to July 17, 2025 Where: Seattle Art Museum and University of Washington (Seattle, WA) Join the East Asia Resource Center and the Seattle Art Museum for a unique opportunity to partake in a close study of Ai Weiwei’s work from the 1980s to the present in his largest-ever US-based exhibition, Ai, Rebel:
Program Start Date: Jan 14 2025
Author/artist Teresa Wong pursues an emotional connection with her parents by researching and documenting their (extra)ordinary stories of escape from China during the Cultural Revolution in the graphic novel All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey. Although deeply personal, Wong’s book covers lessons in history, culture, immigration, identity, and multigenerational family experience. The stories,