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

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

Sinophone Cinema – NCTA Online Seminar

Program Start Date: Apr 6 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

Journey to China: Through Tese’s Eyes – NCTA Online Seminar

Program Start Date: Feb 25 2025

Location: Online program

  Join Tese Wintz Neighbor, an experienced NCTA seminar leader with a deep connection to China, as she leads 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 Americans

“We Are Not Free” and the Japanese American Wartime Incarceration – NCTA Online Book Study

Program Start Date: Feb 13 2025

Location: Online program

Update: this program is now full. Join 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 will center around Traci Chee’s We Are Not Free and will include the work of other Japanese American

“Origins of East Asia: Making a Civilization”, NCTA Summer Program in Anchorage, AK

Program Start Date: Jun 2 2025

Location: Anchorage, AK

Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring, Ma Yuan ((1160–1225)

When: June 2 to June 6, 2025 Where: University of Alaska Anchorage (Anchorage, AK) Join us for a week-long exploration of the origins of East Asian Civilization with Paul Dunscomb, Professor of East Asian history and Melanie King, Art historian. In this seminar we will trace the deep and far reaching influence of Chinese culture

“The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei”, NCTA Summer Program in Seattle, WA

Program Start Date: Jul 14 2025

Location: Seattle, WA

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:

Multigenerational Migration & Transformation in “All Our Ordinary Stories” by Teresa Wong – Online Book Study

Program Start Date: Jan 14 2025

Location: Online program

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,

“Other Rivers: A Chinese Education” by Peter Hessler (2024)- NCTA Online Book Study

Program Start Date: Dec 5 2024

Location: Online program

We’re excited to announce the release of Peter Hessler’s much-anticipated new book! Hessler, a seasoned journalist and gifted storyteller, draws from his experiences as a journalism teacher at Sichuan University and as a father of two young daughters attending a local elementary school. Through these perspectives, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education provides a fascinating look

Early Contacts Between East/Southeast Asia and the United States – NCTA Online Seminar

Program Start Date: Feb 24 2025

Location: Online Program

This program is now full and application has closed. Compared with ancient Asian states like China and Japan, the United States was the new kid on the block.  But as soon as the U.S. came into existence, its officials and entrepreneurs set their sights on engaging with East Asian civilizations.  This online 5-week seminar begins

On Translation: Process and Language Play with Takami Nieda

Program Start Date: Nov 13 2024

Location: Online program

Participants joined translator Takami Nieda and EARC program leader Mary Roberts to discover the fascinating world of literary translation. Discussion focused on the translation process of her latest book, Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi, the translator’s role as creative writer, and thematic readings of the text. Finger Bone is the prize-winning novella by the Japanese author