June 20, 2025
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
Program Start Date: Aug 5 2025
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
Program Start Date: Jul 2 2025
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
Program Start Date: May 20 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. Participants joined NCTA seminar
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: May 21 2025
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
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: May 14 2025
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
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