Call for Peer Reviewers – Education About Asia Journal

June 20, 2025

Write About Asia: 2024 Freeman Award Winners

Program Start Date: Aug 5 2025

Location: Online program

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

Program Start Date: Jul 2 2025

Location: Online program

  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

Program Start Date: May 20 2025

Location: Online program

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

March 10, 2025

Other Japans: A Film Series – NCTA Online Series

Program Start Date: May 21 2025

Location: Online program

  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

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: 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

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

Program Start Date: Feb 26 2025

Location: Online program

  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

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

Program Start Date: Feb 20 2025

Location: Online program

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