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,
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
Program Start Date: Nov 19 2024
Location: Online program
In this seminar, we read selected short stories to introduce four modern Chinese women writers: Xiao Hong, Ding Ling, Eileen Chang, and Wang Anyi. Class meetings included a lecture component that situated the text in modern Chinese cultural history as well as a discussion component in which participants were invited to share their insights and
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
Program Start Date: Oct 29 2024
Location: Online program
Staying informed about global events, especially in East Asia, can be overwhelming with the constant flood of news. That’s why we offered Behind the Headlines, an online series designed specifically for teachers. This series provided a clear and insightful overview of recent developments in Taiwan, South and North Korea, China, Xinjiang, Japan, and Hong
Program Start Date: Oct 17 2024
Location: Online program
Participants joined historian Tracy Lai and art historian Melanie King for an in-depth discussion of the recent University of Washington Press publication Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific. Utilizing the text as the basis of our discussion, we approached this series through the perspectives of impacted peoples and communities, activists, and artists
Program Start Date: Aug 6 2024
Location: Online program
Write About Asia: 2023 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 children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an
Program Start Date: Aug 3 2024
Location: Seattle, WA
Educators spent three days exploring works of Asian art on display at the Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum. Utilizing the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, we considered the original context within which objects were created and followed them along their paths of trade, transformation, and influence. This study included close consideration
Program Start Date: Jun 26 2024
Location: Seattle, WA
Course Description When Edo (present day Tokyo) became the military capital of Japan in 1604, it was a minor and remote fishing village. Yet by the mid-1700s the city had become the largest city in Japan and rivaled the older cultural hubs of Osaka and Kyoto, surpassing Paris and London in size. Material culture produced
Program Start Date: Jun 13 2024
Location: Anchorage, AK
Course Description Remember when Japan was poised to rule the world at the end of the 1980s (probably not)? Since 1989 the dominant narrative of Japan has been one of decline and increasing irrelevance. There are elements of truth in this story. Japan is a much different place today than it was thirty-five years ago.
