Program Start Date: Apr 3 2021
Write about Asia was offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series. This series was titled Sites of Memory in Asia: Remembrance and Redemption and looked at how monumental structures encapsulate poignant events
Program Start Date: Mar 17 2021
Location: Online program
This was an online program open to current, in-service K-12 teachers of all subjects. For most Americans the geography, culture, economics, politics, religions and philosophies of China seem more than an ocean away. Chinese documentaries, films, and social media can make this complex country—with its long history and mind-boggling present—more accessible to you and your
Program Start Date: Mar 6 2021
Write about Asia was offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series. This series is titled Art and Renewal in Times of Crisis in Asia and looked at how has art and
Program Start Date: Feb 3 2021
Location: Online program
Program Description A grandmother teaches her grandchild how to create rice cakes filled with sweetened red beans, a young girl and her cousins watching YouTube videos together as they gather with their family for their yearly New Year’s feast, a mochi-making tradition is shared on Instagram to online followers–these time-honored rituals of celebrating the New
Program Start Date: Jan 28 2021
Location: Online program
Attendees joined the EARC to explore relevant, complex issues that affect China today, such as repercussions of the One-Child Policy and its resulting gender imbalance, human trafficking within China, urban-rural migration, factory workers and their rights, and much more. A honorable mention in the Freeman Book Awards, Girls on the Line provides a compelling, dual narrative from the perspective of two young girls.
Program Start Date: Nov 21 2020
Location: Online
Write about Asia was offered by the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington in conjunction with the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s (SAAM) Gardner Center for Asian Art and Ideas and its seasonal Saturday University Lecture Series. This series, titled Color in Asian Art: Materials and Meaning, looked at color in Asian artworks and investigated pigment histories, materials,
Program Start Date: Nov 17 2020
Location: Online Program
About the “Where We Are At” Series What is the latest on Hong Kong? Why do we care if Kim Jong-Un made an appearance? Did I hear that the prime minister of Japan resigned? Is Wuhan really over the pandemic? With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on
Program Start Date: Nov 12 2020
Location: Online
Many in the U.S. see China as a rival that threatens its global primacy. Teachers joined Tese Wintz Neighbor in reading Kishore Mahbubani’s latest book entitled Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy. As 2001 Nobel laureate Michael Spence writes: “His assessment of the biases and mistakes on both sides is both brutal
Program Start Date: Nov 10 2020
Location: Online Program
About the “Where We Are At” Series What is the latest on Hong Kong? Why do we care if Kim Jong-Un made an appearance? Did I hear that the prime minister of Japan resigned? Is Wuhan really over the pandemic? With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on
Program Start Date: Nov 4 2020
Location: Online Program
About the “Where We Are At” Series What is the latest on Hong Kong? Why do we care if Kim Jong-Un made an appearance? Did I hear that the prime minister of Japan resigned? Is Wuhan really over the pandemic? With a 24-hour uninterrupted, busy news cycle, it can be difficult to stay updated on
