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SPELLBINDING MUSIC FROM CENTRAL ASIA Alash ensemble will perform and conduct a throat-singing workshop on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 8:00 PM at the Joseph Slifka Center (2nd floor) at 80 Wall Street. This event is free and open to the public. The tiny republic of Tuva is a giant when it comes to mastery of the human voice. The ancient tradition of throat singing (xoomei in Tuvan) developed among the nomadic herdsmen of Central Asia. Passed down through the generations, but largely unheard by the outside world, xoomei is now the subject of international fascination and has become Tuva...
Come and celebrate the Year of the Rat and enjoy wonderful music and food! The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University cordially invites you to attend our 2008 Spring Festival Celebration. At 4:00 PM in the Luce Auditorium, we will be hosting a very special Chinese Zither (Guqin) Music Performance featuring Yale students and Ms. Shin-Yi Yang, founder of the Boston Guzheng Ensemble. Come meet members of the championship Yale Chinese Debate Team and hear festive traditional Chinese music. The concert will be followed by a reception in the 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall,...
Ann M. Altman will discuss her experiences in UlaanBaatar in the summer of 2007, when she lectured to members of the Mongolian Democratic Party on local government, elections, and town planning. At private meetings, she talked about these issues with ex-Prime Minister Ts. Elbegdorj, the leader of the Party, who hopes to regain a majority in parliament after the general election next year, and with a member of parliament, who is working on the possibility of moving the seat of government from UlaanBaatar to Karakorum. Ann M. Altman is an elected member of the Legislative Council (the...
Yi Gwangsu’s Jaesaeng (Rebirth) was one of the most popular novels in colonial Korea during the 1920s. One reason for its popularity was that it was a romance novel set against the backdrop of the March First Movement Jaesaeng was also one of the first full-length novels to feature the “new woman” and her more commodified and eroticized counterpart, the “modern girl.” The “modern girl” was an embodiment of the excesses of modernity; in particular, the crass materialism and the craze for romance that overwhelmed Korean society after 1919. By depicting the fall of a “new woman” into a “...
North Korean leaders have issued numerous fashion statements with an intention to promote fashion as a national project meant to groom ideal corporeality. While many other socialist regimes glorified masculine clothing as preferred means to represent revolutionized women, North Korean fashion has continuously explored and expressed various degrees of femininity which seemingly contradicted astringent revolutionary spirit. The varying visual representations of traditional femininity and state organized socialist ideals, which often equals masculinity, collide in North Korea so as to mark a...
One of the current impediments in US-DPRK relations is the presence of North Korea on the US State Department list of ‘state sponsors of terrorism.’ North Korea has been on this list since 1988, even though, according to the State Department itself, the DPRK has not sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines flight in 1987. In the Six-Party Agreement of February 13, 2007, the United States promised to ‘begin the process of removing the designation of the DPRK as a state-sponsor of terrorism.’ What are the justifications for North Korea to remain designated as a state...
By the 1970s, Hong Kong had become a truly global force in international cinema, not only solidifying a trans-Asian audience appeal, but breaking into the coveted Euro-American film market. By the 1990s, Hong Kong was recognized as one of the world’s premier film-producing sites. But there is a history to the efforts of Hong Kong to achieve international appeal and global prominence. This talk will outline the various strategies employed by the two major Mandarin-language film studios, MP&GI (Cathay) and Shaw Bros, to break out of the local and diasporic film circuits, culminating in...
The Economics Department and the Councils on East Asian Studies and International Affairs will co-host a seminar at 4:00 PM in Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue on Friday, April 13, 2007 to discuss the release of “Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform” by Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard. In their timely and authoritative account of the famine, Haggard and Noland argue that this traumatic event continues to reverberate through North Korean society, shaping contemporary developments from economic reform to nuclear diplomacy. In his foreword, Nobel laureate Amartya...
Over the past decade perhaps 100,000 North Koreans have fled economic deprivation and political repression in their home country. The vast majority transit through China, leading precarious lives there, accumulating the resources for the journey onward to a third country and eventual permanent resettlement, principally in South Korea.This interdisciplinary workshop, featuring specialists in history, economics, political science, public health, and psychiatry, will examine the political and economic developments driving migration; the patterns and magnitudes of the refugee flows; the...
Chan E. Park will share her insights into the distinctive aspects of Korea’s musical and narrative heritage with special attention to p’ansori, a form of story-singing. The exact origins of Korea’s p’ansori tradition are unclear, but it’s thought to have sprung from indigenous shaman chants. P’ansori proliferated throughout the nineteenth century, and in the 1960s was designated by the Korean government as an official intangible cultural treasure. In 2003 the art form was recognized by UNESCO.In her lecture, Park examines the social, aesthetic and performative existence of traditional music...
Confinement is arguably the central motif of modern Korean fiction. Since the early twentieth century Korean writers and their writing have existed largely within the confines of a culture, a politics, and a history that have hindered the development of creative prose writing. Inheriting the neo-Confucian scholar-bureaucrat’s predilection for exemplifying righteousness and instructing its people, modern Korean writers have in general been reluctant to stray from a socially engaged approach to literature. Rather they have been subjected to the expectations of an overwhelmingly male and...
The April Revolution was a defining moment in early South Korean history. High school students played a crucial role throughout the two-month chain of protests (28 February – 26 April 1960) that culminated in the ouster of the country’s first president, Syngman Rhee. This presentation will examine middle and high school civics curricula and student organizations designed by Ministry of Education ideologues after the Korean War (1950-53). These two components of post-war school life equipped South Korean youths with important ideational and organizational resources for the anti-government...
Come hear the testimony of Grandmother Mak Dal Lee, a survivor of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System. An estimated 200,000 young Asian women, euphemistically called “comfort women,” were coerced or deceived into sexually servicing the Japanese military between 1932 and 1945. Sixty years later, the Japanese government has not fully acknowledged this history and refuses to offer an official apology for state-sponsored military sexual slavery. In conjunction with the American Studies Program, Asian American Cultural Center, Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization, KASY: Korean...
Numerous scholarly works on “memory projects” as the culture and politics of nation-states in the modern world have been produced. Yet remaking of the past is not the monopoly of modernity. This paper investigates the problem of engineering memory in Chosŏn Korea. In particular, I examine the emergence of new cultural imagery built by the state and its “national” elites to legitimate the state’s rule and its position in the changing environment of East Asia. This “national” project involved intellectual movements to revisit and rewrite Chosŏn Korea’s historical past. At the same time, I...
Professor Kim’s research and teaching interests include Asian American literature, 20th-Century U.S. literature, the 1950s, Ethnic Studies, and Gender Studies. He is the author of “Writing Manhood”, “Writing Race: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity” (Stanford University Press, 2006). Kim is currently working on a book provisionally entitled “The Dematerialized Zone: Representations of the Korean War in U.S. Culture”. He has published articles in “Criticism, The Journal of Asian American Studies”, and “Novel”.The Demilitarized Zone: American Representations of the...
Come back to New Haven and re-connect with alumni and affiliates of the international and area studies councils and degree programs, Yale’s internationalist faculty, current MA students, and each other.Program Highlights:• The MacMillan Center’s International Fair• Keynote Address by Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History• Sessions Moderated by Former Directors:William Foltz, H. J. Heinz Professor Emeritus of African Studies and Political ScienceGaddis Smith, Larned Professor of History EmeritusGustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics•...
Through this important gathering of international specialists at Yale University in November 2007, we hope to synthesize and understand one of the most influential traditions of religious thought and practice in the world. The conference will investigate the images which served for ceremonies of an esoteric character, in conjunction with a study of manuals and scriptures and ritual procedures, in order to examine and discover how common or different religious practices were established and seek to determine why diverse courses were pursued at different periods in China, Korea and Japan. We...
The land and people in the Cuu Long River Delta (South Vietnam) served as an idea area for the maritime trade networks during the first millennium A.D. Being developed as outcome of these activities, the Oc Eo culture is considered as a part of the material remains of the ancient Funan Empire, which was the first organized nation of Southeast Asia in the early Christian era. Southern Vietnam thus became an important link between the East and the West. Along with maritime trade, Buddhism and Hinduism, two great religions that originated from India, have made great contributions to the cultures...
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