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Keynote Address The language of the “new scramble for Africa” has become the subject of popular conversations and has led to increasing concern by US American and European competitors. Yet China’s interest in Africa is certainly not new. Histories of interaction and influence on both sides preceded it. Chinese-African alliances grew during the Cold War of the 1960s and centered on building ideological solidarity with a range of newly independent states. Since the end of the Cold War, Chinese and African alliances have revolved around trade, energy and investment projects. Of late, a...
The Visualizing Cultures project and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University are pleased to announce a two-day academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia entitled, “Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century.” This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to “image-driven scholarship” and teaching about Asia in the modern world. We have selected scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the...
Come enjoy the festivities from 4:30 to 6:30 PM as the Council on East Asian Studies kicks off the fall term!
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Things, or physical objects, have been a subject matter of representation in many conventions. “Depicting things” (yongwu or eibutsu) became an important literary genre in traditional China and Japan, and has generated strong interest in modern scholarship. In contrast, things were seldom a self-content category in pictorial art, even though they frequently appeared and played a significant role in paintings about figures, landscape, and still life. Moreover, things as implements were delineated in illustrated manuals for ritual, medical or other pragmatic purposes, but they have not yet...
Come explore two documentaries from East Asia about immigration and migration! Two screenings as part of the PIER Global Film Series 2009. Screenings are free and open to the public.Seoul TrainProduced and Directed by Lisa Sleeth and Jim Butterworth, 2005 (55 min., English Subtitles)The gripping documentary by Incite Productions, Inc. into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland.SEOUL TRAIN, with its riveting footage of a secretive “underground railroad,” delves into the complex geopolitics behind this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis....
“Forgetting, and I would even add, historical error are an essential factor in the creation of a nation, and for this reason the advance of historical studies often presents a danger for nationality…. Take a city like Salonica or Smyrna, where you will find five or six communities, each with its own memories, but as a group holding almost nothing in common. But it is essential to a nation that all individuals have a great many things in common, and also that all of them must have forgotten a number of things.”—Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?” (What is a Nation?), 1882.春秋無義戰。彼善於此，則有之矣...
Come celebrate the start of the fall term and meet colleagues and friends interested in East Asian Studies!
Professor Tsuda will speak on the history of Japanese migration to Brazil and return migration of Japanese Brazilians to Japan during the Late 1980s
This event is free and open to the public.*All teachers who would like to receive up to 0.4 CEUs can bring cash (exact change) or a check made out to “Yale University” in the amount of $5.00.Did you know that Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan? While the first Japanese immigrated to Brazil over a century ago, since the late 1980s, there has been an interesting trend in return migration to Japan. Dekassegui is a term used in Latin American cultures to refer to ethnic Japanese people who have migrated to Japan, having taken advantage of Japanese citizenship and...
This project looks at the original intentions - spoken and unspoken - behind the Truman and Eisenhower administration’s decisions to create a network of bilateral (as opposed to multilateral) alliances in East Asia, including Korea.
This lecture will be delivered in Chinese. “明代傳奇小說在韓國的傳播–以<剪燈新話>爲中心” The lecture focuses on the reception of Chinese tales in Korea, especially on that of the Jiandeng Xinhua by the early Ming writer Qu You 瞿佑 (1347-1433). Viewed historically, the mutual influences and cultural exchanges between Ming China and Korea are extremely important. According to contemporary reports in Korea, the reception of the Ming tales among the Korean readers was enormously enthusiastic. One of the purposes of this lecture is to discuss this interesting literary phenomenon.
A current discussion topic of immense interest and importance is the extent to which the current banking crisis, keyed, in part, by problems in the U.S. subprime mortgage market that then spread throughout financial markets more generally, could lead to a persistent stagnation in the U.S. economy that resembles the prolonged malaise in Japan beginning in the early 1990s. After providing a brief overview of the Japanese banking crisis and some explanations for its persistence, I will discuss why I do not believe that the U.S. economy is likely to follow a similar path. Among the themes...
In 1953, flush from the stunning international success of Rashomon (1951, Kurosawa Akira), Daiei Film Studio president Nagata Masaichi set out on a tour of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaya, the Philippines and Thailand as member nations in order to establish the Federation of Motion Picture Producers of Southeast Asia (FMPPSA). Leveraging the considerable influence that his films were gaining on the international festival circuit, Nagata appealed for the necessity of creating a Pan-Asian market as both a showcase and marketplace for films produced in the region. He also saw this Pan-Asian...
Dr. Chong-Pin LIN is is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University in Taiwan near Taipei. He served for eight years in the government of Republic of China in Taiwan as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China (February 2003 ‐ May 2004); Senior Advisor in the National Security Council of the Republic of China (January 2000 ‐ February 2002); the First Vice Chairman and Spokesman of the ministerial‐level Mainland Affairs Council in the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China (November 1999 –...
Admission to the performance is free.The Alash Ensemble, masters of the ancient art of throat singing, perform on Thursday, December 11 at 8 pm in Yale University’s Levinson Auditorium, Sterling Law Building (127 Wall Street, New Haven). Alash has earned praise for their “beautiful emotional voices, with tones and expressiveness that match their vocal gymnastics.” As the Washington Post has described their sound: “Imagine a subsonic growl, a bullfrog’s croak, some electric barber’s clippers and a high-frequency whistle – all reverberating out of a single larynx at once.” The members of Alash...
Spring 1938. As Japan was expanding into China, imperial policies in colonial Korea were fluctuating from that of differentiation/assimilation to imperialization. A catchy official slogan Naisen ittai (One Body of Japan and Korea) promised equality for the colonized in exchange for support in the wartime empire. Not unrelated to this political climate, a metropolitan consumer trend of the “Korea Boom” highlighted exotica from the colony throughout the empire. Responding to such consuming desires, a highly anticipated Japanese-language theatrical adaptation of Ch’unhyang chŏn (The tale of Ch...
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