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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...
By most accounts, 1877 marks the year when Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the term die Seidenstrasse (Silk Road). Little has been written about what Richthofen had in mind in 1877 but his neologism generally bookmarks a division between pre-modern Silk Road history, and modern Silk Road re-discovery and studies. This paper explores Richthofen’s conception from the twin perspectives of classics and cartography - of nineteenth century studies of antiquity, and a symbolic “field” of German precolonial geography of China and Central Asia. In Richthofen’s juxtaposition of classical Chinese...
Moderated by Elizabeth W. Son, Graduate Student in American Studies, Yale UniversityPyong Gap Min, Professor of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York : The Emergence of the ‘Comfort Women’ Issue and Victims Breaking Silence in South KoreaDai Sil Kim-Gibson, Independent Filmmaker: Do You Hear Their Voices?Joshua Pilzer, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows in Music, Columbia University: Song and the Secret Histories of the Korean “Comfort Women”This panel is part “Prostitution and Sex Trafficking: Intersections and Divergences,” a speakers series organized through the Amy Rossborough...
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...
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...
After the Opium wars, the Western powers forced China to submit to the legal structures of the Unequal treaties. In 1898 the modernization of the Chinese jurisprudence began with the Xinzheng reforms. The aim of the late Qing dynasty and Republican governments was to put China on the same juridical level with foreign powers by abolishing the extraterritorial system. In this paper, Dr. De Angeli delineates the most significant changes in Chinese jurisprudence from the end of the nineteenth century until 1937, chief among which was the Westernization of the Chinese criminal code.
A lecture and discussion focusing Asian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services— America’s first centralized intelligence agency—during World War II.
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...
Professor Ogawa is renowned for his studies in medieval Chinese Painting, particularly the intriguing relation of time and space in landscape painting. His publications deal with important Song masters, such as Guo Xi, Li Tang and Mi Youren. He is also interested in the cultural interactions between China and Japan, discussing the cross-cultural significance of Muxi’s (Mokkei) and Sesshu’s works. His talk will introduce the collaborative project he is currently conducting in the United States. It is a continuation of the compilation of the Composite Catalogues of Chinese Paintings (Chugoku...
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...
Mitsuru Claire Chino serves as corporate counsel for one of Japan’s leading trading companies. She has also made a mark through the corporate diversity programs she introduced within Itochu and her advocacy for women in the workforce throughout Japan.
All nations vie for significant presence on the world stage. But the People’s Republic of China has more than just emerged from the wings – its recent successes give it claim to the center-stage of superstars. Yet what role will it play? Trustworthy friend or challenging adversary? Global humanitarian or insatiable tycoon? Prudent world leader or self-absorbed superpower? What has the past decade taught us about the realities of U.S. relations with China, and what does the future hold? Ambassador Randt will share his insights on the evolving relationship between the U.S. and the People’s...
The Biographies of Foreign Women (Waiguo lienu chuan) was compiled by Xue Shaohui (1866-1911) and her husband Chen Shoupeng in 1902 and first published in 1906. Chen searched and orally translated two hundred fifty-three biographies of Western women, dated from antiquity to 1885, and Xue rewrote them into ten categories.A leading woman writer and thinker in China’s reform era (1890s-1911), Xue openly argued against male reformer’s nationalistic approach that subordinated women’s issues to larger national concerns, and advocated to prioritize women’s self-improvement over national empowerment...
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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SEOUL TRAIN - The gripping documentary by Incite Productions, Inc. into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland This special screening of SEOUL TRAIN will be followed by a Q&A session with Director/Producer Jim Butterworth - Co-founder & Co-principal, Incite Productions, Inc.; M.B.A., Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Moderated by Dr. Jinhee Choi - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale SEOUL TRAIN, with its riveting footage of a secretive “underground railroad,” delves into the complex geopolitics behind this growing and...
The Council is pleased to present the 47th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture. Benjamin Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University, with East Asian Studies as his primary department. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; the history of science in China, 1600-1930; the history of education in late imperial China; and Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. He received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) and came to Princeton in 2002 from the University of...
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