Transregional
From the first moment that Huang Liushuang (better known as Anna May Wong) landed in Shanghai in February 1936, she found herself in a maelstrom of controversy. By the time of this first visit to her ancestral homeland, Wong was already a bona-fide movie star: even cast as the bit part of “Mongol Slave” in Douglas Fairbanks’ 1924 blockbuster hit “Thief of Baghdad,” she had stolen the show.Wong was the first Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, appearing in many films with Asian themes, though usually as slave girl or Chinese femme fatale. Upon her first arrival in China (she was a third-...
Come and celebrate the Year of The Pig!
An international Conference in Honor of the Memory and Legacy of Asakawa Kan’ichi After a century and a half as the dominant power in Asia, Japan is once again confronting a tectonic shift in Asia’s geopolitical landscape. Nothing looms larger in Japan’s foreign policy than China’s rising power, but China’s power appears to Japan as Janus-faced: China’s economic dynamism draws in colossal quantities of Japanese investment and production, locking the two countries in closer economic interdependence than ever before and fueling Japanese economic growth. At the same time, China’s...
One of the results of the Arabic conquest of Central Asia at the beginning of the 8th century was the inclusion of the Central Asian elites and armies in the Muslim empire. Their influence there was important, as the Muslim world was twice conquered by them, first in 750 then in 811. But their specific social background is mainly known from Chinese sources as these Sogdian and Turkish armies were described in the Chinese histories. These elites and armies were active in Northern China before the Arabic conquest, so that to understand their background we have to compare Arabic and Chinese...
This special presentation will provide insight into the three concepts of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, analyses of the emblem and slogan of the 2008 Games, and an introduction to the Beijing Olympics mascots. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience. English Translation Provided.
The peripheral status of Asian football in the global order of the world sport is rooted in the historical experience of military, political and economic dominance of the West. Since football reached the Far East at a time when European colonialism was giving way to growing US American influence in the region, it never acquired significant meaning in the relationship between the West and the East. However, within the postcolonial world of the North Pacific, football has become a powerful cultural resource for representational purposes. In my presentation I will take a look at the way in which...
Post-colonialism has been translated as Hou Zhimin Zhuyi (后殖民主义) in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, but they mean different things. “Traveling Theory” was put forward by Edward W.Said. In this article, Said criticized the general discussion of cultural misunderstanding, and stressed the historical situation of traveling theory. The difference of post-colonialism in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong is just the result of different location and historical situation. The purpose of Professor Zhao’s talk is to comment on the relationship between the different versions of post-colonialism...
Sandwiched between Russia and China, Mongolia is land-locked country of 1.5 million square kilometers. Mongolia has a complex geography with four major zones: the famous Gobi Desert located in the South, the Steppe in the East, mountainous regions in the west and north central parts of the country and the taiga zone in the northwest of the country, with an average altitude of 1.500 meters above sea level. The population size of Mongolia is 2.6 million. More than 20 ethnic groups speaking Mongolian and Turkic languages of the Altaic linguistic family inhabit contemporary Mongolia....
OPENING RECEPTION at 5:30 PM TWO DAY WEEKEND CONFERENCEWe welcome your attendance at an interdisciplinary workshop to explore how Asian religions have conceptualized and utilized the natural world. Our general aim is to explore in various ways how religious communities interacted with their natural environment and what effect this interaction might have had on art, narrative, and doctrine. Participants Include: James Benn (McMaster University) Robert Brown (University of California, Los Angeles) Veronique Bouillier (CNRS Paris) Gerard Colas (CNRS Paris) Jacob Dalton (Yale University)...
As a source of identity and component of selfhood, concepts of “race” and their manipulation through racial representation exert a powerful influence on constructions of Self and Other, national identity, the nature of interpersonal experiences in cross-cultural contexts, and how those experiences are verbalized, interpreted and translated into various kinds of social performance. Increasingly, globalized discourses and iconographies of “blackness” have come to mediate a space through which Western notions of “race” are circulated, re-inscribed re-presented and reproduced abroad, and deployed...
Compared to the popular and business U.S. press, the Japanese popular press tends to be more pessimistic about the Chinese economy. This Japanese attitude and perception about the Chinese economy can be observed in recent Japanese Manga (comic strip). In the talk, Professor Deckle will briefly trace the recent history of the Japanese economy as observed in the Japanese Manga. He will also assess the realism of this pessimistic Japanese popular perception of the Chinese economy.
The Project on Japan-U.S. Relations serves as a link between the Yale University community and organizations concerned with ties between Japan and the U.S. The Project works to bring speakers from the academic, policy, and business worlds to Yale, where they can interact with faculty and students. The Project also serves as a Yale point-of-contact for outside groups connected with Japan and as a clearinghouse of Japan and Japan-U.S. related information for the University community. In addition to maintaining the web site http://www.yale.edu/japanus...
The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale-China Association, Richard U. Light Fellowship Program Conversations and student presentations on 2005 summer travel, study, internships, and research in Greater China, Japan, and Korea.
Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977), noted social critic and China scholar of postwar Japan, set forth a notion of thought in his writings that was based on an opening onto alterity. Professor Calichman’ s presentation will focus on these passages so as to lay the ground for a critique of subjective interiority.
The East Asian economy is rapidly developing. This is the main area where outsourcing from developed countries is directed. On the other hand, international relations among China, South Korea, and Japan are in delicate, if not vulnerable, balance, even though we do not mention the role of North Korea. This academic year we fortunately have three different courses on the economy of China, Korea and Japan. The following roundtable discussion will present the current situations of the economies of China, South Korea and Japan and dialogues about the political economic interactions among East...
In 2008, the Olympic Games will be hosted by the least Westernized nation in the world to yet host them. It will be only the third time the Olympic Summer Games have been held outside the Western hemisphere, and it will be the greatest-ever meeting of East and West in peacetime. Surely this should be a moment to celebrate the interconnected global culture of the 21st century, but there has been a consistently negative reaction in the West centered around criticism of China’s human rights record. When Beijing won the bid and it was shown live on Chinese television, tens of thousands of...
Consul General Yoichi Suzuki previously served in the Japanese Embassies in Paris and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the Political Section. He has also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has long experience dealing with trade negotiations and has served as chairman of various international trade bodies. For More Information http://www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/index.html
Kôans (kongan) are often described as nonsensical or paradoxical questions, posed by Chan/Zen masters to their students, that are designed to confound the discursive intellect and trigger an awakening to an ineffable state beyond the reach of all dualistic thinking. Most Kôans, however, do not take the form of questions. They are, rather, ostensiblyverbatim records of dialogues between ancient Chan patriarchs and their disciples, which came to be held up as customary topics of discussion in the contexts of public debate in a lecture hall and individual consultation in an abbot’s private...
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