The surrendering of the concession in Wuhan marked a key shift in Britain's power in China, and also an important symbolic defeat for the British Empire in Asia. This talk takes us into the streets of Wuhan, examining the various communities whose politics and personalities clashed in 1927.

This talk discusses research that leveraged Singapore's unique demographic composition to measure the extent to which individuals' ethnicity, national identity, and class influence their altruism towards outgroup members.

This talk examines one of the most popular Japanese publications of the twentieth century, Ōkubo Yasuo's translation of Gone with the Wind (Eng. 1936, trans. 1938), suggesting that the translation and its publicity campaign tapped into popular representations of the Meiji Restoration.

Drawing on English and Chinese-language sources from all areas of China where US forces deployed during the 1940s, Fredman shows how each side brought to the alliance expectations that the other side was simply unable to meet, resulting in a tormented relationship across all levels of Sino-American engagement.

In a new book, Taisu Zhang argues that China's fiscal weakness in the late 18th and 19th centuries was fundamentally ideological in nature, stemming from a confluence of traditional political ethics and the trauma of dynastic change.

Take a closer look at two Buddhist monastics, Eison 叡尊 (1201-1290) and Kakujō 覚盛 (1194-1249) who believed that the orthodox lineage of monks in Japan had been hopelessly compromised and so resorted to a self-ordination in which they meditated and practiced until they received an auspicious sign from the Buddha that they had received the precepts and had re-established a lineage.

Dr. Nancy Rao explores the patterns of networks and migrations that made Chinese opera part of North American cultures, framing not only our understanding of the past but how we enter into the present and future.

This talk by Dr. Maria Repnikova will explore evolving China-Russia dynamics, as part of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

This talk introduces the life and thought of two late Joseon dynasty women philosophers, exploring how they were able to overcome special challenges as well as their significance in the history of Korean women and Korean Confucianism.

Viewed from the prism of modern Japan, replacing the triumphal narrative of V-E and V-J Day with a sober assessment of wartime Japan and its legacies, we see the true calamity of what some now erroneously label a "New Cold War."