In this talk, Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern) shares how she used archival sources to uncover the story of a young Japanese woman who made a life for herself in 19th-century Edo (now Tokyo).

China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

Join Professor Edmund Malesky as he interviews Murray Hiebert, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge , discussing the undercurrents lying beneath the surface of China's relations with its smaller southern neighbors, as well as the ways these countries could address the "China Challenge."

Dr. Elizabeth Son focuses on how Korean diasporic performance artist Dohee Lee contends with palimpsestic histories of militarized violence on Jeju Island in MAGO - a 2014 multimedia performance that integrated ritual movement, dance, music, film and motion graphics, site-specific installation, and Korean mythology with the tumultuous history of state-sanctioned violence on Jeju Island.

The Crown, the Capitalists, and the ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ in Thailand

Sébastien Billioud, Professor of Chinese studies at Université de Paris, traces the rapid global expansion of Yiguandao ("the Way of Pervading Unity"), one of the largest "new religious movements" in "cultural China."

This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China, and later throughout East Asia, in the lead up to and throughout World War II.

The Long Aftermath of the 2003 SARS Epidemic: How the Pandemic that Wasn’t Presaged the Pandemic that Was

Despite rising inequality, daily life in both America and China is afflicted more by culture conflicts than class struggle. Richard Madsen (Sociology, UC San Diego) argues here, however, that in both societies, these cultural conflicts are...

Reading Seoul in Pyongyang: Rethinking Cross-border Media Flows in 1950s-1960s Korea