Despite ongoing censorship and repression, public opinion and debate in China has become increasingly common and consequential. How did this happen? Professor Ya-Wen Lei, drawing on her new book, The Contentious Public Sphere , will discuss how...
This illustrated lecture revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire as the nineteenth century ended, paying particular attention to the varied ways the events were understood in different places...
Emerging from the ruins of war, Tokyo became a metropolis of 10 million people within a quarter of a century. During the period that followed, this capital of what was once a military empire experienced occupation by the United States, hosted the...
The methods of surveying, counting, and categorizing the population, particularly through the household registration system, reflected core functions of the emerging modern state in Korea from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. In...
D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966), a monumental figure in the spread of Buddhism to the West in the twentieth century, wrote a few essays sympathetic to animals and even helped establish a Buddhist animal shelter in Japan. This...
Recent work in political and cultural theory has questioned how corruption has come to be conceptualized as a lingering state of unlawfulness and opaqueness that operates as a foil for the modern and the liberal (Sengupta, Chatterjee, Chua). I...
