Brown Bag Lecture Featuring Klaus Muehlhahn, Chair Professor of Chinese History and Culture, FU Berlin Moderated by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In this talk, Klaus Muehlhahn will discuss his new book, Making … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea”
Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea” A Book Discussion with Christina Yi Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 403 Kent Hall Lounge Registration not required. Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center, … [Read more...]
Tues. Feb. 5th “The Worldliest Minority: Chinese Muslims and the Global History of Guomindang Nation-Building, 1927-1949”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: John Chen, Lecturer and Wm. Theodore de Bary Postdoctoral Fellow, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia … [Read more...]
CKR Event: “Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961”
A Book Talk hosted by Center for Korean Research Featuring: Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa In search of national unity and state control in the decade following the Korean War, North Korea turned to labor. Mandating rapid industrial growth, the government stressed order and consistency in everyday life at … [Read more...]
Tues. April 9th: “Garu Lobzang Sherap: A Tibetan Painter at the Qing Court”
Featuring: Tsangwang Gendun Tenpa, Director and Chief Curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Drawing on a range of Tibetan and Chinese historical sources, as well as images of several important Tibetan thangka … [Read more...]
