CEAS Colloquium Series

Local assemblies, while serving as potential entry points into politics for women and minorities, are often shaped by patriarchal norms and entrenched power…

This talk examines the Mizuno Nagahiro mission to the Yungang Grottoes between 1938 and 1945, focusing on not only the photographs that the Japanese team produced, but also their…

This talk draws on a forthcoming book, to be published by Verso Books.  The title a deliberate nod to E.P.

This talk explpres epistemological practices and writing technologies before the era of paper. Scrutinizing a series of recently unearthed manuscripts from ca.

Since 2016, my colleagues and I have collected over one hundred thousand documents such as land deeds and contracts, dating from the late imperial period to the present,…

This book starts with a paradox in Korea’s economic development: an ultra-modern industrial economy has been achieved, yet traditional networks of obligation and solidarity, such as blood, school…

This talk will be in Chinese (Mandarin).

Traditional understanding of Japanese women’s roles during WWII places them on the homefront.

Different from the earlier Chinese SF authors, the young women writers who emerged recently (all born after 1984—if this significant year in dystopian fiction can serve as a landmark in a real…

One of Japan's most famous manga, “Doraemon,” began in 1969 in a children's magazine published by Shogakukan. In fact, it has continued for more than half a century.