Upcoming Events

Please join us for our 2025 Spring seminar series on “Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries.” Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges…

On April 8th we'll be exploring the rise of deep tech startups in India.

The Evans-Wentz Lectureship
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Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S.

Please join us for our 2025 Spring seminar series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries." Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of…

This event will be a book talk.

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…

“Paradise” revisits South Korea’s era of authoritarian development (1970s-1980s) through the lens of queer livelihood.

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

Accelerating the Startup and Innovation Ecosystem in the Philippines: Utilizing National Innovation Policies and Investments toImpact the Lives of 120M People Everyday

This talk will be in Chinese (Mandarin).

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…

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

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…