Dynamic assessment (DA) breaks the traditional dichotomy between assessment and instruction by including mediation in assessment procedures (Poehner, 2008). The focus of…
This lecture will provide a brief introduction to gagaku (Japanese court music) and its cultural history. The introduction section will briefly explain the four genres…
In traditional Chinese poetics, resentment (yuan, 怨) is a prominent concept. A complex emotion between anger and sorrow, resentment is, at one and the same time,…
Curious about how East Asian languages & cultures (EALC), Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships, and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) could…
Historians of art and landscape architecture have written extensively about over two millennia of Chinese writing about landscape and gardens. But garden writing as a…
China first incorporated the term “domestic violence” into its legal system in 2001 and then promulgated the Anti-Domestic Violence in 2016. Unfortunately,…
What can China help us understand the relationship between policing, law and governance? I argue that “nonconfrontational politics” is a defining element in…
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs over Cambodia. What started as a secret infiltration of Laos, in which a few CIA…
The large corpus of literary works by accomplished and highly educated women writers that emerged during the Heian period (794–1185) in Japan played an important…
The Farewell A film by Lulu Wang, 2019, 100 minutes. In-person screening. Online panel discussion with scholar Beth Tsai (UC Santa Barbara) & Rancy Wang (Talent…
In Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound…
In this panel, three renowned experts discuss the rich reception histories of several major canonical texts of China, Korea, and Japan. Analyzing iterations in media…
Some of the prominent features of the Old Chinese (archaic Chinese) include set phrases, idioms, binomes and tetrasyllabic poetic lines which can be found in both…
Legacies of an authoritarian past still leave enduring effects on voters' political attitudes and behavior. I argue that authoritarian nostalgia is a defining…
The rivers of Japan are both hydrologically and historically dynamic. Overshadowed in the popular imagination and academic studies by the seismic activity of earthquakes…
According
to Democracy Index released by The Economist Intelligence Unit based in
UK, it says that in the world, there is a declining trend of democracy.
There is a…
There is a long oral tradition and written record for the legend of the White Snake. As a woman, her “original sin” is being a snake. She is a snake who has…
Does foreign direct investment improve collective labor rights in host countries? Studies have discussed how FDI originated from developed democracies may improve…
About the Movie Born in 1926 to Korean indentured
servant parents in Cuba, Jeronimo Lim becomes the first Korean to
enroll in university in the same school and year as…
"Live, Work, and Discover Japan!"The
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program offers young professionals
the opportunity to work in Japan as Assistant…
This talk explores the peripatetic life and work of the 1930s Shanghai modernist writer Hei Ying. The formal experimentation and musicality of his writing — and…
Since the end of the Second World War,
NATO has played a crucial role in defending western countries and the
liberal democracy against the threat of the Soviet Union.…
About the Movie
Chinese-American filmmaker Theresa Loong creates an intimate portrait
of her father, a man fifty years her senior. In this documentary, we
explore the…