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June 1, 2023

A Short Introduction to Toshio Hosokawa: 2023 Berkeley Japan Prize WinnerKen Ueno and Toshio Hosokawa
January 12, 2023
Colloquium
Speaker: Ken Ueno, Department of Music, UC Berkeley

May 24, 2023

Thursday, January 12, 2023

A Short Introduction to Toshio Hosokawa: 2023 Berkeley Japan Prize Winner

Colloquium: Center for Japanese Studies | January 12 | 5-5:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

April 26, 2023

The Stage in the TempleNew book by UC Professor Emeritus David Johnson on ritual opera in village Shanxi.  The Stage in the Temple discusses a number of old village scripts, reconstructs where and how village opera was performed, and considers the role of ritual opera in premodern rural Chinese culture.

April 19, 2023

'Journey to the South: Buddhist Connections across the South China Sea' - the keynote lecture given by Jack Meng-Tat Chia (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, National University of Singapore) at the April 2023 UC Berkeley-UCLA CSEAS Conference on Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia has been posted to the CSEAS YouTube channel.

April 11, 2023

Speaker photosApril 11, 2023 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM | Online - Zoom Webinar

Speakers: Glenda S. Roberts, Professor, Waseda University;
Noriko Fujita, Adjunct Researcher, Waseda Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies;
Gracia Liu-Farrer, Professor, Waseda University

Discussant: Michael Sharpe, Professor, York College of the City University of New York

March 31, 2023

Sarah Maxim retired as CSEAS Vice Chair in April, after twenty years at the center. Her successor is Alexandra Dalferro, who received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2021. Dr. Dalferro’s dissertation examined silk production in Thailand, in particular among communities of Khmer silk producers in Surin province. She was a Visiting Fellow in the Thailand Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore in 2022, and is currently a lecturer at the National University of Singapore. She will join the center as CSEAS Program Director in May.

March 30, 2023

March 29, 2023

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA - a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asia - hosted the UC Berkeley - UCLA Conference on Southeast Asian Studies on the theme Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia at UC Berkeley on April 14-15, 2023.

March 21, 2023

https://www.chosun.com/national/weekend/2023/03/18/VFVTBTVO6ZE4DGZZ6Z3ZDP4BDA/

The article (in Korean) highlights Ryu Songnyong: Chancellor of Choson Korea, a biography by Choi Byonghyon.  Also mentioned is a supporter of the book, Ryu Jin Roy, a thirteenth-generation descendant of Chancellor Ryu.

March 20, 2023

March 10, 2023

The Institute of East Asian Studies thanks everyone who participated in the UC Berkeley BIG GIVE campaign on March 9 to raise funds for student awards and fellowships. Our special Big Give web page presents some of the stories of students who have benefited from fellowships and grants they have received from IEAS and its centers in recent years, making a difference to their academic careers.

February 23, 2023

CCS has provided support for my research travel, thesis writing, and language study throughout my graduate years at Berkeley. Last summer, I was able to attend my first academic conference in Europe and presented a paper on the early standardization of Chinese characters under the generous support of The Liu Graduate Research Fellowship provided by CCS.

February 21, 2023

Sandra YouWith funding from the CKS Undergraduate student support, I had the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive study abroad program in South Korea, during which I conducted independent research on the motivations that drive students to attend short-term, non-degree seeking programs.

Qingyang Freya ZhouI am so grateful to the Center for Korean Studies for providing me with funding to study the language intensively during several summers, present my research at various conferences, and connect with visiting scholars.

February 17, 2023

Throughout my graduate work at Berkeley, CCS has generously provided support for summer research and writing. I am training as an art and cultural historian of Qing China (1644-1911), and my research and teaching emphasize multidisciplinary approaches to art, objects and material culture, theories of their transcultural exchange, and the politics of their transformation into knowledge.

Author image of Cijin Memorial Park for Women Laborers, with an anonymous offering of fruit in the foreground. My project is on the renovation of a memorial to the women victims of a 1973 ferry accident in Cijin, exploring it as a mostly invisible piece of the extensive urban renewal program that began under the tenure of Kaohsiung’s first female mayor, Chen Chu.

Jonathan LearI study the bureaucratic and intellectual history of Japan’s commercial nuclear endeavors. Accessing the primary source base that forms the basis of my work (nuclear newspapers, energy industry periodicals, works of popular science, local PR materials, etc.) has only been possible within Japan.

For my dissertation research, I explore the marketization of welfare housing in China, with the case of the development of affordable rental housing market for China’s internal migrant populations.

Jenny LeeDue to the generosity and support from the CKS award, I was able to travel to South Korea lastsummer to conduct archival research for my senior thesis project, “‘Ghostly’ Histories: Alternative Frameworks for Understanding the Memories, Experiences, and Representations of South Korean ‘Comfort Women.’” I visited national museums and memorials, as well as the War & Women’s Human Rights Museum, and this research opportuni

I managed to write a significant portion of my dissertation over the summer because of the Long-Ling Hsiao Chu and Chao Chi Chu Fellowship in Chinese Studies. The fellowship allowedme to completely focuson writing without worrying about finding supplemental funding. My dissertation examines a pivotal period in Chinese history, from the collapse of the Qing Dynasty to the establishment of the People's Republic of China.