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January 12, 2021

"How Taiwan’s Precautionary Approach Contained COVID-19" by Ming-Cheng M. Lo

Taiwan’s success to date at containing COVID-19 reveals some of the structural and cultural reasons for its community resilience. This article shares some of the country’s successes, which may also be worthy lessons for the rest of the world.

January 11, 2021

Jianye He, EAL Chinese Studies Librarian receives prestigious American Library Association's "I Love My Librarian Award"

Jianye He, C.V. Starr East Asian Library's Chinese Studies Librarian, was nominated for the 2021 American Library Association's
"I Love my Librarian" Award. Out of 1,865 nominations this year, Jianye was one of only 10 librarians nominated to receive this prestigious honor.  Jianye He, who always goes above and beyond to aid the research community at Berkeley, has outdone herself in a year of national crisis amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. CCS is truly proud of her accomplishments and extremely grateful for her help over the years! 

2021 Ezra Vogel Memorial Fellowship

January 5, 2021

New book published by IEAS on the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements is now available.

January 1, 2021

2021 IEAS Events
CKS Publication: Toward Democracy
Hyunjoo Kim, Yerim Kim, Boduerae Kwon, Hyeryoung Lee, Theodore Jun Yoo. Korea Research Monograph 38. IEAS Publications. | The authors of this volume offer analyses of a wide range of topics—from refugee displacement to street politics, from anti-communism and democracy to militarization—and discuss the links between cultural productions and their sociohistorical contexts.

December 31, 2020

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2020 Events

Webinar Series - Aging in Asia: Ethical and Policy Issues in Healthy Aging and End of Life Care Across the Asia-Pacific Region
September 9 – 23, 2020, every Wednesday
Symposium

CKS Fall 2020 Events
View the Fall 2020 Event List. Topics include One Left by Kim Soom, the Korean Peninsula and US Foreign Policy, Women and Medicine in Colonial Korea, Forestry in Colonial Korea, Latin America in South Korean Television, Aging in Asia.

December 11, 2020

IEAS joins Project MUSE

IEAS has joined Project MUSE to offer our e-books to libraries and other institutions. The first two titles are now available and more will be added in the coming months. The e-books are accessible through institutional subscription.  

December 1, 2020

CJS offers 2021 Japan-American Student Conference Scholarships

Japan America Student Conference Scholarships

Deadline: December 31, 2020

The Center for Japanese Studies grants full scholarships to the Japan-American Student Conference(link is external) for Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Awards are open to any full-time student with an interest in Japan.

November 30, 2020

Where are the Women Warriors? Evidence for Gender Equality on the Mongolian Steppe

November, 2020

October 2, 2020

Governance
"Ethnic identity and local government responsiveness in Taiwan" by Sara. A Newland and John Chung-En Liu

Countless studies have shown that local officials are less responsive to ethnic minority citizens. Surprisingly, we find no similar pattern of discrimination by Taiwanese local officials. In an online contacting experiment, we send citizen service requests to the websites of 358 township and district chiefs, randomly varying the name of the putative citizen to reflect an indigenous or an ethnically Chinese identity and collecting data on officials' responses. We find that officials are equally responsive to both identities.

August 21, 2020

Review of What Is Korean Literature? from LARB

The Los Angeles Review of Books posted a review this week of our recently published book, What Is Korean Literature? by Professor Youngmin Kwon and Professor Bruce Fulton.

What Is Korean Literature? is available to purchase here.

August 18, 2020

CSEAS awards FLAS fellowships for 2020-21

CSEAS has awarded Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year to Alan Yeh (French) to study Vietnamese, and to three incoming graduate students: Christian Gilberti (South & Southeast Asian Studies) will study Burmese and Daniel Owen (South & Southeast Asian Studies) and Jennifer Silver (Anthropology) will study Indonesian. Rose Marie Schweis (South & Southeast Asian Studies) received an undergraduate FLAS award to study Thai.

August 5, 2020

Announcement of Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Korean Studies

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, tenure track, with an expected start date of July 1, 2021.
IEAS book distribution has re-opened!

Both softcover books and PDF e-books are now available again for purchase through the IEAS online bookstore. The Publication Office’s newest books are on the literatures of Korea and Japan: What is Korean Literature?, by Youngmin Kwon and Bruce Fulton and The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan, by H. Mack Horton.

August 3, 2020

"Voluminous States", edited by Franck Billé, available this month from Duke University Press

Our own Franck Billé (Program Director for the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies) is the editor of the new edited volume Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination (Duke University Press, 2020), with chapter contributions from UC Berkeley faculty (Prof. Aihwa Ong) and graduate students (including Lisa Min).

July 14, 2020

New CJS Chair

Professor Junko Habu from the Department of Anthropology is the new CJS Chair effective July 1, 2020.

July 1, 2020

"How Taiwan Stands Up to China" by Kharis Templeman

In January 2020, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen won reelection with a commanding 57 percent of the vote. The result was a setback for China's Taiwan policy under Xi Jinping, and it demonstrated the impressive resilience of Taiwan's democracy in the face of a relentless pressure campaign from Beijing. These elections illustrated a paradox: Taiwan's economy is deeply entwined with the Chinese mainland's, yet Taiwan has proved especially resistant to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence operations.

Prof. Nancy Lee Peluso takes over as CSEAS Chair

Prof. Nancy Lee Peluso is the new Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, following Prof. Aihwa Ong who served as interim chair for 2019-20. Prof. Peluso will serve as CSEAS Chair until June 30, 2024.