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February 22, 2021

CSEAS Facebook page disabled

The longstanding CSEAS Facebook page has become corrupted and is no longer accessible by the center's administrators.  CSEAS has re-set its homepage Facebook link to go instead to the main Institute of East Asian Studies Facebook page. Apologies to those who were using our CSEAS Facebook feed for events information!

February 17, 2021

Joohyun Park | CKS Fellow

Joohyun ParkThanks to the generous support of the Center for Korean Studies, I was able to develop my project in every stage, from purchasing a dataset to receiving valuable feedback on the paper. I truly appreciate the sense of being a part of critical scholarship over the years of the Korean Studies seminars, which helped me to advance my work on the image of gender-based violence victims in South Korea.

Jeehyun Choi | CKS Fellow

Jeehyun ChoiCKS continues to foster one of the most rewarding experiences of my graduate career, facilitating rich conversations among graduate students across disciplinary divides and offering opportunities to meet researchers at the forefront of Korean Studies.

Archaeology and Landscape in Japan's Kofun Period: Examining the Past to Protect the Future

KofunFebruary 17, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Anna Nielsen, Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Claire Chun | CKS Fellow

Claire ChunSince my very first days as a graduate student at UC Berkeley, CKS has been a crucial pillar of support and community for me. In addition to affording me numerous networking and career-building opportunities, CKS has provided me with generous funding in the form of travel grants and research fellowships.

Jaecheol Lee | CKS Fellow

 Jaecheol LeeThe CKS award allowed me to actualize an ambitious project on transboundary pollution issues in the Northeastern Asian region. Without the support, I would have been unable to pursue the issue and investigate the extent to which neighboring countries harm the public health of South Korean people.

Ezra Toback | CJS Fellow

Winter in JapanEarly in the winter of 2020, I was bunkered down in the library of Waseda University in Tokyo working on my dissertation on theories and expressions of landscape in late-Meiji literature and visual culture. That’s when the coronavirus pandemic hit and, ultimately, led to the early termination of the research grant I had been living on.

Alexander Lin | CJS Fellow

Alex LinMy classwork and research, which will prospectively focus on German and Japanese literature and philosophy of the interwar period, have benefitted from the support of an Incoming Student Fellowship and a Continuing Student Fellowship.

Joel Thielen | CJS Fellow

Joel ThielenAs a Ph.D. candidate studying Japanese art history, the depth and rigor of my research relies heavily on robust Japanese language abilities. With support from the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley, I was able to improve my language skills by completing the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Summer Course in Yokohama in 2018.

Bonnie McClure | CJS Fellow

Bonnie McClureI study premodern Japanese literature, and conferences are an important way for me to connect with colleagues in my subfield at other institutions. During the pandemic, continuing to be able to attend and present at conferences online has been an inspiration that I have much appreciated.

Sarah Lee | IEAS Fellow

Sara LeeMy dissertation seeks to explain the selective repression of Protestant churches in China. Due to the sensitivity of the research topic and the lack of existing data, interviews have proven to be an especially valuable resource.

February 12, 2021

CSEAS virtual conference on Ethnic and Community Identity in Southeast Asia held in February

A joint conference organized by CSEAS and UCLA’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies that was originally planned to be held at UCLA in April 2020 was held online during the week of February 8, 2021. The conference, Ethnic and Community Identity in Southeast Asia, was designed to explore aspects of group and individual identity in Southeast Asia, and examine newly emerging forms of identity as well as long-existing ones that are being reconceptualized or reasserted in new circumstances. The keynote address, by Prof.

February 9, 2021

The Ecology of Mobility in the Eurasian Steppes
December 11, 2020

February 4, 2021

CSIS publishes report "Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan" by Jude Blanchette, Scott Livingston, Bonnie S. Glaser and Scott Kennedy

Taiwan has long defended itself from political meddling, including disinformation, by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Attempts to influence Taiwan’s domestic politics have increased in both intensity and severity following the election of Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, with Beijing continuing to target the basic underpinnings of Taiwan’s democratic system.

January 25, 2021

Spring 2021 CJS Chair's Greetings
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope the beginning of the new semester is treating you well! Watching the inauguration last week, many of us reaffirmed our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and environmental justice at this time of rapidly changing sociopolitical conditions. For the Spring 2021 semester, the Center for Japanese Studies is hosting a series of exciting online events, many of which will contribute towards realizing these goals. For the sake of the online audience’s attention span, we will keep our lectures and symposia shorter than usual, but without sacrificing time for extensive discussion.

January 13, 2021

"Taiwan’s Trade Policies Strategies and Constraints" by Vinod K. Aggarwal

Vinod K. Aggarwal examines Taiwan’s efforts to diversify its trade policy away from China, particularly its focus on securing a bilateral free trade agreement with the United States.

January 12, 2021

"The “Societalization” of pandemic unpreparedness: lessons from Taiwan’s COVID response" by Ming-Cheng M. Lo & Hsin-Yi Hsieh Lo
"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