Support from the Center for Chinese Studies has been crucial to my research on textual scholarship and poetic culture in late eighteenth-century China, as I explore how the classical literary tradition was being radically reconstituted and restaged on the eve of the Opium Wars.
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March 2, 2021
February 28, 2021
[Aspects of Japanese Studies] Archaeology and Landscape in Japan's Kofun Period: Examining the Past to Protect the Future
February 17, 2021
Colloquium
Speaker:
Anna Nielsen, UC Berkeley Student
February 24, 2021
February 24, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Andrew Leong, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, UC Berkeley
February 22, 2021
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
Early 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.
Thanks 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.
CKS 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.
Since 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.
The 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.
My 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.
As 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.
I 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.
My 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 17, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Anna Nielsen, Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
February 12, 2021
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
February 4, 2021
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
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
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
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