December 2013 Issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review now online
The 9th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" is now available online.
Special issue: "The Globalization of K-pop: Local and Transnational Articulations of South Korean Popular Music," guest edited by John Lie (UC Berkeley)
Photo essay: "Dance of Anguish: Poetic Texts from 1920 Korea"
Read the co-editors’ Note to Our Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-9.
A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), Cross-Currents offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. This English-language journal includes scholarship on material from the sixteenth century to the present day that has significant implications for current models of understanding East Asian history and culture. Embedded in a web-based platform with functions for collaboration, discussion, and an innovative editing and publishing process, the journal uses new technologies to facilitate a dialogue among East Asia scholars around the world that is enhanced by audio-visual and multilingual capabilities. The semiannual print issues of "Cross-Currents" (University of Hawaii Press) feature content selected from the peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal. An editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and North America provides oversight of the journal.
A new print issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available
The November 2013 print issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is available. Volume 2, No. 2 features articles on the themes of "Urban Chinese Living," "Law, Politics, and Society in Republican China," and "Bordering China: Modernity and Sustainability," along with four review essays about recent publications in Asian Studies. Click here to see the Table of Contents. To purchase single volumes of Cross-Currents, or to subscribe, please visit the University of Hawai'i Press website..
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. It seeks to balance issues traditionally addressed by Western humanities and social science journals with issues of immediate concern to scholars in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Its semiannual print issues feature articles, reviews, and essays that have been selected from its peer-reviewed, quarterly online counterpart for their scholarly excellence and relevance to the journal's mission.
Co-editors: Sungtaek Cho, Korea University; Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
Managing editor: Keila Diehl, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704-2318; tel: 510-643-0704, fax: 510-643-7062
Sponsors: Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS), Korea University; Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), University of California, Berkeley
James Cahill — 1926–2014
James Cahill, Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Art History and one of the world's foremost scholars of Chinese painting, died at his home in Berkeley on February 14, 2014.
Professor Cahill taught at Berkeley from 1964 until his retirement in 1994. He published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles on Chinese and Japanese art, literally transforming the field. He built an important collection of paintings from the Song through Qing dynasties, much of which he donated to the Berkeley Art Museum. He was a dedicated teacher, mentoring countless students who went on to careers in teaching and curatorship around the world. A native Californian, Cahill received his BA in Oriental Languages from UC Berkeley in 1950, and later studied at the University of Michigan, where he earned his PhD. He received multiple accolades from the College of Art Association and was awarded the Freer Medal in 2012 for his lifetime of service to the field of Art History.
Professor Cahill was an active lecturer at the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies. In recent years, he also collaborated with IEAS on a series of professionally produced video lectures on early Chinese painting, intended as a legacy of his teaching. Completed in 2012 and titled "A Pure and Remote View," the first series examines painting through the end of the thirteenth century. Production on a second series on later Chinese painting, "Gazing into the Past," was underway at the time of Cahill's death.
Professor Cahill is survived by four children and six grandchildren.
If you would like to share your memories of James Cahill, please send contributions to Catherine Lenfestey at lenfestey@berkeley.edu. They will be posted on our Tributes to James Cahill page.
Memorial plans are pending, and will be announced on this website when they become available.
See more memorials here:
• New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/arts/design/james-cahill-scholar-of-chinese-art-dies-at-87.html?_r=0
• The Asia Society: http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/asia-society-remembers-towering-art-historian-james-cahill-1926%E2%80%932014
• The Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-james-cahill-20140222,0,625432.story#axzz2u4OVNC00
• The San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/James-Cahill-Asian-art-expert-at-UC-Berkeley-5261081.php
• The Daily Californian: http://www.dailycal.org/2014/02/24/professor-emeritus-james-cahill-chinese-art-expert-dies-87/
• The Contra Costa Times: http://www.contracostatimes.com/my-town/ci_25378134/snapp-shots-uc-berkeleys-loss-academic-rock-star
Memorial service for James Cahill
Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Emeritus James Cahill has been scheduled for Saturday May 10, 2014, 3:30 p.m., at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Gund Theater, at 2625 Durant Avenue. A reception will follow.
March 2014 Issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review now online
The 10th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.
Read the co-editors' Note to Our Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross‑currents.berkeley.edu/e‑journal/ issue‑10.
A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), Cross-Currents offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. This English-language journal includes scholarship on material from the sixteenth century to the present day that has significant implications for current models of understanding East Asian history and culture. Embedded in a web-based platform with functions for collaboration, discussion, and an innovative editing and publishing process, the journal uses new technologies to facilitate a dialogue among East Asia scholars around the world that is enhanced by audio-visual and multilingual capabilities. The semiannual print issues of Cross-Currents (University of Hawaii Press) feature content selected from the peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal. An editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and North America provides oversight of the journal.
Dylan Davis, Recipient of a Fellowship to the U.S.-Korea Scholar-Policymaker Nexus
Dylan Davis, program director of the Center for Korean Studies, was awarded a fellowship to the U.S.-Korea Scholar-Policymaker Nexus, a Mansfield Foundation/Korea Foundation fellowship program for Korea specialists making long-term contributions to the U.S.-Korea relationship. The two-year program provides opportunities for mid-career Korea specialists to discuss issues of importance to US-Korea relations with policymakers, government officials, and opinion leaders in Korea and the United States.
Davis is currently in Korea, taking part in the Korea leg of the meetings. Previous sessions took place in Washington and Montana, and the final sessions will occur in October 2014 in Washington DC. In Korea, Davis will have the opportunity to meet with officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Unification, Trade, prominent academics, the press, and think tanks.
Prior to his tenure as program director of CKS, Davis spent eight years studying and working in Korea. His Korea experience includes a Fulbright grant, work as International Affairs Officer at Yonsei University Health System (Severance Hospital), graduate coursework in public health at Yonsei University, as well as time spent in the Press Section of U.S. Embassy Seoul where he supported the embassy's engagement with prominent Korean and American media organizations.
June 2014 Issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review now online
The 11th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.
Please read the co-editors’ Note to Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-11. The theme of this issue's research articles, guest edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai (Harvard), is "Stories and Histories from the China-Vietnam Border." Along with book reviews, the June issue also features a photo essay titled "Manchuria in Donbei" by Cyrus Chen (UC Berkeley)..
A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), Cross-Currents offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. This English-language journal includes scholarship on material from the sixteenth century to the present day that has significant implications for current models of understanding East Asian history and culture. Embedded in a web-based platform with functions for collaboration, discussion, and an innovative editing and publishing process, the journal uses new technologies to facilitate a dialogue among East Asia scholars around the world that is enhanced by audio-visual and multilingual capabilities. The semiannual print issues of Cross-Currents (University of Hawai'i Press) feature content selected from the peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal. An editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and North America provides oversight of the journal.
IEAS on the move
After 29 years at Fulton and Kittredge in Berkeley, IEAS has moved to sparkling new quarters. Our new address is 1995 University Avenue at the corner of University and Milvia (just 3 blocks from the west entrance of the campus, current home of Berkeley Extension). Our offices are located on the penthouse level, in suites 510 and 520.
We will continue to sponsor a wide variety of activities, including publications, faculty and student grants, visiting scholar appointments, and a robust series of public lectures, colloquia, and conferences. Some of these events will be held at our new offices; others will be held in our new meeting space at 180 Doe Library, in the heart of the campus.
We look forward to seeing you at our new offices in the fall.
A New Print Issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available
The May 2014 print issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is available. Volume 3, No. 1 features articles on the themes of "The Globalization of K-pop: Local and Transnational Articulations of South Korean Popular Music" and "New Research on Colonial Korea," along with six review essays about recent publications in Asian Studies and two reviews of new Asian language publications. Click here to see the Table of Contents. To purchase single volumes of Cross-Currents, or to subscribe, please visit the University of Hawai'i Press website.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. It seeks to balance issues traditionally addressed by Western humanities and social science journals with issues of immediate concern to scholars in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Its semiannual print issues feature articles, reviews, and essays that have been selected from its peer-reviewed, quarterly online counterpart for their scholarly excellence and relevance to the journal's mission.
Co-editors: Sungtaek Cho, Korea University; Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley
Managing editor: Keila Diehl, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 University Avenue, Room 510H, Berkeley, CA 94704-2318; tel: 510-643-0704, fax: 510-643-7062
Sponsors: Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS), Korea University; Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), University of California, Berkeley
September 2014 Issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review now online
The 12th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.
Please read the co-editors’ Note to Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-12. The theme of this issue's research articles, guest edited by Matthew S. Erie (Princeton) and Allen Carlson (Cornell), is "Islam in China/China in Islam." Along with book reviews, the September issue also features a photo essay titled "Reimagining the Silk Road" by Matthew S. Erie.
A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), Cross-Currents offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities. This English-language journal includes scholarship on material from the sixteenth century to the present day that has significant implications for current models of understanding East Asian history and culture. Embedded in a web-based platform with functions for collaboration, discussion, and an innovative editing and publishing process, the journal uses new technologies to facilitate a dialogue among East Asia scholars around the world that is enhanced by audio-visual and multilingual capabilities. The semiannual print issues of "Cross-Currents" (University of Hawai'i Press) feature content selected from the peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal. An editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and North America provides oversight of the journal.
National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Grants
We're delighted to report that IEAS has been awarded both the National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants for the 2014-18 cycle. These Title VI grants will provide $220K in NRC program funds and $253.5K in FLAS fellowships for students (both academic year and summer). This amounts to $473,500 per year for East Asian studies at Berkeley, or $1,894,000 over the next four years. These grants will fund, among other things, a number of new research and outreach programs at IEAS, and courses in East Asian Languages and Cultures (including Mongolian language, seminar courses in Korean, and new courses in Tibetan); as well as 7-8 academic year and 4-5 summer FLAS awards for our graduate students.