East Asia Program
Biden-Xi Meeting Giving Hope to Global Economy
Eswar Prasad, SAP
Eswar Prasad, professor of economics and international trade policy, discusses the talks between President Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping (video).
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Signal Desire to Improve Ties Despite Taiwan Tensions
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
“In several months, we may look back on the Biden-Xi meeting as the first signs of an inflection point that began to decelerate the spiral towards conflict,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy.
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The Biden-Xi Sit-Down the World’s Been Waiting For
Jessica Chen Weiss, EAP
“Even though both governments have sought to prevent direct military escalation, recent statements and actions by both sides have contributed to the action-reaction cycle that has put the two countries on a collision course, particularly over Taiwan,” says Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government and public policy.
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Obscuring the Past: The Writing of the Local Colonial Past in the Socialist Northeast China
November 30, 2022
5:00 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Jihyun Han (Ph.D. Candidate, History, Cornell University) leads this workshop.
This paper examines two layers of local history: Northeast China’s colonial experience in the 1930-the 1940s and local historians’ writing of it in the 1950-60s. In analyzing various forms of historical writings about Japanese occupation of the region published in the Mao-period Northeast, this paper argues that local historians developed a discourse strategy of obscuring the past. In obfuscating the enemy and blurring the colonial life of the people in the region, local historians went for three cognitive effects: negotiating locally unique colonial experience with the Chinese Communist Party’s master narrative of the Chinese Revolution; appropriating the concept of enemy in response to contemporary politics, and deferring judgment against everyday colonial compliance of the local people.
Introduction by Su-Yeon Seo (Ph.D. student, Asian Studies, Cornell University)Discussion by Tianyi Shou (Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, Cornell University)
This lecture is organized by East Asia Program's Graduate Student Steering Committee (EAP-GSSC). The GSSC lecture is open to the public but RSVPs are encouraged. Please contact eap-gssc@cornell.edu for RSVPs and questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
"I Don't Quite Recall" Film screening
November 29, 2022
7:00 pm
Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema
Mr. Zhou Qing, the Berlin-based Chinese movie director and writer, generously granted permission to Professor Peidong Sun to show it to her classes for teaching purposes only.
It is about the history and memory of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and some tragedies in a prominent middle school in Xi'an, 419 KM (APX 260 miles) from Liangjiahe Village, where Chairman Xi Jinping spent seven years during the Revolution.
Please feel free to come and watch it with Professor Sun's students in Cornell Cinema at 7 pm on Nov.28(Monday).
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East Asia Program
Sydni Tung
Administrative Assistant and Funding Coordinator
Sydni Tung is the Administrative Assistant in the East Asia Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College.
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A Cold War History of Religion and Education in Japan and the US
February 16, 2023
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac Room
"Private Academies and the Public Good: A Cold War History of Religion and Education in Japan and the US" lecture with Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, February 16, at 5:00 p.m. in A.D. White House.
Thomas researches religion in Japan and the United States at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sponsored by the Religious Studies Program with support from Department of Asian Studies, East Asian Program, Department of History, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Society for the Humanities, and American Studies Program.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Speaking of Language Podcast featuring Peidong Sun
Fashion and Politics in 20th Century China focus
Dr. Peidong Sun of Cornell's history department discusses her course titled Fashion and Politics in Twentieth-Century China. She also shares details of her time studying in China and France, as well as her numerous upcoming book projects. Her course is held in conjunction with the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative's lecture series on the same theme.
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People over numbers: Book charts China’s neopolitical turn
Jeremy Wallace (EAP)
In a new book, “Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China,” Jeremy Lee Wallace, associate professor of government in the College of Arts and Sciences, explains how a few numbers came to define Chinese politics “until they did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up,” and the “stunning about-face” led by Xi within the CCP.
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EAP director Jeremy Wallace book talk online event
Event recording now available.
The Center for Strategic & International Studies Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics will host this online event, featuring Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of government at Cornell University, who will discuss his new book Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China. Wallace will talk about the role of quantification in Chinese political authority.
Wallace will first share the findings of the book, which will be followed by a discussion about the trajectory of Chinese leadership and the implications for the global economy and the U.S.-China Relationship with three panelists Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan), Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Andrew Mertha (Johns Hopkins University SAIS). Trustee Chair Director Scott Kennedy will host and moderate the discussion, first with the author and panelists, and then with the audience.