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East Asia Program
Can China's Drive To Protect Gig Economy Workers Force Big Tech to Give More?
Eli Friedman, EAP
Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School, says that the new push by the Chinese government for companies to unionize workers may leave many people out as they are not considered employees.
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Reframing Disability
Manga's Portrayals of Deaf Characters
Yoshiko Okuyama, a professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, discusses "Reframing Disability in Manga" (University of Hawaii Press 2020).
Yoshiko Okuyama, a professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, discusses "Reframing Disability in Manga" (University of Hawaii Press 2020), which she wrote after interviewing manga artists, conducting archival research, and visiting events and organizations serving disability communities in Japan as a Japan Foundation fellow. This event took place on October 18, 2021. It was co-sponsored by the Central NY Humanities Corridor and the East Asia+ media collective.
In addition to inclusive programming, one of the aims of the EastAsia+ initiative is to support media-rich scholarship that goes beyond the written word. This event, live-streamed with live ASL interpretation, embodied that goal in both content and practice.
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Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden" Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest
Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden 南総里見八犬伝 is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and comics.
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32.95
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- Book
- Cornell East Asia Series
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Publication Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781501758935
Info Session: East Asia Program (EAP) Student Funding
November 1, 2021
1:00 pm
EAP offers substantial funding resources for multi-disciplinary student research and language learning. Come to this session to learn about them and bring your questions! Students who have received funding and grants from EAP will be present along with staff who will offer suggestions for submitting strong proposals.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium with Tim Brook
October 29, 2021
3:30 pm
The Cornell Classcial Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀 warmly welcomes Tim Brook, of the University of British Columbia, to lead a text reading on Qiu Jun's Daxue yanyi bu.
Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium 古文品讀
The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading group for scholars interested in premodern Sinographic (古文) text. The group typically meets monthly during the semester to explore a variety of classical Chinese texts and styles. Other premodern texts linked to classical Chinese in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese have been explored. Presentations include works from the earliest times to the 20th century. Workshop sessions are lead by local, national, and international scholars.
All are welcome, with any level of experience with classical Chinese.
At each session, a participant presents a classical Chinese text. Attendees discuss historical, literary, linguistic, and other aspects of the text, working together to resolve difficulties in comprehension and translation.
No preparation is required, all texts will be distributed at the meeting.Contact eap-guwen@cornell.edu for more information.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Reframing Disability
Manga's Portrayals of Deaf Characters October 18 at 4:45 p.m. ET
Yoshiko Okuyama, a professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, will discuss Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawaii Press 2020), which she wrote after interviewing manga artists, conducting archival research, and visiting events and organizations serving disability communities in Japan as a Japan Foundation fellow.
Focusing on the book’s chapter on the deaf community in Japan, she will discuss their representation in manga using comic examples such as A Silent Voice (Koe no katachi) while sharing manga images and anecdotes she did not include in her book. She will conclude with a discussion of emerging issues as the pandemic continues to impact disability communities in Japan. This event will have RID/NIC certified ASL interpreters throughout and is EAP's first fully bi-lingual English-ASL event.
Co-sponsored by the East Asia+ Collaborative.
Dial-In Information
Register in advance for this meeting.
https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvdeugrj0uGdbkCSyTAuQXImOQsJ2V4441
After registration, you'll receive an email confirmation with details.
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Emerging Markets Theme - PhD Research Day
November 3, 2022
8:30 am
Cornell Tech
Registration Link: https://cglink.me/2cm/r1635976
The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme brings together scholars from Cornell and beyond to provide thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market multinationals – in the global economy.
The Emerging Markets Institute in collaboration with China Institute for Chinia Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute is hosting a PhD Research Day on Thursday, November 3. The workshop will be held at Cornell’s Cornell Tech Campus in New York City.
We will also feature a number of presentations from eminent faculty during the workshop. If you are interested in presenting your research, please send a half page abstract of the paper you wish to present to Andrew Foley (ajf283@cornell.edu). Limited funding is also available for presenters. Applications will be accepted through October 1, 2022.
The link to register is here. Your registration will be complete upon confirmation message. If you have issues, contactemi@cornell.edu.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture 21-22 with Tim Brook
Government for the People: Troubling Legacies of the Confucian Statecraft Tradition
The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture will be given this year by Tim Brook, University of British Columbia October 28, 2021, at 4:45 p.m. ET
Americans are familiar with Lincoln’s “of the people, by the people, for the people,” just as the Chinese are familiar with Sun Yatsen’s “three principles of the people.” They are parallel discourses of government, but rise from different traditions and anticipate different outcomes. On the Chinese tradition of government for the people, no-one writes more clearly than Qiu Jun (1421-1495), chancellor of the National Academy and compiler of the authoritative handbook of state administration. Caught between the models of Great State ambition and Confucian self-cultivation, Qiu put Confucian philosophy to work so that the state acted for the people—but not of them or by them. If he deserves our notice, it is because even today his vision shapes Chinese perceptions of good government in ways that surprise and trouble.
Please register in advance. A confirmation email with details will follow.
Bio: Timothy Brook is a historian of China whose work has focused on the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) but extends to issues that span the period from the Mongol occupation of China in the 13th century to the Japanese occupation of China in the 20th. In addition to serving as the general editor of Harvard University Press’ History of Imperial China, he has published extensively on China in the world. A co-edited volume on the inter-polity relations of Inner and East Asia, Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. His most recent book, Great State: China and the World, appeared in Britain and France (the French edition under the title of Le Léopard de Kubilai Khan) in September 2019 and on this side of the Atlantic by HarperCollins in March 2020. The French edition was awarded the Grand Prix des Rendez-vous de l’Histoire in October 2020.
The Annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture began in 2015 in honor of Hu Shih, the world-changing philosopher and statesman’s 100 anniversary of his graduation from Cornell. Each year leading scholars of Chinese and East Asian studies are invited to give a lecture on critical issues in their field of research. The full series of speakers can be viewed here on our Vimeo channel or on Cornell's eCommons archive.
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Einaudi Student Path: Eun A Jo
Supporting the study of peace and conflict in Korea and Japan
Eun A Jo is a PhD student in government and a Peace and Conflict Studies Fellow with the Einaudi Center's Judith A. Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Through support from the Reppy Institute, East Asia Program, and Einaudi Center more broadly, she has been able to travel for research to explore comparative questions of peace and conflict.
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Lingua Mater Student Competition Deadline
November 8, 2021
5:00 pm
The Lingua Mater competition invites students to translate Cornell's Alma Mater into a different language and submit a video of the performed translation. The inaugural Lingua Mater student competition took place in 2018 as part of Cornell's Global Grand Challenges Symposium. The top three videos received cash prizes.
2021 competition details
Can you translate Cornell’s Alma Mater into your mother tongue (or a language you are learning/have learned at Cornell) and sing it? We invite you to translate “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters” and submit a video of you (and your friends!) performing it somewhere on any of Cornell’s campuses.
Translations do not need to be exact or perfectly in meter but should capture the feel and tune of our university’s Alma Mater. As is customary, include the first verse, refrain, second verse, and refrain in your video submission (for guidance, listen to a performance and read the lyrics).
Video submissions need to be MP4 files at 1920 x 1080 (1080p), in landscape mode with an aspect ratio of 16:9. Please ensure that you have copyright permission for any images/videos you use.
Entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges. Submissions will be judged equally on the translation, the musical quality, and the creativity in visual presentation.
The top three entries will win cash prizes.
Winners will be announced during International Education Week (November 15-19, 2021) and the top three videos will be posted online that week.
Entries may be submitted by any registered Cornell student or group of students.
Submission deadline: Monday, November 8, 2021 at 5 pm ET
SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO AND LYRICS HERE
Please contact Angelika Kraemer, Director of the Language Resource Center, if you have any questions.
The Lingua Mater competition is co-sponsored by the Language Resource Center and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
South Asia Program