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East Asia Program
Peidong Sun
Associate Professor of History
Peidong Sun is a social and cultural historian of the post-1949 period in China. Much of her research has centered on the history of and contemporary implications for Chinese everyday life by asking how quotidian practices such as clothing choices, underground reading, and mate choices of the sent-down generation were influenced by their lived experiences and memories under Mao’s socialism and Deng’s socio-economic transformation after 1978.
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Chinese Conversation Hour
August 13, 2021
10:00 am
Join us virtually this summer to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun listening to and speaking in a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn more than you might think, without instruction or correction. Conversation Hours are are open to any learner, but are probably most useful to those at an intermediate level or above. Open to the public. Join Chinese Conversation Hour on Zoom!
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East Asia Program
Global Public Voices Fellow on Hulu
Initiative 29 Features Tao Leigh Goffe
Journey through time with Tao Leigh Goffe as she uncovers her story at the intersection of Black and Chinese culture. Watch for free on YouTube.
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From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, Kokugaku, and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan
From Country to Nation tracks the emergence of the modern Japanese nation in the nineteenth century through the history of some of its local aspirants. It explores how kokugaku (Japan studies) scholars envisioned their place within Japan and the globe, while living in a castle town and domain far north of the political capital.
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55.00
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- Cornell East Asia Series
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Publication Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781501753930
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu
Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during China's Spring and Autumn period. This collection of political history, philosophy, and fictional accounts depicts the rise and fall of Wu and Yue and the rivalry between them, the inspiration for centuries of poetry, vernacular fiction, and drama.
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55.00
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- Book
- Cornell East Asia Series
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Publication Year: 2021
ISBN: 9781501754340
Perspectives 360 Film Festival: Virus Has No Nationality
June 11, 2021
7:00 pm
The Ithaca Asian American Association invites you to share your story through your lens, as you interpret and express your meaning of "Virus Has No Nationality."
You are encouraged to be bold in challenging issues of racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, heterosexism, classism, and all -isms. Through a five-minute film, we hope your creative expressions will inspire hope and possibilities for a better tomorrow.
The film festival is open to everyone regardless of age, experience, and status. All you need is a video recording device such as your phone. Films can be completed as an individual or group and must be submitted through FilmFreeway by Monday, May 31 to be screened on Friday, June 11, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. An award presentation will follow.
Filmmaking Criteria
Must be less than 5 minutes longCan be of any genreCan be created on mobile devices or digital camerasMust align with the “Virus Has No Nationality” campaign and feature a mask as a special propMust be submitted on FilmFreeway no later than May 31, 2021Awards
Six $500 Scholarship Prize awarded to best high school and college studentsTen $100 Gift Certificates to local businesses and eateries for best general submissionsSponsors
The film festival is made possible by the Park Foundation, and it is supported by:
Building BridgesCAN Cooperative Media/Sustainability SentinelCommunity Leaders of Colors (CLOC)Cornell Asian and Asian American Center (A3C)Dorothy Cotton InstituteGlobal CornellGreater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC)Ithaca Mural AssociationKhuba InternationalLearning FarmsTompkins County's Office of the Human Rights.Please contact Ithaca Asian American Association at iaaa607@yahoo.com for more information and with any questions.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Eun A Jo, PACS/EAP: Einaudi Student Path (video)
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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EastAsia+ Joshua Neves
“Southern Effects: Kaiju, Cultural Intimacy, and the Production of Distribution”
Joshua Neves, Associate Professor and Director of the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab at Concordia University (Montréal) spoke on “Southern Effects: Kaiju, Cultural Intimacy, and the Production of Distribution." His talk traces a particular genealogy of special effects in Asia, the talk moving from King Kong (1933) and Godzilla (1954) to the 2013 Chinese-Korean blockbuster Mr. Go (Kim Yong-hwa, 2013) and the 2021 release of King Kong vs. Godzilla, among others. This talk was recorded on April 29, 2021.
Presented by the Cornell EastAsia+ Initiative, a collective of scholars, publishing professionals, curators, and graduate students dedicated to exploring new possibilities for academic publishing, networking, and collaboration in East Asia media studies and digital humanities research.
EastAsia+ is generously supported this spring by funding from Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities.
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CCCI: Gerald Roche
Tibet, China, and Settler Colonialism
CCCI welcomed Gerald Roche, Senior Research Fellow, LaTrobe University to speak on "Tibet, China, and Settler Colonialism." The term settler colonialism is increasingly being used to describe the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and its so-called ethnic minorities, such as Tibetans and Uyghurs. Roche provides a brief overview of settler colonialism as both a framework for scholarly analysis and real-world practice of domination. He also discusses urbanization in Tibet as a technique of settler colonialism, particularly the relationship between urbanization and migration. This talk was recorded on April 12, 2021.
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CCCI: International reproduction migration with Biao Xiang
The Case of China
Biao Xiang, of Oxford/Max Planck Institute spoke on "International Reproduction Migration: the Case of China." Reproduction migration from China has increased much faster than labor or settlement migrations since the 1990s. Those who have benefited from China’s development the most leave the rising center of the world economy. They do so to internationalize their reproduction arrangements, and to pursue capital conversation (e.g. from money to status) at the cost of capital accumulation. This talk was recorded on May 10, 2021.