East Asia Program
Paul Steven Sangren
Emeritus, Hu Shih Distinguished Professor
Paul Steven Sangren is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Taiwan and China. His earliest published work combines insights drawn from structuralist theory with practice-oriented critiques to illuminate Chinese ritual processes and cosmological symbols.
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Yufen Mehta
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Frances Yufen Lee Mehta is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
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Rui Liu
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Rui Liu received her MA in Literary Theory in 2002 from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, and her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature in 1999 from Shaanxi Normal University in China.
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Fangfang Li
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Fangfang Li is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Li received her MA in teaching Chinese as a second language from Beijing Language and Culture University, and her BA in Chinese language and literature from Shandong Science and Technology University.
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Naomi Nakada Larson
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Naomi Nakada Larson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
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Sahoko Ichikawa
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Sahoko Ichikawa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Misako Chapman
Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies
Misako Chapman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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EAP Spring 2021 Event Schedule
All event times are EST and held virtually. Please contact eap@cornell.edu for accessibility arrangements in advance. CCCC=Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium; CCCI=Cornell Contemporary China Initiative
January
27 3:30-5:30 PM Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop for Asian Studies
February
11 4:30-6:00 PM Eunjung Kim, Syracuse University, Continuing Presence of Discarded Bodies: Occupational Harm, Necro-Activism, and Living Justice event co-sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor; this event will have CART (Captioning in real-time) provided.
12 3:30-5:30 PM CCCC: Yuanyuan Duan, Cornell University
19 3:00-4:00 PM Chasing Dreams from Africa to China: Guangzhou Dream Factory post-film viewing Q and A with filmmakers Christiane Badgley and Erica Marcus
22 9:30-11:00 AM CCCI: From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants In Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific
March
5 3:30-5:30 PM CCCC: Beverly Bossler, Brown University
8 2:30-4:00 PM CCCI: Chenchen Zhang, Queen's University, Belfast Hukou and Suzhi as Technologies of Governing Citizenship and Migration in China
18 7:30-9:30 PM Inequality, Labor, and Migration in East Asia Through the Prism of Global Pandemic Virtual Workshop
22 11:30 AM-1:00 PM Rough Work: Why is English the Lingua Franca in Chinese Academia?, Xuewen Yan, Ph.D. student, Sociology, Cornell University
24 11:30 AM-1:00PM Rough Work: The Floating World: History, Haiku, Global Modernism Paul Bush, Ph.D., Northwestern University
30 11:30 AM-1:15 PM Rough Work: Loopholes for Lawmakers: Symbolic Prohibition of Bribery, Adoree Kim, Ph.D. student, Government, Cornell University
April
2 10:00-11:30 AM Image, Stories, and Silences of North Korean Defector “Returnees” to Japan, Artist talk with Soni Kum
2 3:30-5:30 PM CCCC: Sophie Volpp, UC Berkley
7 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM Rough Work: A New Look at Chinese Paper-making Communities, Yiyun Peng, Ph.D. student, Cornell History Department
12 4:30-6:00 PM CCCI: Gerald Roche, La Trobe University Tibet, China, and Settler Colonialism
23-25 Korean Linguistics in Crosslinguistic Context virtual conference details TBA
26 4:30-6:00 PM Kimberly Chung, McGill University Feminist Futures and Ecological Sense in South Korea
28 11:30 AM-1:30 PM Rough Work: Simon Dennis Posner Melodramatic Afterlives: Visions in Seoul's Blockchain Space
29 4:30-6:00 PM Southern Effects: Kaiju, Cultural Intimacy, and the Production of Distribution
May
8 10 AM-Noon CCCC: Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science
10 4:30-6:00 PM CCCI: Biao Xiang, Max Planck Institute International Reproduction Migration: the Case of China
20 3:30-5:00 PM EastAsia+ Workshop with Thomas Lamarre: "Infrastructure and Sensibility: A Physiology of Power"
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Program
Days of Being Wild
March 11, 2021
12:01 am
1991 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, Maggie Cheung
Wong Kar Wai's second feature is a typically rapturous and melancholy erotic tale about a man and two women drifting through Hong Kong in 1960. In Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog & Mandarin. Subtitled. Cosponsored with the East Asia Program.
1 hr 34 min
We will start taking reservations one week in advance of a film's first play date.
Reservations can be made here:
https://cinema.cornell.edu/virtual-cinema-order-form
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
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Sing Me a Song
April 8, 2021
12:01 am
Ithaca Premiere>2019 > France/Germany/Switzerland > Directed by Thomas Balms
In Happiness (2014), filmmaker Balms chronicled 8-year-old Peyangki's initiation into a monastery and the arrival of electricity to his remote Bhutan village. In his new film, ten years have passed, and the filmmaker finds the teenage monk tied to his mobile phone, pursuing a romance over WeChat with a bar singer in Bhutan's capital. "...a fascinating tale of romantic melancholy played out against the peaceful, meditative backdrop of the Himalayas." (LA Times) In Dzongkha. Subtitled. More at participant.com/film/sing-me-song
1 hr 40 min
We will start taking reservations one week in advance of a film's first play date.
Reservations can be made here:
https://cinema.cornell.edu/virtual-cinema-order-form
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South Asia Program
Einaudi Center for International Studies
East Asia Program