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East Asia Program

Cornell University

In 2025, the East Asia Program (EAP) celebrates our 75th year as Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia. EAP serves as a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia, with over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from schools and colleges across Cornell.

Highlights

2025 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellowship

Wang Tiande is the 2025 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow.

EAP Events Spring 2025

Save the dates for an exciting line-up of EAP events!

News

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Book Examines How Digital Culture is Affecting Memory

Qi Wang, EAP

Grad Students Study World with Einaudi Travel Grants

Meet the Director Q&A

Ellen Lust Leads Einaudi as New Director

Events

All events in this program

Walls-as-Media: Between Cheng (Wall-City) and Ping (Wall-Screen)

4:45 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 64, Kaufman Auditorium

Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium: “The Politics of Book Burning: Sources on Zhou Lianggong’s 1671 Fire”

3:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, Room 374, Asian Studies Lounge

Japan’s “New Pre-War”: On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form

12:00 pm

Uris Hall, G-08

Calligraphy Workshop

2:00 pm

Rockefeller Hall, room 374, Asian Studies Lounge

Publications

All publications in this program

By the Waters of Babylon

Mori Arimasa, translated by J. Thomas Rimer

East Asia Program

The Kitchen God and His Wives: A Modern Chinese Folk Epic

Wilt L. Idema

East Asia Program

The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness

The Legacies of German Philosophy in the Kyoto School

East Asia Program