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East Asia Program

Cornell University

The East Asia Program (EAP) is 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 54 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from schools and colleges across Cornell.

Highlights

Kato Family

Peaceful Forest – Kato Family Taiko Performance

A family taiko ensemble led by award-winning taiko artist Takumi Kato
Maple tree by McGraw Tower

EAP Events Fall 2026

Fall 2026 lectures and events

News

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Laidlaw Scholars Build Better World

Applications Open Now

Taiwan Should Be Kept Off the Negotiating Table

Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP/SEAP

Xi Meets Trump After 10 Days Out of Public Eye Amid Health Speculation

Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP/SEAP

Events

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[CANCELED] The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality

4:30 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)

Cornell World Languages Day 2026

10:00 am

Arts Quad

Peaceful Forest – Kato Family Taiko Performance

6:30 pm

Goldwin Smith Hall, G76

Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

4:45 pm

Rockefeller Hall, 201 - Schwartz Auditorium

Publications

All publications in this program

A Space of the Mind: The Literati Studio in Song Dynasty Literary Culture

Yunshuang Zhang

East Asia Program

Textual Forces:

The Political Prose of the Three Kingdoms Era

East Asia Program

Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong

Catherine S. Chan

East Asia Program