The Floating World: History, Haiku, Global Modernism

The East Asia Program invites you to join our guest, Chris Bush, (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA) Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies in this Rough Work session.

This “rough work” session shares an account of the…

Rough Work session with Xuewen Yan, Ph.D. student, sociology

The popularity and prestige of the English language in Chinese academia: A missing link in the hegemony of English as lingua franca?

Xuewen Yan writes: With the rise of English as the global language, scholars across the social sciences have…

Inequality, Labor, and Migration in East Asia

Through the Prism of Global Pandemic Virtual Workshop

Long-standing demographic changes will have serious implications for the nature of work, spatial mobility, and the overall distribution of resources in the countries of East Asia. Has the Coronavirus…

Margaret E. Roberts, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of California at San Diego, discusses her book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall (Princeton University Press, 2018).

The author will join for a conversation about their work. No formal…

1996 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Wong Kar Wai's take on love and loss in a '90s, urban, neon-lit setting, but a darker film than its companion piece, Chungking Express. "An exhilarating rush of a movie. Go-for…

Mitzi Sutton Russekoff '54 Lecture 2021 featuring Jessica Chen Weiss, Associate Professor in the Department of Government

"How does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions?"

The Chinese…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Lucinda Ramberg, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

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…

Laura Stone '90 is Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asia, overseeing U.S. policy towards and relations with India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, and Bhutan. She will discuss her wide-ranging career in the U.S. Foreign Service, as well as her perspective on diplomatic statecraft in the 21st…

'Hukou' and 'Suzhi' as Technologies of Governing Citizenship and Migration in China

CCCI welcomes Chenchen Zhang, Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast

Abstract: This talk looks at the genealogy and contemporary…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Ann Gleig, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; the Society for the Humanities; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open…

Presenter: Beverly Bossler, Brown University

The Dao of soliciting a patron: Zheng Xia 鄭 俠 (1041-1119)'s "Letter presented to [the] Transport Intendant" 上漕車書 (Anon, Guo chao er bai jia ming xian wen cui 國朝二百家名賢文粹)

The Cornell Classical Chinese Colloquium (CCCC) 古文品讀 is a reading…

Please join us March 4, 2021 at 5 pm EST for the first virtual Science on Tap! This month, we welcome Dr. Yangyang Cheng and her talk, "When Scientists Cross Water," about the ethics and governance of science, focusing on China and China-US relations.

RSVP at…

1988 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Set amidst Hong Kong's ruthless, neon-lit gangland underworld, this operatic saga of ambition, honor, and revenge stars Andy Lau as a small-time mob enforcer who finds himself torn between a burgeoning…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.

United States…

The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry…

Speaker: Dr. Yangyang Cheng (Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center).

Topic: Pushing the Frontier: When Science Becomes Transnational.

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Scientific collaboration has become one of the most contentious issues in U.S. - China relations. In a world…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Peter Skilling, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

Is the Einaudi Center's International Relations minor for you? Here's a chance to find out. Graduates go on to successful careers in fields like international law, economics, agriculture, trade, finance, journalism, education, and government service.

Contact:…

2000 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Two neighbors wrestle with irresistible desire for one another upon learning of their spouses' affair in a romantic and melancholic film set in 1960s Hong Kong. In Cantonese, Shanghainese, French & Spanish…

The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative (CCCI) welcomes Ana Candela, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University to speak and discuss her extensive research on

From Compradors to Hacendados:
Cantonese Merchants In Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese…

"Guangzhou Dream Factory" Film discussion (participants watch the film on their own) with filmmakers Christiane Badgley and Erica Markus. Watch a film trailer here: https://vimeo.com/197863673

Featuring a dynamic cast of men and women from Cameroon, Kenya,…

1994 > Hong Kong > Directed by Wong Kar Wai
With Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Faye Wong
The film tells two stories, both set in contemporary Hong Kong, of young policemen trying to get over bad relationships and having crazy encounters with other women: a hit…

Please join us for an invited talk by Prof. Eviatar Shulman, generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian Studies, History and Philosophy; the South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Religious Studies Programs; and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. The event is open to all interested, and…

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides full funding for graduate and professional students conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Open to U.S. citizens only.

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program supports doctoral students conducting research…

Writing and Printing for Praying: Colophons of Dali Buddhist Scriptures

Yuanyuan Duan, Ph.D. student, Cornell

This presentation introduces the colophons of the Sinitic Buddhist scriptures from Dali, Yunnan dating back to the 12th-17th centuries. These colophons usually consist of the information of…

Continuing Presence of Discarded Bodies: Occupational Harm, Necro-Activism, and Living Justice with Eunjung Kim, Syracuse University.

Starting from the two activist campsites set up in Seoul, one by the coalition of disability organizations and the other by the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People…

The Migration Studies minor is a university-wide, interdisciplinary undergraduate minor that prepares students to understand the historical and contemporary contexts and factors that drive international migration and shape migrant experiences around the globe. This minor draws on the rich course offerings found…

The Einaudi Center International Research Travel Grants provide travel support for Cornell graduate students conducting short-term research and/or fieldwork outside the United States. They also provide travel support for professional students engaged in various academic experiences in the international arena.…

The workshop aims to offer an understanding of race, racism, and the particular racial formations embedded in the classroom and a discussion on ways to apply anti-racist pedagogy to courses in Asian studies. With scholars of Asian culture, history, and language participating, this workshop opens discussions on the…