East Asia Program

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

Campana wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for book on Japanese poetry

For his book “Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media.”

Announcing 2025-2026 EAP Fellowship and Grant Recipients

Congratulations to the EAP Fellowship and Grant Recipients!

News

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Campana Wins MLA's Scaglione Prize for Book on Japanese Poetry

Andrew Campana, EAP

December 8, 2025

Xi Risks Global Blowback If China Cuts Off Rare Earths for Japan

Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP

November 20, 2025

China and Japan Relations ‘on Knife’s Edge’ Over Taiwan. So What Happens Now?

Allen Carlson, EAP/SAP

November 19, 2025

Events

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Information Session: Laidlaw Scholars Leadership & Research Program

Jan 06

11:00 am

Virtual

Publications

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Island Ablaze and Other Stories: The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures

Ruth Barraclough, Jae-Yong Kim, Jin-kyung Lee, and Sang-Kyung Lee, eds.

East Asia 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