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Item Immortal at the River documentaryTong Yang Tze; Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow (2020-06-01)Tong Yang-Tze was the 2020 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow. During a career spanning four decades, Yangtze has received critical acclaim for her large-scale and unrestrained cursive script. Yang-Tze's Immortal at the River was exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus. The subject of this 54-meter-long calligraphic work is the poem by the same name by Yang Shen (1488–1559) that forms the preface to the standard edition of the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San guo yan yi). This video includes the installation process.Item Immortal at the RiverTong Yang Tze; Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow (2020-06-01)Tong Yang-Tze was the 2020 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow. During a career spanning four decades, Yangtze has received critical acclaim for her large-scale and unrestrained cursive script. Yang-Tze's Immortal at the River was exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus. The subject of this 54-meter-long calligraphic work is the poem by the same name by Yang Shen (1488–1559) that forms the preface to the standard edition of the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San guo yan yi). This video allows viewers to see the entire scroll.Item President by Day, President by Night: Media and Democracy in Contemporary South KoreaRyu, Youngju (East Asia Program, 2024-04-15)"President by Night" is the infamous nickname Park Chung Hee once gave to Pang Il-yŏng, the head of Chosun ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper. The nickname reveals the symbiotic nature of the relationship between the press and political regimes in authoritarian South Korea, which continued well past the transition to procedural democracy in 1987. Transforming itself from a watchdog to a lapdog to an attack dog, mainstream news media has continued to serve as a powerful stakeholder in the maintenance of conservative political regimes and agendas in twenty-first-century South Korea. Against this backdrop, the rise of new media as news media in the “post-broadcast” age, which took off with the internet, exploded with the podcast, and achieved dominance with YouTube, has been led by an irreverent and iconoclastic maverick named Kim Ou-joon. Tracing Kim's career over three decades from the founding of an internet newspaper to the launch of the wildly popular political podcast Nakkomsu, and to the recent establishment of a YouTube news channel that reached a million subscribers in the first three days of its livecast, this talk will map Kim’s sustained search for what he has termed an “alternate messaging system” onto the political and media terrains of his times to interrogate the relationship between media and democracy in twenty-first century South Korea.Item Atelier 320 Upending Excerpt with video of calligraphy by artist Tong Yang-TzeEast Asia Program (2020-03-07)As part of Cornell's Locally Grown Dance concert 2020, the art of renowned Chinese calligrapher, Tong Yang-Tze was incorporated in this visually hypnotic dance piece. 'Atelier 320: upending', was choreographed by faculty member Jumay Chu with student dancers. The music is by Christopher J. Miller. This video was recorded on March 7, 2020 at the Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Kiplinger Theater. Tong Yang-Tze was the East Asia Program's 2020 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy fellow. The Johnson Museum exhibited her 54-meter long calligraphy scroll, 'Immortal at the River'. The exhibit, artist talk with Tong (via Skype), and dance piece was made possible by the generous support of the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office (TECO), the Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fund, The Johnson Museum, and the Cornell Council on the Arts (CCA). For more information contact: eap@cornell.eduItem Tong Yangtze's "Immortal at the River" caligraphy scroll installation processEast Asia Program (2020-02-03)Tong Yang-Tze was the 2020 Wong Chai Lok Calligraphy Fellow. During a career spanning four decades, Yangtze has received critical acclaim for her large-scale and unrestrained cursive script. Yang-Tze's Immortal at the River was exhibited for the first time in the United States at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on campus. The subject of this 54-meter-long calligraphic work is the poem by the same name by Yang Shen (1488–1559) that forms the preface to the standard edition of the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San guo yan yi).Item Chasing Dreams from Africa to China: Guangzhou Dream Factory DiscussionEast Asia Program; Badgley, Christiane; Ivory, Tristan; Goffe, Tao Leigh; Huang, Kun (2021-02-24)"Guangzhou Dream Factory" (2016) weaves stories of Africans chasing alluring, yet elusive, “Made in China” dreams into a provocative critique of 21st-century global capitalism. Featuring a dynamic cast of men and women from Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, Guangzhou Dream Factory provides a rare glimpse of African aspirations in an age of endless outsourcing. Filmmaker Christiane Badgley along with faculty Tristan Ivory and Tao Leigh Goffe moderated by grad student Kun Huang discussed the film with audience members.Item Why Is My Milk Blue?: China's Food Safety Crisis and Scale PoliticsYasuda, John (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2015-03-16)China's food safetyItem Japanese Videogames as Cultural ArtifactsHutchinson, Rachael (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2022-04-18)What are we learning when we play video games from Japan? Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware) examines the cultural content of Japanese videogames through character design, background setting and environment, aesthetic style, thematic content, and game dynamics. We will consider how mid-1990s games converged around ideas of nuclear power and bioethics, making works like Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid valuable windows into social anxieties expressed in the Japanese arts. This video was recorded on April 18, 2022.Item Robo-Sexism: Gendering AI and RobotsRobertson, Jennifer (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2022-04-22)Jennifer Robertson, Professor Emerita, Anthropology and History of Art, University of Michigan In humans, gender constitutes an array of learned behaviors that are cosmetically enabled and enhanced. Gender(ed) behaviors are both socially and historically shaped and are also contingent upon many situational influences, including individual choices. How is gender assigned in actual (as opposed to fictional) robots? Robertson will explore the sex/gender stereotypes and operational functions informing the design and embodiment of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, especially humanoids and androids. Robots have been imagined, designed, and deployed in rhetorical and tangible forms alike to reinforce conservative models of sex/gender roles, ethnic nationalism, and "traditional" family structures. Robertson considers the ramifications of "retro-tech" and also nascent efforts to redress robo-sexism. This is a University Lecture sponsored by the Cornell Department of History and the University Lectures Committee, co-sponsored by the East Asia Program at Cornell.Item Qiufan Chen | 2041: How Chinese Science Fiction Imagines Our FutureChen, Qiufan (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2022-04-28)The greatest value of science fiction is not in providing answers, but rather in raising questions. Can AI help humans prevent the next global pandemic by eliminating it at the very root? How can we deal with future job challenges? How can we maintain cultural diversity in a world dominated by machines? How can we teach our children to live in a society where humans and machines coexist? Welcome to 2041! Qiufan Chen (Stanley Chan) is an award-winning Chinese speculative fiction author, translator, and curator. His major works include Waste Tide (Locus Best New Novel Finalist), as well as short story collections Future Diseases and Algorithms for Life, which have won him three Chinese Galaxy Awards and fifteen Chinese Nebula Awards. His recent works include AI 2041 (with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee), in which he imagines our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. This event was recorded on April 28, 2022 and included participation from Professor Anindita Banerjee, Comparative Literature, Cornell University.