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Cornell's East Asia Program, charged with fostering knowledge of the histories, cultures, and contemporary affairs of East Asia, serves as a cross-campus clearinghouse for information and is a focal unit for all of the university's East Asia-related students, faculty, community outreach, and public activities.
For more information go to East Asia Program Home Page.
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Cornell East Asia Series
Cornell East Asia Series (CEAS) is an internationally known, award-winning scholarly press bringing quality scholarship and unique research by authors worldwide to scholarly audience and general readers.
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Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series
Edited videos from the East Asia Program's Contemporary China Initiative lecture series. -
GloPAC and Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center media
Media and publications produced for the Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center project -
The Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture
Edited videos and documents from the East Asia Program's annual lecture
Recent Submissions
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Chinese Animal Gods
Shahar, Meir (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-10-16)Meir Shahar, Shoul N. Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs, Tel Aviv University - Our ancestors depended upon beasts of burden for a living. In the Chinese case this dependence was reflected in the religious sphere. ... -
The Idological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State
Zhang, Taisu (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-04-15)Taisu Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School - Professor Zhang provides a new account of Qing fiscal legislation and policymaking that focuses on the interplay between political ideology and state institutions. ... -
The Urbanization of People: Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Friedman, Eli (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-02-18)Eli Friedman, International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University - This talk is centrally concerned with identifying the mechanisms that China’s megacities have used to manage the flow of people, investigating the ... -
How China Sees Trump: Past Lessons and Future Prospects for US-China Relations
Weiss, Jessica Chen (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-03-20)Jessica Chen Weiss, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University - So far the Chinese government has taken a relatively restrained response to Trump, preferring to wait and see what his administration’s policies ... -
Governing the Airpocalypse - Insights from China's "War on Smog"
Ahlers, Anna (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-03-09)Anna L. Ahlers, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - For about a decade now air pollution is probably the most hotly debated environmental problem in Chinese society. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and ... -
The Pork Fix: African Swine Fever and the Opportunity of Crisis in China's Pork Industry
Schneider, Mindi (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-02-17)Mindi Schneider, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University - The year 2019 left no question about the importance of pork in Chinese politics and society, and in the operation of the ... -
Transforming More-than-human Economies in Southwest China
Hathaway, Michael (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-02-10)Michael Hathaway, Anthropology, Simon Fraser University - Since the 1980s, the trade in one of the world’s most valuable wild fungi, the matsutake mushroom, has fostered tremendous social change for people in Southwest ... -
Upwardly Mobile Women in Urban China: Negotiating Gender Norms and Class
Gaetano, Arianne (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-09-30)Arriane Gaetanao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Women’s Studies Program, Auburn University - China’s economic growth and urbanization have created new social mobility opportunities for women through ... -
2019-2020 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Dorothy Ko
Ko, Dorothy (2019-10-03)Dorothy Y. Ko, Professor of History, Department of History, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College - Professor Ko gave the annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture on October 3, 2019. In this talk, ... -
2018-2019 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture - Victor Mair
Mair, Victor (2018-10-25)Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania - On October 25, 2018, Professor Mair gave the annual Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture. ...