Category: Announcement

Poster for "Paper City", a documentary about the firebombing of Tokyo

Guest Lecture on “Paper City” — A New Documentary on the Tokyo Fire Bombings

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Please join us on Wednesday, March 2, 5:30 – 6:30 PM as we welcome Dr. David Fedman (UC Irvine) to discuss his new documentary, Paper City.  The documentary will make its US premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on March 3 and March 6. The documentary examines the history and memory of the Tokyo fire bombings. For those who don’t know Dr. Fedman’s work, he is the co-director of the Japan Air Raids project and one of the most prominent public historians, in the US and Japan, of the Tokyo fire bombings. He is also the author of the recent, and wonderful, monograph, Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington, 2020). If you would like to see a small sample of his work on the fire bombings, please check out his module, “Place Annihilation” in Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History.

You can watch a brief trailer for the film here.

We will meet in person at UC Santa Barbara on March 2, 5:30 – 6:30pm, in HSSB 4080. Please RSVP to Professor Sabine Frühstück directly at fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu.

 

Made in Taiwan: Lauren Interviewing Vicky

UCSB’s Lauren Lee Wins CTS Audio Interview Award!

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We are delighted to announce the winner of the Center for Taiwan Studies Audio Interview Award for Winter 2022: Lauren Lee, a UCSB undergraduate student. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to CTS’s research project, Made in Taiwan—examples of interviews conducted by UCSB students of individuals who grew up in Taiwan.

Please check out Lauren’s interview of Vicky on the CTS Youtube channel here. The next CTS Audio Interview Award will be given in May 2022. For more details, visit website.

Banner for "Study and Teach in Taiwan - Vision Unlimited" Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles

Huayu Enrichment Scholarship 2022-2023

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To encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin Chinese language study in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) established the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION HUAYU ENRICHMENT SCHOLARSHIP (HES) Program.  The application period is February 1 – March 1, 2022.

In addition to the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) and starting this year, the Ministry of Education launched the Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program (TFETP) to expand the recruitment of English teachers and teaching assistants.  Please see the links below for more information on both of these wonderful opportunities:

  1. HES Website Including Application Instructions
  2. Study & Teach in Taiwan — Vision Unlimited PDF
  3. 2022 HES Application Form
  4. 2022 HES Terms of Agreement
  5. Video clip of “The Taiwan Experience”
A folk religious festival in honor of Mother Chen, a goddess worshipped in southeastern China.

Mayfair Yang Interviewed about the Resurgence of Popular Religion in China

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A folk religious festival in honor of Mother Chen, a goddess worshipped in southeastern China.

EALCS Department chair Mayfair Yang recently spoke with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for their “Soul Search” program about her recent book, Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Society and Economy in Wenzhou, China. Click here to listen to the whole interview: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soul-search/re-enchanting-china:-the-resurgence-of-popular-religion/13739254.