Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big cats put together. Nearly all rosewood logs are sent to China, fueling a $26 billion market for classically styled furniture. Vast expeditions across Asia and Africa search for the majestic timber, and legions of Chinese […]
Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy — but whose work remains stigmatized and […]
Please join us for “Representing East Asia on Screen: Gendered and Racialized Discourses” with Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University). 2:00-3:30 p.m. PDT on Monday, April 18, 2022, McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Dr. Joseph W. Ho, Albion College 4:00-5:30 PM (PST), Thursday, April 21, 2022 Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/81071011621 Meeting ID: 810 7101 1621 Passcode: 108369 Please contact Linshan Jiang at linshanjiang@ucsb.edu if you have any questions.
Small Island Big Song explores the cultural connections between the descendants of the seafarers of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Austronesian migration. This concert will feature artists who have made a choice to maintain the cultural voice of their people, to sing in their language, and to play the instruments of their land. […]
TAIWAN TALKS Presents: Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature Howard Chiang (UCD) in conversation with Hangping Xu (UCSB) Wed., April 27, 2022, 4-6 p.m. McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
