East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies

Taiwan Talks: An Orange Bra between China and Taiwan -- Women Migrants, Emotions and Digital Entrepreneurship
2022-05-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please join us for “An Orange Bra between China and Taiwan: Women Migrants, Emotions and Digital Entrepreneurship” with Beatrice Zani (McGill University).
UCSB Room SSMS 2135
Tuesday, May 3rd, 4 – 5 PM

Gagaku: Sound of a Thousand Years -- Lecture + Performance
2022-04-28 17:30 - 19:30
Gagaku: Sound of a Thousand Years
Lecture + Performance at UCSB’s ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE MUSEUM
Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble with special guest Maestro Hideaki Bunno
Thursday, April 28 at 5:30 — 7:30 pm
https://bit.ly/Gagaku2022
The Gagaku orchestra at the Imperial Palace of Japan was established in 701; its music is recognized by the government of Japan as a national intangible cultural property, and by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The most ancient and continuously performed orchestral tradition in the world, Gagaku is exceptional in its combination of an archaic allure with unexpected contemporary features (free rhythms, complex sound clusters, controlled dissonance). In addition to the imperial court of Japan, Gagaku is also regularly performed at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in Japan as part of their respective liturgies.
In this lecture / performance, the musicians will demonstrate the sounds and techniques of their respective instruments and offer the audience a unique perspective on the appreciation of the millenarian world of Gagaku. This event is organized by Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara) with Naoyuki Manabe, in collaboration with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara. Generous support is provided by the International Shinto Foundation Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies, UCSB; Robert N.H. Ho Foundation; and Michael Hurley/Manitou Fund.

Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony
2022-04-27 18:00 - 20:00
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Mary Craig Auditorium
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6 PM
This evening event will feature three musicians from the Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble led by Naoyuki Manabe. Manabe, who holds a degree from the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer who has performed internationally. The ensemble includes leading musicians, Yoshie Kunimoto and Yutaka Ota. Also performing is special guest Maestro Hideaki Bunno, former Director of the Gagaku Orchestra at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Maestro Bunno is the 45th generation of a family that has transmitted the art of the sho, a type of mouth organ, an instrument unique to gagaku for more than 1300 years. In 2009, he received the prestigious prize from the Japanese Academy of the Arts. The Gagaku Orchestra at the Imperial Palace of Japan was established in 701; its music is recognized by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Tickets for the gagaku event can be purchased on the Santa Barbara Museum of Art website at https://www.sbma.net/events/ This event is free for members and $5 for non-members.

Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature
2022-04-27 16:00 - 18:00
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

Small Island BIG Song Performance at MCC Theater
2022-04-26 18:00 - 20:00
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.
Tuesday, April 26, 6 PM PST, UCSB MCC Theater

Queer Media In China
2022-04-22 12:00 - 13:30
Lecture by Prof. Hongwei Bao, Associate Professor, Media Studies, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Friday April 22, 2022 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm
In-person: 6020 HSSB McCune Hall
Webinar: http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83685296339
Passcode:[REDACTED]

Imaging History, Historicizing Images: Transnational Visualities in Cold War Taiwan
2022-04-21 16:00 - 17:30
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: [REDACTED]
Please contact Linshan Jiang at linshanjiang@ucsb.edu if you have any questions.

Representing East Asia On Screen: Gendered and Racialized Discourses
2022-04-18 14:00 - 15:30
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

“In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962)” by Ping Zhu (East Asia Center)
2022-04-11 14:00 - 15:30
We are pleased to announce that UCSB’s East Asia Center will be hosting Prof. Ping Zhu (University of Oklahoma) for a lecture, “In and Out: Laughter and Gender Politics in Li Shuangshuang (1962),” on April 11, 2:00–3:30pm (PST), as part of its EAC Zoom in Global Scholars Series. Please scan the QR code on the flyer to join the Zoom meeting.

The Center for Taiwan Studies Presents, “Taiwan Cinema during the Cold War: Li Han-hsiang and the Grand Motion Pictures”
2022-04-06 14:00 - 15:30
Please join us for “Taiwan Cinema during the Cold War: Li Han-hsiang and the Grand Motion Pictures” with I-In Chiang (Tamkang University).
2:00 – 3:15 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88067518512?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 880 6751 8512, Passcode: [REDACTED]

Taiwan Talks: “Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and Beyond”
2022-03-03 16:30 - 18:00
Please join us for “Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and Beyond: How do Formosan Languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?” with Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington).
4:30-6:00 p.m. PST on Thursday, March 3, 2022
Please register at: https://forms.gle/88TFEMBSQ1xqmVsZ6
The Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the talk.

Guest Lecture on "Paper City" -- A New Documentary on the Tokyo Fire Bombings
2022-03-02 17:30 - 18:30
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).
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.

Lantern Festival Celebration
2022-02-18 15:00 - 17:00
Ring in the Year of the Tiger by celebrating Lantern Festival with us this Friday, February 18, 3-5pm in the HSSB Courtyard! There will be snacks, games, and trivia. All are welcome!

Huayu Enrichment Scholarship 2022-2023
2022-02-01 08:00 - 2022-03-01 17:00
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:

HES Website Including Application Instructions
Study & Teach in Taiwan — Vision Unlimited PDF
2022 HES Application Form
2022 HES Terms of Agreement
Video clip of “The Taiwan Experience”

Takashima Talks: Japanese Sex Workers, Rights, and the Gendered Economy
2021-12-08 17:30 - 19:00
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 dangerous. This talk reframes the labor of adult Japanese women working in Tokyo’s legal sex industry as female care work. Sex as care, I argue, reflects the simultaneous importance and marginality of female sex workers in Japan as well as the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves.
Gabriele Koch is a sociocultural anthropologist who studies care and its contestations in contemporary Japan. She is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College and author of Healing Labor: Sex Work in the Gendered Economy (Stanford University Press, 2020). Her work has also appeared in American Ethnologist and Critical Asian Studies, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Anthropology. Her current research focuses on the recent re-imagination of Japanese forests as agents of human well-being.
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
McCune Conference Room & Live Streamed

Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
2021-12-02 15:30 - 17:00
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 ships sail for Madagascar, where rosewood is purchased straight from the forest. The international response has been to interdict the trade, but this misunderstands both the intent and effect of China’s appetite for rosewood, causing social and ecological damage in the process. Drawing on fieldwork in China and Madagascar, Annah Zhu upends the pieties of Western-led conservation, offering a glimpse of what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer ruled by the West.
Annah Zhu is an Assistant Professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD in society and environment from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters in environmental management from Duke University. She is a veteran of the United Nations’ Environment Program in Geneva, and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. Her work has been published in Science, Geoforum, Political Geography, Environment International, and American Ethnologist.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities & Social Change Center
Robertson Gymnasium 1000A
Cosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program

Make Mars Beautiful: The Aesthetics of Sino-forming in the Chinese Century
2021-12-01 13:00 - 14:30
China plans to send its first manned mission to Mars by 2033, and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet. Many outside China see this ambitious turn towards space colonization as an attempt to establish global leadership in science and technology. But what is the cultural significance of Mars and Martian colonization for the Chinese? To form a better appreciation for Chinese conceptualizations of the relationship between nature and humanity that will shape the country’s interplanetary future, George Zhu urges us to begin with one of China’s most well known artistic treasures, the Meat Shaped Stone. Making connections across centuries of art, environmental management, and imperial ambition, Zhu outlines a possible future for Mars–and the Earth–in what portends to be the Chinese century.
George Zhu received his master’s in English literature from the University of California Irvine. He is the co-founder of Double Bind Media, a production company specializing in experimental documentary film and other visual media based in Los Angeles and the Netherlands. Currently, he resides in the Netherlands where he develops and produces a range of multidisciplinary new media work. He is also a writer interested in contemporary Chinese culture, environmentalism, endangered species, climate change, and science studies.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021
1:00 PM — 2:30 PM
University of California, Santa Barbara
Humanities & Social Change Center
Robertson Gymnasium 1000A
Cosponsors: Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies; Environmental Studies Program

Guest Talk with Tom Gill: Sudden Exile, Sudden Wealth: Fukushima’s Nuclear Aristocracy in Exile
2021-11-17 17:30 - 19:00
Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 broke up local communities by forcing their inhabitants into exile in locations scattered though the prefecture. In subsequent years, government compensation policy created further divisions within these ruptured communities, by providing wildly varying amounts of compensation according to the classification of danger in each district. The most handsomely compensated were those in the “hard-to-return-zones” where many households received the equivalent of US $1 million dollars or more. They have been cursed with the loss of their homeland and the lingering fear of radiation health risks, blessed with sudden wealth, then cursed again with “envy discrimination” by those less well compensated.
TOM GILL is a British social anthropologist and professor in the Faculty of International Studies at Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan. He is author of two books about Japanese casual laborers, Men of Uncertainty (2011) and Yokohama Street Life (2015). Since April 2011 he has been following the fortunes of the inhabitants of Nagadoro, a hamlet which to this days remains closed for habitation due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
WEDNESDAY, November 17, 5:30 – 7 PM at SS&MS 2135. Live event.

"(Auto)Ethnography and Identity in Contemporary Taiwan: The Oceanic Epistemology of Syaman Rapongan & Indigenous Alterity of Heather Tsui" by Kyle Shernuk
2021-11-01 12:00 - 13:30
As part of the “Sound, Screen, and Stages from Taiwan” series at the Center for Taiwan Studies, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Kyle Shernuk (Queen Mary University of London) to speak on “(Auto)Ethnography and Identity in Contemporary Taiwan: The Oceanic Epistemology of Syaman Rapongan & Indigenous Alterity of Heather Tsui.”
The talk will take place on Monday, November 1, 2021, at 12:00–1:30pm PDT. Join us at: http://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82164088119. For more information, please consult the poster or email eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu.

Chinese Language Program Tea time / Welcome Party
2021-10-22 14:00 - 16:00
Chinese Language Program
Autumn Festival
Tea Time / Welcome Party

Friday, Oct. 22 2pm-4pm @HSSB Courtyard
Come mingle with your classmates, professors, and new friends!! We will provide delicious snacks, live music performances, a photo booth, and fun games!!
Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies, Chinese Language Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, with support from our CLP Volunteers, CSSA ICE (International Cultural Exchange) and Jasmin Echo

Meditation Sickness and the Ethics of Buddhist Studies by Pierce Salguero
2021-10-14 17:00 - 18:30 | SSMS 2135

Study Abroad for EALCS Majors
2021-10-12 16:00 - 17:00
Register here to learn about study abroad opportunities for EALCS majors from the Education Abroad Program:
https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdu2vqDooG9aED9PnK8p58Nkn848_y_Lj.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Classical Chinese Placement Exam (Fall 2021)
2021-09-28 15:30 - 16:30
The Classical Chinese placement exam is intended for students who have already studied some Classical Chinese (文言) and would like to skip Chinese 101A and enroll directly in Chinese 101B instead. It is offered once per year, administered by Professor Thomas Mazanec. Please email Prof. Mazanec (mazanec@ucsb.edu) if you are interested in taking this exam.
The test will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 3:30–4:30pm (location to be determined). Prof. Mazanec will provide a short passage in Classical Chinese from a Master’s text (like Mencius 孟子, Zhuangzi 莊子, or Hanfeizi 韓非子) and ask students to translate it into English, focusing on the literal meaning of the words and their grammatical relationship to one another. Students may consult a paper dictionary. Prof. Mazanec will provide several copies of Paul Kroll’s A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese for reference.
If this time is impossible for you due to scheduling conflicts, please email Prof. Mazanec by Monday, September 27, to make alternative arrangements.

Sound of a Thousand Years: Gagaku Instruments from Japan
2021-09-25 - 2022-02-13 | UCSB, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA, CA, 93106-9670, United States
The Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB is currently displaying “Sound of a Thousand Years: Gagaku Instruments from Japan,” an exhibition organized by Fabio Rambelli.

Photograph by Daigengna Duoer.

It is an exhibition on Gagaku, the ceremonial music and dance of the imperial court and the main Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines of Japan; as the oldest continuously performed orchestral music in the world (the tradition in Japan starts in the late seventh century), it has been designated by UNESCO as part of the world heritage.

Prof. Rambelli curated this exhibition with the help of Dr. Rory Lindsay (University of Toronto) and grad students from EALCS and Religious Studies—Kaitlyn Ugoretz, Mason Johnson, Mariangela Carpinteri, and Daigengna Duoer—based on a seminar of the cultural history of Gagaku held in Fall 2019. We are grateful to the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA for loaning several instruments, to Maestro Bunno Hideaki and the musicians and dancers of his Gagaku Ensemble (for allowing us to use photos and videos of their performances at UCSB in March 2020), and to the Music Department at UCSB for loaning some pieces from the Henry Eichheim Collection. Special thanks also to Professor Scott Marcus (Music Department).
See the AD&A Museum’s page for more details: https://www.museum.ucsb.edu/news/feature/839.

2021 Virtual Commencement
2021-06-10 17:30 - 18:30
Date: June 10, 2021
Time: 5:30–6:30pm (PDT)
Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88571654150
Meeting ID: 885 7165 4150

The Worst Chinese Poetry: A Virtual Roundtable (Day 2)
2021-06-02 17:00 - 19:00
Join us for phase two of “The Worst Chinese Poetry: A Virtual Workshop.” This will be two-day roundtable discussion open to the public, following up on phase one, which was a series of fourteen miniature workshops held in early April.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/WorstPoetry
Organized by our three Chinese literature specialists (Thomas Mazanec, Xiaorong Li, and Hangping Xu), the goal of this project is to rethink Chinese literary history through negative examples. It seeks to interrogate the aesthetic, social, moral, and political criteria by which Chinese-language poems were considered “bad” in different times and places. Selected contributions will be compiled to create a book, The Worst Chinese Poetry: A Critical Anthology.

Day 1 (June 1) will feature four thematic roundtables based upon our larger workshop held in April.
Day 2 (June 2) will begin with a reflection on the workshop by our three headlines, then will shift to a free-form discussion open to all.

Detailed schedule:
June 1

5:00–5:05: Opening Remarks by Thomas Mazanec
5:05–5:30: Vulgarity and Frivolity, featuring Xiaorong Li, Keith McMahon, and Jason Protass
5:30–5:55: Commenting, Framing, and Judging, featuring Richard John Lynn, Maddalena Poli, Hangping Xu, and Yunshuang Zhang
5:55–6:05: Break
6:05–6:30: Appropriations and Aesthetics, featuring Graham Chamness, Soohyun Lee, Michelle Yeh, and Meimei Zhang
6:30–6:55: Foreignness and Chineseness, featuring Nick Admussen, Angie Chau, and Sixiang Wang

June 2

5:00-5:05: Welcome by Thomas Mazanec
5:05-5:35: Reflections by Ronald Egan, Richard John Lynn, and Michelle Yeh
5:35-5:55: Discussion between Egan, Lynn, and Yeh
5:55-6:05: Break
6:05-6:55: Open Discussion moderated by Thomas Mazanec, Xiaorong Li, and Hangping Xu

The Worst Chinese Poetry: A Virtual Roundtable (Day 1)
2021-06-01 17:00 - 19:00

Thinking about Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China
2021-05-27 16:00 - 17:30
For much of the twentieth century, discussions of imperial-era Chinese identity were framed according to three conceptual categories then current in the social sciences: culture, race, and nation. In the 1980s, Western historians began shifting to a new conceptual framework: ethnicity. Despite skepticism in some quarters, ethnicity remains the framework within which most historians analyze politicized identities encompassing aspects of both culture and nation. But does “race” as a concept still have any place in this picture? What if we applied the broader and more structural understanding of race used by critical race theory (CRT), as scholars in the fields of Classics and Medieval Studies have lately begun to do? In this talk, I will survey the development of imperial Chinese ethnic discourses from the Han to the Qing and propose that “race”—as understood by many CRT scholars in terms of institutionalized, legally enforceable hierarchies of ethnic inequality within a state—was applicable primarily to “conquest dynasty” situations of minority rule. I will also argue that certain discourses previously characterized as racist or nationalist could be more usefully interpreted as two distinct but related traditions of foreign relations thinking that I term “Chinese supremacism” and “civilization-state discourse.”
About the Speaker
Shao-yun Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Denison University. An intellectual historian specializing in medieval Chinese ideas relating to empire and ethnicity, he is the author of The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China (University of Washington Press, 2019) and several articles, book chapters, and translations. His current projects include a sourcebook on race and ethnicity in imperial China and a Cambridge Element on “Tang China and the World.”

Gordon Matthews, "The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace"
2021-05-13 20:00 - 21:30
Join us THURSDAY (5/13/2021) at 8PM-9:30PM (PST) to hear from Professor Gordon Mathews (Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong) about his recent publication The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace.

Join us via Zoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks (Zoom ID: 925 5728 2471)

ABSTRACT: Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods – often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items – to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of “low-end globalization” and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world.
Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups – Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans – that don’t share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families?
Full of unforgettable characters, The World in Guangzhou presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world.
SPEAKER: Prof. Gordon Mathews has written or edited books about what makes life worth living in Japan and the United States, about the global cultural supermarket and the meanings of culture today, about the Japanese generation gap, about what it means to “belong to a nation” in Hong Kong and elsewhere, about how different societies conceive of happiness, about Chungking Mansions as a global building, and about low-end globalization around the world. Recently, he has written papers on anthropology in East Asia, on happiness and neoliberalism in Japan, and on how to smuggle goods past customs in China.
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Center and the UCSB Confucius Institute.

Kelly Hammond, "Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan's Islamic Policies in World War II"
2021-04-21 16:00 - 17:30
This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China, and later throughout East Asia, in the lead up to and throughout World War II. Drawing on examples from my recent book, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, the talk will present viewers with concrete policies and explore some of the ways that the Japanese Government envisioned themselves as the benevolent protectors of Islam while at the same time advancing their imperial, expansionist visions. For their part, Muslims from around the colonial world found the anti-western and anti-Soviet rhetoric expounded by the Japanese Empire appealing to a certain extent. By placing Muslims at the center of Japan’s imperial ambitions, it becomes clear that their visions for empire went far beyond what we would now consider to be the geographic boundaries of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere into predominantly Islamic spaces like Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
JOIN US FOR A LIVE TALK AND Q&A
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 4PM TO 5:30PM (PST)
Zoom: http://bit.ly/EACTalks
Zoom ID: 925 5728 2471
SPEAKER: Kelly Hammond is an Assistant Professor of East Asian history at the University of Arkansas. Her recent work has been supported by the ACLS/Luce Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Asian Studies.
