East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies

Lantern Festival Celebration
2022-02-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.

Taiwan Talk: Paul D. Barclay on “Rethinking Imperial Wartime"
2021-04-20 16:00 - 17:30
Join our Center for Taiwan Studies for a Taiwan Talk with historian Paul D. Barclay (Lafayette College) entitled “Rethinking Imperial Wartime: Anti-Colonial Insurgency in Taiwan as Japanese Military History”!

Barclay considers so-called “small wars” against Taiwanese anti-colonial armed forces as neglected episodes in modern Japanese military history. He will discuss the records of the Bureau of Merit and Awards (shōkunkyoku) to understand how brutal asymmetrical campaigns throughout the empire were branded as exercises in national defense. In Taiwan, the Government General’s system of awards and bonuses compensated Japan’s Taiwanese allies at lower rates than their Japanese comrades-in-arms. The military award system is considered as both an inclusionary and exclusionary device in the making of imperial Japan’s multi-ethnic empire.

Date: Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 Time: 4-5:30 PM PST Zoom link:http://bit.ly/TaiwanTalks

Paul D. Barclay is Professor and Head of the History Department at Lafayette College in Easton, PA. He is the general editor of the East Asia Image Collection and author of Outcasts of Empire: Japanese Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border” 1874-1945 (University of California Press, 2018). He is currently researching Japanese military/police campaigns in Korea, China, Taiwan and the Societ Union from 1894 to 1934 for a project called “Imperial Japan’s Forever Wars.”

Taiwan Makes History I: The Gender of Empire
2021-04-13 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for the first event in the Center for Taiwan Studies three-part panel series Taiwan Makes History on “The Gender of Empire,” guest directed and moderated by Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University)!

We will welcome historians Fang Yu Hu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Tadashi Ishikawa (University of Central Florida), and Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) to discuss how the lens of gender can change our understanding of the Taiwanese colonial research. The panelists will introduce their current research on how the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan attempted to shape and create gender norms and practices. They will discuss methodologies for uncovering how Taiwanese men and women mediated, responded and contested idealized norms and forged their own paths. What were the competing notions of Taiwanese femininity and masculinity circulating at this time? What larger conclusions can be drawn about the experience of the Taiwanese versus other colonial peoples throughout the Japanese empire and beyond?

Date: Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Time: 4-5 PM PST
Zoom link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanTalks

Joshua Fogel, "Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932"
2021-04-08 16:00 - 17:30
In this talk for the Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932.”
Date:
April 8, 2021
Time:
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
REGISTRATION HERE.
Joshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto.
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group

Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints by Dr. Kristina Kleughten
2021-03-09 14:00 - 15:30
“Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints”
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 2:00pm (PST)
tinyurl.com/VRin18thC (Zoom: 846 6268 232)

Virtual reality was an essential component of eighteenth-century Chinese art, particularly in paintings and prints that evolved out of the artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe. These works created visions of extended realities for both imperial and popular consumption. Although on the surface they seem to have little in common, when we examine them side-by-side, we find a shared fascination at opposite ends of the social spectrum with transforming two-dimensional works of art into three-dimensional multisensory experiences.

Kristina Kleutghen (Harvard PhD) is the David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis and a specialist in Chinese art, particularly of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Focusing on early modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese art, her research investigates Sino-foreign interaction, the imperial court, optical devices, and connections to science and mathematics. Professor Kleutghen’s first book, Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces, was recently published by University of Washington Press.

Small Talk: Critiquinng Heteronormativity, Resisting Heteronormativity by Tze-lan Deborah Sang
2021-03-08 18:30 - 20:00
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/TaiwanSoundScreen

Taiwan Film Market in the New Millennium: Creative Industries, Social Networks, and Soft Power by Yingjin Zhang
2021-02-25 16:00 - 17:30

Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising by Gennifer Weisenfeld (Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture)
2021-02-24 16:00 - 17:30
Please join us for our Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 4:00 PM PST! Featuring the electrifying Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) on “Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising.”

This talk explores the industry’s important cultivation of a nascent consumer market for electrical goods in the prewar period, & the role of graphic design & advertising in aestheticizing, visualizing, & commodifying the seemingly transformative social powers of electric energy.

Zoom link: https://bit.ly/TakashimaLecture

Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History by Ruth Moster
2021-02-18 14:00 - 15:30
Please join us for a lecture with Dr. Ruth Mostern to learn about GIS and data analysis for Yellow River history.

“Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History”
Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:00pm (PST)
tinyurl.com/Tracks-of-Yu (Zoom: 894 2595 8266 passcode: [REDACTED]

Since the publication of The Yellow River Annals (Huanghe nianbiao 黃河年表) by Shen Yi 沈怡 in 1935, historians of the Yellow River have routinely used the catchphrase “1,500 floods and over thirty course changes” as a shorthand to describe the long-term and large-scale history of that volatile watercourse. The Annals collates information about the Yellow River from historical sources and includes details about the type, location, and source of each event in river history of the. Inspired by the extraordinary accomplishment of the Annals, I have developed a data system called the Tracks of Yu Digital Atlas (TYDA), named for the legendary Yu the Great (Da Yu 大禹), the mythical culture hero who is said to have channeled the rivers of the realm and inaugurated dynastic rule. The TYDA integrates information from the Annals and other similar compilations of records about the history of disasters and management on the Yellow River. The TYDA also includes information about the settlement history of the Loess Plateau, which is the upstream origin of the eroded sediment that leads to floods and course changes on the alluvial plain. In addition, the TYDA includes contextual information: annual moisture data from the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas, the beginning and ending dates of regimes, the biomes that constitute the Yellow River watershed, and more. This talk introduces the TYDA and the historical event concept. It also summarizes the conclusions that I have reached about Yellow River history by analyzing the TYDA, which appear in my forthcoming book, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021).

Teresa Teng and the Network Trace by Andrew F. Jones
2021-02-17 18:30 - 20:00

Eulogy for Burying a Crane (Yihe ming): Monument, Landscape, and Calligraphy in Sixth-Century China by Lei Xue
2021-01-28 17:00 - 18:30
On Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 5:00pm (Pacific Time) Prof. Lei Xue of Oregon State University will deliver a lecture on the mysterious Yihe ming 瘞鶴銘 (Eulogy for Burying a Crane) and its significance to the history of Chinese calligraphy. The talk is coordinated with Prof. Peter Sturman’s “Chinese Calligraphy” course (Chinese / Art History 134K) but open to all. Please join us via Zoom at tinyurl.com/eulogycrane.

Online Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
2020-10-01 - 2020-10-03
October 1 through 3, 2020
Open to the public
Registration required
Please register at http://www.realismseastasia.com/
This conference proposes new considerations of realism on stage through studies in East Asian performing arts. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD, UCSB.
Conference participants:
JYANA BROWNE (University of Maryland), XING FAN (University of Toronto), MAN HE (Williams College), DAVID JORTNER (Baylor University), JIEUN LEE (Wake Forest University), SIYUAN LIU (University of British Columbia), JESSICA NAKAMURA (UCSB), CODY POULTON (University of Victoria), KATHERINE SALTZMAN-LI (UCSB), CATHERINE SWATEK (University of British Columbia), GUOJUN WANG (Vanderbilt University), MISEONG WOO (Yonsei University), MIN-HYUNG YOO (Korea University), SOO RYON YOON (Lingnan University), JI HYON (KAYLA) YUH (Montclair State University), with RISA BRAININ (UCSB), and WILLIAM DAVIES KING (UCSB)
Complete schedule and conference information at: www.realismseastasia.com
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB Departments of Theater and Dance, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, History, Comparative Literature, Art and Architecture, Carsey-Wolf Center, East Asia Center, College of Letters and Science, and Abdulhamit Arvas

Gagaku: Court Music and Dance from Japan
2020-03-06 19:00 | HSSB 1151, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106-9670, United States
Gagaku: Court Music and Dance from Japan
A Gagaku Performance by The Hideaki Bunno Gagaku Ensemble
Free and open to the public
Limited seating
March 5-6 2020 7PM
Dance Studio HSSB 1151 Humanities and Social Sciences
Sponsored by Building Nora McNeeley Hurley, Michael Hurley, and the Manitou Fund Co-sponsored by ISF Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies, UC Santa Barbara Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance, UC Santa Barbara East Asia Center, UC Santa Barbara Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara With Support from Japan Foundation, Tokyo Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
