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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
