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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
