East Asia Center Lecture Series

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Feb 14, 2025

Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver

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Miraculous Objects: Relics and Buddha Images in Xuanzang’s Datang Xiyu ji

Apr 11, 2024

Max Deeg, Cardiff University

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Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan

Feb 16, 2024

Dan Smith, University of Pennsylvania

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The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy

Nov 30, 2023

Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire

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Recentering Pacific Asia

Sep 29, 2023

Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia

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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

Apr 14, 2023

Mark Clifford, Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong

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NEXTGEN: The Past, Present and Future of K-pop

Mar 17, 2023

Crystal S. Anderson, George Mason University

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Kaifeng’s Rise, Fall and Ecological Legacy

Nov 11, 2022

Yuan Julian Chen, Duke University

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"Cotton, Capital, and Colonialism in Southern Korea, 1910-1945"

Oct 28, 2022

Holly Stephens, University of Edinburgh

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"Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War"

Oct 14, 2022

Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University

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"COVID-19, Text, Power: Fang Fang and the Birth of the ‘Wuhan Diary’ Genre"

Sep 30, 2022

Michael Berry, The University of California, Los Angeles

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"The Wuhan Lockdown and the Limits of Critique"

Apr 01, 2022

Guobin Yang, The University of Pennsylvania

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"China's Hong Kong and Taiwan Problems: A Semi-Leninist Policy Meets Popular Response"

Mar 25, 2022

Richard C. Bush, Brookings Institution

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"Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections"

Feb 25, 2022

Hsiao-Wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania

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"Investing in Asia: The Overlook Model"

Feb 18, 2022

Richard H. Lawrence, Jr, Overlook Investments Group

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"Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: The Case of Taiwan"

Feb 11, 2022

David S. Law, University of Virginia

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"Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Cultural Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea"

Nov 12, 2021

Maya Stiller, University of Kansas

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"A New Model of Early Ryukyuan History"

Oct 29, 2021

Gregory Smits, Penn State University

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"Eison’s 叡尊 (1201-1290) Reformation of the Japanese Buddhist Ordinations"

Oct 15, 2021

Paul Groner, University of Virginia

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"Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation"

Sep 17, 2021

Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan

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"Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond"

Apr 23, 2021

David Fedman, University of California-Irvine

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"Of Gods & Whales: Popular Rituals, Environmental Change, and the Necessity of Intra-Asian Comparison"

Apr 16, 2021

Aike Peter Rots, University of Oslo, Norway

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The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics -- Part Two

Apr 08, 2021

Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States

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"Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People"

Apr 08, 2021

Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Visiting Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University

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"ASEAN and Regional Order in Southeast Asia"

Apr 02, 2021

Amitav Acharya, American University

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"The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History"

Mar 19, 2021

Xin Conan-Wu, The College of William and Mary

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"The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics"

Mar 04, 2021

Daniel Kritenbrink, US Ambassador to Vietnam

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"Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:" Forging "Modern" Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang

Feb 05, 2021

Timothy Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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"Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics"

Nov 18, 2020

Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham

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"Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification"

Nov 13, 2020

Eddy U, University of California-Davis

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"Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China"

Oct 29, 2020

Sonya Lee, University of Southern California

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"State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa"

Oct 16, 2020

Graham F. Odell, California State University, Long Beach

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"China-Japan: 1895-2010, The Interim of Japan on Top"

Oct 09, 2020

Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University

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"China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground"

Oct 02, 2020

Evan A. Feigenbaum, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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"China & the US - A Superpower Showdown"

Sep 25, 2020

Bob Davis, Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal

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"Three Turning Points in Chinese Popular Political Thought since 1949"

Feb 14, 2020

Perry Link, University of California, Riverside

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"The US-Japan Alliance in the Trump Era"

Nov 01, 2019

Koji Murata, Doshisha University

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"Anti-Heroic Agents: The Gendered Dynamics of Religious Change in Urbanizing China"

Oct 25, 2019

Robert Weller, Boston University

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"The Rise of Alibaba and Prospects for Technological Innovation in China"

Oct 21, 2019

Duncan Clark, BDA China, & Syaru Shirley Lin, UVA Visiting Professor

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"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 1)

Oct 11, 2019

Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

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"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 2)

Oct 11, 2019

Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

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"Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics"

Apr 11, 2019

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School

"Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Asian Economic Integration"

Apr 04, 2019

To-Hai Liou, National Chengchi University

"How to Treat Spirit Possessions in the Heian Japan: Eiga monogatari and the Potential of Historical Writing for Healing"

Oct 19, 2018

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Takeshi Watanabe, Wesleyan University

"Self Interest in Early Chinese Texts"

Sep 21, 2018

Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

"Slavery of the Silk Road of the Tang Empire"

Apr 20, 2018

Johnathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

"'Civilizing' China: Cultural Beliefs about the Urban & Modern in the People's Republic of China"

Feb 16, 2018

Martin Schoenhals, UNC Chapel Hill

"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"

Feb 02, 2018

Fred Damon, University of Virginia

"There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, but We Shall Defend a Culture’s Resources"

Nov 16, 2017

François Jullien, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme

"Empress Jingu's Magical Conquest of Korea: A Legend of Multiple Uses"

Nov 03, 2017

Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University

"A Strange Gift and Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor"

Oct 27, 2017

Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University

"Lineages of the Literacy: Religious Repertoires and the Cultural Revolution"

Oct 20, 2017

Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University

"China's Religious Revival"

Oct 19, 2017

Ian Johnson, Journalist

"Epistolary Intimacy in the Love Letters of a Buddhist Tantric Couple"

Sep 27, 2017

Holly Gayley, The University of Colorado, Boulder

"Autopsy of a Failed Policy: Why China's One Party Political Regime Made America's Engagement Unsuccessful"

Minxin Pei, Claremond McKenna College

"China and the Denuclearization of North Korea: History in the Making?"

Xiao Ren, Fudan University