Asian Languages and Cultures
One of the techniques that plays out strongly in the early classical Chinese literary tradition is the recurrent play of substitutions, wherein various figures are endlessly substituted for other figures in tellings and re-tellings of stories and anecdotes. This talk will explore this technique, discuss why it became so important in the tradition, and consider its larger implications.
In Chinese history the Great Wall has been regarded primarily as a political boundary, a military frontier, and an economic divide between agriculturalists and pastoralists.
In his talk, Ambassador Mikio Mori will share his perspectives on how the Japan-U.S. relationship has changed, grown, and deepened since his first appointment in New York in the 1980s, at the height of Japan-bashing and trade friction, to his third and present assignment as Consul General.
Political Moods develops a comparative analysis across the Cold War divide, analyzing how films in both North and South Korea convey political and moral ideas through the sentimentality of the melodramatic mode.
Professor Paul Kroll's lecture will discuss imagery as a medium, largely focusing on the vocabulary of how one says those things that are considered impossible or nearly impossible to say adequately in words, with numerous examples from literary and religious texts.
This international workshop explores medieval Chinese commemorative inscriptions from the seventh through the thirteenth centuries, in particular, the interactions between materiality and textuality.
15th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop
This workshop brings together librarians, archivists, and scholars from Cornell University, Rutgers University, and the adjacent Archives of the Reformed Church in America to introduce the unique contents and contexts of their collections, focusing specifically on the materials from Meiji Japan that shed light on the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century networks that spanned across the Pacific.
Over the course of the classical Chinese tradition, an extraordinarily complex set of debates developed around the art of interpretation—how to interpret the past and how to interpret texts from the past. This lecture will explore these debates concerning the theory and practice of interpretation and discuss their larger comparative implications.
This talk examines the figure of the translator/interpreter in the literature produced during the occluded years of the US occupation, both by major Korean writers and by American servicemen in Korea.
This presentation focuses on a unique body of text and art that was produced for the purposes of Manichaean communities between the mid 8th and early 11th centuries along the eastern part of the Silk Routes.
Join us for a screening of Crossings (2021), a film documenting a group of international women peacemakers on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea to call for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own unique mini bojagi with geometric patterns can either be displayed as art in a frame or used as a decorative household item.
Call for Submissions
This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement of scholarship.
