Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

After a nearly six-year hiatus, the Stanford Center at Peking University resumed its undergraduate study abroad program, China Studies in Beijing (汉学京塾) and welcomed 20 Stanford undergrads for the spring quarter.

‘China Studies in Beijing’ Brings Stanford Students to Peking University ‘China Studies in Beijing’ Brings Stanford Students to Peking University for Faculty-led Quarter Breadcrumb All FSI News News June 20, 2024 ‘China Studies in Beijing’ Brings Stanford Students to Peking University for Faculty-led Quarter Twenty Stanford undergraduates participated in Stanford...

A belated congratulations to the class of 2024 Center for East Asian Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures grads!

Join us next Tuesday for the talk "Pure Feeling and Fantasy: Remembering Sunjŏng Manhwa in the Twenty-First Century" with Kyunghee Eo, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. This talk will be fully in-person.

📆June 4, 2024 (Tuesday) at 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia Library Room 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Pure Feeling and Fantasy: Remembering Sunjŏng Manhwa in the Twenty-First Century This talk will explore the juvenile aesthetics and sensibilities of sunjŏng manhwa, a girls’ comics genre that flourished between the 1980s to early 2000s in South Korea. More specifically, the speaker examine how sunjŏng manhwa is remembered in the works of “Gen X” and “millennial” Kore...

Join us next Monday, for a Chinese-language only talk: "Dialogues on the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang: from Cross-Cultural Synergies to Digital Protection." Dr. Zhang Yuanlin ( 张元林), the deputy director of the Dunhuang Research Academy, and Xia Shengping (夏生平), Head Librarian of the Dunhuang Academy, will give individual remarks on research scholarship from the Academy.

📆 June 3, 2024 (Monday) at 4:30 pm
🌎 East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Dialogues on the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang: from Cross-Cultural Synergies to Digital Protection THIS WILL BE A CHINESE-LANGUAGE ONLY LECTURE. NO INTERPRETERS WILL BE AVAILABLE. Please RSVP here. Join us for a joint lecture from the Vice Director and Head Librarian of the Dunhuang Academy who will give lectures on research scholarship from the Academy. Please see below for short abstracts of th...

Former CEAS director Gordon Chang (Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities and a professor of history), along with Stephen Sano, and Jeanne Tsai, are among the founding H&S faculty of the Asian American Research Center at Stanford (AARCS), which aims to connect and expand interdisciplinary research on Asian American issues occurring across campus. Professor Chang will serve as the center’s inaugural director starting in fall 2024.

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Welcome to Week 9 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join us on tomorrow, May 24, for a three-hour workshop dedicated to soliciting feedback on the manuscript titled "Searching for ‘Postwar' Asia." Presentations include:

--Yumi Moon (History, Stanford): Revolution, Freedom, and the Discourse of Violence in US-Occupied Korea,1945-1950
--Robert D. Crews (History, Stanford): The Afghan Maelstrom
--Aishwary Kumar (History, Cal Poly Pomona): What is Political Cruelty? Babri as a Democratic Paradigm

📆 May 24, 2024 (Friday) 9:00 am
🌎 The Stanford Humanities Center Board Room (424 Santa Teresa Street)

Workshop for the Book Manuscript "Searching for 'Postwar' Asia" Join us for a three-hour workshop dedicated to soliciting feedback on the manuscript titled Searching for ‘Postwar” Asia. Searching for ‘Postwar Asia’ seeks to challenge portrayals of Asia’s past as a pathological anomaly or as a theater of Cold War politics dominated by protagonists outsi...

Join us next Tuesday, May 28for the talk "Fengshui and Law in China's History" with Tristan Brown, Assistant Professor, History, MIT. This talk will be fully in-person.

📆 May 28, 2024 (Tuesday) 4:30 pm PT
🌎 East Asia (Lathrop) Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Fengshui and Law in China's History Based on the author's recently published book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton, 2023), this talk explores fengshui’s invocations in Chinese law during the Qing dynasty. Facing a growing population, dwindling natural resources, and an overburdened rural gov...

Welcome to week 8 of spring quarter! Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join us next week for the talk "Origin Story of the One-child Generation: China’s “Missing” and Global (Non) Subject" with Xin Huang, Chair and Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

📆May 23, 2024 (Thursday) at 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Origin Story of the One-child Generation: China’s “Missing” and Global (Non) Subject This paper delves into the structural and theoretical relationship between the One-child generation (O-generation) and their origin story: the ‘missing girls’. I contend that the narrative of the “missing girls” only tells part of the story, as those deemed undesirable, disposable, and non-p...

CEAS MA student Yujing Zhang shares her experience at the 2023 Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU) 3 week summer seminar. "Walking past the scenic Weiming Lake, strolling through the scattered shade of willow trees, passing the best and brightest while they engaged in deep intellectual conversations, and arriving at SCPKU, an artistic blend of traditional Beijing siheyuan and modern design, I felt blessed."

A Midsummer Dream Come True at SCPKU Breadcrumb All SCPKU News News May 11, 2023 A Midsummer Dream Come True at SCPKU Reflections on a summer at Stanford's center in Beijing. Yujing Zhang, Stanford Center for East Asian Studies Growing up, like millions of other Chinese kids, I dreamed of studying at Peking University. When I moved to....

Join us tomorrow for the talk "Naming the People: Peoplehood in the Constitutions of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China" with Mara Du, assistant professor at the Department of History, Cornell University. This talk is fully in-person.
📆May 14, 2024 (Tuesday) at 4:30 PM
🌎East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Naming the People: Peoplehood in the Constitutions of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China Name and Naming lie at the heart of Chinese politics and law, which can be traced to Confucius’s words and “Laws on Names and Principles” (ming li lü) that headed every imperial code. This research examines how THE people (renmin) is defined politically and constitutionally under the People.....

Welcome to week 7 of spring quarter! Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk who wishes "Happy Mother's Day to mothers all around the world."

Join us next week for the talk "Naming the People: Peoplehood in the Constitutions of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China" with Mara Du, assistant professor at the Department of History, Cornell University. This talk is fully in-person.

📆May 14, 2024 (Tuesday) at 4:30 PM
🌎East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Naming the People: Peoplehood in the Constitutions of the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China Name and Naming lie at the heart of Chinese politics and law, which can be traced to Confucius’s words and “Laws on Names and Principles” (ming li lü) that headed every imperial code. This research examines how THE people (renmin) is defined politically and constitutionally under the People.....

CEAS is thrilled to welcome 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholar Eric Liu, who will pursue his master of arts degree in East Asian with a regional focus on China.

CEAS welcomes Knight-Hennessy Scholar Eric Liu | Center for East Asian Studies Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University announced its 2024 cohort of 90 new scholars who will pursue degrees in 45 graduate programs across all seven graduate schools at Stanford. Scholar Eric Liu of Princeton, New Jersey will pursue his master of arts degree in East Asian studies at the Cen...

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for a talk with Jeongmin Kim, assistant Professor of History, University of Manitoba. This talk is fully in-person.

Parasite Capitalism: How “Mrs. UNs” Turned Military Supplies into Wartime Commodities In the early 1950s Japan and Korea, black markets for US troops stationed in the two countries were characterized by transactions over women’s bodies and sexuality. This sex-facilitated black market, resulting from the cross-border movements of the troops between Korea and Japan during the Korean ...

Welcome to week 6 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join us next week for the talk "Parasite Capitalism: How “Mrs. UNs” Turned Military Supplies into Wartime Commodities" with Jeongmin Kim, assistant Professor of History, University of Manitoba. This talk is fully in-person.

📆May 7, 2024 (Tuesday) at 4:30 PM
🌎East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

Parasite Capitalism: How “Mrs. UNs” Turned Military Supplies into Wartime Commodities In the early 1950s Japan and Korea, black markets for US troops stationed in the two countries were characterized by transactions over women’s bodies and sexuality. This sex-facilitated black market, resulting from the cross-border movements of the troops between Korea and Japan during the Korean ...

Welcome to Week 5 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

🎉Congratulations to CEAS MAs Gepeng Ding and Sarah Leibson for being selected as winners of the 2024 SGS Student Photo Contest! You can vote for them in the Popular Vote category by leaving a like on their photos on the Stanford Global Studies Division page!

Join CEAS next Thursday for the talk "'It was a Kind of Women’s Movement': Professional Social Work, U***d Mothers, and the Making of a Gendered Care System in South Korea, 1954–1975" with Youngeun Koo, the 2023–24 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. This is a hybrid talk but we hope you will join us in-person at the East Asia Library!

📆Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia Library 224 (518 Memorial Way)

“It was a Kind of Women’s Movement”: Professional Social Work, U***d Mothers, and the Making of a Gendered Care System in South Korea, 1954–1975 U***d mothers in South Korea have long faced ostracism and a lack of social support, which often resulted in the adoption of their children. This marginalization is commonly attributed, in both academia and public discourse, to South Korea’s entrenched neo-Confucian values and its resistance to li...

Congratulations to Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities and Professor of History Gordon Chang on being elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! This award honors exceptional scholars who discover and advance knowledge and who apply knowledge to the problems of society. Professor Chang served as CEAS director from 2011 - 2016.

Seven Stanford faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Stanford Report Faculty from across disciplines were honored by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, recognizing their excellence and leadership in work that advances the common good.

CEAS MA student Sana Sugita writes about the “Korean Cuisine Gone Global" event held by the Stanford Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center on April 11, 2024. CEAS director Dafna Zur participated as a moderator and discussed new directions in Korean Food Studies. Learn more about this event through Sana's writeup!

Celebrity Chefs and Scholars Unite to Explore the Global Success of Korean Breadcrumb All Shorenstein APARC News News April 23, 2024 Celebrity Chefs and Scholars Unite to Explore the Global Success of Korean Cuisine and New Directions in Korean Studies The Korea Program at APARC brought together celebrity chefs Judy Joo and Ryu Soo-young along with esteemed academics to ex...

Welcome to Week 4 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join Sts Stanford for the talk "Archipelagic Arts in Times of U.S. Militarism" with a panel of speakers including Anita Chang, Kyoko Sato, Dena Montague, Craig Santos Perez, and Wesley Ueunten.

📆: April 18, 2024 at 5:00 pm
🌎: Building 300, Room 300 (450 Jane Stanford Way)

Archipelagic Arts in Times of U.S. Militarism | Program in Science, Technology & Society Featured panelists will share their scholarly and creative works, including video, poetry, and music, to offer new ideas and approaches to addressing the historical and current U.S. military presence and relations which grew out of the U.S.’s “seagoing Manifest Destiny”.Anita Chang – Taiwane...

Join CEAS and the UC Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies this weekend for the 2024 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference on Modern Chinese Humanities!

This year's Keynote Speaker is Jinying Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, and the alumni keynote is Jianqing Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis.

📆: Fri April 19th 2024, 2:00 pm - Sat April 20th 2024, 9:00 am
🌎: The Institute of East Asian Studies, Conference Room, 5th Floor, 1995 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA

Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference on Modern Chinese Humanities | Center for East Asian Studies Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic discipline...

Welcome to Week 3 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join CEAS, Stanford University Department of Art & Art History and Stanford Arts for a very special lecture by legendary Korean artist Lee Ufan! Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea) emerged as one of the leading figures of the Japanese avant-garde group Mono-ha, in the late 1960s.

📆 Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 5:30 pm
🌎 Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building (355 Roth Way)

Open Dimension: A Lecture by Lee Ufan Hosted by the Department of Art & Art History, sponsored by Stanford Arts and the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Please join us for a very special lecture by legendary Korean artist Lee Ufan. Lee Ufan (b. 1936, Kyongsang-namdo, South Korea) emerged as one of the leading figure...

Welcome to week 2 of spring quarter! Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.