OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Institute of East Asian Studies


  • Social Origins and Political Participation of Private Entrepreneurs in Beijing (8/24/2007)
  • Qing Servitude and its Antecedents (8/31/2007)
  • "Please Vote for Me" (9/4/2007)
  • The Evolution of Gender Gap in Beijing's Middle Schools: Are Boys Left Behind? (9/4/2007)
  • Eight Years of Human Rights Discourse and Practice under the Chen Shiu-bian's Administration: Creating a National Human Rights Commission (9/14/2007)
  • The Center for Chinese Studies at 50: Past, Present, and Future (9/14/2007)
  • "Policeman" (9/16/2007)
  • Exhibit: Forces: Paintings and Calligraphy by Lampo Leong (9/17/2007 - 12/14/2007)
  • Why and How China is Pushing Deals Onshore (9/17/2007)
  • 2007 Fall Reception (9/19/2007)
  • Places Seen - Places Imagined: Reflections on Xuanzang's Xiyu-ji ('Records of the Western Regions') (9/20/2007)
  • "Campaign" (9/21/2007)
  • Permanent Revolution: Architecture and Politics in North Korea (9/21/2007)
  • Different Data Tell Different Stories: A Revisit Of Some Highlights In Sino-American Relations During The Pacific War (9/25/2007)
  • Buddhism and Warfare: A Note on Mahvasa 25, 110 (9/27/2007)
  • Hong Kong-Mainland Relations and Democratic Reform (9/28/2007)
  • Shedding Light: Performance and Illumination (9/28/2007)
  • The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture (9/28/2007)
  • Fukuzawa Yukichi's Asian Strategy (10/1/2007)
  • The Present and Future of Conservation of Mogao Caves" and "Digital Works of Dunhuang Mogao Caves (10/4/2007)
  • Catching the Wave: Connecting East Asia through Soft Power (10/5/2007)
  • Korean Traditional Dance (10/5/2007)
  • The Rise of Phono-centricism and Its Implications for the Korean Language (10/5/2007)
  • Challenges and Opportunities for American Lawyers in China or with Chinese Companies (10/9/2007)
  • History, Culture, and Aesthetics of Bunraku (10/11/2007)
  • China's Information Revolution (10/12/2007)
  • The Rise of Manchu Power in Northeast Asia (c. 1600-1636): local and global dimensions (10/12/2007)
  • Cal Performances presents Bunraku: The National Puppet Theatre of Japan (10/13/2007 - 10/14/2007)
  • The Magic of Chinese Animation (10/14/2007)
  • Susan L. Mann in conversation on her new book: "The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (10/16/2007)
  • Landscapes of Rituals: China and the Performative Body (10/17/2007)
  • Events Celebrating the Opening of C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies (10/18/2007 - 10/20/2007)
  • The Concept of Heaven in Japanese Intellectual History (10/18/2007)
  • Cal Performances Presents the Guangzhou Ballet- "Mei Lanfang" (10/19/2007 - 10/21/2007)
  • Mei Lanfang, Peking Opera, and the Chinese Aesthetic (10/19/2007)
  • "For Fun" (10/23/2007)
  • The Changing Asia Security Landscape: From Subordinate to Region-dominant System (10/23/2007)
  • Corporate Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Industrial Ruins in Post-Industrial Japan (10/26/2007)
  • The Alley-Level State: Residents and Neighborhood Organizations in Beijing and Taipei (10/26/2007)
  • The Xinfang System Reform and Constitutional Politics Building in China (10/29/2007)
  • Reactions to China's Control Crisis- an Analysis of Recent Incidents of Social Unrest (10/30/2007)
  • Dancing in the Streets of Contemporary Beijing: Improvised Uses of Space by Niu Yangge Fan- Dancers within the Urban System (10/31/2007)
  • Strategic Deterrence: A Chinese Scholar's Perspective (10/31/2007)
  • The Conceit of Self-Loathing (11/1/2007)
  • North Korea Between Hope and Despair: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Reality in the Juche State (11/2/2007)
  • Quanzhen Daoism in Modern Chinese Society and Culture: An International Symposium (11/2/2007 - 11/3/2007)
  • Forces: Artist's Talk by Lampo Leong (11/7/2007)
  • Wen-hsin Yeh in Conversation on her New Book: 'Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949' (11/7/2007)
  • Chinese Calligraphy Workshop with Professor Lampo Leong (11/8/2007)
  • The Americas of Korean American Cinema (11/9/2007)
  • Being Chinese and Modern: Three Unlikely Case Studies (11/14/2007)
  • Touristic Ritual, Sacred Journeys, and Tourism's Effects on Religious Life in Tibet (11/14/2007)
  • Western Zhou Bell Music in Texts and Archaeology (11/15/2007)
  • Autos, Transit and Bicycles: Comparing the Costs in China (11/19/2007)
  • The Hierarchical Regional Space Model of China's Spatial Economy/Society (11/19/2007)
  • Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan (11/19/2007)
  • Iconicity and Advertising: Shanghai, Mukden, Tianjin and the Modern Commodity Girl (11/27/2007)
  • China's Global Environment Footprint (11/28/2007)
  • How Sustainable are Sustainable Development Programs?: The Case of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China (11/28/2007)
  • A Strange Buddha for Strange Buddhists: The Silk Road and the Sogdians (11/29/2007)
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Wages: Differential Impacts by Worker Rank at Japanese Manufacturing Firms (11/30/2007)
  • Turning Things Around: Daughters and Their Natal Families in Qing China (11/30/2007)
  • Hierarchy, Power, Poetry: Haiku Groups from an Anthropological Viewpoint (12/3/2007)
  • Digital TV and the World: A Screening of its 2007 Chinese Voices Project on "Painting a Picture of Ordinary Life in Guangzhou, China." (12/4/2007)
  • Publishing in China Quarterly (12/6/2007)
  • Another Language that Failed? The Beginnings of Soviet Korean in the Russian Far East, 1922-1937 (12/7/2007)
  • China's Environment: What do we know, and how do we know it? (12/7/2007 - 12/8/2007)
  • Exhibition: Cycle of Life- Awakening: Works by Asian Women Artists (1/23/2008 - 5/15/2008)
  • Disturbing Difference: Translation, Naturalization, and the Global Publication of Japanese Fiction (1/25/2008)
  • The Attractions of Spurned Love: Hur Jin-ho's Cinema and Film-Induced Tourism (1/25/2008)
  • Opening Reception: Cycle of Life- Awakening: Works by Asian Women Artists (1/28/2008)
  • Contextual Design in Yunnan Province, China (1/30/2008)
  • China's Information Revolution (1/31/2008)
  • 15th Annual Bakai (2/1/2008)
  • Will the Rise of Chinese Nationalism Make China's Rise Less Peaceful? (2/1/2008)
  • China at the Crossroads between Economies of Tobacco and Health (2/5/2008)
  • China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise (2/6/2008)
  • Japanese Soceity and Culture (2/6/2008)
  • Rewriting the Genealogy of Mencius's '500-year Sage' (2/6/2008)
  • All in this Tea: A Film Screening with Les Blank (2/7/2008)
  • Bodies, Names, and the Confusion of Tragedies: Memorializing the Tokyo Air Raids (2/7/2008)
  • Are We There Yet?: Prospects for Two-Party Politics in Japan (2/8/2008)
  • The New Trend toward Bilateral PTAs: Implications for the Global Trading System (2/8/2008)
  • Continuity and Change in Japanese Party Politics: Pursuing the Advantage of a Median Party in Policy Competition (2/12/2008)
  • Bloody Lips and Buried Texts: Some Early Chinese Speech Genres and their Occasions (2/13/2008)
  • Education and Training Issues in Dealing with China's Environmental Challenges (2/13/2008)
  • Historiography on Japanese Colonial History and Industrialization under the Manchukuo Regime: Development, War Damage and Reconstruction of the Iron and Steel Industry (2/13/2008)
  • Bark unto Dust: Recovering the Ancient Buddhist Texts of Gandhara (2/14/2008)
  • Inequality in China: Findings from the China Household Income Project (2/15/2008)
  • Politics and Diplomacy in Japan (2/19/2008)
  • Engaging Buddhism in Cambodge: Ven. Chuon Nath, Ven. Huot That, Mlle. Suzanne Karpel?s, and the Making of the New Mahanikay (2/20/2008)
  • A Japanese Immigrant Origin of Japanese Studies in the Western United States (2/22/2008)
  • After the End of Literature: Notes on Writing from Contemporary Korea (2/22/2008)
  • The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan (2/22/2008 - 2/23/2008)
  • The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East (2/22/2008)
  • Public Announcements and 'the Public' in Early China (2/26/2008)
  • Marx in Shanghai: Is China the Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest? (2/27/2008)
  • Far-reaching Environmentally Friendly Motor Vehicle Technologies: Eying 2020 and Beyond (2/28/2008)
  • Is There Still Buddhism Outside Japan? Some Thirteen-Century Perspectives (2/28/2008)
  • Excessive Cult or Proper Ritual?: Religious Boundaries and Imperial Politics as Seen from a Shanghai Manuscript (2/29/2008)
  • Li Ka-shing Foundation Workshop on Republican Chinese History (2/29/2008)
  • Red, White, and Bruised: Japanese Disabled Veterans of the Second World War (2/29/2008)
  • Chinese, European, and American Universities: Challenges for the 21st Century (3/3/2008)
  • Yoshida Shoin's Encounter with Commodore Perry: A Review of Cultural Interaction in the Days of Japan's Opening (3/4/2008)
  • Artist's Talk: Xu Bing (3/5/2008)
  • Who Cares about the Environment in Japan? (3/7/2008)
  • Chinese Glass Art and 'Liuli Gongfng'--Loretta Hui-shan Yan and Chang Yi Talk about their Path to Glass Art Creation (3/10/2008)
  • Religion and the Rise of Printing Reconsidered (3/10/2008)
  • Adjusting to Globalization: Moving Forward with the Toyota Way (3/12/2008)
  • Asia's New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial, and Security Relations (3/12/2008)
  • Y.R. Chaos Teaching Tradition and New Developments in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (3/12/2008)
  • Missions Without Missionaries?: Politics of Secularity in the Case of Korean (3/13/2008)
  • The SARS Epidemic in China: Facts and Consequences (3/13/2008)
  • Chinese and Indian Buddha Images: A Study of Early Cultural Interaction (3/14/2008)
  • Intimate Diplomacy: Overseas Korean Adoption and Cold War Geopolitics (3/14/2008)
  • China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture (3/19/2008)
  • Passing on History: The Problems for Youth in HIroshima (3/19/2008)
  • The Ancient Jomon and the Pacific Rim (3/20/2008)
  • The Formal Drift: On the History of Chinese Revolutionary Cinema (3/20/2008)
  • The Word of the Buddha or the Disputations of his Disciple?: The Buddhist Path as Presented in the Pali Nikayas (3/20/2008)
  • The 2008 US Presidential Election and Japan (3/21/2008)
  • Buddhist Studies Conference and Workshop (3/28/2008)
  • Trauma in Public and Private: Songs of the South Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women' (4/1/2008)
  • Eyes of Dew: Poems of Dr. Chonggi Mah (4/2/2008)
  • Fungi Treasures (4/2/2008)
  • Land and Territorial Politics in China (4/2/2008)
  • Are External Objects Spiritually Harmful or Philosophically Impossible?: Some Remarks on the Criticism of External Reality in South Asian Buddhist Thought (4/3/2008)
  • Post-Minjung Art: Urban Explorations of South Korean Political Art Movements since the Late 1990s (4/3/2008)
  • Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade (4/7/2008)
  • CSPAN Book Event: Challengers or Latecomers? How Chinese and Muslim Economies are Reshaping Capitalism (4/9/2008)
  • Impressions of the East: Treasures from the C.V. Starr East Asian Library (4/9/2008)
  • Rethinking the Characteristics of Traditional Historiography in Ancient China (4/9/2008)
  • The Internet Revolution in China (4/9/2008)
  • "Chinese Voices" (4/11/2008)
  • Collaboration and the Limits of Empire: The Korean Populist Reformers and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896-1910 (4/11/2008)
  • Striking a Balance: Development and Conversation in Rural China Today (4/16/2008)
  • China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections (4/17/2008)
  • Origin of the Shingon Patriarchal Portraiture: Or, Disunction between History and Theory (4/17/2008)
  • The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (4/17/2008)
  • Symposium on Literati Buddhism in Middle-Period China (4/19/2008)
  • Buddhism and Technology: Attitudes, Philosophy, and Practices (4/22/2008)
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Social Science Research in China (4/22/2008)
  • China from Space: Cities, Land, and Preservation Policies (4/23/2008)
  • Beijing's Red Guard Movement: The Cultural Revolution in Retrospect (4/25/2008)
  • Enigma of an Absence: Buddhist Archaeology, Art and Inscriptions in the Transit Zones of Xinjiang and Northern Pakistan (4/25/2008)
  • Heritage Language Development and Placement of College-Level Korean Learners (4/25/2008)
  • The Art of Translation (4/25/2008)
  • A History of Misunderstanding (4/30/2008)
  • Ecological Design and the Paradox of the Proxy: Lessons from Bill McDonough's Huangbaiyu (4/30/2008)
  • A Beijing Olympics Primer: Place, Performance, and Performative Space (5/1/2008)
  • Special Spring Workshop: The Beijing Olympics (5/2/2008)
  • Subtitling Can Be Disturbing: Memories of Agano and Abusive Translation (5/2/2008)
  • "Still Life" (5/6/2008)
  • The Role of Innovation in the Transformation of Taiwan to a Technology-based Economy, 1975 to 2000 (5/6/2008)
  • Berkeley Students Working in China on the Future of a Water Village in the Pearl River Delta and on the Grand Canal in Hangzhou (5/7/2008)
  • "Up the Yangtze" (5/8/2008)
  • Exploiting the Tension between the Transnational and National Spheres in Korean Hip-Hop (5/9/2008)
  • The Practice of Photographing 'Model Minorities' in Chinese Tourism (5/9/2008)
  • Critique, Responsibility, and Performative Rights (5/13/2008)
  • Rakugo: Japanese Sit-down Comedy in English (5/17/2008)
  • "Fulltime Killer" (5/29/2008)
  • "The Mission" (5/29/2008)
  • Culture and Health in Nineteenth Century Japan (6/1/2008 - 8/29/2008)
  • "Running on Karma" (6/4/2008)
  • "Throw Down" (6/11/2008)
  • Last Descent of the Yangtze River 'Great Bend': Geology, Water Politics and the History of Exploration in China's Grand Canyons (6/11/2008)
  • "Breaking News" (6/12/2008)
  • "Election" (6/18/2008)
  • "Triad Election" (6/18/2008)
  • "Exiled" (6/21/2008)
  • Olympics and Tibet: Issues in U.S.-China Relations (6/26/2008)
  • "Mad Detective" (6/27/2008)
  • Beijing Beat: Reports from the San Francisco Bay Area and Beijing (a 2008 Digital TV and the World project) (7/15/2008 - 7/15/2009)
  • Korea America Student Conference (7/24/2008 - 7/30/2008)
  • Pestilence and Public Health in World History (7/28/2008 - 8/1/2008)
  • STARTALK Summer Institute (8/5/2008 - 8/15/2008)
  • Book Talk Shanghai Splendor Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 (9/3/2008)
  • Book Talk Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist Saints in Japan from 1700-Present (9/10/2008)
  • Mahjong Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection (9/10/2008 - 1/4/2009)
  • Artists Talk by Mayumi Oda (9/12/2008)
  • Prehistoric Jomon of Japan and Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways (9/19/2008 - 9/20/2008)
  • In Conversation Uli Sigg and Wen-hsin Yeh (9/22/2008)
  • Anime Masters and Masterpieces Grave of the Fireflies (9/27/2008)
  • Book Talk Tradition, Treaties, and Trade Qing Imperialism and Chosn Korea, 18501910 (10/8/2008)
  • History Recycled Photographs of Architectural Design by Deng Kunyan (10/8/2008 - 11/15/2008)
  • Haruki Murakami in Conversation (10/11/2008)
  • China TransformedArtscape/Cityscape (10/17/2008 - 10/18/2008)
  • A Great Wind China and the Era of Revolution - Posters from the Hok Pui and Sally Yu Leung Collection (11/19/2008 - 2/2/2009)
  • Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting (11/19/2008)
  • Chinese Posters Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1/28/2009)
  • Opening the Gates A Critical Appraisal of Chinas Urban Development Practices (2/6/2009 - 2/7/2009)
  • transPOP Korea Vietnam Remix Symposium (2/14/2009)
  • Popular Protest in China (3/3/2009)
  • Colloquium on Bhutanese Culture and Buddhism (3/4/2009)
  • Berkeley and the World 50 Years of International Education (3/6/2009)
  • Land Rights, Resources, and Chinese Development in Long-run Perspective (3/6/2009)
  • The Politics of Intimacy in China (3/18/2009)
  • Beijing Beat - Reports from Beijing and the Bay Area Digital TV and the World (4/1/2009 - 4/30/2009)
  • Notes on North Korea (4/7/2009)
  • North American Graduate Student Conference in Buddhist Studies (4/17/2009 - 4/19/2009)
  • Eternal Sky Reviving the Art of Mongol ZuragNarmandakh Tsultem, Institute of Fine Art IFA, Mongolian University of Arts and Culture MUAC (4/22/2009 - 7/15/2009)
  • Mongolia On the Eve of Modernity (4/29/2009)
  • Mongol Zurag Artists Talk with Narmandakh Tsultem (5/7/2009)
  • VISIBLE POWER ART IN NATIONAL LIFE2009 ORIAS Summer Teachers World History Institute (7/27/2009 - 7/31/2009)
  • Islam and Democracy in East Asia (9/29/2009)
  • US-Japan Relations A Japanese American Perspective (10/9/2009)
  • Personal / Political Conciousness South Korean Women Confront Breast Cancer (12/1/2009)
  • International Adoption, Defectors, and Multicultural Families Nation and Nationalisms in South Korea (12/11/2009)
  • From Ritual Hegemony to Religious Freedom in Korea How Religious Organizations Erected Barriers to State Power and Paved the Way for Democracy (1/22/2010)
  • Energy Through the Ages Stories of Energy in Social and Political Life Around the World (1/23/2010)
  • Secret Trades, Porous Borders Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915. World History Study Group series (2/17/2010)
  • Crime Unique to Korea Gynecology, Racial Disease and Tradition in Colonial Korea, 1926-1932 (2/19/2010)
  • Relocating Ozu The Question of an Asian Cinematic Aesthetic (2/19/2010 - 2/20/2010)
  • Popular Accountability and Regime Resilience in Reform-Era China (2/26/2010)
  • Chinas Policy on Afghanistan/Pakistan and China-Central Asia Relations (3/3/2010)
  • Social Memory and Public Production of History The Taebaek Mountains Taebaek Sanmaek and the Politics of Remembering the Korean War (3/5/2010)
  • Lord Its the Samurai Socially Engaged Art and the Cultural Production of Orientalist Hysteria (3/9/2010)
  • Qiao Zhou and the Intellectual Traditions of Early Medieval Shu (3/10/2010)
  • The Great Socialist Transformation Capitalism without Democracy in China (3/12/2010)
  • Living and Learning Sharing Memories of the Great Tokyo Air Raid in the US (3/16/2010)
  • Alone at the Summit Career Success and Failure among Top-ranking Choson Period Munkwa Examination Passers (3/19/2010)
  • Remembering the Past Bitterness to Salve Present Injuries Rural Women and New Uses for Chinas Collective Past (4/7/2010 - 4/8/2010)
  • Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities (4/16/2010 - 4/18/2010)
  • Voyage of the Kanrin Maru (4/17/2010)
  • Sovereignty and Korean Historiography in the Early Twentieth Century (4/23/2010)
  • The 16th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference China Effect Securing Taiwan in the Age of Conflicts and Cooperation (6/18/2010 - 6/20/2010)
  • Climate Change and Subsistence in Prehistoric Japan (6/19/2010)
  • Causes and Consequences of Imperialism in World History Ancient and Modern (7/26/2010 - 7/30/2010)
  • An Afternoon of Tibetan Culture (8/8/2010)
  • Shanghai Art Now (8/14/2010)
  • Crystal of Collected Wisdom The Arabic Chinese Calligraphy of Haji Noor Deen (11/15/2010 - 3/4/2011)
  • Islamic and Chinese Calligraphy A Meeting of Two Traditions (11/15/2010)
  • Symposium and Concert Mongolian Harmony (2/2/2011)
  • Panel Discussion Central Asia and China Perspectives on Xinjiang (2/25/2011)
  • World Craft The Business and Culture of Gaming in East Asia (2/25/2011 - 2/26/2011)
  • Hapa Japan Conference (4/8/2011)
  • Journal of Asian Studies The Berkeley Student Research Symposium (4/15/2011)
  • UC Berkeley Language Lecturer workshop at the Berkeley Language Center. (5/3/2011)
  • China Space Production and Territoriality Conference (5/13/2011 - 5/14/2011)
  • ORIAS INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY Teaching World History at the College Level From Regional to Global Studies (6/27/2011 - 6/29/2011)
  • ORIAS SUMMER TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTEAbsent Voices Experience of common life in world history (7/25/2011 - 7/29/2011)

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