This talk, based on her recent book Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, examines the reception history in China of the celebrated classic Sanskrit drama Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection and focuses on the groundbreaking 1956 translation from Sanskrit by the luminary Chinese lndologist Ji Xianlin 季羨林 (1911-2009). Trained […]
The Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies present the next HYI Visiting Scholar Lecture: Zhe HOU (Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24) Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class’s Role in China’s Education Revolution Monday Dec 11, 2023 | 11:30 AM Common Room […]
The Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies are pleased to invite you to the HYI Visiting Scholars lecture series: Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement VISITING SCHOLAR TALKS Tuesday Dec 12, 2023 | 11:30 AM Common Room (Room #136), Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, […]
The BU Arts Initiative is excited to bring Small Island, Big Song to Boston University. This exciting residency will explore the cultural connections of the vast ocean through the Austronesian migration. Artist Residency: February 29 – March 2,2024 The following Residency Events are free and open to the public: Our Shared Seafaring Heritage, Alive in Rhythm […]
Join us as Elizabeth Perry (Harvard University) explores China’s longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign (PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War, the PHC continues even today, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping’s Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question the official characterization of the PHC as a “uniquely […]
This event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For planning purposes, please register for this event at the QR code above, or at this link https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aXylrSO2vjbDgpM About the Speaker: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili is Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at GSPIA. Her research focuses on issues of self-governance, security, […]
presented by the Global Literary Studies Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities, the BU Center for the Study of Asia, and the BU Dept. of World Languages and Literatures Moderator/ Discussant: Takeo Rivera (Dept. of English, Boston University) Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024, from 5:30-7 pm in CAS B20, 725 Commonwealth […]
Join us as the International History Institute and the Center for the Study of Asia are pleased to present Dr. Grant Rhode (Senior Fellow, IHI and Research Affiliate, BUCSA) Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: Lessons from History to Shape Current Strategy Wednesday March 20, 2024 from 5:00-6:30 pm at 121 Bay State […]
BUCSA is pleased to let our Asian Studies community know that Lyracle, a small Boston-based historical music ensemble, will be performing a new program called Musicians of the Tenshō Embassy, which combines music and storytelling to celebrate an exceptional group of 16th-century Japanese musicians who journeyed from Japan, to Europe, and back again. Lyracle will perform […]
Taiwan today finds itself in an increasingly unstable geostrategic environment. As Sino-American tensions soar and an increasingly powerful and assertive PRC flexes its growing military might, the situation in the Taiwan Strait today is arguably the tensest it has been since the 1950s. In recent speeches, Xi Jinping has repeatedly asserted that “resolving the Taiwan […]