Call for Applications: 2023 Chinese Object Study Workshops
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Verge: Studies in Global Asias invites proposals for special issue 12.1, which will be published in Spring 2026.
Book Talk: Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM PT
This is a hybrid event. It will be held in-person (UC 402/403) and online. Registration required (see below).
You’re invited to join the University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies for our first event of the spring semester featuring author Adam Brookes speaking about his new book Fragile Cargo: China’s Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City.
We are pleased to announce the opening of our online symposium titled “Prisoners of the Asia-Pacific War: History, Memory, and Forgetting” to registered audience members. The symposium will be held across two days between 16:00-19:30 on Tuesday, February 7 and 9:00-17:00 on Wednesday, February 8, Japan time. This symposium brings together scholars researching the histories, memorialization and forgetting of prisoners and prison camps of the Asia Pacific War. See the schedule below.
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Univeristy of California, Davis East Asian Studies coridally invites you to this Zoom talk on comparative research on Chinese and Indian labor.
Time: 21 February 2023 (Tuesday) from 4:10 to 5:30 pm PST
Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9328529016
The Royal Asiatic Society invites you to join us at 6.30pm on Thursday February 9th for a talk by Dr Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Royal Holloway) entitled Partition, Museums and Identity in Independent India.
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Daniel Barish. Learning to Rule: Court Education and the Remaking of the Qing State, 1861–1912. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. xiii + 257 pp.
Stan BH. Minh Tan-Tangbau.
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 320 pp.
$99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4968-3633-5; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-3634-2.
Pratyay Nath. Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2019. xli + 325 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-949555-9.
Reviewed by Divya Cherian (Princeton University) Published on H-Asia (October, 2022) Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)
Energy in Asia
A Conference organized and sponsored by EnviroLab at Claremont McKenna College and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and to be held at UCLA, February 23 and February 24 (all events in PST)
Main Conference Room (11360), Young Research Library (YRL), UCLA
The DFG Research Training Group GRK 2833 „East Asian Futures“ at Ruhr University Bochum and University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany, solicits applications for its doctoral programme:
For doctoral researchers, seven DFG-funded positions (0.75 FTE) and six affiliated fellowships
For postdocs, one full DFG-funded position and three affiliated fellowships.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Start of the programme: 1 October 2023.
The following is an open call for academic articles to be submitted to the Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities (SYSJH), a leading journal of humanistic inquiry in Taiwan based at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaoshiung. With a publishing history that stretches back to 1993, SYSJH is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed, bilingual publication listed in MLA International Biography, Emerging Sources Citation Index, and Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI).
Daoism, Psychology and Psychotherapy