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[Taiwan Talk] Taiwan & Modern Japanese Literature: The Politics of Representing Indigenous Taiwanese Anti-Colonial Resistance Movements

[Taiwan Talk] Taiwan & Modern Japanese Literature: The Politics of Representing Indigenous Taiwanese Anti-Colonial Resistance Movements

Speaker: Yoshiaki Otta (University of Tokyo)

Student Paper Prizes: The 72nd Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA 2023)

Dear colleagues and friends,
I write to you today as the Vice-President of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA), which is our regional branch of the Association for Asian Studies. As you may know, in addition to a stimulating and convivial annual conference, MCAA offers a number of prizes for exceptional student work. This year, I am responsible for coordinating the prize competition, and I'm writing today to ask your help in spreading the word about the student prizes, and to solicit submissions from eligible students.

CONF: The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects (London, 20-21 June, 2023)

The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects

(The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW, 20-21 June, 2023)

CrossAsia Talk #12 (May 25, 2023, 6pm EST). Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin): "Historical Resonances Illuminated – The Chinese Handwritten Health Care Volumes of the 16th through the 20th Century as Resonance of Knowledge"

We are pleased to announce the lecture by Prof. Dr. Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin): „Historical Resonances Illuminated – The Chinese Handwritten Health Care Volumes of the 16th through the 20th Century (Unschuld Collection, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) as Resources of Knowledge“ on 25.5.2023 from 6 pm in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer-Saal (Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin). The lecture will shine a spotlight on Chinese medical texts.

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Author: 
Nagatomi Hirayama
Reviewer: 
Xin Fan

Fan on Hirayama, 'The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918-1951'

Nagatomi Hirayama. The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918-1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv +296 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-00-909871-7; $99.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-00-911631-2. 

Author: 
Yuhua Wang
Reviewer: 
Hekang Yang

Yang on Wang, 'The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development'

Yuhua Wang. The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development. Princeton Studies in Contemporary China Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Illustrations, tables. 352 pp.

Author: 
Boyi Chen
Reviewer: 
Yiran Li

Li on Chen, 'Borders and Orders: Coastal and Maritime North-eastern South China Sea in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'

Boyi Chen. Borders and Orders: Coastal and Maritime North-eastern South China Sea in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Nanchang: Jiangxi University and College Press, 2019. 318 pp. ISBN 978-7-5493-7997-2.

Reviewed by Yiran Li (Hong Kong Baptist University) Published on H-Asia (May, 2023) Commissioned by Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)

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Call for Nominations: Bei Shan Tang book prizes (Chinese art history)

The Association for Asian Studies welcomes nominations for the 2024 Bei Shan Tang book prizes in Chinese art history. Two prizes will be awarded: the Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize (to honor an outstanding and innovative sole-authored monograph on Chinese art history of any historical period published in the English language) and the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize (to honor outstanding sole- or co-authored research on Chinese art history of any historical period published in the English language).

June 15: Taiwan’s Economic Security: The Role of Transnational Private Partnerships

When: Thursday, June 15, 2023 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (ET)

Where: In-Person (RSVP here) and Webcast

Event Description:

The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is pleased to invite you to a seminar discussion on “Taiwan’s Economic Security: The Role of Transnational Private Partnerships.”

Searching for WWII Bomber Pilots, Any Suggestions?

Hi all, I am a PhD student at Ohio University working on my dissertation focused on the Pacific War strategic bombing campaign against Japan. I am in search of 2-3 WWII bomber pilots to interview. I know there is an abundance of oral testimonies online that have been digitized. While I do plan to utalize those, I am seeking 2-3 to meet and interview in person. I have tried about every avenue and contacted numerous museums and archives and each time it leds to a dead end. Hopefully someone on here can assist.

Mark Ravina lecture on Mapping and Digital Humanities (9 June)

Please see the following exciting event, with an absolutely stellar line-up, which is happening next Friday (9 June)!

Rethinking Historical Maps for the 21st Century: A Quantitative Perspective on Japan’s kuniezu

Speaker: Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin)

Discussants:
Richard Pegg (MacLean Collection)
D. Max Moerman (Columbia University)
Mario Cams (University of Oslo)
Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven)