Spotlight East Asia

CAS is pleased to partner with the Department of Geography and the Tibet Himalaya Initiative to invite John Osburg from the University of Rochester to present on "Business and Belief among Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the People's Republic of China." In the context of a perceived spiritual...

This Thursday, April 21, Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, will present at our last Luncheon Series event of the semester on, "Anonymity, Ancestry, and Family Registry: Adoption Debates in Contemporary Japan." In 2007, the Catholic Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, began operating the “kōnotori...

Eric Fish, author of China's Millennials: The Want Generation and writer at Asia Society, will give a presentaiton at CU on Thursday, April 14, on "Struggle, Disillusionment, and Rebellion Among Chinese Youth." In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. A generation later, Chinese youth have grown a...

David Atherton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, will present his current research at our next Luncheon Series event on Tuesday, March 15. His talk will be on "Birthing a Book: Imagining Authorial Creativity in Early Modern Japan." What is an author? What does an author...

CAS invites you to join us for a discussion on music and the antinuclear movement in Japan by Noriko Manabe, Assistant Professor in Music at Temple University. In the weeks following the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, an atmosphere of “self-restraint” made residents feel unable to talk freely about...

The University of Colorado Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) Conference will be held this Friday and Saturday on the CU-Boulder campus. This is an annual event hosted by CU faculty and graduate students of the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. The goal of the conference is to foster...

Mingsheng Xu, a current visiting scholar at CAS, will present our next Luncheon Series event, "The Innovation of the Daoist Pantheon: From the 1st Century to the 13th Century." It took a long time for Daoism to establish a systematic and consolidated pantheon, and this process lasted from the Han...

In December 2015, the University Libraries was the recipient of the Korea Foundation’s E-Resources grant. Covering half the cost of an annual subscription, the grant helps libraries provide access to Korean scholarly databases. The Libraries now subscribes to DBpia, a multidisciplinary database that covers scholarly output in Korea from across...

Join the Center for Asian Studies for the second event in our "Transcultural Japan" series, to be held tonight, January 25. Dr. Mariko Asano Tamanoi will discuss "Children Divided: War Orphans in the Japanese Empire." This event is brought to CU with generous funding from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign...

Over the next two weeks, the Center for Asian Studies is holding a "Japan in Transcultural Asia" series, featuring two in-depth talks that focus on different features of how Japan has and does engage with its regional neighbors. These events are brought to CU with generous funding from the Japanese...