The Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Residency Was a Big Success!

Oct. 16, 2013

The Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company completed their week-long residency at CU-Boulder (9/3 to 9/8), with resounding succees. 91制片厂国产AV 120 attended the two screenings of the documentary film, 鈥淟ittle Tiger.鈥 Ms. Qi Shu Fang and Mr. Ding Mei Kui conducted a two-hour-long acting workshop with the 22 students in...

Global Seminar: Self-Awareness & Images of the Other (Xi'an China) Information Meeting

Oct. 14, 2013

91制片厂国产AV China this summer on this Global Seminar held in Xi鈥檃n and sponsored by CU鈥檚 Study Abroad Office, the Center for Asian Studies and the Tang Fund. With Herbst Program of Humanities鈥 faculty Dr. Anja Lange, you will get a first-hand look at China by studying it through literature and...

Ways of Knowing: The Body in Buddhist Tantra and Tibetan Medicine

Oct. 11, 2013

Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, will come to CU to discuss the Tibetan medicine and its Buddhist heritage. Traditional Tibetan medicine sometimes found its Buddhist heritage and its urge for empirical knowledge of the body to be at odds, and made unusual efforts to separate...

Hybridize the Dragon: Bruce Lee and the Reconstruction of Asia

Oct. 7, 2013

Daryl Joji Maeda, Associate Professor in CU's Department of Ethnic Studies, will present a Brown Bag lecture on Bruce Lee. Dr. Maeda examines Lee as a transnational figure thoroughly enmeshed in trans-Pacific flows of people and culture dating back to the nineteenth century and accelerating in the twentieth century. He...

Chinese and Global Governance: From Rule-Followers to Rule-Makers

Oct. 3, 2013

Scott Kennedy, Associate Professor of the Departments of Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, will come to CU to give a talk on China and its role in global governance as Chinese government agencies, companies, and NGOs are becoming much more significant players in every...

The Latest Volume of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies has been Published

Sept. 30, 2013

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce the release of the latest volume of the Colorado Journal for Asian Studies (CJAS). Every year, seniors in Asian Studies complete a research project under the guidance of a faculty advisor. In the spring, they present their work in a public...

What's in a Claim? Bureaucracy and the Ontology of Land Holdings in South Asia

Sept. 26, 2013

Professor Matthew Hull, a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, will come to CU on Friday, September 27 to deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. In this lecture, he will address bureaucracy and corporations...

(In)Visible Boundaries: The Spatialization of Class in the Uneven Housing Development of Nanjing

Sept. 24, 2013

In this Brown Bag event, Sarah Tynen, a graduate student in the Department of Geography, will discuss her research on housing developments in Nanjing. She will take an ethnographic approach to examining urban redevelopment in order to address the everyday nuances of the uneven geographies of housing development. This project...

What鈥檚 in a Claim? Bureaucracy and the Ontology of Land Holdings in South Asia

Sept. 20, 2013

On Friday, September 27, Professor Matthew Hull of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan will deliver the keynote lecture for the annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference, which is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology. Professor Hull is known for his research on colonial and contemporary bureaucracy, documents,...

The Chinese Crises of 1900

Sept. 18, 2013

Next Thursday, September 26, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor鈥檚 Professor of History at UC Irvine, will come to CU to talk about the Boxer Crisis of 1900. This illustrated talk will looked at how this crisis has been linked to 鈥渃atastrophes鈥 of different sorts. A drought, interpreted by the anti-Christian Boxers as...

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