Archive
Quick links to all the stories posted at the UCLA International Institute
Mastering Spirits
Columbia's Michael Como challenges traditional views of legendary 'corruptor' figures in the context of cultic ritual and disease in medieval Japan.
Posted: 4/20/2006
Former Internee Offers Gift to Bring Two Nations Closer Together
More than 60 years after he left the camp behind, this emeritus UCLA professor, surgeon and researcher and his wife, Hisako, have donated $5 million to promote better understanding between Japan and America.
Posted: 3/24/2006
Tainted Legacy
U. of Pittsburgh's Akiko Hashimoto examines the debate surrounding Japan's guilt over World War II.
Posted: 3/16/2006
Senda Koreya: Theater for Change
UCLA's Thomas Rimer examines the life and art of a Japanese actor.
Posted: 3/1/2006
China's Clout in Africa
Absence of political strings makes Chinese investment attractive for African governments, says Maryland foreign policy specialist Ernest J. Wilson III.
Posted: 2/21/2006
Song & Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders
Sara L.M. Davis discusses her new book.
Posted: 2/21/2006
One for all, and all for one: The Japan Center's Graduate Student Symposium
The Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies faces its share of challenges. Not least of all the question of how to do so much in such little time.
Posted: 2/20/2006
Anime's 'Transnational Geekdom'
Mizuko Ito explores anime culture in Japan and its popularity abroad.
Posted: 2/17/2006
Professors Caught in the Machine
South Korean universities are losing their ideals, says Kang Nae-hui.
Posted: 2/14/2006
Chaos and Hope for Writers of History
Carol Gluck urges historians to seek new directions, quick.
Posted: 2/10/2006
Changing Times for Japanese Sex Workers
In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.
Posted: 1/13/2006
UCLA Club Reaches Out to Families with Children from China
The UCLA-based Chinese Cultural Dance Club works with area youth, including children adopted from China.
Posted: 12/15/2005
Chinese Labor Activist Han Dongfang on Why China Needs Unions
Han's UCLA Regents Lecture is now available via streaming video.
Posted: 12/14/2005
Making Up for Minamata
Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005
Welcome to the IUC Japan
Sometimes, language instruction at your home institution isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Which is where the IUC comes in...
Posted: 12/1/2005
Fighting HIV in the Golden Triangle
UCLA researchers find grassroots approaches to curbing the spread of HIV in China and Vietnam.
Posted: 11/18/2005
Unforced Devotions
Ritual-filled lives of 13th-century Japanese nuns at Hokkeji were rich, says USC scholar Lori Meeks.
Posted: 11/18/2005
Institute brings East Asia to K-12 teachers
Mandated to teach about Asia, too few teachers are prepared to do so. A UCLA Asia Institute seminar addresses this need.
Posted: 11/16/2005
Recarving China's Past: The Wu Family Shrines and the Story of the Stones
Princeton curator Cary Liu, the Eighteenth Sammy Yukuan Lee lecturer, questions assumptions about 'Wu Family Shrines,' prevailing approaches to Chinese art and history.
Posted: 11/14/2005
Japan and the Emancipator
Harvard history professor Daniel Botsman discusses the progress and plight of Japan's Burakumin under Meiji rule.
Posted: 11/9/2005
Q&A: Eric Hayot
A Global Fellow at the International Institute takes up queries on torture, Abu Ghraib, the adoption of Chinese girls, and success in academia.
Posted: 11/8/2005
Agreeing to Disagree
David Schaberg and Yunxiang Yan bring vastly different perspectives to their co-directorship of the Center for Chinese Studies.
Posted: 10/21/2005
Koizumi Games the System
Tactics, not issues, were key to the LDP's landslide win in Japan, argues UCLA Professor Emeritus Hans Baerwald.
Posted: 10/21/2005
Sorgenfrei's Last Stand
UCLA professor Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei speaks out on the sometimes frightful, but mostly delightful, process behind her landmark book, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan.
Posted: 10/19/2005
Dual Citizenship: The Two Sides of Thomas Rimer
Recently appointed Terasaki Chair Thomas Rimer discusses U.S.-Japan relations, cultural diversity, and integration.
Posted: 10/5/2005
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