UC Santa Barbara’s Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies is pleased to host “New Approaches to Traditional Chinese Food Culture: A Workshop” on March 9-10, 2024, organized…
Europeans who travel to foreign lands will use their native language to describe their experience. But how do intellectuals with a Western cultural and language background perceive and understand the…
UCSB Global Studies Colloquium Labor and Social Revolt in the Sinosphere: How China’s Rise Impacted Workers and Class Politics in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 1989-present Eli Friedman Co-sponsored by the East…
Hong Kong under Chinese rule has witnessed two decades of protests, culminating in a mass uprising in 2019. Most analyses understand this history as a social movement for democratization and…
This talk focuses on some semiotic aspects of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its unrivaled reception in China with special reference to the first Chinese translation by Y. R. Chao…
One of the most exciting recent developments in the field of late-imperial Chinese literature is the increased access to texts written by women. These texts hold out the promise that…
This event is a cross-cultural sharping space to create a critical, open and sustainable dialogue around music, art and trans-local networks. Wok the Rock lives and works in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.…
The Makers of Buddhism:Practical Arts and Professional Disciplines in the Construction of the Buddhist Cultural Heritage from India to Japan and to Mongolia University of California, Santa Barbara, October 30–November…
“There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma.” This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among…
We invite all UCSB graduate students interested in China to attend a seminar by Professor Andrew B. Liu (History, Villanova University) on “Industrious and Flexible: China’s 1980s reforms, East Asian…