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April 14, 2022 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched another EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce recent publications in Sinophone studies to the USC community and the wider public. This session featured a discussion on Defectors from the PRC to Taiwan, 1960-1989: Anti-Communist Righteous Warriors (Routledge, 2022) with author Andrew D. Morris (Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo) and discussant Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (Associate Professor of East Asian History, University of Missouri-Columbia).

March 9, 2022 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched another EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce recent publications in Sinophone studies to the USC community and the wider public. This session featured a discussion on Experts in Action: Transnational Hong Kong-Style Stunt Work and Performance (Duke University Press, 2021) with author Lauren Steimer (Associate Professor of Media Arts and Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina) and discussant Po-Shek Fu (Professor of History, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

March 7, 2022 | As beautiful and varied as an archipelago, barangay:an offshore poem (Wolsak & Wynn, 2021) is an elegant new collection of poetry from Adrian De Leon that gathers in and arranges difficult pieces of a scattered history. Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity converses with Craig Santos Perez, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander Board in the Office of General Education at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. While mourning the loss of his grandmother who "lived, loved and grieved in three languages," De Leon skips his barangay, which is both a boat and an administrative unit in the Philippine government, over the history of both his family and a nation. In these poems De Leon considers the deadly impact of colonialism, the far-reaching effects of the diaspora from the Philippines and the personal loss of his ability to speak Ilokano, his grandmother's native tongue. These are spare, haunting poems, which wash over the reader like the waves of the ocean the barangays navigated long ago and then pull the reader into their current like the rivers De Leon left behind.

February 10, 2022 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched another EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce recent publications in Sinophone studies to the USC community and the wider public. This session featured a discussion on Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic (Duke University Press, 2021) with author Hentyle Yapp (Associate Professor of Performance Studies at UC San Diego) and discussant Kandice Chuh (Professor of English, American Studies, and Critical Social Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center).

November 12, 2021 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched another EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce recent publications in Sinophone studies to the USC community and the wider public. This session featured a discussion on Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China (University of Michigan Press, 2021) with author Yuanfei Wang (Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California) and discussant Xing Hang (Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University).

October 26, 2021 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched an EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series focusing on Sinophone Studies is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. this event featured a discussion on The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020) with author Sean Metzger (Professor in the School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles) and discussant Lok Siu (Associate Professor in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley).

September 24, 2021 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched another EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce recent publications in Sinophone studies to the USC community and the wider public. The first event in this series featured a discussion on Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s (Harvard University Press, 2019) with author Evan N. Dawley (Associate Professor of History, Goucher College) and discussant Ping-hui Liao (Professor of Literary and Critical Studies, University of California, San Diego).

April 16, 2021 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched an EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series focusing on modern China is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce some of the latest publications in modern Chinese studies to the USC community and the wider public. Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration (Duke University Press, 2018) AUTHOR: Shelly Chan (Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz) DISCUSSANT: Huei-Ying Kuo (Associate Research Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University)

March 11, 2021 | The USC East Asian Studies Center has launched an EASC New Book Series for the wider community. This series focusing on modern China is organized by Li-Ping Chen, Postdoctoral Scholar & Teaching Fellow in the USC East Asian Studies Center. This monthly series on Zoom will introduce some of the latest publications in modern Chinese studies to the USC community and the wider public. In this session: Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China (Brandeis University Press, 2020) AUTHOR: David Der-wei Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor in Chinese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University) DISCUSSANT: Carlos Rojas (Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University)