Videos

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).

October 21, 2021 | This information video goes over program information about the Spring 2022 Global East Asia Maymester programs, including a step-by-step guide on how to apply. Global East Asia (GEA) is a four week upper-division Maymester research course with a study abroad component for USC undergraduate students, made possible by the East Asian Studies Center and USC Dornsife. This intensive program gives students the opportunity to travel and conduct research in China or Japan. Students from all majors, schools and language backgrounds are eligible to apply and experience East Asia in a unique way.

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).

September 15, 2021 | Race/Solidarity: Transpacific Conversations & Anthropology Colloquium Series present Uyghur Visions: Two Films by Mukaddas Mijit. Featuring filmmaker Dr. Mukaddas Mijit (via Zoom), in conversation with Professor Jenny Chio (East Asian Languages and Cultures/Anthropology). In this event, filmmaker Dr. Mukaddas Mijit will share two short films that reflect upon contemporary Uyghur identity in light of both shifting personal relationships and the devastating political transformations that have upended life for Uyghur communities around the globe. The films are followed by a Q&A with Dr. Mijit, facilitated by Professor Jenny Chio. Films: Moman, The Great Woman (2012) “The boy gave all three bread to the poor and didn’t keep any for himself. Then a snake flew out of his bag into the sky.” --Rehime Kamal. A video diary about my grandmother. “Morning Feeling” and Perhat Tursun (2021). A visual essay on a contemporary Uyghur poem about isolation, physical and psychological oppression.

June 17, 2021 | Learn more about the USC East Asian Studies Center Global East Asia Japan - Kyoto Maymester Program

June 17, 2021 | Learn more about the USC East Asian Studies Center Global East Asia Japan - Tokyo Maymester Program

June 17, 2021 | Learn more about the USC East Asian Studies Center Global East Asia China Maymester Program