Daniel Mattingly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, has an article in Foreign Affairs entitled “After Xi: The Succession Question Obscuring China’s Future—and Unsettling Its Present.”
Caitlin Hong (Grace Hopper College) was the winner of the 2025 Williams Prize in East Asian Studies. The Council on East Asian Studies had a chance to catch up with Caitlin at graduation, and she kindly answered a few of our questions about her essay.
K-pop, short for Korean pop, continues to amass global fascination as it transcends cultural boundaries and blends diverse music genres worldwide. Wonseok Lee, a postdoctoral associate with the Council on East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Music, has brought an examination of the K-pop phenomenon to Yale.
Every summer, ten middle school students from Nihonmatsu, Japan, file into New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery with their chaperones and a dignitary or two from their town—sometimes the mayor. They find the grave marker they’re looking for, lay flowers in front of it, and observe a reverent moment of silence. This ritual has been going on since 1991, except for an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students, chosen for the trip by a competitive process, are there to pay tribute to Kan-ichi Asakawa 1902PhD (1873–1948), a native of Nihonmatsu who spent his last 42 years in New Haven.
