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… research? My research explores the intersection between materiality and textuality in the transitional intervals … details show that the Qin-Han craftsmanship of writing medium made of bamboo tubes seems to have been far more … still visually overwhelmed by how well the tissues of his body had been preserved. Gazing at it in close distance from …

… three continents are deciphering a rare eighteenth-century Japanese manuscript at Yale University Library to reveal a … a video created by Haruko Nakamura , Yale’s librarian of Japanese Studies and Dylan Siegel (MA ’21) a graduate student … , a challenging calligraphic script commonly used in Japanese texts before 1900 but now legible only to scholars …

… nation” marked by the post-colonial politics of Buddhist nationalism, monocultural politics of Burmanization, … and minority conflict within minority states. Why did Buddhist nationalism rise? How does old Buddhist nationalism relate to the new 2021 coup? How does …

… student at Bowdoin College where he took courses in Japanese and Chinese history, studied Japanese language, and wrote an honors thesis on … in History and Environmental Studies and minored in Japanese. After graduating from Bowdoin, his unyielding …

… Politics at Pomona College. His research interests include Japanese security policy, the US-Japan alliance, war memory …

… papers which mostly focus on medieval Chinese history and Buddhist studies. He co-edited with Jinhua Chen (Professor, … and Its Social Influence in North China, 1127-1368 (in Japanese) in 2011. Visiting Fellow in East Asian Studies … “Bridges China Dialogue” in Geneva, a prominent annual event featuring high-level conversation between ministers, …

… Nu's religious identity.  Under colonial law, if she was Buddhist it was a consensual marriage. If she was Hindu, she … which precipitated anti-Muslim violence, this historical event highlights the nexus of sexual violence and the … 12:00 Noon Room 203, Luce Hall 34 Hillhouse Avenue Hybrid event Register on Zoom here>>   See CSEAS Current Calendar of …

… Thought … Postwar Jidaigeki’s Political Thought Jidaigeki (Japanese period films set prior to 1868) presented a unique … democracy in Japan. US Occupation censors and progressive Japanese critics alike regarded jidaigeki with suspicion, … War context of Japan’s compromised sovereignty, postwar Japanese intellectual Tsurumi Shunsuke, however, defended …

… the author of numerous scholarly monographs in English and Japanese, including Sylvia Plath: Poet of Distress (1979); … Poe: Crime and Dream (1980); Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature (1980); From Heroine to Hero: The Female … by Featherd Robe (1998); Tales of the Mountain Witch (in Japanese, 2002); The Encounter with Women’s Studies (2004); …

… the author of numerous scholarly monographs in English and Japanese, including Sylvia Plath: Poet of Distress (1979); … Poe: Crime and Dream (1980); Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature (1980); From Heroine to Hero: The Female … by Featherd Robe (1998); Tales of the Mountain Witch (in Japanese, 2002); The Encounter with Women’s Studies (2004); …