A poster reading “Pemoeda: Dasar tiang Negara” (Youth: the Pillar of the Country), from a book of propaganda posters by an Indonesian collective of artists in the 1940s, presented to Frank Porter Graham during his time in Indonesia. Source: Frank … Read more
Online literature workshop featuring The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart by Chesil and translated by Takami Nieda Saturday, October 7 1 PM - 3 PM Instructor: Dr. Chiaki Takagi, UNCG REGISTER HERE Book summary: Seventeen-year-old … Read more
Because so much depends upon vacuous speech, and so sometimes it is best to refrain from all human voice; because when we sit with ourselves, there is just air, just light, and this is how we will learn to listen—" … Read more
The Carolina Asia Center is proud to host a book launch for the release of the paperback edition of Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth Century Japan by Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor and Chair in the … Read more
A poster reading “Pemoeda: Dasar tiang Negara” (Youth: the Pillar of the Country), from a book of propaganda posters by an Indonesian collective of artists in the 1940s, presented to Frank Porter Graham during his time in Indonesia. Source: Frank … Read more
From director Emily Hong, Above and Below the Ground tells the story of indigenous punk rock pastors and women activists in Myanmar who unite to protect the sacred Irrawady river from a Chinese-built mega dam. From Aung San Suu Kyi's … Read more
Dr. Younghan Cho will present a seminar on "Playing Between Empires: Baseball in South Korea and Zainichi Players as the Cold War Paradox." This study delves into the cultural construction of Cold War Korea by tracing the historical narratives of … Read more
A poster reading “Pemoeda: Dasar tiang Negara” (Youth: the Pillar of the Country), from a book of propaganda posters by an Indonesian collective of artists in the 1940s, presented to Frank Porter Graham during his time in Indonesia. Source: Frank … Read more
At 12:30 on Friday, October 27th, in a public lecture and discussion sponsored by UNC-CH’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, Prof. Chad Bryant will present “Blogging and Belonging: Prague’s Czech-Vietnamese Community and What Social Media Might Have Been.” Please join us!
In collaboration with Prof. Rick Warner's class CMPL 144 and in celebration of Halloween, the Carolina Asia Center presents the Japanese horror classic Ringu A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the … Read more
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