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New Book by Prof. Wai-yee Li

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Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature Wai-yee Li From Harvard University Press: The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder...

Korean Literature Symposium: Crossing Borders

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In honor of Professor David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature Sponsored by Korea Institute, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard University Asia Center Schedule: 8:15...

Kyōgen (狂言) Lecture and Performance

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Kyōgen is the name for a dramatic style and repertoire of short comic plays that form one of the oldest theatrical traditions in Japan. Though developed in the 14th century, kyōgen is still performed today: both as an independent form (hon-kyōgen) and as...

Jie Li

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As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia University Press, 2014, shortlisted for the...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

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Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science...