EASC to hold Book Club for Educators workshop on Dec. 11

The East Asian Studies Center, as part of the Fall 2023 World Area Book Club, will host the teacher workshop "Traditions and Change: Book Club for Educators" on Monday, December 11 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. online (registration required).

Attendees will delve into discussions with speakers (and sometimes authors!) from various world areas to learn how to use these award-winning books in their classroom:

October 16: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Faciliated by Awa Saidy, University of Minnesota and Susan Tenon, NEAFoundation

October 30: Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
Faciliated by Nancy Hope, Columbia University

November 13: Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan and On the Trapline by David Robertson, Julie Flett
Faciliated by Kyla Sweet, Western Washington University

November 27: Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler
Facilitated by Jennifer Lund, University of Michigan

December 11: Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition adapted by Sean Michael Wilson
Facilitated by Janet Smith, The Ohio State University

Race in East Asia course to be offered Spring 2024

A course focusing on the influence of race in East Asia will be offered in Spring 2024. The course will examine the origins of the concept, its interactions with science and medicine, and most importantly, its impact on the 19th and 20th century politics of China, Japan, and Korea.

Course: DEALL 4200: "The History of Race in East Asia"
Class Number: 29064
Credits: 3 credit hours
Time: T, Th 3:55 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Place: 027 Dulles Hall
Instructor: Dr. Melvin Barnes, Jr.

The goal of this course is for each student to develop a strong understanding of East Asian history and the global roots of race. By placing East Asia at its center, this course presents a non-U.S.-centric narrative on race that aims to undermine the troubling persistence of this unscientific idea.

Article about the "Seventeen Point Agreement" featured in Origins

"The Seventeen Point Agreement: Seventy Years of China’s Occupation of Tibet" by Jigme Yeshe Lama is featured in Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, a publication by the history departments at The Ohio State University and Miami University.

Intro: May 23, 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the “Seventeen Point Agreement of the Central People’s Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet.” This agreement legitimized claims of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over Tibet and retroactively justified the previous year’s military invasion of eastern Tibet by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).