Results for category: Field Notes

AAS Awards $897,245 through “Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars” Program

04/21/2022 by Asia Now Field Notes, Announcement

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is pleased to announce the recipients of fellowships, professional development grants, and publication support grants in our “Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars” program. This initiative, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining the Humanities through the […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Christopher Rea about Early Chinese Cinema

11/03/2021 by Asia Now Field Notes, China, East Asia, Film, Media Studies, Online Resource, Teaching

Since early 2020, Christopher Rea, a professor of Chinese at the University of British Columbia, has translated over twenty early Chinese films and made them available on the YouTube channel Modern Chinese Cultural Studies. He has also produced a semester-long online course on early Chinese cinema, available at chinesefilmclassics.org. In June 2021, Columbia University Press […]

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Digital Fieldwork: A New Site for Scholars

10/22/2021 by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Field Notes, Digital Humanities, Digital Technology, fieldwork

Many Asian Studies scholars are familiar with what we might call “traditional” fieldwork, such as on-site interviews, archival research, and participant-observation studies. In doctoral programs, it’s common for advanced students to disappear from campus for a year or more as they journey to research sites and collect materials and data to write up into a […]

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Surveying Premodern Historians of Japan: Past, Present, and Future Directions of the Field

06/22/2021 by Asia Now Field Notes, East Asia, History, Japan, On the Profession

By Paula R. Curtis Since at least the 2008 economic collapse, scholars of all academic disciplines have been anxious about what the future holds for their fields of study. Even before the global pandemic of 2020-2021 exacerbated those concerns, large organizations like the American Historical Association showcased alarming data on the precipitous decline in academic […]

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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Erased No Longer

05/12/2021 by Christine Yano Field Notes

Since 1992, May has been officially celebrated as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, and with good cause. The choice of May reflects two historic events: 1) the arrival of the first known Japanese immigrant to the United States on May 7, 1843; and 2) the completion of the First […]

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Playing a Critical Role in Achieving a Bigger Goal

02/26/2021 by Asia Now Field Notes, On the Profession

This week at #AsiaNow, we are pleased to offer our readers a series of posts on library careers in area studies. The four series authors will convene on Monday, March 22 at 3:00pm Eastern Time for a panel at the AAS 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, “Ask a Librarian!: A Discussion of Alternative Careers in Japanese […]

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A Circuitous Path to Finding the Right Career

02/24/2021 by Asia Now Field Notes, On the Profession

This week at #AsiaNow, we are pleased to offer our readers a series of posts on library careers in area studies. The four series authors will convene on Monday, March 22 at 3:00pm Eastern Time for a panel at the AAS 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, “Ask a Librarian!: A Discussion of Alternative Careers in Japanese […]

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Cultural Keepers of Modern Japan

02/16/2021 by Asia Now Field Notes, Art, Art History, East Asia, History, Japan

By Vivian Li In 2019, I was generously awarded a Japan Research Travel Grant from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. The purpose of this funding was to conduct final research in preparation for the exhibition Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso, scheduled to open […]

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