Programs

Japan 1945 Series: Ending and Beginning

China’s Demographic Transition: Population Decline in the Post-One-Child Era

Religion in East Asia: Diversity and Diffusion

Modern China Transformed: Xi Jinping’s Policies and their Human Impact

Teaching Biography through East Asian Picture Books

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

Virtual Sencha (Green Tea) Tasting

In Prints: Japanese Art and Culture

Pitt NCTA Alumni Book Group – Three Tigers One Mountain

Chinese Fantasy in Literature

Teaching with the Japanese Garden at the Huntington

China and the World

Unfolding Futures: Chinese Genre Fiction and Cultural Crossovers

Japan Society – Meiji era (How Japanese were doing during 1931-1945)

Teaching with the Chinese Garden at The Huntington

Modern Japan Emerges: Tradition in Transition – Tea, Samurai, and Gardens in Japan’s 19th Century

Modern Japanese Literature

East Asia Since 1800

Epochs & Change-Makers in East Asian Urbanism, Architecture & Art

Ultra-Low Birth Rate in East Asia: Care, Crisis Discourses, and Collaborative Responses

Social Change Projects in East Asia

Dream of Ding Village: Crises and Controversies in Contemporary China

Chinese Socialist Culture

Teaching with Memory Politics: Museums, Memorials, and Asian Histories

Studying China in Early Modern Europe

World of Terracotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum

Exclusion and Belonging: Teaching Chinese American History through Story and Image

Asian Art Adventure

Asian Herstory – First they Killed My Father

Asian Herstory – Secret History of the Mongol Queens

Asian Herstory – Wild Swans

Violence in East Asian Literature

Currency in Asia: Constructing National Identity in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan

Two Koreas

Asian American History in Arkansas and Beyond

Foundations of East Asian Civilization: Confucianism, Shinto, and Buddhism

2025 Sijo Summit: Verses from Korea, Japan, and China

Reel Asia: A Lens on Film

Chin Languages Workshop

Freeman Awards Book Talk: “Hokusai’s Daughter” by Sunny Seki

Japanese Garden at Taconic Ramble State Park

The Dalai Lama’s “Voice for the Voiceless”

Other Japans: A Film Series

Chinese Calligraphy in the Classroom – LACMA On-site Tour

Chinese Calligraphy in the Classroom with LACMA

Lunar Phases: Korean Moon Jars – A Hands-on Workshop

The Crossbow of Destiny, with author Brandon Hoang

China’s Space Dream: Teaching China’s Space Program

East Asian Art, History & Literature: Summer Residential Seminar

Mascots, Cryptids, and UFOs: Civic Monsters in Contemporary Japan

Life of a Peasant in Medieval Japan

Teaching Traditional East Asia: a summer residential seminar

Studio Ghibli in the Classroom

Walking the Tōkaidō: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of History and Culture

Cycling Taiwan: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of History and Culture

Japan and the World in the Age of Shogun

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Okinawan

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Zainichi

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Uyghur

Minority Literature of East Asia: Diversity and Difference – Tibetan

Local Connections to Japan

A Century of East Asia Impacting the World

The Color of the Sky is the Shape of the Heart, with translator Takami Nieda

The History of Modern East Asia

Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie

Asian Topic Discussion Series: Xinjiang in China’s History and Today

Asian Topic Discussion Series: Tiananmen Massacre of 1989

Asian Topic Discussion Series: China’s Cultural Revolution 1966-1976

Asian Topic Discussion Series: The Great Leap Forward in 1950s China

Asian Topic Discussion Series: Asia and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Ending WWI

Asian Topic Discussion Series: What is “Modern”? China and Europe from 1500 to 2000

Asian Topic Discussion Series: Easternization not Westernization: Modernity is a Global Formation

Virtual East Asia Seminar for CA High School Teachers

Freeman Awards Book Talk: When Spring Comes to the DMZ

Masked Hero, with authors Shan Woo Liu and Kaili Liu Gormley

Taiwan and the World

Cultural Revolution

Rituals and Objects in Japanese History

East Asia: Origins To 1800

Virtual Teacher-Made: A Hands-On Workshop for Educators, by Educators at Huntington Chinese Garden

Teacher-Made: A Hands-On Workshop for Educators, by Educators at Huntington Chinese Garden

Poppies, Power, and Profit: the Opium Wars and Its Global Legacies

Teaching East Asian Literature Summer Workshop

Science Fiction in China: From BC to AI

Indigenous Cultures in Settler Colonial East Asia

The Elephant Vanishes and Other Short Stories

Taiwan’s Economic History

A Musical Conversation with Sean Gao and Friends on Tradition and Innovation in Chinese Music

East Asia Under Mongol Dominance: Subjects, Allies, & Adversaries

Sinophone Cinema

Lu Xun: The Father of Modern Chinese Literature

The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei

Journey to China: Through Tese’s Eyes and Footsteps

Exploring East Asia for K-12 Educators: Common Foundations, Different Journeys

East Asia Through the Lens of Visual and Material Culture: An NCTA Foundational Seminar

Samurai, Kissing Circles, and the Geometry of Shinto Shrines: an NCTA workshop for K-12 Educators

“Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan” online book discussion for NCTA seminar alumni

America’s China Dream and Realities: An NCTA mini-course for K-12 Educators

Learning Behind Barbed Wire: A Look at Schools in a Japanese American Incarceration Camp During World War II

The Vietnam War: Origins, History, and Legacies