Stay tuned for fun events all week!

The Asian Studies Center welcome reception for students will be held on Thursday, September 13th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM in 4130 Posvar Hall on the fourth floor. All students and faculty are welcome to join us to meet center staff and faculty, learn about upcoming events and opportunities related to Asia, including lectures and cultural programming, undergraduate internship and career workshops, language tutoring and study groups, language proficiency testing, volunteering, and more! Refreshments will be served!

Admission and lunch are covered by Pitt Arts, all students need to do is sign-up at www.pittarts.org

Japan is the Key presents highlights from Carnegie Museum of Art's collection of gorgeous Japanese prints brought together with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's holdings of exquisite Japanese carved ivories. Don't miss this chance to explore Japan's impact on the art and culture of America of the 20th century. Following our tour of the exhibit students will participate in a haiku workshop.

“Biography of Mary” (Meili Xiaozhuan), “Travel Overseas” (Haiwai Zhuangyou) and “Wonderland under the Sea” (Haidi Qijing) were three classical tales written in the mid-1880s by the pioneering thinker and reformer Wang Tao in Late Qing. While scholars have pointed out the tensions between the traditional narrative form and the author’s ever-globalizing sensibility, Wang Tao expresses his disillusionment of Chinese culture when other reformers were advocating only for technological and institutional changes. Shi looks into both the contexts and texts of the three tales.

In this presentation, Lee will analyze how Liang Qichao's idea of nation played a role in the emergence o national identity in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The concept of nation in China didn't emerge from the bottom-up spontaneously. Rather, the emergence of Chinese national identity can largely be explained as an imported ideology pursued by Chinese elites. In the formation of the concept of nation in China, not only the contact with the West but also interactions and tensions among the East Asian countries were crucial.

Directed by Michael Perlman of “Tibet: Beyond Fear” and co-produced by New Tang Dynasty Television, the award winning 53-minute documentary tells the remarkable survival stories of best-selling author Jennifer Zeng, and Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman. Both Jennifer and Charles, along with hundreds of thousands of peaceful citizens in China, were tortured and subjected to slave labor for their spiritual beliefs.

On March 24, Sushi: The Global Catch will be screened in the Melwood Screening room at 5:30 PM. In this documentary, director Mark Hall guides us through the fascinating world of the global sushi phenomenon. Purchase tickets at http://www.cmu.edu/faces/#. This film is a part of the Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival.

Opening reception on Friday, March 29, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.

We're extremely excited for this year's festival which has the potential to be one of the best yet!

With performances from:
- Pitt Taiko
- FRESA
- and Japanese Sword demonstrations from Loren Keifer

That's not all, we'll have all sorts of fun booths set up, including:
-Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) from JASP
-Japanese Tea with Amy Svoboda
-Lolita Fashion with Kate Davis
-Kimono Fashion with Evan Mason
-Video Games