Society for East Asian Anthropology Jing Wang, January 24, 2019 Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a SEAA column themed series on “Cultural Consumption and Performance in Asia.” The articles highlight different aspects of consumption and performance in a range of Asian regions. They examine issues such as cultural curation, the uses of the past, material […]
SEAA Audio Series Episode 1: Writing and Editing Collaboratively
Welcome to our first episode of the SEAA audio series! This podcast is an invitation to a collaborative process of creating conversations about our scholarship. We envision the audio series and accompanying text as an innovative format allowing us to reach out to audiences in a more accessible way. Through this soundscape, we also […]
SEAA Highlights at the 2018 AAA Meeting
Society of East Asian Anthropology Shuang L. Frost and Heidi K. Lam January 4, 2018 The SEAA section hosted a diverse range of activities, presentations, and events at the 2018 Annual Meeting. Highlights: 25 panels (including four co-sponsored invited sessions); a Business Meeting, featuring a special speaker; and a lunch-time mentoring workshop on “Teaching East […]
Curating Peninsular Destruction
Society for East Asian Anthropology Timothy Gitzen November 28, 2018 Editor’s Note: This piece opens a SEAA column themed series on “Cultural Consumption and Performance in Asia.” The articles highlight different aspects of consumption and performance in a range of Asian regions. They examine issues such as cultural curation, the uses of the past, material culture, […]
Announcing the SEAA regional conference in August 2019, Tokyo
Society for East Asian Anthropology Regional Conference 2019 – Tokyo East Asian Anthropology Now and into the Future: Transformations, Dynamics, and Challenges [update 8 Jan. 2019: proposal deadline extended to February 28-see below; double-panels permitted] The region of East Asia offers a fertile ground for anthropologists who seek to understand the pulse of a new […]
A Seductive Power Disturbing #MeToo
Shanni Zhao Echoing the global #MeToo movement, Chinese social media have raised a new wave of debates on issues of sexual harassment in Chinese educational institutions. Most critiques attend to the unequal power relations in which faculty members offer scholarly opportunities or advancement in exchange for sexual contacts with students, mostly female. Student victims and […]