McJimsey Student Essay Award Recipient ASIANetwork is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 Marianna McJimsey Award for the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia or the Asian Diaspora. The winning paper is entitled: “Managing Fertility: A Historical Comparative Study on Population Policy in Singapore and China” by Xinyi Wendy Zheng (Macalester College, […]
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McJimsey Student Essay Award Recipient and Runners-Up ASIANetwork is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Marianna McJimsey Award for the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia or the Asian Diaspora. The winning paper is entitled: “Prevalence and Impact of the Model Minority Stereotype on Asian American Students at a Small Liberal Arts
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McJimsey Student Essay Award Recipient Hongli Zeng, Colorado College ASIANetwork is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Marianna McJimsey Award for the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia. The winning paper is entitled: “The Coral Tree: Chinese Students at Colorado College and their Racial Identities in the Early 1920s,” by Hongli Zeng
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Ceramics and Modernity in Japan, co-edited by Louise Allison Cort and ASIANetwork facutly member Meghen Jones, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at the New York State College of Ceramics of Alfred University, offers a set of critical perspectives on the creation, patronage, circulation, and preservation of ceramics during Japan’s most
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McJimsey Student Essay Award Winners Winner: Christopher Truksa, The College of Idaho ASIANetwork is pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Marianna McJimsey Award for the best undergraduate student paper dealing with Asia. The winning paper is entitled: “Trust the Process: Evaluating China’s Social Credit System,” by Christopher Truksa (’23), political economy major, with
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Wearing the Pandemic: A Transcultural Expression Organizer: Etin Anwar, Professor of Religious Studies The exhibit will display work that construes the pandemic experiences and discourses into artistic expression especially within the contexts of the Indonesian Muslim cultures. The exhibit offers an adaptation to disruption brought forth by pandemic through visual representation as seen in batik
The new book by Susan Furukawa, Associate Professor of Japanese at Beloit College, The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs) analyzes representations of the famous sixteenth-century samurai leader.
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Eight ASIANetwork member colleges exhibited a collection of 36 paintings from Myanmar, curated by Ian Holliday of the University of Hong Kong. The artwork, exhibition posters and more can be found here. A book on the paintings, Painting Myanmar’s Transition was recently published.
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The U.S. Department of State and Department of Education released a Joint Statement of Principles in Support of International Education, titled, “Reengaging the World to Make the United States Stronger at Home: A Renewed U.S. Commitment to International Education.”
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The new book by Terry Lautz, longstanding member of the ASIANetwork Council of Advisors, Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic, tells the stories of men and women who have lived and worked in China. Written for an audience of students and teachers, the book includes a chronology of US-China relations and suggested readings
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