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The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), established in 1965, serves as the central hub for students, faculty, and affiliates to come together and share their research and ideas. With world-renowned faculty, talented graduate and undergraduate students, internationally-recognized library collections, and outstanding institutional support, Stanford University is home to one of the largest and most

distinguished East Asian Studies programs in the country. Over 100 faculty members and lecturers in twenty-seven schools, departments, and programs teach and research on East Asia-related subjects across multiple disciplines and time periods. With East Asia-focused faculty housed in all professional schools—Business, Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine—and numerous departments and institutes within the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford programs provide comprehensive coverage of nearly all aspects of East Asia. Stanford's teaching and research is further bolstered by the numerous institutes, centers, research programs, and international collaborative projects which bring scholars, officials, business leaders, postdoctoral fellows, visiting faculty, and delegations to campus, connecting Stanford directly to private industry, government and educational institutions throughout Asia and around the world.

Welcome to week 9 spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.
05/26/2026

Welcome to week 9 spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Welcome to Week 8 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.
05/20/2026

Welcome to Week 8 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

05/15/2026

Join CEAS next week for the talk "Transforming compassion into altruism: Giving, the state, and “new religious” practice in secular Japan" with Michael Berman, Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Brandeis University.
📆May 21, 2026 (Thursday) 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia Library Room 224 (518 Memorial Way)

"At Stanford, BTS will play to a combined audience of about 150,000 over the three days. The event is presented by Stanf...
05/14/2026

"At Stanford, BTS will play to a combined audience of about 150,000 over the three days. The event is presented by Stanford Live and Stanford Athletics."

The K-pop phenom is coming to Stanford Stadium this weekend. Learn more about the group’s staggering popularity and how the concerts are creating opportunities for students and contributing to the regional economy.

Welcome to week 7 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.
05/11/2026

Welcome to week 7 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Join CEAS and the History Department next week for the talk "From the State Factory to the New Silk Road" with Sarah Cha...
05/08/2026

Join CEAS and the History Department next week for the talk "From the State Factory to the New Silk Road" with Sarah Chang, assistant professor of history at Miami University (Ohio).
📆May 12, 2026 (Tuesday) 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia Library Room 224 (518 Memorial Way)

In a 2013 speech on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, President Xi Jinping suggested that China’s socialist revolution created the theoretical, material, and institutional foundations for the economic reforms. This presentation considers that claim through state factories and urban developme...

Join CEAS this Thursday for the talk "The Townsman as Text: Reading Tokugawa Merchant Literature" with Thomas Gaubatz, ...
05/05/2026

Join CEAS this Thursday for the talk "The Townsman as Text: Reading Tokugawa Merchant Literature" with Thomas Gaubatz, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University.

📆May 7, 2026 (Thursday) 4:30 pm
🌎East Asia (Lathrop) Library Room 224 (518 Memorial Way)

In 17th-century Japan, the rapid urbanization of Tokugawa society and the formation of a market economy led to the rise of a new social class of merchants and artisans: the “townsman” (chōnin). The emergence of the townsman was catalyzed by the rise of a commercial woodblock printing industry, ...

Don't forget to join CEAS tomorrow for the talk What Did the “Market Reform” Do? Rethinking the Neo-Smithian Paradigm on...
05/04/2026

Don't forget to join CEAS tomorrow for the talk What Did the “Market Reform” Do? Rethinking the Neo-Smithian Paradigm on China's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism" with Yueran Zhang, Assistant Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago.
📆 May 5, 2026 (Tuesday) 4:30 pm
🌎 East Asia Library Room 224 (518 Memorial Way)

In both existing scholarship and popular accounts, in both China and elsewhere, the term "market reform" has been overwhelmingly deployed as the master conceptual device through which to understand China’s post-Mao economic transition. From this perspective, which I call "neo-Smithian", China's tr...

Welcome to week 6 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.
05/04/2026

Welcome to week 6 of spring quarter. Ikebana by Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk.

Don't forget to join CEAS and the History Department tomorrow for the talk "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: T...
04/29/2026

Don't forget to join CEAS and the History Department tomorrow for the talk "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" with Micah Muscolino, Professor and Pickowicz Endowed Chair in modern Chinese history at the University of California, San Diego.
📆April 30, 2026 (Thursday) 4:30 pm
🌎Encina Commons Room 123 (616 Corthers Way)

From the 1940s to the 1960s, state-led soil and water conservation campaigns remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book, Micah Muscolino discusses how the Chinese state imposed the cost of these conservation me...

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