Tag: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

  • Arts & Culture

    Round 2: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’

    William Tsutsui, who teaches a course that explores the rich history of Japanese monsters, says which one will win the new “Godzilla vs. Kong” is anybody’s guess.

    6–9 minutes
    Godzilla vs. Kong promotional image.
  • Arts & Culture

    Daoism’s ongoing influence

    James Robson, professor of East Asian languages and civilizations, has edited the Daoism volume of “The Norton Anthology of World Religions.”

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Harold Bolitho

    Harold Bolitho first taught at Harvard as the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor in 1983-1984, joining Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1985. He taught a variety of courses on Japanese history, including one on the Samurai that enrolled as many as 500 students. He chaired the department from 1988 to 1989…

    5–7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Echoes of Tiananmen Square

    In her freshman seminar, lecturer Rowena He sheds light on the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on dissent by melding the personal with the academic.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Professor Harold Bolitho dies

    Harold Bolitho, professor of Japanese history emeritus in Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, died on Oct. 23 after a long illness.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Noma-Reischauer Prizes awarded in Japanese studies

    The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Ltd. Publishers hosted the 16th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the 15th annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies on Oct. 15.

    1–2 minutes