Asian Studies - Video

Katsumi Yanagimoto 柳本勝海, noted calligrapher and performer of classical Japanese Nō 能 drama, and the humorous interludes, Kyōgen 狂言, which compliment the traditional performances, offered two master classes at Suffolk on comedy and drama on the classical Japanese stage.

A highly published and widely respected scholar, Dr. Ling discusses how Americans look at the Chinese in their midst, and how Chinese-Americans react to being hyphenated Americans.

Theodore Bestor, PhD. Cultural anthropologist Bestor, a specialist on contemporary Japanese culture, talks about the confluence of food and cultural values among the Japanese today.

Educated women were often discouraged from visiting Buddhist temples and making friends with Buddhist nuns, since this would mean breaking the rules of female propriety by leaving the inner quarters. Women did not, however, always follow the rules. Dr. Grant has published several major studies on the lives of educated women in premodern China.

February 16, 2011. Suffolk University. A lecture by Dr. Michael Chapman (Beijing University). Dr. Chapman is a Suffolk graduate, having received his BSc, summa cum laude, in 2002. His 2006 Ph.D. is from Boston College. Now living and teaching in Beijing, Dr. Chapman has become fascinated with China’s most respected city. He leads tours and teaches a course about the city. In this highly-illustrated talk, Chapman speaks about how this most ancient city is being revitalized.