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...with a racist remark or uncharitable gesture. In fact, the only unkind words come from his own daughter. The man the audience meets is not the austere, reserved father who never talked about family problems that Yilan remembers from her childhood. Nor is he the stereotypical Asian father who comes from a patriarchal society and seldom cooks his own food. Rather, Mr. Shi cooks extravagant meals and is continually trying to get his daughter to talk about what went wrong with her marriage and what plans she has for the future. Rather than centering on clichéd cultural conflicts...

Author: By Rachel S. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...because my country was small that I had to suffer,” she said. “When I came back to Korea, I did not tell anyone what I did in China.” Last night’s event was sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association as an opportunity to educate Law School students interested in Asian studies and gender justice. “Under current standards of international law, what occurred with the comfort women would be illegal,” said Ryan Y. Park, the club’s political...

Author: By Carola A. Cintron-arroyo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Sex Slave Speaks Out | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...your cell phone, and the previews start. But instead of the new Saw flick, a trailer for Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” plays across the screen, narrated by Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies. As the name implies, the class is a historical comparison of the body and medicine in East Asia and Europe, and its approach is anything but traditional. Kuriyama jettisons the traditional required term paper in favor of newer pedagogical measures—making movies and podcasts. The approach...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Course Swaps Podcasts for Papers | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Last fall, Wenxin “Vincent” Xu ’09 flipped through the CUE guide looking for classes with the highest ratings, and Kuriyama’s class, then East Asian Studies 17, got a 5.0. Xu praised Kuriyama’s sometimes “quirky” style of teaching for making lectures much more interesting. “He’ll show a picture of a tree and he won’t show anything else for a minute and that will be something related to the concept of chi in East...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Course Swaps Podcasts for Papers | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...have a movie that’s dull because that would be against the whole point of making a movie.” This use of technology is especially relevant to a class like Kuriyama’s, according to Wilt L. Edema, the chair of the East Asian Languages and Cultures department. “Imagine a body made up of energy or a body made up of bones and muscles,” Edema said. “The conception of the body has visual consequence which Kuriyama manifests in his class...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Course Swaps Podcasts for Papers | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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