News
Chinese Student Association Fosters Family Away from Home in Lunar New Year Celebration
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The Cornell Chinese Student Association fosters a close-knit community with events including its annual Lunar New Year celebration.
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“Engendering China” Series Talk Highlights Victims of Japanese Exploitation of Women During World War II
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Xian Wang, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, to explore the exploitation of Chinese women during World War II as part of the series hosted by the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative, themed “Engendering China.”
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A Cappella Group, The Men of Last Call, Perform for Alumni in Asia
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The Men of Last Call, a Cornell all-male a cappella group, was invited by alumni to perform at the Cornell Asia-Pacific Leadership Conference in Hong Kong during spring break.
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Sex-Selective Abortion Perpetuates Gender Discrimination in Asian Communities, Prof Says
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The argument supporting sex-selective abortion relies on a racial stereotype that Asian-Americans want male rather than female children more than other ethnic groups, according to Prof. Sital Kalantry.
Arts & Culture
Where is Our Home Now? Ai Weiwei’s “Human Flow”
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Few words are needed to express the heavy realities found within our global refugee crisis. Ai Weiwei’s documentary Human Flow captivates an awareness of this crisis chronicling the unimaginable narratives of refugees around the globe. Weiwei follows a series of stories, capturing the lives of refugees in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey.
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Come Together, Right Now
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Friday night, Cornell’s Southeast Asia and Music departments came together, sponsored by the Breaking Bread initiative, to put on Songs from 24,615 Islands, a night of Indonesian and Filipino music. The Breaking Bread initiative at Cornell focuses on bringing diverse peoples together to share culture and establish common ground. The Philippines and Indonesia are two incredibly ethnically diverse countries, and in the spirit of coming together, two musical groups – one Filipino/Western and one Indonesian Muslim – applied to Breaking Bread.
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Johnson Exhibit Examines Flirty Japanese Art Form
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While collegiate flirting usually consists of recycled Comedy Central jokes and (barely) politically correct comments about our less-than-perfect friends and lovers, the Japanese literati of the Edo period wooed one another with art and poetry. On exhibit this week at the Johnson Museum of Art is Colored in the New Year’s Light, a show featuring Japanese surimono — color wood block prints produced as holiday tokens. Surimono were traditionally commissioned by poetry societies; they were distributed at New Year’s as gifts of love or friendship. Rather than that drunken text message at midnight we’ve all sent and received, the ancient Japanese cognoscenti sent one another delicate images of fish, elegantly clad women and mythical beasts by the ocean side.
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After Kim, Who?
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There is calm in Northeast Asia. But it is an uncertain calm. The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea remains as reclusive, impoverished and repressive as ever, constituting a potential threat to the region–either through conflict or collapse. The fragility of the country was emphasized over the past couple of weeks with the widely circulating rumors concerning health problems of the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-il.