Japan-China Cultural Relations Workshop

CAPI, together with the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, invited a group of outstanding scholars of China and Japan to present new research on a historical issue of continued significance: the relationship between the two great powers of East Asia in the period from Western contact in the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. The legacy of Japanese colonialism and occupation remains contentious into the twenty-first century; this workshop broke new ground by approaching it from a historical perspective that runs from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, and across a wide range of cultural expressions.

The workshop, organized by CAPI's Director, Dr. Richard King, was launched with a Lansdowne Lecture by Dr. Atsuko Sakaki, Department of East Asian Studies and Associate Member, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, on Thursday, January 24th, 2008, 7:30 pm in the David Strong Building Room C103. Her topic was ''Abe Kobo in Manchuria: Disorienting a Japanese Novelist.''

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