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YEAR
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LECTURER
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TITLE AND AFFILIATION
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LECTURE TITLE
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| 1 |
1975-76 |
Frederic Wakeman |
Professor of History and Chairman, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
The Past Must Serve the Present: Mao Tse-tung's Use of History |
| 2 |
1976-77 |
John King Fairbank |
Professor of History and Chairman, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University |
Chinese-American Relations: The Uncertain Future |
| 3 |
1977-78 |
James William Morley |
Ruggles Professor of Political Science and Director of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
Japan: A Partner Perplexed |
| 4 |
1978-79 |
Selig S. Harrison |
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Research |
Next Steps in Asia: China, the U.S., and the Challenge of Nationalism |
| 5 |
1979-80 |
A. Doak Barnett |
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution |
China's Emergence in the Global Economy |
| 6 |
1980-81 |
John M. Rosenfield |
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art, Harvard University, |
The Monk Chogen and the Rebuilding of Todaiji |
| 7 |
1981-82 |
Tu Wei-ming |
Professor of History and Philosophy, Harvard University The Confucian Perception of "Learning" |
The Confucian Perception of "Learning" (Xue) |
| 8 |
1982-83 |
Gari Ledyard |
Professor of East Asian Languages, Columbia University |
A Korean Focus on East Asia: Problems Past and Present |
| 9 |
1983-84 |
Ye Junjian |
Author; Founder of PEN; translator; literary critic from Beijing, China |
My Life as a Chinese Intellectual |
| 10 |
1984-85 |
Kazuko Tsurumi |
Professor of Sociology, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan |
Japanese Creativity: Minakata Kumagusu, Yanagita Kunio, Origuchi Shinobu |
| 11 |
1985-86 |
Harrison Salisbury |
Journalist; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author |
China's Long March: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow |
| 12 |
1986-87 |
Ronald P. Dore |
Technical Change Center, Kings College, London, England |
Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Japan. |
| 13 |
1987-88 |
Benjamin Schwartz |
Fairbank Center, Harvard University |
Why Study Non-Western Cultures? |
| 14 |
1988-89 |
Donald Keene |
Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor, Columbia University |
Japanese Literature as World Literature |
| 15 |
1989-90 |
Perry Link |
Director, NAS/CSCPRC Office, Beijing; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Princeton University |
Chinese Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Democratic Movement |
| 16 |
1990-91 |
Masao Miyoshi |
Hajime Mori Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature, University of California at San Diego |
Japan Bashing |
| 17 |
1991-92 |
Jonathan D. Spence |
George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University |
The Taiping Rebellion: Getting Off the Ground |
| 18 |
1992-93 |
In-ho Lee |
Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Russian & East European Studies, Seoul National University |
Understanding Korea: Psychology of a Rapidly Developing Nation |
| 19 |
1993-94 |
Howard Hibbett |
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University |
Parody Regained: Symbol of Stereotype in Traditional Japanese Humor |
| 20 |
1994-95 |
Stephen Owen |
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University |
Mutilation and Identity: The Assertion of the Interior Self in Ancient China |
| 21 |
1995-96 |
Carol Gluck |
George Sansom Professor of History, East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
War and Memory in Japan in the End of the Millennium |
| 22 |
1996-97 |
Merle Goldman |
Professor of History, Boston University; Research Associate, John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University |
Will China Be a Great Power in the 21st Century? |
| 23 |
1997-98 |
John W. Dower |
Elting E. Morrison Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Pulitzer-prize-Winning Author |
Images of Race and Power: Japan, China, and the United States from the 1850's to the Present |
| 24 |
1998-99 |
Wu Hung |
Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History, The University of Chicago |
Representing Ruins: Inventing a Modern Visual Culture in China |
| 25 |
1999-00 |
The Honorable Yasushi Akashi |
Chairman, Japan Center for Preventative Diplomacy; Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations |
Japan's Role in the World, Viewed from a Glass Tower in New York |
| 26 |
2000-01 |
Bruce Cumings |
Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, University of Chicago |
Koreans Invade Korea: On the History and Memory of a Civil War |
| 27 |
2001-02 |
Anthony Saich |
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, The China Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
The Changing Role of the State in Reform China |
| 28 |
2002-03 |
Kenneth B. Pyle |
Professor of History and Asian Studies and Director, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington |
Japan and the Emerging Order in Asia |
| 29 |
2003-04 |
Elizabeth J. Perry |
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University |
Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and State-Building in China |
| 30 |
2004-05 |
Bernard Faure |
George Edwin Burnell Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University |
Japan, Land of the Elephant: The Hidden Side of Medieval Japanese Religion. |
| 31 |
2005-06 |
Roger T. Ames |
Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii |
Li and the A-theistic Religiousness of Classical Confucianism |
| 32 |
2006-07 |
Conrad Totman |
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Yale University |
Japan as the Earth Writ Small: Ecological Issues |
| 33 |
2007-08 |
Richard P. Madsen |
Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego |
Religious Renaissance and Asian Modernity |
| 34 |
2008-09 |
Harry Harootunian |
Professor of History and East Asian Studies, New York University |
Forgetting Japan's Postwar |
| 35 |
2009-10 |
Zhang Longxi |
Chair, Comparative Literature & Translation, City Univiversity Hong Kong |
Nature and Landscape in the Chinese Tradition |
| 36 |
2010-11 |
Ed Lincoln |
New York University Stern School of Business |
What Ails Japan |
| 37 |
2011-12 |
Takeo Hoshi |
Director, Japan-U.S. Business Center, Professor of Economics |
Post 3/11 Japanese Economy |
| 38 |
2012-13 |
Deborah Davis |
Professor of Sociology, Yale University |
Post-Socialist Marriages: Experiences from Shanghai |
| 39 |
2013-14 |
Thomas LaMarre |
Professor of East Asian Studies, McGill University |
Self in Infrastructure: The Media Ecology of Anime |
| 40 |
2014-15 |
Vera Schwarcz |
Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies; Professor of History; Professor, College of East Studies, Wesleyan University |
The Human Dot on Yellow Mountain: Re-thinking 45 Years of China Study |
| 41 |
2015-16 |
Susan Pharr |
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Harvard University |
Japan's History Problem |
| 42 |
2016-17 |
Victor Cha |
Director of Asian Studies and D.S. Song Chair, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
The Origins of America's Alliance System in Asia: Japan, Taiwan, and Korea |
| 43 |
2017-18 |
Xiaofei Tian |
Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University |
The Life of Things: Medieval Chinese Tales of the Strange |
| 44 |
2018-19 |
Yu Miri |
Award-Winning Korean Playright, Novelist, and Essayist |
Myself Within Japan, Myself within Fukushima |
| 45 |
2019-20 |
Tonio Andrade |
Professor of Chinese and Global History, Emory University |
A Walk Into Winter: The 1795 Dutch Embassy to Qing China |
| 46 |
2020-2021 |
Sungmoon Kim |
Professor of Political Theory, City University of Hong Kong |
Confucian Democrary as Rule by the People |
| 47 |
2021-22 |
Eric C. Rath |
Professor of Premodern Japan; Social and Cultural History; Food History; Traditional Performing Arts, University of Kansas |
Sushi Before Sushi: The Hidden Fermented History of Japanese Food |
| 48 |
2022-23 |
Gi-Wook Shin |
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, Director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asian-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies. |
From Anti-Japan to Anti-China: What South Koreans' Changing views Mean for the US-ROK Alliance and Regional Relations |
| 49 |
2023-24 |
Michael Dylan Foster '87 |
Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California Davis. |
Monsterful Proliferation: Belief, Play, and the Folkloric Creatures of Japan |
