Now the director of the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies, Suleski, a specialist on modern Chinese history, was formerly the Assistant Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.  His research interests have focused on the period of Republican China during the 1920s and 1930s and he has published on topics covering China, Japan, and Korea.  Dr. Suleski lived in japan, Taiwan and Korea for extended periods.  While in Japan he served for eight years as President of the Asiatic Society of Japan.  Among his publications are Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria (2002), and this year, a book chapter in English on Confucianism in contemporary China, and a booklet in Japanese on the Manchuria Youth Corps, composed of teenaged farm boys sent by the Japanese Government in the 1930s to colonize Manchuria.

Watch Dr. Suleski's lecture, "The Manchuria Youth Corps, 1938 - 1945".

Watch Dr. Suleski's lecture, "Confucius and Confucianism".

Visit the Photo Gallery for photos of Dr. Suleski's lecture, "Confucius and Confucianism"