Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

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Kang won an ACLS Fellowship for his project “Artisanal Heart: The Vernacular Engineers of Early Modern Korea.”

New grant to explore Asian Americans’ history in St. Louis

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A new research project at Washington University in St. Louis will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis.

Lei Hu Article Published

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Lei's article "Immersed in the Fleeting World of Modernity: Edo Music and the Aestheticism of Melancholy in Nagai Kafū’s Literary World" published in Japanese Language and Literature Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (April 2023)

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

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어와우리 벗님네야, 이내말삼 드러보소 (“Hello my friends, please listen to what I am about to tell you”). For more than 500 years, Korean women have invited listeners to relive moments of their lives — excursions, celebrations, concerns and more — chronicled in the form of ‘kasa,’ a verse narrative. Scholar Ji-Eun Lee (East Asian Languages & Cultures) dives into their stories as part of a project on the evolution of the modern Korean woman of the 20th century.

Ke Nie Selected as Early Adopter

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Nie was selected for a teaching innovation grant. Early adopters will pilot pedagogical strategies that integrate a literacy-based approach into a selection of their 2023-2024 undergraduate courses

Promotion: Wei Wang

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Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Obituary: George C. Hatch, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 85

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Hatch taught Chinese history at WashU for more than three decades

Ran Wei Article Published in Transnational Asia Journal

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Ran Wei's article, "Solidarity on the Margins: Narrating the Zainichi in Yi Yang-ji’s 'Woman Diver' (Kazukime, 1983) and Nakagami Kenji’s 'Flower Boy' (Fuaramu, 1980)" was published in the special issue "Revisiting Zainichi" of the online journal Transnational Asia.

Call for proposals for “The Stanley Spector and Richard Yang Undergraduate Student Awards for Studies in East Asian Languages and Cultures”

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Awards support students furthering their understanding of an East Asian subject

Ji-Eun Lee named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow

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The Center for the Literary Arts, a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, has named its first cohort of Creative Practice Workshop Fellows.

WashU Expert: Recent Chinese protests could ‘undercut President Xi’s legitimacy in the long run’

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Zhao Ma | The Source article on China's COVID policy

Historic protests erupt in China over strict COVID measures

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Zhao Ma | KMOX Radio