Laurel Taylor attends British Centre for Literary Translation
EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation
Rebecca Copeland presents summer lecture at KCJS
Professor Rebecca Copeland shared with students at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies the challenges faced by translators as well as insider stories of translation.
Recent Chinese minor named Yenching Scholar
Two graduates of the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2017 — Carl Stanley Hooks and Kenneth Sng — have been named Yenching Scholars at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.
Technology of Memory: How We Remember and How We Forget
The widespread use of the Internet has created a virtual space serving as a venue for ordinary Chinese citizens to post their own recollections of their experiences during the Mao era. Against this memory boom in China, I will set up the “occasion” for creating a new interpretive frame to explore tensions of different memories of a shared traumatic historical moment.
Japanese major John Webb wins Quatrano Prize
John Webb, a senior majoring in biology, with a concentration in neuroscience, and in Japanese language and culture, all in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded the Ralph S. Quatrano Prize.
Chinese major says our Chinese program is 'impressive' and helped him prepare for the 'real world'
Meet Jimmy Loomis, a graduating senior and political science major, who is also the youngest elected representative in Missouri’s history.
Mimi Kim receives appointment as Teaching Professor of Korean Language
Congratulations on this promotion!
"How a foreign correspondent became an internet star in China with just one question"
Little did Kuhn know that his esoteric question about what officials were doing to help those living in poverty on the outskirts of Beijing would make him famous on the Chinese internet.
Li Wei, PhD student in Chinese Literature and Language
Receives Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence Honorable Mention
Professor Zhao Ma receives tenure
Congratulations to Professor Zhao Ma who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor!
Missouri, a refuge for tolerance
We want to avoid the mistakes of the past, but too often we fall back into old habits.
From Roosevelt to Trump, Japanese Americans see similarity in executive orders signed 75 years apart
As Trump promises to continue his push for immigration restrictions, Washington University will hold on Friday a public forum called “Executive Orders: The Living Legacy of Japanese American Internment.”
Rebecca Copeland reflects on the legacy of Japanese American internment, 75 years after it started
By June of 1942, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their belongings, property and livelihoods to be relocated and incarcerated in internment camps across the country.