Jingyi Wang promoted to senior lecturer

Article by Alessandro Poletto in The Conversation

Amanda Carey, Mijeong Mimi Kim, Frank Lovett, Eleanor Pardini, and Jen Smith are among the St. Louis-area educators who received the 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Zhao Ma talks about where China stands when it comes to Israel and Hamas

Article by Jianqing Chen in The Conversation

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

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.

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

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.

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

Zhao Ma | KMOX Radio

Zhao Ma, along with Joan Wang, have been awarded the Global Incubator Seed Grant for their project “The Sound of Mao’s Last Revolution: Information Technology and Political Communication in Socialist China, 1966-1978”

The acquisition of a 19th-century Chinese bed allows Arts & Sciences students to study cultural history up close, from furniture assembly to 3D modeling.

Arts & Sciences has announced the second cohort of internal seed grant recipients.

Three EALC faculty — Mimi Mijeong Kim, Hea Young Chun and Taewoong Kim — will give their presentation “Fostering Cultural Literacy: Integrating Real World in College Language Curriculum.”

Chen awarded a Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies and a Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Cultures of Research” (c:o/re) Fellowship

In Hyeok Hweon Kang’s "Kitchen, Studio, Factory" class, material culture provides a window into the history of early modern scientific practice in East Asia.

Ginger Marcus retires after 36 years of teaching

Zhao Ma interview for Spanish-speaking BBC News Mundo

Rebecca Copeland awarded Independent Press Award 2022 (multi-cultural fiction category) for her novel The Kimono Tattoo

Zhao Ma on what social media debates reveal about the China-Russia partnership

Jianqing Chen and Rebecca Copeland receive Grimm travel awards for 2021-22

Zhao Ma comments on Beijing Winter Olympics in NY Times

Zhao Ma comments on Beijing Winter Olympics in Vancouver Sun

Zhao Ma comments on the Beijing Winter Olympics for NBC News

Deep in the Japanese mountains where the cryptomeria are thick and time is forgotten, you may encounter a woman... In her new book, Rebecca Copeland (EALC) examines the yamamba, or Japan’s legendary mountain witch. For hundreds of years, the yamamba has represented women who defy cultural expectations.

Chinese blockbuster war film salutes China’s military might and heroism

Hyeok Hweon Kang has received two awards for his doctoral dissertation.

A recent conference invited language instructors from across Arts & Sciences to discuss challenges and opportunities unique to the foreign language classroom.

Rebecca Copeland, professor of Japanese language and literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a nationally known scholar of modern Japanese literature, a translator of contemporary Japanese novels, and, now, a novelist herself.

Japan Station podcast with Rebecca Copeland

As China prepares for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party, theaters have been instructed to screen at least two propaganda films each week. But ideological mandates may not sit well with moviegoers, argues Zhao Ma.

New Korean language textbook provides students with the perfect preparation for the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK).

By examining the Chinese film industry’s long relationship with the Korean War, Zhao Ma’s current book project reveals the power of movies to shape historical memory.

International students and faculty including Zhao Ma share how they maintain community from afar

Zhao Ma quoted in Financial Times article

Zhao Ma quoted in South China Morning Post article

“The Korean War, as I understand it, is very much like the First World War to Europeans. It changed the ways in which they understand modern warfare,” says Zhao Ma, an associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture at Washington University in St. Louis.

Beata Grant, professor of Chinese and religious studies, is retiring this summer after thirty-two years at Washington University in St. Louis.

Marvin Marcus reflects on the past semester at WashU and the challenges posed by COVID-19 for teaching East Asian languages and cultures.

Wenhui Chen and Ke Nie have been promoted to senior lecturer effective July 1, 2020.

Nathan Vedal, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures in Arts & Sciences, has received a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Vedal also recently received a Mellon Fellowship from Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study.

Lingchei Letty Chen’s new book, “The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years,” has been published by Cambria Press.

Professor Zhao Ma comments on recent China travel warning

Ji-Eun Lee talks about the art of translation and her newest translation project, "I Met Loh Kiwan."

Marvin Marcus, professor of Japanese literature and comparative literature, took over as chair of EALC this fall.

Mimi Kim, teaching professor of Korean language, is the co-author of a new Korean language textbook that uses folktales as a springboard for language learning. The 21 stories that make up Tigers, Fairies, and Gods: Enchanting Folktales from Korea progress through increasingly challenging levels of diction and vocabulary while developing students’ cultural literacy.

NPR article with Zhao Ma

Mimi Kim's new book Tigers, Fairies, and Gods: Enchanting Folktales from Korea is for Korean language learners who want to improve their proficiency while learning about Korean culture. Reading the folktales in this book, students will gain a deeper understanding of Korean culture and improve their communication skills in the language.

Lingchei Letty Chen, associate professor of modern Chinese language and literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a three-year, $195,000 grant from the Taiwan Ministry of Education.

This episode of NPR's Throughline was co-produced by Zhao Ma, associate professor of modern Chinese history and culture.

Congratulations to Judy Mu and Shino Hayashi, who have both been promoted to the position of Teaching Professor, effective July 1, 2019!

Robert E. Hegel, professor of Chinese language and literature and the Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature, retires at the end of this semester. We sat down with Hegel to talk about his love of Chinese literature, watching students become colleagues, and the joy of sharing the stories you love with students.