News

China’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design

10.23.23

Article by Jianqing Chen in The Conversation

Participants find new passion, perspectives through the Creative Practice Workshop

10.18.23

The Center for the Literary Arts provides faculty members with the chance to develop their creative work in a tight-knit, highly collaborative space.

EALC welcomes new faculty in FL23

9.1.23

Meet our new faculty

Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

4.14.23

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

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

4.10.23

Ji-Eun Lee, associate professor of Korean language and literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, is currently working on a book about domesticity and travels by colonial Korean woman writers.

Promotion: Wei Wang

3.8.23

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Ji-Eun Lee named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow

2.15.23

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’

12.16.22

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

Historic protests erupt in China over strict COVID measures

12.8.22

Zhao Ma | KMOX Radio

Zhao Ma receives McDonnell Academy seed grant for international collaboration

11.9.22

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”

‘Embracing Our Diversity Through Languages’ Oct. 7 and 8

10.6.22

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.”

Jianqing Chen awarded two fellowships

7.25.22

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