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Takarabune wows audience both on and off the stage

4.9.18

From start to finish, Takarabune gives a spectacular show and does everything in its power to create an important experience for all present.

Korean Language Student Awarded Fulbright Scholarship

4.9.18

Washington University senior Kate Lee was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board Tuesday.

Podcast: Why China and North Korea are not as close as you think

4.6.18

Professor Zhao Ma  answers questions about the relationship between China and North Korea, and brings context to current tensions in Northeast Asia.

Fanghao Chen selected as a recipient of Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2017-18

3.9.18

Fanghao Chen, PhD candidate in Chinese and Comparative Literature, has been selected as a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 2017-18.

Alumna Dr. Alisa Gaunder publishes new book

2.26.18

Cover of Japanese Politics and Government Has Special Meaning to its Author, Southwestern University Dean of the Faculty Dr. Alisa Gaunder.

Dr. Kanako Yao receives her PhD in Linguistics

12.11.17

Congratulations to Dr. Kanako Yao--who recently completed her PhD degree in Linguistics from The Ohio State University.

Treasuring Lives, Eating Animals

10.16.17

On Oct. 19, the inaugural Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture Series in Asian Religions will address the evolving attitudes around meat-eating in Buddhist culture, in a talk titled “Gratitude and Treasuring Lives: Eating Animals in Contemporary Buddhism.”

Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Zen Masters

10.5.17

Professor Beata Grant's new book  Zen Echoes Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Zen Masters has been published by Wisdom Publications.

EALC Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Alumnae Participated in the Asian Studies Conference Japan

7.10.17

EALC faculty, staff, graduate students and alumnae participated in the Asian Studies Conference Japan, held at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, July 8-9, 2017.

Rebecca Copeland presents summer lecture at KCJS

7.5.17

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

6.30.17

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

6.30.17

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.