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Register at events.duolingo.com/tucson This is a free language event near the University of Arizona, sponsored by Duolingo and not associated with the East Asian Studies Department. However, it's a wonderful opportunity for our students to…

Congratulations to Anthony Burtman, an EAS major who won the First Place at the Advanced level in the Chinese Bridge Southwest U.S. Preliminary Contest, held at UA campus, April 28. Participants from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas competed in the…

Congratulations to Yi Wang for winning the Tao-Chung Ted Yao Memorial Award at the Chinese Language Teachers’ Association (CLTA) Annual Conference, held in Washington DC, April 6-8. The paper she presented at the award competition is entitled ‘…

Julian Tran, our JPN 202 student, received a "most original" award at The 29th Annual Arizona Japanese Speech Contest. The contest was held at Pima Community College (West Campus).  Julian's speech title was A Letter To Myself. The letter was…

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Dr. Nathaniel Smith recently spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations Podcast on the rise of the "new right" in Japan.

Our Winter session schedule (Dec. 18-Jan. 9) is now available. Please see the flyer below for course offerings.

Dr. Fabio Lanza was interviewed by the UA News about China-US relations, intellectual history, and his new book, The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke University Press, 2017).

The Department of East Asian Studies was well represented at the Second Language Research Forum 2017 at the Ohio State University, October 12-14. Several graduate students presented papers at the conference. The presentations received a lot of…