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April 18, 2018
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 ‘…
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April 8, 2018
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 to…
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March 30, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIXgiS8R8j8
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March 28, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLABpeDRajQ
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March 28, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-mg0V3rGv8
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March 28, 2018
https://networks.h-net.org/node/6060/discussions/1502560/creating-world-chan-sŏn-zen-chinese-chan-buddhism-and-its-spread
Dec. 17, 2017
Dr. Nathaniel Smith recently spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations Podcast on the rise of the "new right" in Japan.
Nov. 13, 2017
Our Winter session schedule (Dec. 18-Jan. 9) is now available. Please see the flyer below for course offerings.
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Oct. 26, 2017
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).
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Oct. 19, 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…
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Sept. 30, 2017
The Chinese language program participated in the Sixth Chinese Language and Culture Proficiency Competition at the Tucson Chinese Culture Center, September 30, 2017. The event was hosted by the Confucius Institute of the University of Arizona.…
Sept. 22, 2017
Dr. Albert Welter has been awarded a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies for his proposal "Creating the World of Chan/ Son /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia." As part of the project, an international…