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Oct. 10, 2016
As part of the Tucson Humanities Festival, Dr. Albert Welter will present a talk titled "Buddhist Escapes: Caught Between Two Worlds." It is to be held on October 13 at 4:30pm, in the UA Poetry Center's Dorothy Rubel Room (Helen S. Schaefer Building…
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Oct. 6, 2016
Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal of the Brookings Institution will be presenting a talk called "Where are the United States and China Headed?" as part of the China Town Hall series. It will be held on Tuesday, October 18, 5:00-6:00pm, in 101 Saguaro Hall.…
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Aug. 16, 2016
Hsuan-ying Liu, our most recent PhD awardee, has accepted a Chinese teaching position at the University of North Dakota. She will be responsible for the entire Chinese program at UND. Hsuan-ying completed her dissertation entitled Coming of Age…
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Aug. 1, 2016
Dr. David Pietz was recently awarded the 2016 Cecil B. Currey Book Award from the Association of Global South Studies for his book The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. The Association of Global South Studies is the largest…
May 23, 2016
Dr. Lewis Lancaster, a Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke at the EAS Buddhist Studies Lecture Series at the University of Arizona on April 6, 2016. His lecture, "Buddhist…
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May 12, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Brandon Barnett, the recipient of our 2016 Hucker Founders Award! Brandon became interested in East Asian Studies through his great-great grandmother, who identified as Japanese but lived in Mexico. Along with his…
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May 12, 2016
Please join us in congratulating Amber Hunt, who is the recipient of the 2016 Blair Prize in Japanese Studies.
Amber is graduating from the University of Arizona with a triple major in East Asian Studies, Political Science, and Linguistics, and a…
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May 4, 2016
Zhaoyuan Cui, a student in JPN 202, gave a speech entitled "§¢„ÇíÂè∂„ÅÜÈÅì (Road of Realizing Dream). He was in Category C at the 27th Annual Arizona Japanese Speech Contest on April 17th. The contest was hosted by the Arizona Association of…
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May 4, 2016
Hosted by the UA Confucius Institute.
Congratulations to our EAS Winners!
Intermediate level:
Instructor: Ms. Xia Zhang
Anthony Burtman 安东尼 First Place
Emily Dahl 戴雨涵 Second Place
Anthony DuVall ÊùúÂÆâÂüπ…
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April 6, 2016
The University of Arizona’s Department of East Asian Studies had a strong presence at the the 2016 Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Seattle, WA, with no less than seven faculty members in attendance.
David Pietz attended the annual…
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March 10, 2016
Six graduate students who have been working with Professor Feng-hsi Liu have had their abstracts accepted at the 28th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-28), which is a major international conference on Chinese Linguistics. They…
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Feb. 19, 2016
Hsuan-Ying Liu’s conference proposal titled "Ready for the coming era of teaching and learning Chinese? A case study of K-12 schools” has been shortlisted for the Taochung Yao Memorial Award (a.k.a. the Yao Award) this year. Hsuan-Ying is a doctoral…