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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…
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Feb. 18, 2016
Dr. Jiang Wu was recently awarded about $25,000 by the Chiang Chingkuo Foundation to organize a conference on "The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China." This conference aims to provide a new perspective to the “old question” of…
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Jan. 21, 2016
This past December, M.A. student Christianne Ono travelled to Ikema Island in southern Okinawa to participate in Dr. Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta) and Dr. Toshihide Nakayama’s (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Second Miyako Language…
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Dec. 21, 2015
The Department of East Asian Studies is proud to announce the publication of Spreading Buddha's Word in East Asia: The Formation and Transformation of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, edited by our own Professor Jiang Wu in conjunction with Lucille Chia…
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Oct. 27, 2015
Liming Wang’s Biosketch
Liming was born and raised in a small village in northern China. Her fraternal grandfather was an intellectual but was persecuted and “sent down” during the Cultural Revolution. He had to relocate to a village from a coastal…
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Sept. 29, 2015
Mark Metcalf, an alumni of East Asian Studies, received his Masters of Art in EAS in 2001. His MA thesis, entitled Warring States Political Rhetoric and the Zhangguo Ce Persuasions, was directed by Dr. Anna Shields. Mark later received an MPhil from…