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Leading Buddhist Studies Program Eyes Tibetan Gap

Center events on Tibetan Buddhism are part of an effort to create a UCLA chair in the field. On May 23, a high-ranking Buddhist abbot and a U of Michigan professor will read the poetry of a modern Tibetan monk in the original language and in English translation.
Posted: 4/30/2007

Web Journalists Keep Discerning Eye on Asia

AsiaMedia's focus on global dimensions will be evident on April 27 when it will screen a documentary film by Yahoo! News reporter Kevin Sites about his solo journeys across 22 war zones over a year.
Posted: 4/24/2007

Kirino Discusses Novel, Women's Rights

Wrapping up a U.S. book tour, Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino reads from her novel 'Grotesque' and considers women's plight in Japanese society.
Posted: 4/23/2007

Author Kirino to Speak

Best-selling Japanese mystery writer Natsuo Kirino will discuss her work and read from her latest novel, 'Grotesque.'
Posted: 4/9/2007

Pickled Kabuki

U of Hawaii's James Brandon remembers kabuki plays from Japan's Fifteen-Year War.
Posted: 4/5/2007

'To Study It, I Had to Perform'

UNC-Chapel Hill anthropologist Christopher T. Nelson reflects on his research into and participation in the traditional Okinawan dance eisaa.
Posted: 3/28/2007

Ikebana Flowering

An ikebana exhibit at UCLA plants seeds for the next generation of students interested in the ancient Japanese art of flower arrangement.
Posted: 3/20/2007

Make Way for 'Peaceful Rise'

Bates Gill, an American expert on East Asian security issues, argues for welcoming China into a global fold. Not only is there little choice, he says, but the country's policies have taken an encouraging turn over the last decade and more.
Posted: 3/7/2007

The Ghosts of Kabuki

Samuel Leiter of Brooklyn College attempts to spook the audience at a UCLA event on kabuki theater.
Posted: 3/7/2007

China and the Jews

Peter Berton (USC professor emeritus) sheds light on history of Jews in China
Posted: 2/23/2007

Buswell's AAS Election in the News

Professor Robert Buswell's election to the presidency of the Association for Asian Studies attracts attention from Korean-language media.
Posted: 2/22/2007

A Spy Called Sorge

Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations Thomas Rimer speaks about the re-telling of the Sorge affair in Japanese film and theater.
Posted: 2/21/2007

Into Modernity

Historians Harry Harootunian, Carol Gluck and Fred Notehelfer offer views on modernity and its development in Japan.
Posted: 2/14/2007

UCLA's Buswell Elected 1st Koreanist to Lead Asian Studies

In 2008, Robert Buswell will become president of the Association for Asian Studies, the largest group of its kind. It's a breakthrough for UCLA and Korean studies alike and may owe to the unusually wide expertise of this one-time Buddhist monk.
Posted: 2/7/2007

Depoliticized Politics and the End of the Short Twentieth Century in China

A talk by Wang Hui
Posted: 1/29/2007

The Dao in Nara Literature

USC's David Bialock speaks about his research on Daoist influences in Japanese literature from the Nara period.
Posted: 12/12/2006

Privatizing the Post Office

Japanese politics expert Patricia Maclachlan identifies the challenges to the future privatization of the Japanese post office.
Posted: 11/30/2006

UCLA Alumnus Wins Third World Studies Book Prize

Hanchao Lu’s "Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars" wins the Cecil B. Currey Book Award for 2005–06
Posted: 11/29/2006

Report Gives Insight into International Enrollment

Though numbers have been declining since 2002-2003, a downward trend may be ending.
Posted: 11/16/2006

The Aesthetics of 'Bijin'

USC scholar discusses a Japanese notion of beauty and its artistic representation in Meiji period paintings.
Posted: 11/15/2006

Nuclear North Korea as Seen From 4 Capitals

Experts on the Koreas, China, and the US say that North Korea won't give up its nuclear arms and that differences between the US and negotiating partners, including ally South Korea, will complicate six-party talks.
Posted: 11/8/2006

Panel Explores North Korea’s Future

Discussion attempts to add depth to public perceptions following country’s nuclear test
Posted: 11/3/2006

'The Day the Internet Blew Up in My Face'

MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa got more than he bargained for when he posted an image of Japanese war propaganda on an educational website.
Posted: 10/30/2006

UCLA Performance of 'Peony Pavilion' to Come, But Reviews Are In

'Youth Edition' of the Kun opera stops in Berkeley and Irvine, earning plaudits from critics.
Posted: 9/27/2006

10 UCLA Koreanist PhDs Land Jobs in Field

Ten recent Korean studies PhDs will take up research and teaching jobs in 2006–07.
Posted: 8/30/2006

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