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East Meets West in Scholar John Duncan
Director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and a leading light on pre-modern Korea, Duncan has lived comfortably in two cultures since the late 1960s. Duncan is receiving the Korea Foundation Award in Seoul for a lifetime of contributions to Korean studies worldwide.
Posted: 12/15/2009
South Korean Central Banker Shares Lessons Learned in Crisis
Dosoung Choi of the Bank of Korea delivers the inaugural lecture in a series jointly sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Seoul National University. The lectures will look at global issues from Korean vantage points.
Posted: 12/4/2009
Many Modernities Ahead
China's rise as a global power will change world politics and culture, not just the economy, argues Martin Jacques in a new book. To look ahead, start by understanding the difference between a nation-state and a civilization-state.
Posted: 11/30/2009
Prehistoric Civilizations Around the Silk Road: The Evidence from the Tocharian Languages
A Central Asia Initiative lecture by Melanie Malzahn, University of Vienna and Visiting Professor, UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies
Posted: 11/23/2009
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Podcast of public lecture by Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Posted: 10/30/2009
Global Studies Thesis Award Goes to Student with Ethos of Service
Elya Filler's Global Studies thesis on the East Asian sex industry and its historical background won that interdepartmental program's top honor for 2008-09. Now she is volunteering at a school in Cambodia and thinking about how best to continue her education while helping to battle poverty.
Posted: 10/27/2009
Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution
The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.
Posted: 10/7/2009
Professor Who Knows Both Legal Systems Takes Up Terasaki Chair in US-Japanese Relations
Daniel Foote, Chair in Sociology of Law at the University of Tokyo, is the sixth scholar to hold this one-year appointment at UCLA.
Posted: 9/28/2009
The Ikema Project: An Attempt to Preserve an Endangered Language of Ryukyu
Shoichi Iwasaki reports on a four-year collaborative project of international Linguistics researchers
Posted: 9/24/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures. Watch a video about the program.
Posted: 9/16/2009
Rethinking Confucianism
Professor John Duncan, director of the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, gave a lecture at El Colegio de Mexico on October 20, 2008, as part of the "Korean Studies in the Americas" project. Watch a video of his presentation.
Posted: 9/11/2009
Korean Cultural Minister Visits Center
Yu In-Chon, South Korea's minister of culture, sports and tourism, met Tuesday with UCLA Korean studies faculty members and Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost for international studies. Yu, a well-known former actor, heard from CKS Director John Duncan and Professors Burglind Jungmann, Sung Deuk Oak, Lisa Kim Davis and Dong-suk Kim about their current research and thanked them for building an excellent Korean studies program at UCLA.
Posted: 9/9/2009
Grad Students Hone Chinese Translation Skills in Shanghai
Fudan Scholarly Translation Workshop in Shanghai was sponsored by the UCLA Confucius Institute and was designed to teach the general principles of translation and to help students with their graduate research.
Posted: 8/28/2009
UC Irvine Alumna Named Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow
Mayumi Manabe will teach a course in literature, deliver a lecture for the Terasaki Center's colloquium series, and work on turning her dissertation about working-class women in interwar literature into a book.
Posted: 8/26/2009
UCLA Scholar to Head New Korean Buddhist Research Institute
Robert Buswell, who once dropped out of college to become a monk in Asia, directs the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Internationals Turn Out for Language Tutoring
As part of a summer series of lunchtime conversations in eight languages, international visitors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Wednesday helped UCLA students with their Mandarin Chinese in the Rolfe Courtyard. About 90 people attended. The U.S. students are enrolled in intensive courses organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/14/2009
Terasaki Research Travel Grant
Call for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLA
Posted: 8/14/2009
From Red Guard to Red Carpet
UCLA alumna Anna Chi became a filmmaker after an initial love of literature and writing was curtailed by an order from China's Communist Party for her to work as a film editor and after friends coaxed her to move to the United States, a country she was taught as China's enemy.
Posted: 7/7/2009
New Answers to Big Questions in Chinese History
For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.
Posted: 6/30/2009
Survivor of Tiananmen Square Reaches Her Goal, a Ph.D.
Chaohua Wang will participate in the June 11 Ph.D. hooding ceremony for UCLA's Graduate Division, after completing graduate studies that were unexpectedly interrupted by the uprising that held China's, and the world's, attention for a month and a half.
Posted: 6/3/2009
Center of the Cosmos
Herman Ooms, a professor of premodern Japanese history at UCLA, explains how the Tenmu dynasty manipulated religious symbols to reinforce concepts of supreme authority.
Posted: 6/1/2009
Japan Honors Notehelfer With Order of the Rising Sun
At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.
Posted: 5/13/2009
Professor in Japanese Studies Receives Award
Long-time former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer receives the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the Japanese government's most prestigious decorations. The Daily Bruin looks at his legacy at UCLA.
Posted: 5/13/2009
Japanese, South Korean Consuls Discuss Regional Security, Global Economics
The top representatives from Japan and the Republic of Korea in Southern California visited campus on Monday for a discussion sponsored by the Graduate Student International Affairs Association at UCLA and cosponsored by the Asia Institute and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
Posted: 5/12/2009
UCLA Foreign Policy Panel on US-China Relations
Burkle Center affiliates discuss U.S. relations with China as part of a foreign affairs panel at UCLA Day on May 9, 2009.
Posted: 5/9/2009
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