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Professor George Dutton’s latest book, A Vietnamese Moses (UC Press, 2017) has just received the 2017 Premio Fondaçaõ Oriente (Oriental Foundation Prize) for the best book on a topic related…

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures would like to congratulate Professor John Duncan,  Professor of Korean in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, on his award as the twenty-third recipient…

Distinguished Professor Stephanie Jamison of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) has been named to the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jamison is one of the…

Noriko Akatsuka, who established the foundation for the Asian linguistics program in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, passed away on Oct. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica at the…

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures would like to congratulate Richard E. Strassberg, Emeritus Professor of Chinese, on the awarding of the The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for…

Prof. Sung-Deuk Oak published two books on the history of early Korean Protestantism for the Korean audience, and three copious sourcebooks in both English and Korean. Two more sourcebooks come…

  (Download book as a free PDF here) In a new book, George Dutton, a professor of Asian languages and culture and director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, explores…

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is pleased to announce that faculty member Michael Berry’s translation of the novel To Live has been selected for the National Endowment for…

Congratulations to Professor Stephanie Jamison on the publication of a festschrift in her honor titled Sahasram Ati Srajas. Forty-five scholars from major universities in the United States and from around…

Congratulations to Professor Christopher Hanscom on the publication of his newest book, The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire.  Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire…