The UCLA Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is pleased to announce that Professor Michael Berry, alongside author Fang Fang, have been awarded the 2025 Baifang Schell Award for Literature…
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Sean Brenner/UCLA Humanities The project will create digital versions of thousands of books from the early 1600s through 1868, including many with beautiful illustrations of the natural world. Here, one…
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Cetera Jacobs Buddhist monks have endured frigid temperatures during their 100-plus-day Walk for Peace from Texas to Washington, D.C. Asian Languages and Cultures professor Stephanie Balkwill explains how the Walk…
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Courtesy of Ryan Schaller; Courtesy of Suong Thai Ryan Schaller (left) will teach about the cultural and political impact of colonial-era imagery on the francophone world; Suong Thai’s seminar will…
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Courtesy of Oona Paredes Oona Paredes, photographed in the Philippines, hopes the book kicks off a longer-term effort to jumpstart a literary tradition for the Higaunon. Sean…
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Courtesy of Toy Film Museum An effort is underway to preserve about 200 of the films, few of which survived World War II. In the 1930s, amid mounting competition…
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