Kabuki actor Nakamura Kyozo in a performance of “Shujaku jishi” performance for UCLA students in November 2019. The event was sponsored by the Yanai Initiative and the Japanese Ministry of…

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Professor Shu-mei Shih has been elected second vice-president of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Founded in 1960, the ACLA represents the field of comparative literature and is a crucial…

Click here to see the article on the Daily Bruin A UCLA professor aims to bridge the political and cultural divides between students of Indian and Pakistani heritage by bringing…

  ALC faculty hosted the annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics conference from November 29-December 1, 2018, at UCLA.  Envisioned by faculty and graduate students from UCLA, UCSB, and USC more than a…

Li Min’s book, Social Memory and State Formation in Early China, is released by the Cambridge University Press in summer 2018. In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for…

Professor Shu-mei Shih was awarded a distinguished alumnae award from her alma mater, National Taiwan Normal University, in August 2018.  This award recognizes lifetime scholarly, artistic, or professional achievement as…

Distinguished Professor Stephanie Jamison of Asian Languages & Cultures (ALC) has been elected to the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), a German academic society devoted to a deeper understanding of Asia…

ALC lecturer Jae-Eun Yoon talks about her personal journey to becoming a language teacher, the importance of pursuing excellence in language education, the uniqueness of the Korean language, and its…