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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Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project
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…
Read MoreWhen walking becomes a message
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…
Read More2 Humanities Ph.D. candidates chosen to develop, teach undergrad seminars
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…
Read MoreProfessor’s project creates 2nd ever book in endangered Philippine Indigenous language
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…
Read MorePaper films – treasures of pre-war Japan – to be screened at Billy Wilder Theater, April 13
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…
Read MoreSixiang Wang honored for book that reframes 3 centuries of Korea-China relations
Ashna Madni | November 18, 2024 For his first monograph, Sixiang Wang took on a monumental task: reframing diplomatic relations between the Chosŏn dynasty of Korea and neighboring Ming China from the 1250s through…
Read MoreTadashi Yanai gives $31 million to support hub for Japanese humanities research at UCLA
Gift is largest ever to UCLA Humanities Division Sean Brenner October 3, 2024 Read this announcement in Japanese /日本語で読む Japanese executive and philanthropist Tadashi Yanai has made a commitment of $31…
Read More柳井正氏、カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校(UCLA)における日本人文科学の研究拠点を支援するため、3,100万米ドルを寄付
UCLAの人文科学部への寄付として過去最高額
ジャパン・パスト&プレゼントは、日本人文科学研究における拠点としてUCLAの地位を強化するだけでなく、本校がこの分野をグローバルに牽引していく多角的な取り組みです。
Read MoreWith B.A. and M.A. – and having led a UCLA course – Harry Li launches his teaching career
Emma Horio | June 5, 2024 When Harry Li begins teaching Chinese to high school students in Pasadena this fall, he’ll bring with him highly relevant instruction experience, having already…
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