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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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…
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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…
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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。
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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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The animated short was conceived and brought to fruition by Yanai Initiative director Michael Emmerich Sean Brenner May 7, 2024 Among the responsibilities UCLA professor Michael Emmerich figured he…
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Diego Loukota, assistant professor of Asian languages and cultures, died at the age of 38 on March 17, in his home in Santa Monica, surrounded by family and friends. He…
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The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities present a world tour of restored Japanese silent films coupled with live narrators, known as benshi. BY SAMANTHA BERGESON…
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UCLA professor Michael Berry, shown here with the cover of the English-language version of Han Song’s “Hospital,” which was published in March of this year. (Photo: Peggy McInerny/ UCLA.) Michael…
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