Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his wife Christina will establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist Studies outside of Korea By Margaret MacDonald The UCLA…
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Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese…
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Asian languages and cultures lecturer Juliana Wijaya worked as a linguist for Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.” As a member of the Southeast Asia Story Trust, Wijaya reviewed character…
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The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures is excited to announce a brand new undergraduate major, Southeast Asian Studies, starting Fall 2021. Southeast Asia is a critically important area of…
Read MoreThe Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is excited to celebrate the accomplishments of our graduating seniors as part of our Virtual Commencement Celebration! We hope you join us in…
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In 2013, the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures faced a troubling possibility: its entire program in Japanese literature and culture might collapse. Both its faculty members in this…
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Over the past few years there has been a sharp escalation in hate speech, hate crimes, and other forms of harassment against members of the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific…
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced that Michael Berry will receive a Literature Translation Fellowship of $12,500 to translate Soft Burial (Ruan mai) by Fang Fang into English. Michael…
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We are pleased to announce the start of a new Master’s Degree Program in Teaching Asian Languages. The program covers selective fields of Teaching Asian Languages, including Teaching Chinese, Teaching…
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The professorship is one of many recent career honors bestowed on Shih, who joined the UCLA faculty in 1993. UCLA International Institute, August 7, 2020 — Shu-mei Shih — professor…
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