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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…

During his visit to Lisbon to receive a prize for his recent book, A Vietnamese Moses (UC Press, 2017), Prof. Dutton was interviewed by Diario de Noticias, the Lisbon-based Portuguese…

Professor SU Bai 宿白, just passed away due to sickness in morning of February 1, 2018, aged 96. Prof. Su Bai is the primary person to establish the archaeology discipline at Beijing…

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is delighted to congratulate Professor David Schaberg, Dean of the Humanities at UCLA, on being awarded the 2018 Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize…

Professor George Dutton’s latest book, A Vietnamese Moses (UC Press, 2017) has just received the 2017 Premio Fondaçaõ Oriente (Oriental Foundation Prize) for the best book on a topic related…

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures would like to congratulate Professor John Duncan,  Professor of Korean in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, on his award as the twenty-third recipient…

Distinguished Professor Stephanie Jamison of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) has been named to the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jamison is one of the…

Noriko Akatsuka, who established the foundation for the Asian linguistics program in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, passed away on Oct. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica at the…