The Department of Asian Studies offers programs of study that lead to degrees in the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and a Ph.D. Our programs offer students the opportunity to learn about the impact of Asian cultures and develop their linguistic competencies in up to nine Asian languages.

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Templating Chinese Literature: The TLEF Template Project for Chinese Literature Courses at the Chinese Language Program

 
At the core of a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) project lie the eight Canvas templates that Dr. Xiaowen Xu and her team designed for the literature courses in the Chinese Language Program. Overall, the project aims to enhance

Yü Ying-shih’s memoir now available in English co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke

 
Congratulations to Asian Studies Professor Josephine Chiu-Duke and Professor Emeritus Michal S. Duke on the co-translated publication "From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History" by Yü Ying-shih (Cambria Press, 2021).

MA student Bianca Chui selected as the winner of Princess Takamado Essay Contest

 
Congratulations to Asian Studies MA student, Bianca Chui for her essay, titled “Eating Your Way Through Sugoroku: Imaginary Travel in a Japanese Board Game,” being selected as the winner of the 2021 Princess Takamado Essay Contest.
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Templating Chinese Literature: The TLEF Template Project for Chinese Literature Courses at the Chinese Language Program

October 19, 2021

Yü Ying-shih’s memoir now available in English co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke

September 28, 2021

MA student Bianca Chui selected as the winner of Princess Takamado Essay Contest

September 20, 2021
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Events

Literature at the Time of Desolation: a point of view in Bahram Moradi’s Stories

October 27, 2021
4:00 pm
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[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Writer Ahronglong Sakinu

October 28, 2021 - October 29, 2021
4:00 pm
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[Webinar] Late Colonialism: “Hong Kong People” and the Popular Re-imagining of an Instituting Imaginary

October 29, 2021
12:00 pm
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