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Ki Chow receives award for paper

4.25.25

Ki Cora Chow received the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize at AAS

Promotion: Heayoung Chun

3.24.25

promotion to senior lecturer

Mano Yasuda receives 2025 Outstanding Faculty Award

3.18.25

Graduate and Professional Student Council award to Dr. Yasuda

Korean faculty receive WashU Digital Transformation grant

2.24.25

DI2 Accelerator Award for Open Educational Resources

‘Meet Me in St. Louis’: The Chinese experience at the 1904 World’s Fair

2.18.25

Dignitaries representing China at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair got the media attention, but historian Zhao Ma wondered about the lives of the workers — interpreters, merchants, cooks and carpenters — who supported China’s mission. Traveling to the U.S. the height of the Chinese Exclusion Act, they faced intense scrutiny and discrimination at every turn.

KMOX Series: USA's international relations under Trump- Part 2 China

2.6.25

Zhao Ma | KMOX Series podcast

How America fell in love with China's memes

1.31.25

Jianqing Chen quoted in BBC article

What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to — and the cultural moment unfolding there

1.30.25

Jianqing Chen | The Conversation

Tracking the tap: A historical and cultural analysis of Chinese touchscreen media

11.19.24

Media studies scholar Jianqing Chen’s new book project examines touchscreen media, a phenomenon so new it has yet to receive scholarly examination. Focusing on China’s 1 billion users — representing a fifth of smartphone users worldwide — she’s constructing a story that weaves together the technology’s origins as well as its implications for global digital life.

Korean Culture Day Event

10.30.24

South Korea’s Seoul Broadcasting System features the Oct 24 Korean Culture Day event organized by the WashU Korean Students Association, the Korean Cultural Center of LA, and EALC Korean faculty.

A factory worker’s take on AI

10.3.24

Anxiety over new technology replacing jobs is nothing new, writes Graduate Student Fellow Ki Cora Chow. But, she reminds us, even cutting-edge machines have always needed human minders.

Ran Wei awarded Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize

8.12.24

Ran Wei, Japanese Ph.D. candidate, receives award