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Wang promoted to senior lecturer

3.20.24

Jingyi Wang promoted to senior lecturer

The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines

3.7.24

Article by Alessandro Poletto in The Conversation

China’s WeChat is all-encompassing but low-key − a Chinese media scholar explains the Taoist philosophy behind the everything app’s design

10.23.23

Article by Jianqing Chen in The Conversation

Participants find new passion, perspectives through the Creative Practice Workshop

10.18.23

EALC welcomes new faculty in FL23

9.1.23

Meet our new faculty

Kang wins ACLS Fellowship

4.14.23

Kang won an ACLS Fellowship for his project “Artisanal Heart: The Vernacular Engineers of Early Modern Korea.”

‘Kasa’: Celebrating women’s journeys in Korea

4.10.23

어와우리 벗님네야, 이내말삼 드러보소 (“Hello my friends, please listen to what I am about to tell you”). For more than 500 years, Korean women have invited listeners to relive moments of their lives — excursions, celebrations, concerns and more — chronicled in the form of ‘kasa,’ a verse narrative. Scholar Ji-Eun Lee (East Asian Languages & Cultures) dives into their stories as part of a project on the evolution of the modern Korean woman of the 20th century.

Promotion: Wei Wang

3.8.23

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Ji-Eun Lee named Creative Practice Workshop Fellow

2.15.23

The Center for the Literary Arts, a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, has named its first cohort of Creative Practice Workshop Fellows.

WashU Expert: Recent Chinese protests could ‘undercut President Xi’s legitimacy in the long run’

12.16.22

Zhao Ma | The Source article on China's COVID policy

Historic protests erupt in China over strict COVID measures

12.8.22

Zhao Ma | KMOX Radio

Zhao Ma receives McDonnell Academy seed grant for international collaboration

11.9.22

Zhao Ma, along with Joan Wang, have been awarded the Global Incubator Seed Grant for their project “The Sound of Mao’s Last Revolution: Information Technology and Political Communication in Socialist China, 1966-1978”