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Lingchei Letty Chen’s new book, “The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years,” has been published by Cambria Press.

EALC has made changes in class instruction and degree requirements for SP20

EALC administrative coordinator and WashU alumna Krystel Mowery receives award

Language instructors at WashU gathered on Wednesday for an informal roundtable discussion on teaching and using Canvas in the classroom. Iva Youkilis, Senior Lecturer and Placement Coordinator in Italian; Erik Nesse, PhD, Lecturer in French; and Taewoong Kim, PhD, Lecturer in Korean, led the discussion.

Professor Zhao Ma comments on recent China travel warning

The second cohort of Stanley Spector and Richard Yang Award recipients share their experiences in East Asia during the summer of 2019.

We asked Yuqian Yan, a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, to respond to the Kemper Art Museum’s exhibition, Ai Weiwei: Bare Life, and to attend the museum’s sold-out Q&A with Ai Weiwei on September 26. (The exhibit continues through January 5.) Here, she brings her expertise in spectatorship and Chinese performance culture to bear on the controversial Chinese artist and filmmaker’s works, which draw attention to the struggles of millions of people in China and around the world.

Ji-Eun Lee talks about the art of translation and her newest translation project, "I Met Loh Kiwan."

On October 25, Michael Bathgate (Saint Xavier University) will deliver the third annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions on the subject of “Foxes, Gods, and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene.”

A Q&A with Haiyan Lee (Stanford University) in advance of her talk on "A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy."

Marvin Marcus, professor of Japanese literature and comparative literature, took over as chair of EALC this fall.

Jarrell Sieff (AB, '94) discusses sake, international business, and living and working in Japan.