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Chanez receives 2023 Neureuther essay award

Elsa Chanez selected for Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center and receives a Japan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award

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

A new research project at Washington University in St. Louis will study the history of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in St. Louis.

Lei's article "Immersed in the Fleeting World of Modernity: Edo Music and the Aestheticism of Melancholy in Nagai Kafū’s Literary World" published in Japanese Language and Literature Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (April 2023)

Ji-Eun Lee, associate professor of Korean language and literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, is currently working on a book about domesticity and travels by colonial Korean woman writers.

Wei Wang promoted to Teaching Professor

Hatch taught Chinese history at WashU for more than three decades

Ran Wei's article, "Solidarity on the Margins: Narrating the Zainichi in Yi Yang-ji’s 'Woman Diver' (Kazukime, 1983) and Nakagami Kenji’s 'Flower Boy' (Fuaramu, 1980)" was published in the special issue "Revisiting Zainichi" of the online journal Transnational Asia.

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.

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

Zhao Ma | KMOX Radio