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New Courses: Music and Politics, U.S. China Policy, and Chinese Dance

Three new courses offered in the winter quarter
Posted: 1/11/2006

UCLA Asian Studies Faculty in the News -- December 2005

Comment on the Vietnamese American community, China's one child policy and adoption trends, and the place of Mao in today's China
Posted: 12/20/2005

UCLA Club Reaches Out to Families with Children from China

The UCLA-based Chinese Cultural Dance Club works with area youth, including children adopted from China.
Posted: 12/15/2005

Chinese Labor Activist Han Dongfang on Why China Needs Unions

Han's UCLA Regents Lecture is now available via streaming video.
Posted: 12/14/2005

Making Up for Minamata

Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005

Vietnamese-American Dreams

Journalist Andrew Lam introduces his first book, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.
Posted: 12/1/2005

Welcome to the IUC Japan

Sometimes, language instruction at your home institution isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Which is where the IUC comes in...
Posted: 12/1/2005

Doctor races against time to save quake victims

UCLA neurologist Zeba Vanek is raising money, mobilizing supplies to aid Pakistani victims.
Posted: 11/28/2005

A Look at Buddhism and Modernity in Korea

A UCLA undergraduate student in Korean Buddhism reports on Professor Jin Y. Park's colloquium presentation at the Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 11/23/2005

A Look at Korean American Buddhism, Gender, and Identity

A UCLA graduate student reports on Professor Sharon Suh's colloquium presentation at the Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 11/20/2005

Fighting HIV in the Golden Triangle

UCLA researchers find grassroots approaches to curbing the spread of HIV in China and Vietnam.
Posted: 11/18/2005

Unforced Devotions

Ritual-filled lives of 13th-century Japanese nuns at Hokkeji were rich, says USC scholar Lori Meeks.
Posted: 11/18/2005

Institute brings East Asia to K-12 teachers

Mandated to teach about Asia, too few teachers are prepared to do so. A UCLA Asia Institute seminar addresses this need.
Posted: 11/16/2005

UCLA Faculty Speaking on Asia -- November 2005

Discussing Schwarzenegger in China...
Posted: 11/16/2005

Recarving China's Past: The Wu Family Shrines and the Story of the Stones

Princeton curator Cary Liu, the Eighteenth Sammy Yukuan Lee lecturer, questions assumptions about 'Wu Family Shrines,' prevailing approaches to Chinese art and history.
Posted: 11/14/2005

Japan and the Emancipator

Harvard history professor Daniel Botsman discusses the progress and plight of Japan's Burakumin under Meiji rule.
Posted: 11/9/2005

Q&A: Eric Hayot

A Global Fellow at the International Institute takes up queries on torture, Abu Ghraib, the adoption of Chinese girls, and success in academia.
Posted: 11/8/2005

On the Edge of Vietnam's Forests

Cari Coe's research inhabits the space where protected forests, politics, and poverty meet.
Posted: 11/4/2005

Philippines Without Borders

UCLA visiting scholar's online distance-learning program brings new perspectives to cultural study of the Philippines.
Posted: 11/2/2005

He's No Quake Victim

Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam argues for return to democracy rather than military rule in Pakistan
Posted: 10/28/2005

Philippines Study Abroad Program in Jeopardy

The UC Education Abroad Program is extending its suspension of the program through this academic year because of a U.S. State Department travel warning.
Posted: 10/27/2005