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Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution

The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.
Posted: 10/7/2009

Professor Who Knows Both Legal Systems Takes Up Terasaki Chair in US-Japanese Relations

Daniel Foote, Chair in Sociology of Law at the University of Tokyo, is the sixth scholar to hold this one-year appointment at UCLA.
Posted: 9/28/2009

The Ikema Project: An Attempt to Preserve an Endangered Language of Ryukyu

Shoichi Iwasaki reports on a four-year collaborative project of international Linguistics researchers
Posted: 9/24/2009

Korean Cultural Minister Visits Center

Yu In-Chon, South Korea's minister of culture, sports and tourism, met Tuesday with UCLA Korean studies faculty members and Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost for international studies. Yu, a well-known former actor, heard from CKS Director John Duncan and Professors Burglind Jungmann, Sung Deuk Oak, Lisa Kim Davis and Dong-suk Kim about their current research and thanked them for building an excellent Korean studies program at UCLA.
Posted: 9/9/2009

Grad Students Hone Chinese Translation Skills in Shanghai

Fudan Scholarly Translation Workshop in Shanghai was sponsored by the UCLA Confucius Institute and was designed to teach the general principles of translation and to help students with their graduate research.
Posted: 8/28/2009

UC Irvine Alumna Named Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow

Mayumi Manabe will teach a course in literature, deliver a lecture for the Terasaki Center's colloquium series, and work on turning her dissertation about working-class women in interwar literature into a book.
Posted: 8/26/2009

UCLA Scholar to Head New Korean Buddhist Research Institute

Robert Buswell, who once dropped out of college to become a monk in Asia, directs the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
Posted: 8/26/2009

Internationals Turn Out for Language Tutoring

As part of a summer series of lunchtime conversations in eight languages, international visitors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Wednesday helped UCLA students with their Mandarin Chinese in the Rolfe Courtyard. About 90 people attended. The U.S. students are enrolled in intensive courses organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/14/2009

Terasaki Research Travel Grant

Call for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLA
Posted: 8/14/2009

From Red Guard to Red Carpet

UCLA alumna Anna Chi became a filmmaker after an initial love of literature and writing was curtailed by an order from China's Communist Party for her to work as a film editor and after friends coaxed her to move to the United States, a country she was taught as China's enemy.
Posted: 7/7/2009

New Answers to Big Questions in Chinese History

For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.
Posted: 6/30/2009

Survivor of Tiananmen Square Reaches Her Goal, a Ph.D.

Chaohua Wang will participate in the June 11 Ph.D. hooding ceremony for UCLA's Graduate Division, after completing graduate studies that were unexpectedly interrupted by the uprising that held China's, and the world's, attention for a month and a half.
Posted: 6/3/2009

Center of the Cosmos

Herman Ooms, a professor of premodern Japanese history at UCLA, explains how the Tenmu dynasty manipulated religious symbols to reinforce concepts of supreme authority.
Posted: 6/1/2009

Japan Honors Notehelfer With Order of the Rising Sun

At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.
Posted: 5/13/2009

Professor in Japanese Studies Receives Award

Long-time former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer receives the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the Japanese government's most prestigious decorations. The Daily Bruin looks at his legacy at UCLA.
Posted: 5/13/2009

Japanese, South Korean Consuls Discuss Regional Security, Global Economics

The top representatives from Japan and the Republic of Korea in Southern California visited campus on Monday for a discussion sponsored by the Graduate Student International Affairs Association at UCLA and cosponsored by the Asia Institute and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
Posted: 5/12/2009

Filling the Silent Space

One of the standing committees on South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents Korean War deaths including mass killings of some 100,000 South Koreans by their own military, police and allies. Dong-Choon Kim of Sung Kong Hoe University discussed the work of the committee he leads earlier this quarter at UCLA.
Posted: 5/1/2009

Former UCLA Dean to Head University in Hong Kong

Tony Chan, a former dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, has been appointed the next president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Posted: 4/6/2009

Wartime Engineers as Social Visionaries

Aaron Moore, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and faculty member at Arizona State University, explains the vision of a modern empire behind Japanese engineering projects during the Sino-Japanese War.
Posted: 3/31/2009

Toward a Pan-American School of Things Korean

Now in its third year, the Korean Studies in the Americas program brings students to UCLA from four Latin American countries, supports collaboration among faculty, and sends American Koreanist scholars north and south for lectures. Funded by the Seoul-based Academy of Korean Studies, the UCLA-administered program has begun to snowball, attracting interest in the form of travel grants for Latin American students and faculty members visiting Korea and the United States.
Posted: 3/18/2009

Three Chinese Histories of Globalization

Delivering the inaugural lecture for the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies speaker series "Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future," Wang Gungwu of the National University of Singapore shows how China's image of and role in globalization have changed as the country has become less closed off and more of an active participant in world affairs.
Posted: 3/16/2009

Drama: The Forgotten Genre

Cody Poulton of the University of Victoria traces the rise and fall of drama as a literary genre in early 20th-century Japan.
Posted: 3/6/2009

Signing of Master Affiliate Agreement

February 2009
Posted: 2/28/2009

The Other Oscar Made in Asia

Hadn't heard of Yojiro Takita's 'Departures' before it won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards? Asia Pacific Arts, an online publication of the UCLA Asia Institute, reviewed the film last month and took stock of a great year in Japanese cinema.
Posted: 2/23/2009

Buson's Comedic Artistry

Cheryl Crowley of Emory University uncovers the messages hidden in Yosa Buson's comedic haiku paintings.
Posted: 2/18/2009

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