Dear All,

            I am excited to share with you a piece of good news. UC Davis East Asian Studies is starting a three-year partnership with Global Hong Kong Studies@University of California (GHKS@UC), an arrangement supported by the College of Letters and Science.

Congratulations to Katharine Burnett in the Art History Department on the publication of her Ming Studies article “Contemporaneity in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, Theory, and Criticism,” Ming Studies, 88, 1–2 (October 2023), pp. 3–33. DOI: 10.1080/0147037X.2023.2276599.

Congratulations to Xiaomei Chen in EALC on their new published book Performing the Socialist State! 

Check it out below! 

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/performing-the-socialist-state/9780231197762

Congratulations to Ben Fong on publishing his article "Learning to Speak Chinese: Defining the Sino-American Paradigm" in Arts 13 (1) 18. Read it here!

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Professor Mark Halperin has published article "A Domesticated Charisma: Buddhist Hagiographies in Southern Song China (1127-1279)." History of Religions, 63 (1): 1-34. Congratulations!

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Check out the links below! Videos are available on the website. Congratulations, Professor Michael Foster!

Call for Papers- CLOSED

The Diaspora Experience: Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Emigrants from the Chinese Borderland 

10–11 October 2024 

University of California, Davis 

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Professor Ming-Cheng Lo has been awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation!

More information can be found at this link: http://www.cckf.org/en/news/2023052202

Xuesong Shao (Comparative Literature) has been awarded a dissertation fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation!

More information can be found at this link: http://www.cckf.org/en/news/2023052202

Congratulations to Professor Katharine Burnett for her continued work as Founding Director of the Global Tea Initiative and for her publications!

Title change: Global Tea Initiative name formally changed to Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science. 

•Continued as Founding Director

Publications – Book forthcoming:

With Jiang Naibin, Former UCD EAS Visiting Scholar:

Professor Michiko Suzuki has published research article “Writing Women and Sexuality: Tamura Toshiko and Sata Ineko,” The Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers, ed. Rebecca Copeland (Tokyo: Japan Documents), 97-112. Congratulations!

Professor Sheldon Lu has advanced to "Distinguished Professor" of Comparative Literature at UC Davis! Congratulations! Sheldon Lu joined the University of California at Davis in 2002 and is affiliated with East Asian Studies, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Critical Theory, and Designated Emphasis in Environmental Humanities at UC Davis.