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!