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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. 

Professor Sheldon Lu wrote and published a new monograph (in Chinese) in 2022: Lyric Poetry and Solidarity Society in Hong Kong in the 1950s 一九五〇年代香港詞壇與堅社. Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Book Co. 中華書局, 2022.

Here is a link: https://www.chunghwabookstore.com/products/1-9789888807505

Congratulations, Sheldon!

Below are Professor Xiaoling Shu's publications for 2022-23. Congratulations!

*Graduate student coauthors

Book

• Shu, Xiaoling and Jingjng Chen*. Forthcoming in 2023. Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism. Interdisciplinary book series on The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts. Rutgers University Press. 

Journal Articles

Professor Michael Foster served as the “navigator” for an international television program called “YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore – ZASHIKI WARASHI” produced in Japan by NHK World. The show can be watched here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3022015/

Professor Li Zhang was interviewed by a senior reporter of The Economist and her book Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy was recommended by The Economist as one of the six books this year to read for a better understanding of contemporary China.

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021), has won the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Congratulations, Howard!

Professor Michiko Suzuki has been awarded a Japan Studies Grant from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.  She will be conducting short-term research in Japan on a project titled “Rewriting the Canon: Nakajima Kyoko and Contemporary Japanese Feminist Literature”.

This study documents the dynamics of changing social representations of the COVID-19 pandemic on one of the largest Chinese social media, Weibo, from December 2019 to April 2020. We analyzed a dataset of 40 million COVID-19 related posts from 9.7 million users (including the general public, opinion leaders, and organizations) using machine learning methods.

The EAS Press has released the EAS Annual Newsletter for 2021-22! This includes events, awards, faculty/graduate student achievements, and more! Check it out here: EAS newsletter 2021-22.pdf

by Daniel Goldstein – April 23, 2020

The producers of  more than 50 Chinese databases have generously provided UC with temporary, (new or expanded) access during the crisis.  Most are available until the end of June.  Most are in Chinese, a few of the news and historical resources are in English.