The ALTEC China and Taiwan programs were designed to provide students at CU with opportunities to explore Chinese culture within structured exchange programs. Four students went to the University of Shaoxing in China and two went to Kunshan University in Taiwan for language and cultural exchanges during summer 2002. Students were very pleased to obtain first-hand information about Chinese society and culture. Dr. Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku, University of California, San Diego, presented an informative workshop on assessment in April, funded partially by the departmental outcomes assessment fund. Twenty-two teachers and teaching assistants attended. The Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ), based in EALC, is a national professional oganization with close to one thousand members across North America and in other parts of the world. With support from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, ATJ promotes study abroad in Japan by U.S. undergraduates and administers a scholarship program that has awarded nearly 300 scholarships over the past four years. Funding for the Bridging Scholarships comes from U.S. corporations and private foundations via the U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation. In June Bridging Scholarships will be awarded to 75 students for study abroad in Japan beginning in Fall 2003. Recipients have included University of Colorado students studying abroad at CU exchange programs with Kansai Gaidai and Tsukuba Universities in Japan. The Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative, a four-year grant to CU’s Center for Asian Studies, each year awards financial scholarships to outstanding students to pursue their study of Asia, as well as internships to provide students with opportunities to apply their study of Asia through academic projects and community service. A total of 14 EALC and Asian studies majors have received awards for the 2003-2004 academic year. Recepients of the 2003-2004 scholarships through the Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative are: Eno Compton, Chinese; Emily Crimaldi, International Affairs and Asian Studies; Amanda Davis, Chinese; Heather Feuer, Japanese; Gregory Ford, Asian Studies and Germanic Studies; Sean Hammond, Asian Studies; Ashley Jackson, International Affairs and Asian Studies; Christopher Kaminski, Japanese; Min Sun Kim, International Affairs and Japanese; Gwyn Lewis, Chinese, International Affairs and Asian Studies; Jordan McKnight; Asian Studies and Chinese; Michelle Mullins, Japanese and Linguistics; Laura Miyuki Swift, Japanese and Mechanical Engineering; and Allen Wong, Chinese and Business. Six Chinese and Japanese majors will be working as interns both within the department and in the community. Tara Bardeen, a senior in Chinese, will spend fall semester working on Asian art exhibits at the Denver Art Museum. Japanese major Shannon McKay and Chinese major Dalenna Thanh will further the education of public school children as Outreach Assistants at the Center for Asian Studies. Several students will be engaged in teaching Chinese and Japanese in a variety of settings. Chinese majors Ann Chiu and Amy Ho will work under the guidance of Professor Madeline Spring to offer a Chinese language after-school program at Flatirons Elementary School in Boulder. Amanda Davis, a sophomore majoring in Chinese language and Asian studies, will be a teacher’s assistant at the Bohua Chinese School in Boulder. Brandon Cullis and Jeff Kimes will work with Kyoko Saegusa, Hideko Shimizu, and other Japanese language instructors to pilot a new tutoring program in Japanese for undergraduates. The Chinese club meets about every two week in the fall semester and every
other week in the spring. In the fall semester, students watched Chinese
movies, had authentic Chinese food at Chinese restaurants and invited a guest
speaker to talk about the economic and political situation in China. In the
spring semester, our students started fund raising by making egg rolls. It has
won strong support from the students of Chinese and the faculty members. Chinese Club provides students opportunities to explore the world which is
foreign but culturally abundant, economically promising and politically
influential and also provides students with equal opportunities to show their
talents. Interested individuals please e-mail hsuc@colorado.edu. Jessica Arntson – M.A., Japanese/History * * * Rachel Wilson – Lamont Scholarship for Japanese and Steven Berry Memorial Scholarship The CU-Boulder team won first place in the college division at the 6th Annual Japan Bowl in March. The 2nd-year Japanese team consisted of John McMillen (team leader), Kevin Bartram, and Erica Evans. The instructor/sponsor was Minori Murata. The Japanese Speech Contest was held on November 9, organized by Minori Murata and sponsored by the Japan Foundation and other donors. Its objective is to provide contestants with an opportunity to develop communication skills vital to students studying the language. Thirty-three students from area colleges and universities participated and competed, with presentations in several skill levels. Cultural entertainment include traditional dances and performances on traditional Japanese instruments. The 4th Annual EALC Language Contest, held on April 11, was a big success. More than fifty people took part, and all three East Asian Languages participated fully this year. First place winners were: Level 1, Skits: CHIN1020 (Instructor: Chun-ling Hsu); Level 2, Translation: KREN2120 (Instructor, Cheol Lee); Level 3, Presentation: Chris Villarose (Instructor, Chun-ling Hsu). Classical Japanese put on a very impressive skit (Instructor, Laurel Rodd). The T-shirt design was solicited from students for the first time, and Angelina Cook (JPNS2120 & CHIN 1020) submitted the winning design. Special thanks to Terry and Faye Kleeman, who have served as judges with knowledge of three languages—Chinese, Japanese, and English—from the beginning, and to Ms. Hyun Jun Yang, Ph. D. candidate in Linguistics, who volunteered to evaluate Korean skits this year. Their help made the contest possible. We received funding from undergraduate enhancement funds, CAS, and TEA. A video is available; please contact Kyoko Saegusa (saegusa@colorado.edu, 303-492-4497). ALTEC sponsored the first Foreign Language Discovery Days on April 2-3. Instructors in six languages—Japanese, Chinese, German, Italian, Swedish, and American Sign Language—provided an hour of free lessons to students who might be thinking of taking foreign languages and answered students’ questions about language learning in general and language instruction at CU. Around fifty students participated. More than seventy people participated in the Chinese Spring Festival. Students recited Chinese poems, sang songs, and demonstrated feng shui arrangement and kung fu. Students’ feedback indicates that this kind of activity motivates their language learning. Jessica ARNTSON (M.A., Japanese and History, 2003) will be Japanese Program Coordinator at the Teaching East Asia Program this coming year. Nathan BAK (Japanese M.A., 2002) is working at IBM. Matthew F. CARTER (Chinese M.A., 1993) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, writing his Ph.D. dissertation on early eighth-century Chinese court poetry. Chad CECERE (Japanese B.A., 2002) is working in Japan. Tim Wai-keung CHAN (Chinese Ph.D., 1999) is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney (Australia). He has published widely in the field of medieval Chinese literature. Malia CORDEL (minor in Japanese, 2003) will join the JET program this summer. Timothy M. DAVIS (Chinese M.A., 1999) is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, focusing on medieval Chinese literature. He is writing his Ph.D. dissertation on courtly literary activity in the third century. Steven DAY (Chinese M.A., 1994) is currently completing his Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature at U.C.L.A. He returned to our department for the spring semester of this year as an Instructor of Chinese, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Caleb EKBLAD (Japanese B.A., 2002) is teaching in Japan. Charlotte EUBANKS (Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, Japanese) won the Teaching Excellence Award of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. Andrew EVANS received his M.A. in Chinese in December. During the spring semester, he taught Chinese in the department as an Instructor. He will begin law school this fall at Cornell University. Timothy FITZ RANDOLPH (Japanese B.A., 2002) is teaching in Japan. Sean HAMLIN (COML M.A., 2002) is teaching Japanese at Eagle Crest High School in Denver and will be teaching in Japan in fall 2004. Tina Jenkins HARDING (Chinese M.A., 1999) is a Ph.D. student in the Chinese track of the Ph.D. program, writing her dissertation on the fourth-century poet Yen Yen-chih. HONG Yue (Chinese M.A., 2002) is a first-year Ph.D. student at Harvard University, focusing on medieval Chinese literature. JIA Jinhua (Chinese Ph.D., 1999) is Assistant Professor of Chinese at the City University of Hong Kong. She is one of the most prolific young scholars in China, specializing in medieval Chinese literature. Andy KNIGHT (Chinese M.A., 2000) is a Ph.D. student at Yale University, focusing on medieval Chinese literature. He has just passed his comprehensive examinations and is beginning work on a dissertation on T'ang poetry. Stephan N. KORY (Chinese M.A., 1998), who worked in Taiwan and Japan for a few years after receiving his M.A., is now a first-year Ph.D. student at Indiana University, focusing on medieval Chinese religion and literature. Sean LAMPE (Japanese B.A., 2002) is teaching in Japan. Eli LANG and Luke KEARNS, who took JPNS 1020 this spring, have enrolled in a year-long Asian Studies Intensive at Temple University, Japan Campus. Brigitta A. LEE (Chinese M.A., 1998) is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, focusing on medieval Chinese literature. She is currently working on the ni-ku (imitative) poems of the third through sixth centuries. Robert LITTLE (Japanese B.A., 2002) is working for Instructional Technology Services at CU. LIU Jianmei (Chinese M.A., 1992), who received her Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature from Columbia, is currently Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Maryland. Michelle LOW (Chinese M.A., 1998) is a Ph.D. student in the Chinese track of the Ph.D. program, writing her dissertation on the cultural history of Tan-yang in medieval times. Miyuki MATSUMOTO (Japanese M.A., 2003) will teach in Japan in fall 2004. Saeko OGIHARA (Japanese M.A., 2002) is in the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at CU. Tracy POLLARD (Japanese M.A., 2002) is teaching Japanese at Boulder High School. Ken SAKAMAKI (Japanese B.A., 2202) is teaching in Japan. Kyle SAMPSON (minor in Japanese, 2003) is working in a computer software company. Michelle SANS (Chinese M.A., 2001) is a free-lance writer living in San Francisco. This year she has led tours to China for Smithsonian and National Geographic and collaborated on a soon-to-be-published guidebook on China for Frommer's Complete Travel Guide series. Adam SCHWARTZ received his M.A. in Chinese in December, with a thesis on Ho Yen's (190?-249) commentary to the Lun-yü. He is currently residing in Shanghai. ranc SHELTON (Chinese M.A., 1998) is finishing his second year of law school at U.C.L.A. Eric SHERRILL (Japanese M.A., 2002) is working for the Anderson Language Technology Center at CU. Naoki SHIKIMACHI (Japanese M.A., 2002) is teaching English and Japanese in Kyushu, Japan. David SIMPSON (Japanese B.A./M.A., 2003) will be taking a position in Japan as Coordinator for International Exchange with the JET program sponsored by the Japanese government. These positions require advanced language and cultural skills. Kevin SINGLETON (Japanese B.A., 2003) will also be taking a position in Japan as Coordinator for International Exchange with the JET program sponsored by the Japanese government. Michael STALEY (Japanese B.A./M.A., 2002) has been hired as editor at Kodansha, International, Publishing Company in Japan. Robin VISSER (Chinese M.A., 1994), who received her Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature from Columbia, is currently Assistant Professor of Chinese at Valparaiso University. WANG Gang (Chinese M.A., 1993), who received his Ph.D. in classical Chinese fiction from the University of Chicago, is currently Assistant Professor of Chinese Religion at the City University of Hong Kong. He has published widely in the field of late imperial vernacular literature. WANG Ping (Chinese M.A., 2000) is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, focusing on medieval Chinese literature. She will soon take her comprehensive examinations, and then begin work on a dissertation on Ch'i-Liang (5th/6th-c.) poetry. WANG Wei (Chinese M.A., 1994) is currently Instructor of Chinese at the University of California, San Diego, and also president of the book-import company China Classics, Inc. Solomon WEIL (Chinese M.A., 2001) is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, focusing on medieval Chinese and Central Asian relations. ZHANG Dongming (Chinese M.A., 1997) is completing his Ph.D. in modern Chinese literature at Cornell University. ZHANG Huicong will receive her M.A. in Chinese in May, having written her thesis on the "Hsing-lu nan" poems of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). She will begin Ph.D. work in medieval Chinese literature this fall at Harvard University, where she has received a five-year fellowship. The study of medieval China, roughly the third through ninth centuries A.D., has long been a special strength of the EALC graduate program in Chinese. Professor Kroll is one of the leading authorities in this field, in the areas of literature, religion, and cultural history, while Professors Spring and T. Kleeman also work in particular areas and periods of medieval China. A remarkable cohort of students who have, during the past decade, taken their M.A. degrees in EALC with a focus on medieval China are currently pursuing Ph.D. degrees in this field at various major centers of Sinology. These students include Matthew Carter (1993) now at the University of Washington, Brigitta Lee (1998) at Princeton, Stephan Kory (1998) at Indiana University, Timothy Davis (1999) at Columbia, Andy Knight (2000) at Yale, Wang Ping (2000) at Washington, Solomon Weil (2001) at Washington, and Hong Yue (2002) at Harvard. Zhang Huicong, graduating this May with a focus on medieval literature, received multi-year fellowship offers from Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Washington, and Wisconsin, and has decided to do her doctoral work at Harvard. The exceptional training that our Chinese program provides for M.A. students in this field is acknowledged throughout the country. Other students who have recently done M.A. theses in medieval literature here, but who are not at present engaged in Ph.D. work, include Michelle Sans (2001), who has published an article on a T'ang poet in a major scholarly journal, and Adam Schwartz (2002), who is currently doing independent study in Shanghai. 1) The Program for Teaching East Asia, EALC’s national outreach program to elementary and secondary teachers and schools, received the Japan-America Society of Colorado’s William and Alice Hosokowa Award for 2003. The award is presented each year to an educator or educational organization to honor efforts to educate the Colorado community about Japan and U.S-Japan relations. This year, Honorary Japanese Consul Bill Hosokawa presented the award to TEA staff members Janet Hoaglund, Melanie King, and Lynn Parisi at the annual Japan-America Society spring luncheon in Denver. The monetary award will enable Teaching East Asia, in collaboration with the faculty of EALC and other departments, to offer Colorado teachers a series of three workshops on "Episodes in U.S.-Japan Relations." The workshop series is designed to help teachers educate students about the rich cultural and artistic exchange that has characterized US-Japan relations since the mid-19th century. The workshops will be tied to the 150th anniversary of Commodore Matthew Perry’s arrival in Japan in 1853. 2) EALC’s Program for Teaching East Asia will host 40 middle and secondary teachers at two summer institutes on East Asian history and culture during June and July. "Japan and the United States in the Era of the Pacific War" will engage secondary teachers in a study of multiple Japanese and American perspectives on World War II in the Pacific, with an emphasis on journals, diaries, and literature produced during this period. A total of 22 teachers from around the country won fellowships to attend this 65-hour graduate seminar, offered through EALC and the Office of Continuing Education and funded by the Freeman Foundation. An additional 18 elementary and secondary teachers will spend a week studying China in preparation for a 2004 study tour to that country. 3) The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) received a Service Learning Course Development Grant for the 2003 offering of "It’s Elementary: A Japanese Language-Culture Service Project." The sixth year of the project was offered durng spring semester 2003. Three EALC undergraduates spent spring semester, especially a busy month of April, sharing their expertise in Japanese language and culture with first-grade students in Boulder Valley Schools. A fourth undergraduate, who participated last year, served also as coordinator. The interns this year were Kevin Bartram, Jessica Harano, Tiffany Serra, and Shannon McKay. Visiting Japanese Kansai Gaidai student Hiromi Hasegawa also visited schools during the month of February. The CU students began their internship in January with several training and lesson development sessions with TEA staff. Between January and mid-May, the interns made a total of around 70 visits to 22 first-grade classrooms throughout Boulder Valley; they worked with approximately 550 elementary students. The interns also presented activities for children who attended Asia Day, on March 1st, sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies on campus. The goal of the Service Learning Grant was to enhance this project through further reflection on the part of interns and better communication between staff, teachers, and interns. The second part of our goal is an ongoing challenge with the reality of busy elementary school teachers. The first goal was clearly met, as can be seen by the very positive response from the four CU interns, to whom we owe a big thanks: Kevin: "Very rewarding experience. My appreciation for teaching as a profession has changed dramatically. I have considered teaching now that I have done this program." Jessica: "I think this is an awesome program and that kids really enjoy having someone else teach besides their regular teacher. I really enjoyed teaching and having the opportunity to share something I am passionate about." Tiffany: "This was the most worthwhile project I have ever worked on. It enabled me to try out my skills as a teacher and to see both the good and trying aspects of being an elementary school teacher." Shannon: "I think this is an excellent program–I don’t know who learns more, the first graders or the interns!" Keiko Schneider of Saboten Web Design, one of the leading experts on web-based language instruction, gave a full-day workshop: Integrating computer technology into our teaching, February 22, 2003. The workshop was specifically designed to meet the needs of EALC instructors and teaching assistants. She also met with ITS staff regarding double-byte language problems. Her trip was funded by EALC technology/computer funds. On December 6, Professor Shigemi Nakagawa presented his recent research in a talk titled "Narrative Desire in Japanese Women’s Literature: Meiji Japanese Society and Gender Troubles." Prof. Nakagawa is the Dean of the Institute of Humanities and Professor of Japanese literature at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He is also the editor for the newly augmented selections of Meiji literature in the Nihon bungaku taikei series. Prof. Nakagawa offered new insights into the reforms of Japanese literary and language at the turn of the twentieth century. He demonstrated, through newly published texts by Meiji female writers such as Shimizu Shikin, that female writers experimented with writing in the modern vernacular, and achieved a certain success, before the formally recognized origins of the Genbun itchi movement under the leadership of Yamada Bimyo and other male writers. Professor Nakagawa also met with graduate students and faculty for productive discussions. Lectures on Chinese Literature and Culture: During the past year several visitors delivered lectures on different aspects of Chinese literature and culture. These included Dr. Haiyan Lee, a post-doctoral scholar at Cornell University, who spoke January 16 on "Excavating Emotion, Translating Folklore: The Case of the Meng Jiang Nü Legend"; Mr. Steven Day, a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, who spoke January 21 on "Not in the Name of the Father: Wang Zengqi’s Wartime Literary Tactics and the Modern Chinese Short Story Unbound"; Ms. Mirano Szeto, a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA, who spoke January 27 on "Postmodernity-as-Coloniality: Contesting Cultural Imaginaries of Contemporary Hong Kong"; Dr. Denise Gimpel, professor at Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, who spoke January 31 on "The Butterfly Myth: Some Observations on the Construction of Modern Chinese Literary History"; Mr. Weijie Song, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, who spoke February 6 on "Literature, Architecture, and Urban Imagination: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing"; and Dr. Thomas H. Hahn, professor and librarian at Cornell University, who spoke April 23 on "Mount Wudang: Early Ming Imperial Architecture beyond the Northern and Southern Capitals." William Ridgeway taught JPNS 3841: Modern Japanese Literature in Translation, JPNS 2441: Film & Japanese Culture, and EALC 1011: Intro to Traditional E. Asian Civilizations during spring semester. Andrew Evans taught CHIN 1020 and CHIN 2120 this spring (first- and second- year Chinese. Chun-ling Hsu taught Beginning Chinese, second-year and third-year Chinese during this academic year and has joined our permanent faculty.
Altec Programs
Assessment Workshop
Bridging Scholarship Program
Center for Asian Studies
Chinese Club
Degrees and Awards 2002-2003
Naoko Asada – M.A., Japanese
Yann Bailey – B.A., Japanese
Nathan V. Bak – M.A., Japanese
Chad A. Cecere – B.A., Japanese/ Economics
Inayah R. Cooley – B.A., Chinese
Malia H. Cordel – Minor, Japanese
Caleb J. Ekblad – B.A., Japanese
Andrew T. Evans – M.A., Chinese
Verinda J. Fike – B.A., Chinese
Timothy V. Fitz Randolph – B.A., Japanese
Mark A. Gassmann – B.A., Asian Studies/ Chinese
Mavourneen L. Graves – B.A., Chinese
Erica A. Henry – B.A., Asian Studies
Yue Hong – M.A., Chinese
Michael P. Jones – B.A., Asian Studies/ Chinese
Najin Kim – B.A., Japanese
Sean A. Lampe – B.A.,. Japanese
Melisa S. Lansky – B.A., Japanese/Intl. Affairs
Aurore V.R. Loranger – M.A., Chinese
Miyuki Matsumoto – M.A., Japanese
Seth D. Osann – B.A., Chinese
Deborah A. Rothstein – M.A., Japanese
Kyle E. Sampson – B.A., Minor, Japanese
Adam C. Schwartz – M.A., Chinese
Eric Sherrill – M.A., Japanese
Naoki Shikimachi – M.A., Japanese
David W. Simpson – B.A./M.A., Japanese
Kevin A. Singleton – B.A., Japanese (with distinction)
Zoe A. Tribur – B.A., Chinese
Christin M. Villarose – B.A., Asian Studies/Chinese
Ellen G. Walton – B.A., Chinese
Mark B. Wilbur – B.A., Japanese
Yina Yoon – B.A., Japanese
Huicong Zhang – M.A., Chinese
Amy Ho – Lamont Scholarship for Chinese
Charlotte Eubanks – Teaching Excellence Award of the Boulder Faculty Assembly
Japan Bowl
Japanese Speech Contest
Language Contest
Language Discovery Days
Spring Festival
Student and Alumni News
Students of Medieval China
Teaching East Asia Program
Web-Based Language Instruction Workshop
Visitors and Lectures