In the Spotlight

CAS Affiliate Faculty William Taylor has written about new discoveries in Mongolia, as the ice melts. From the article in A&S Magazine: In the world’s high mountain regions, life needs ice. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, glaciers and other accumulations of snow and ice persist throughout the year. Often...

Abstract Using information contained in the eighteenth to twentieth century British administrative documents, preserved in the National Archives of India (NAI), we present a 218-year (1729–1947 AD) record of socioeconomic disruptions and human impacts (famines) associated with ‘rain failures’ that affected the semi-arid regions (SARs) of southern India. By mapping...

The Center for Asian Studies will hold a virtual version of our lunch series this fall. While we are exercising caution about returning to live events, we look forward to reestablishing contact with our community of Asianists on campus. The luncheons are intended to be informal scholarly exchanges about work-in-progress,...

Thanks to the financial support from the Edward G. Seidensticker Japan Summer Research Grant, I was able to join the summer Japanese language program Princeton in Ishikawa, which lasted from June 11 to August 6 in 2021. Through its intermediatory course covering the textbooks Nakama 2: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context...

The Center for Asian Studies is hosting three focused workshops exploring the similarities and differences in Japanese and Chinese experiences of nuclear energy development. Already engaged in a broader examination of Asian infrastructure development through the China Made project, we explore Japanese and Chinese modes of living in the nuclear...

As a new academic year begins, I am deeply honored and excited to be taking on the role of faculty director of the Center for Asian Studies. A few months ago, many of us thought the COVID-19 pandemic was winding down. And then over the summer, India and Indonesia became...

The Center for Asian Studies welcomes all students, faculty and staff back for the Fall 2021 semester! We are hoping everyone has a safe and productive fall, that we get to see friends - old and new - again and that the transition back to campus is easy for everyone!

We’re excited to share our theme for this academic year and look forward to working with colleagues across campus to discover all that we can do with it! The CAS theme for the 2021-22 academic year is “Intermountain Asia” . With this theme we seek to recognize the many Asianists...

With the help of a new scholar, the Center for Asian Studies is launching a program that looks to educate students about this politically fraught region The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the top research programs in the country in Tibet and Himalayan Studies, but ­undergraduate students have...

From May 12th to June 2nd, 2021, the Center for Asian Studies hosted a three-week virtual Tang Global Seminar in China. While the Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible to run our usual study tours in China, our experiment with a virtual tour this year paid off. While we are...