In the Spotlight

Every semester, CU’s Center for Asian Studies holds a career panel featuring speakers with a variety of Asian focuses in their careers. This year we heard from three particularly successful individuals, Jeffery King, Pam Reichert, and Julie Segraves. They discussed how they got where they are today and offered advice...

On Friday, November 14, Yinhe Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at Ewha Women's University and current visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder, will present the last luncheon series event of the semester, "Transnational Migration of Korean-Chinese between China and Neighboring States." This talk will discuss ethnic identity among...

On September 19, 2014, Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Waseda University in Tokyo, spoke to an audience of about two dozen that included members of the Boulder community, as well as faculty and students from CU and other Colorado institutions. Professor Kawaguchi is widely published and acclaimed for...

Are you studying Japanese, Chinese, Hindi or any subject related to Japan, China or India? Are you interested in teaching or simply sharing your knowledge about Asia with school-age children? Earn one CU upper division credit hour teaching about a country of your interest to 1st and 2nd graders! Build...

The University of Colorado Boulder is experiencing an increase in the numbers of international students. The international student population at CU-Boulder is now over 2,200 students, with the majority of them from China, India, Saudi Arabia, Korea and Kuwait, although students are from more than 85 countries. Aside from adjusting...

We are pleased to have Sam Sonntag join us on Friday, October 31, for our next Luncheon Series talk, "Depoliticizing Hindi through Linguistic Federalism." While the politics of Hindi dominated the language policy debate in India for much of the 20th century, by the turn of the new millennium many...

Every year, graduating students in Asian Studies work with a faculty advisor to complete a senior research project on any topic related to Asia. Each year, students produce excellent work on a wide variety of topics, and this year was certainly no exception, and we have included five of these...

CU Geography Professor and Chair Emily Yeh recently finished a book on the recent development efforts in Tibet by the PRC. On Friday, October 24, she will give a public presentation on this book in a talk by the same title, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese...

The Study Abroad program at CU is holding an interest meeting on Tuesday, October 21, at 5:30 p.m. for students who would like to find out more information about one of next summer's Global Seminars. "Shanghai: Window on China" will be taught by Professor Tim Weston, Associate Director of CAS...

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to invite students to enroll in our two sections of ASIA 4300: "Open Topics in Asian Literature and Culture" in the Spring 2015 semester. Both courses are 3-credit courses, and both count towards the Asian Studies major and minor . Journalism professor Hun...