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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...

As people all around the world are aware, twenty years ago on March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region in the northeastern part of the country, which in turn...

We are pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2021 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies . This issue contains papers written by students in the ASIA 4830 Senior Seminar class, an excerpt from an honors thesis in International Affairs, as well as a special section featuring...

Joyce Chapman Lebra, a pioneering professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been honored by the Japanese government for her lifelong scholarly work on Japanese history. In April, the Consulate-General of Japan in Denver announced that Lebra was being recognized for promoting “academic exchange and mutual understanding...

It will be no news to anyone that 2021 has proven to be a year of change and transition. As we take our first tentative steps out of our quarantine homes where we’ve hunkered down for the past 16 months, we are eager to apply lessons we’ve learned during the...

Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 in China and the U.S. through Literature and Writing is a 2020-2021 special project undertaken by TEA with funding from the Universty of Colorado Office of Engagement and Outreach and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). The project worked with ten secondary teachers...

Darren Byler, who has been in a Post-Doc position with the Center for Asian Studies working on the China Made Project has won a prestigious fellowship with The Henry Luce Foundation. Darren's Research for the fellowhip is outlined in the following abstract: Thinking with Violence: Narratives of Reeducation Camps &...

Betcha Nickel: Manifold Routes to the Metropolitan in Indonesia A keynote address from AbdouMaliq Simone at the Third China Made Workshop, on May 19, 2021. AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. He works on issues of spatial composition in extended urban regions, the...

On April 23, 2021, the Center for Asian Studies sponsored a panel discussion titled “New Directions in East Asian Environmental History” that featured the authors of three recent books that have appeared in the University of Washington Press’ Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series edited by CU Boulder History Professor Paul Sutter...

Mukherjee, associate professor of history, was nominated by 13 colleagues and students. Nominators said that as an international faculty member, she has worked hard to promote the principles of diversity and inclusive excellence on campus for 20 years. They also praised Mukherjee's engagement in the field of human rights, dedication...