Spotlight East Asia

Seoul-based artist, Kim Jongku, began a two-week residency at CU on February 3. Jongku works in sculpture, video, painting, and photography. Using black, steel powder - the result of an industrial grinding process - he "writes" calligraphic inscriptions on the floor of a pristine, white environment, as if the powder...

Robert A. Kapp, President of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc, of Port Townsend, Washington, will come to CU on Friday, February 7, to give a lecture on corporate responsibility in contemporary China at 11:00 a.m. in Koelbel S125. Dr. Kapp's firm provides consulting services to companies and nonprofit organizations...

We are sorry to announce that "Catastrophies in Asia: The North Korean Nuclear Issue" featuring Ambassador Christopher Hill on January 30 has been canceled due to external circumstances.

The Honorable Dongman Han, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, organized the Korean Government Clean Energy Forum 2013 in Denver on December 5. This was the first such Forum in Colorado, with others having been presented around the country. Korea, with its scant energy resources and...

On November 11th, the Center for Asian Studies hosted Distinguished Professor Millie Creighton of the University of British Columbia. Her visit to Boulder was made possible by a grant from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Distinguished Speaker Bureau, and by the University of Colorado President’s...

On Monday, October 28, Boulder joined sixty cities in a live program featuring the Madeleine Albright, the former U.S. Secretary of State. CHINA Town Hall is an annual event held by the National Committee on United States-China Relations in which participants can view a live broadcast interview with a leader...

The Colorado China Council, founded 1977 in Boulder, sends graduating seniors and recent college grads to China for a year to teach English reading, writing, listening and speaking at Chinese universities. We provide a training program in China. Must have a minimum of a 3. GPA, flexibility, humor and strong...

On Monday, November 11, Millie Creighton, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, will come to CU to give a talk about the popularity of Korean popular culture in Japan. In this talk, entitled “Japanese Fandom and the Korean Wave: Transforming Japan-Korea Relations, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender...

by Andre Martinez, MA student, Japanese The Denver I grew up in was a dusty old cow town; ghosts of the glory days as a beatnik stopover swept in and out of old river front warehouses by empty railways. I remember all too clearly the world before the Toonami. When...

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will join audiences in more than 60 cities and towns by live broadcast for a “town hall” meeting on the U.S.-China relationship. In order to address a wide range of today’s major global issues it is “absolutely critical” to focus on the Sino-American...