Spotlight East Asia

The Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company completed their week-long residency at CU-Boulder (9/3 to 9/8), with resounding succees. About 120 attended the two screenings of the documentary film, “Little Tiger.” Ms. Qi Shu Fang and Mr. Ding Mei Kui conducted a two-hour-long acting workshop with the 22 students in...

Discover China this summer on this Global Seminar held in Xi’an and sponsored by CU’s Study Abroad Office, the Center for Asian Studies and the Tang Fund. With Herbst Program of Humanities’ faculty Dr. Anja Lange, you will get a first-hand look at China by studying it through literature and...

Scott Kennedy, Associate Professor of the Departments of Political Science and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, will come to CU to give a talk on China and its role in global governance as Chinese government agencies, companies, and NGOs are becoming much more significant players in every...

Next Thursday, September 26, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, will come to CU to talk about the Boxer Crisis of 1900. This illustrated talk will looked at how this crisis has been linked to “catastrophes” of different sorts. A drought, interpreted by the anti-Christian Boxers as...

Students from Journalism and Mass Communications, International Affairs and Asian Studies spent two weeks in Beijing this summer, participating in one of CU's Global Seminars. The courses are part of a campus effort to give undergrads more opportunities to study abroad. JMC Professor and UNESCO Chair Meg Moritz designed the...

Last month, Professor Tim Weston, CAS Associate Director, served as the scholar-expert for a delegation of Communications Directors for members of the U.S. Congress. During this trip, they met with numerous Chinese government and business leaders. Reflecting on the experience, Weston said, "What I found most interesting is that I...

The Center for Asian Studies welcomes Patricia Yarrow, a CU Alumna, who is visiting from Japan and will give a presentation about her working her way through the Japanese education system as an English teacher. Her ultimate goal after gaining her M.A. in Japanese Literature at CU was to return...

From September 5-8, the Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company will be at CU presenting workshops and public performances to offer the students and community a deeper understanding of the art form. Founded in 1987 by Qi Shu Fang, the Company is dedicated to the preservation and performance of the...

The Chinese and Japanese graduate programs at CU have been selected for inclusion in the Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP). Through the WRGP, graduate students who are residents of 15 participating states may enroll in certain distinctive programs at public institutions on an in-state resident tuition basis. The following states...

On Friday, August 9th, CAS Associate Director Timothy Weston left for China to serve as a scholar-escort for a delegation of Communication Directors for members of the U.S. Congress. This delegation, hosted in China by the National People’s Congress, has been jointly arranged by the National Committee on United States...