Spotlight East Asia

Last month, I was fortunate to have been selected to join 70 business, government, and higher education professionals participating in a goodwill delegation to Japan in celebration of the inauguration of a direct flight between Denver and Tokyo . Headed by Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, our group left Denver...

On Monday, June 10th, Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, the Assistant Director of the Center for Asian Studies, departed on the inaugural United Airlines’ 787 Dreamliner flight direct from Denver to Tokyo. She is currently taking part in a 70-person delegation to Tokyo that includes Colorado business, tourism, and government officials, as...

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CAS is pleased to share the news that Leslie Dong, an Asian Studies and International Affairs major at CU, has received the Boren Award, a competitive scholarship for overseas foreign language study. Ms. Dong was the CAS Editorial Intern at Rowman & Littlefield Publishing during the Spring 2013 semester. She...

In March, CAS helped sponsor the Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA)'s annual graduate student conference. The two-day conference featured Prof. Michael Puett of Harvard University and Prof. Sharalyn Orbaugh of the University of British Columbia as keynote speakers as well as presentations by 22 graduate students in Asian Studies from...

On Sunday, April 21st, in Beijing, the private-equity financier Stephen Schwarzman announced one of the single largest education gifts ever - $300 million - to fund a new study in China initiative. According to The New York Times, the Schwarzman Scholars program will pay all expenses for 200 students each...

Learn a language this summer! CU Continuing Education is offering intensive language courses in Chinese & Japanese. These courses are offered annually through Continuing Education for regular CU credit and meet daily from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Find out more at http://conted.colorado.edu/courses/ .

The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to the following event: Imagining China in Medieval Japan: The Case of Fujiwara no Teika Thursday, April 25 at 5:00pm Humanities 250, CU-Boulder campus A lecture by Paul Atkins, Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair, Department of Asian Languages &...

Join us at the 65th Annual CU-Boulder Conference on World Affairs. The Center for Asian Studies is proud to sponsor a panel on Chinese affairs: “Listening to Asia: When China talks, does anybody listen?” Wednesday, April 10 at 9:00am ATLAS Black Box, CU-Boulder campus Tim Weston, Associate Director of the...

The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) at the Center for Asian Studies helped inspire a project at the American School in Japan (ASIJ): a special tanka poetry exhibition commemorating the second anniversary of the triple tragedies of March 2011 in Northeastern Japan. During last summer's TEA Summer Institute, participant...