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Greetings from our new home in the CASE Building on the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder campus! Our humble brick cottage has made way for a new campus hotel and conference center. We are happy to welcome several new Asianists who joined our community in the fall of 2019

Parting Thoughts from Colleen BerryThe last five years have been challenging, interesting, exciting, and gratifying. The opportunity to expand my field from Chinese literature to Asian studies has been daunting at times, but one that has thoroughly

Asia Internship Program – China Having never taken an Asian Studies class and not having spoken a word of Mandarin since high school, to say I was nervous before my departure for the Asia Internship Program would have been an understatement. I

In Maymester 2019, Dr. Anja Lange from the Herbst Program returned to Xi’an, China with a new group of 12 Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ students. Dr. Lange’s course is designed for students with no Chinese language skills, or even experience abroad.  The

Help us celebrate our students as they prepare for careers in the global marketplace.2019 Asian Studies GraduatesThe interdisciplinary major and minor in Asian Studies allow students to study the astonishing diversity of the Asian region.

Colin Flahive (ASIA/ANTH 2001)  has been living and traveling in China for more than 16 years. In 2019, Colin published Great Leaps: Finding Home in a Changing China, where he explores China’s rural-urban migration against the

New Post-Doc CAS was pleased to welcome Darren Byler to Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ in the fall as a new postdoctoral fellow, working with CAS Director Tim Oakes on the China Made project. Meet Darren:My research focuses on the dispossession of ethno-racial

The year 2019 ended with two major projects that showcased Japanese language teachers and learners in the United States.The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), which is taken worldwide by tens of thousands of people who are learning Japanese

I’m delighted to report that two new members have joined our ranks: Michael and Betsy Zink. Michael and Betsy have spent three decades working internationally, most of it in China and Southeast Asia. Each member brings skills & ideas, new

In 2019, CAS hosted 24 speaker series events and 13 lunch talks, reaching a total audience of almost 1800 students, faculty, and community members. Many of our events were dominated by response and inquiry into political crises throughout Asia.