We invite you to join us for the East Asian Humanities Workshop's third spring quarter event, featuring our John Wang Distinguished Speaker of 2026, Professor Michael K. Bourdaghs. *** “Looking…
Event Type: Lecture
Please join the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ( EALC) for the second annual John Wang Distinguished Lecture in Asian Studies: “Toward a More Fluid Area Studies: Japan in the Age of…
Abstract This colloquium lecture examines the rise of proficient speech practice as a key expressive feature in South Korean cinema since the 2000s. While existing scholarship often attributes the…
What is everyday life under autocracy like? We have an image of violence, all-powerful elites, and jackbooted thugs, but many people living in modern autocratic regimes instead experience mundane…
Please join the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures ( EALC) for the inaugural John Wang Distinguished Lecture in Asian Studies: "The Art of Interpretation: Philosophies of Reading in…
We would like to invite you to join us for an upcoming talk entitled "Phrasal Boundary Marking and the Rise of Pragmatic Markers: Insights from Non-Referential Uses of Nominalized Constructions in…
Silkroad Lecture Series Albert Dien: Professor Emeritus, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
What type of language is Baba Malay? Baba Malay is a language formed via the intermarriage of Hokkien-speaking Chinese traders and Malay-speaking indigenous women in the Malay peninsula between the…
THIS EVENT WILL BE PRESENTED IN CHINESE ONLY. Wang Anyi is a world-renowned writer from Shanghai and a leading figure in Chinese realism today. She is a recipient of the Mao Dun Literary Prize, among…
During the 19th and 20th centuries, groundbreaking information technologies like the telegraph, the typewriter, and the computer changed the world. All of these technologies were designed with the…