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A week ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions, provoking a range of reactions. In this blog, Haiyan Lee offers a response from the perspective of an immigrant scholar with background in…

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We would like to introduce our incoming graduate cohort for Autumn 2023!  We send the members a very warm welcome: we're so glad you're joining the EALC department.

Here are brief profiles provided by each of the…

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Stanford University's Phi Beta Kappa chapter, Beta of California, has announced that Professor Ariel Stilerman is one of three recipients of its undergraduate teaching award for 2023. The decision was made by students who were elected to Phi Beta…

  • Faculty Spotlight

Professor Haiyan Lee publishes new book "A Certain Justice". This book is a much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China’s unique political-legal culture.

To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of…

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Professor Haiyan Lee and colleagues have received a Humanities Seed Grant from HSDO's "The Changing Human Experience" Initiative: 

New Civilizationisms

Thomas Hansen (Anthropology); Haiyan Lee (East Asian Languages…