Program Start Date: Mar 19 2026
Location: East Asia Library, Room 2M
Join us on March 19 for a lunchtime talk with Professor Ben Hillman, Director of Australian National University’s Australian Centre on China in the World and Editor of The China Journal. During the past decade China’s leaders have asserted more centralized control over the PRC’s vast bureaucracy through stricter discipline and accountability mechanisms, expanded administrative
March 2, 2026 SPECIAL LECTURE brought by the UW Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. What is the best way to live a flourishing life? How does one make ethical choices? And what should we concretely do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical
Program Start Date: Feb 5 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
On February 5, University of Washington professor of literature Ping Wang, will give a book talk on her first monograph The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun : Literary Expression and the Natural World (University Press 2025). Professor Wang will be joined by Wendy Swartz, Chair and Professor of Chinese literature at Rutgers University for this talk. During
Program Start Date: Jan 8 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
Join us Thursday, January 8 3:30 – 5 PM for ‘Reforms and Education Policies on Migrant Children in China‘ with Chen Yuanyuan, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Alongside China’s rapid economic growth and urbanization, the country has witnessed an unprecedented wave of rural-to-urban migration. Educating this large population poses considerable challenges to the nation’s household
On Wednesday, November 12 the East Asia Center and Center for Japanese Studies is hosting a book talk with Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, and Jeff Hou, professor emeritus, in a discussion moderated by Prof. Davinder Bhowmik for Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025). November 12, 2026 3:30 – 5:00
We are joining the Tateuchi East Asia Library (TEAL) in welcoming Lucy Li as the new China collection librarian. Over the past two years, Lucy has served in this role in an interim capacity, demonstrating exceptional dedication, professionalism, and deep understanding of the research and teaching needs of our China and Taiwan Studies communities. Her
Congratulations to Jieyu Zhou, Graduate Medalist in the Humanities, Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literature. Jieyu Zhou’s research focuses on “collocations” — word combinations that are natural for native speakers of a language but may be less obvious for second language learners. (Why “fast food” but not “quick food”?) Her dissertation explores how advanced-level second language
On June 2, 2025 the Rainier Institute, a local research and think tank hosted a panel discussion on the future of U.S.-China relations, featuring Congressman Adam Smith and Professor David Bachman, University of Washington. With Trump 2.0, U.S.-China relations face new challenges, tensions, and geopolitical shifts. Prior to the panel, Bachman spoke with Nick Tselikov
