Professor Sasha Welland 2:30-4:20 MW, COM 120, SLN 21514 ANTH/GWSS/JSIS A 328 Gender & Sexuality in China This course provides a rich exploration of gender and sexuality as key aspects of China’s process of modernization, from the late Qing dynasty through the building of the Republic, Communist revolution, and post-Mao economic reform. It examines, through historical,

Whether you’re a Ph.D. candidate focusing on China or a UW student with an interest in China, we encourage you to browse the Spring 2017 Asian Studies course list.

The Hanyu Colloquia is a series of academic talks that will take place from the beginning of January until the end of March 2017. China studies-related social science research will be presented with questions and discussion to follow in Mandarin Chinese. The series is supported through an award from the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language

This event is sponsored by China Studies, the History Department, Comparative Religion Program, the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. Time and Place: Friday February 3rd, 1:30pm-5pm Thomson Hall 317 Event Schedule: 1:35pm Christopher Atwood Professor, Mongol and Chinese History University of

Doctoral students whose research involves Chinese history, including those in departments other than History, may wish to consider taking the two-part graduate seminar HSTAS 555-556, Core Research Seminar in Chinese History.  This will be taught in the Winter and Spring quarters, meeting Wednesdays from 11am-12:50pm.  Students are expected to take both parts.  The primary goal of

Whether you’re majoring in China Studies or just interested in taking a course or two, we encourage you to browse the Winter 2017 course listings in Asian Studies!

We are so excited to share the East Asia Library Autumn 2016 Newsletter! Click through to read about what this dynamic library has done over the summer and about its ongoing projects. From consolidating archives to database accessibility, the newsletter details the hard work of the wonderful staff at the East Asia Library. The newsletter

Ph.D. Candidate Xiaoshun Zeng, a specialist on China and an affiliate of the Southeast Asia Center, has won a Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. The fellowship, awarded by the Social Science Research Council, is an extremely competitive award given to 80 participants globally each year. After receiving the news Zeng said: “I’m excited to receive this Fellowship for

Muyang Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Jackson School studying state-market relations. Her doctoral work concerns the relationship between state and public-banks and its effect on the foreign ventures of domestic firms, internationalization of currency, and foreign policy. She will be organizing a panel at this year’s Association for Asian Studies Conference in Toronto called

Dr. K.C. Hsiao was a renowned scholar of Chinese political science and history. He served as a faculty member of the Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literature at the University of Washington from 1949 to 1968, first as a visiting professor and then as a tenured professor. The China Studies program is pleased to make