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

The University of Washington East Asia Center works closely with the China Studies program and other organizations to hold events, workshops, and exhibitions. Further information about China Studies events can be found on the China Colloquium page.

Taiwan Society JSIS 583A, Autumn 2016 As a case of rapid social change, evolving identity, and transition from authoritarian to democratic rule, Taiwan is of unusual interest to the social sciences. Using recent scholarship, as well as film and fiction, this course will inquire how Taiwanese identity was forged, how family and social structure have

China Studies associate faculty member Zev Handel is organizing the Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China,  set for September 8th-10th, 2016. Building on the achievements of the first three workshops, the fourth workshop will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2016. In recognition of the enduring importance of studying the

Autumn 2016 GEOG505 Addresses several major spatial topics critical to present-day China’s development, including: population and land relationship, the spatial structures of economic activities and governments; rural-urban relations and transition; central-local relations; the hukou system; population mobility at different spatial scales and urban centers.

Autumn 2016 GEOG 337 Examines patterns of China’s internal migration in different periods in relation to economic development. Explores how the state-created dual structure and the household registration system enables China to have a huge class of super-exploitable migrant labor and become the world’s premier low-end manufacturing center.

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JSIS A/ANTH 407 Summer 2016 B Term Instructor: Anrea Arai   “East Asia Global Futures” explores shifts from post-war modernization ot 21st century globalization in Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan.   The corse focuses on changes in education, labor, gender, identity, and the urban-rural divide. Students learn how to do small-scale cross-national fieldwork research.

  As of June 2015, the library has over 683,000 volumes of publications on East Asia in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan, Manchurian, Mongolian, and other language