The UW China Studies Program is happy to announce a new recurring event series, the China Studies Book Club, for 2021. Taking place on the second Tuesday of every other month via Zoom, the club will discuss one pre-announced book at each session in a casual setting. The club will discuss Wang Gungwu’s Home is Not

Mr. Xiaoshun Zeng, PhD candidate, UW Department of History and the China Studies Program, was a panelist for the Woodland Park Zoo One Wild World series, Episode 3, One World: How a Human and an Animal Changed Global Health, which aired on Thursday, October 15, 2020. This series examined the intersection of animals, humans and

Jackson School Lecturer Rachel Silberstein has just had a new book published with University of Washington Press – ‘A Fashionable Century – Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing’.

Writing in graduate school is hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Through a series of conversational interviews with graduate students, this podcast from the Odegaard Writing and Research Center offers a practical companion to writing at the graduate level by asking experienced students about their writing processes and practices. By placing graduate students in

Professor James Lin’s opinion piece  “China has shown it is willing to pay the economic price of suppressing Hong Kong” was published in The Guardian.

The UW Department of History shared the news of their newly minted PhD, Matthew Van Duyn! Dr. Van Duyn successfully defended his PhD, “Building Socialist Shanghai: Workers‘ New Villages and the Socialist Right to the City” on Friday, May 15th. This was their first entirely virtual defense via Zoom, but reports are that Dr. Van

UW History Professor Sasha Welland won the 2020 AAS Joseph Levenson Prize Post in the Post-1900 category for her book ‘Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art’, Duke University Press.

UW Department of History Professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey is the 2020 honoree for the Association for Asian Studies Distinguished Contribution to Asian Studies award.

China Studies Program alumna Xiaolin Duan has a new blog post on the University of Washington Press blog to coincide with the release of her new book “The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty”.

China Studies Program alumna and Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University, Xiaolin Duan, has a new book “The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty” by University of Washington Press.  “Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site