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

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

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.