Spotlight East Asia

The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) is excited to announce the new Asia Internship Program - Japan (AIP-Japan). AIP-Japan will provide opportunities for selected CU students to spend 4-6 weeks working for companies in Japan each summer. We have partnered with CU alumni and other friends of CU to create...

The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) is excited to announce the new Asia Internship Program - Japan (AIP-Japan). AIP-Japan will provide opportunities for selected CU students to spend 4-6 weeks working for companies in Japan each summer. We have partnered with CU alumni and other friends of CU to create...

On Friday, December 11, two Asian Studies majors who completed their Senior Thesis/Project work this semester presented their research to a group of faculty and students. Alexander Appell did a video project with Professor Faye Kleeman on shōjō identity the place of shōjō in kawai culture, as well as popular...

A group of Beginning Japanese students won 1st place in the category of skit presentations at the 29th Colorado/Wyoming Japanese Speech Contest held at the Colorado Convention Center on November 7th, 2015. Twelve schools and 160 people attended the event. Their skit, titled おかしい！(Strange!), comically depicted the frustration of a...

On October 8-10, 2015, the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations hosted the Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Western Branch to great success. They hosted about 80 domestic and international participants, 52 of which presented papers. The feedback received from participants as well as the audience—mostly colleagues and...

Join us for our final Luncheon Series event of Fall 2015 as we listen to Tim Weston, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Associate Director of the Center for Asian Studies, give a talk on his current book project. In this talk he'll discuss portions of a chapter...

On Monday, November 9, 2015, the Center for Asian Studies was pleased to host the "Walk in U.S., Talk on Japan" delegation from the Japanese Prime Minister's Office. The delegation featured Ken Shimanouchi, former Japanese ambassador to Spain and Brazil, as well as four other Japanese citizens who spoke on...

This Tuesday, November 17, Yujie Zhu, Postdoctoral Fellow at Australian National University, will present our next Luncheon Series event on "Cultural Heritage in China; Discourse and Practices." Since the UNESCO World Heritage Convention was ratified by China in 1985, the country has had forty-eight of its national sites inscribed as...

Proposals for summer faculty-led courses in China and surrounding countries are due this Sunday, November 15. CU faculty members are encouraged to submit proposals to organize and teach an undergraduate course in China (or China and neighboring countries) in summer 2017 or later. (Note that faculty may propose offering a...

Colorado China Council is accepting applications from graduates who are interested in teaching in a Chinese university in AY 2016-17. Overview for university teaching in China: Must have a B.A., MA, or PhD. Couples and professional teachers encouraged to apply Teaching background preferable but not absolutely necessary No Chinese language...