Nimen hao. Wode mingzi jiao He Xueli. Wo shi yanjiu zhongguo lishi de jiaoshou. Hello–My name is Shelley Hawks. I teach Chinese history at the college level, most recently as a visiting lecturer at UMass, Boston. I am the parent of two sons who have taken Chinese language classes since they were young, first at […]
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The East-West Center is now accepting applications from scholars and analysts who wish to undertake policy-relevant research and writing in Washington, D.C., in two programs. Japan Studies Fellowship This fellowship, funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, supports scholars and analysts from both the United States and Japan to conduct research on key issues of […]
The European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) in cooperation with the China Economic Research Center (CERC) at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is now recruiting three Ph.D. candidates for the Doctoral Program in Asian Economy and Business. This is a new program in close cooperation with the business community. We expect to appoint up to […]
The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies announces a special post-doctoral fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year, for a recent PhD in any field of Japanese studies, with extensive expertise in the digital humanities or qualitative digital data management in the social sciences. The fellow will be expected to devote half-time to his or her own […]
In recent years, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Asia has hosted a number of conversations with renowned political economists. Joining them, on Tuesday, December 6, was Victor Shih, Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and author of Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation, the first book to inquire about […]
On Friday, December 2, Joe Wong, Associate Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Toronto – where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Democratization, Health, and Development – and author of Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea, was at Boston University talking about issues animating his latest book, Betting on Biotech: Innovation […]
On Thursday afternoon, November 17, Boston University’s Center for the Study of Asia hosted an afternoon tea for Anne Hung, Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Boston. The occasion for the event, attended by over 50 students, was the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China (Taiwan), which began on […]
On Wednesday evening, November 16, the Center for the Study of Asia, in cooperation with the Japan Society of Boston, had the honor of welcoming renowned East Asia scholar and Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University Ezra Vogel to Boston University. Over 100 people attended the lecture and book-signing. […]