Art History's Wu Hung and Claudia Brittenham Discuss Three Publications on Chinese Art

On May 1, the Center for East Asian Studies hosted Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago, one of the foremost scholars in Chinese art history who serves, among other things, as Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and adjunct curator of the Smart Museum.

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Book Launch Celebrates Edward Shaughnessy's "The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 1, The Yi Zhou Shu and Pseudo-Yi Zhou Shu Chapters"

On April 27, 2023, the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts, Tsinghua University, together with Tsinghua University Press, and XuetangX held a book launch in celebration of the publication of the first volume in the book series, The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 《清華大學藏戰國竹簡》研究與英譯.  The launch celebrates the publication of the first volume in the series: The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 1, The Yi Zhou Shu and Pseudo-Yi Zhou Shu Chapters, written by Edward L.

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EALC Presents 我爱学中文 Award to College Senior Gillian Nielsen

The Chinese language lecturers and instructional professors in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) recently recognized Gillian Nielsen, a fourth year in the College, for completing four levels of Chinese sequence as an undergraduate at UChicago, having taken the first-year sequence in Chinese in summer 2020.  Gillian, a computer science major, is currently finishing the 4th year sequence before graduating this summer.  She will graduate at the end of the academic year in 2023.

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CEAS Supports Weiqi Game for Chinese Language Program

With support from the CEAS Chinese Language Program Fund, the Chinese Language Program hosted a series of Weiqi sessions with Weiqi instructor, Xinming Guo, teaching three classes this quarter to interested University of Chicago students.  Guo remarked at the adeptness in which University of Chicago students grasped the basic concepts of the game.  As a result, he was able to go more in-depth with students by correlating the game rules and strategies as it related to the academic field of each student.  Students were able to reflect upon the connection between the game and the social realit

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UChicago Students Awarded Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Prizes

The Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs recently announced the winners of prizes for papers written by students that include the Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for graduate students, and the Sidney DeVere Brown Prize and the Mikiso Hane Prize for undergraduate students.  Three University of Chicago students were awarded including the following:

Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize, East Asia
Stephanie Painter
Paper Title: "What She Had: Property, Work, and the Imperative of Autonomy for Wives in the Qing"

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