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- The Center for Asian Studies is hosting three focused workshops exploring the similarities and differences in Japanese and Chinese experiences of nuclear energy development. Already engaged in a broader examination of Asian infrastructure
- As a new academic year begins, I am deeply honored and excited to be taking on the role of faculty director of the Center for Asian Studies. A few months ago, many of us thought the COVID-19 pandemic was winding down. And then over the summer, India
- The Center for Asian Studies welcomes all students, faculty and staff back for the Fall 2021 semester!We are hoping everyone has a safe and productive fall, that we get to see friends - old and new - again and that the transition back to campus
- We’re excited to share our theme for this academic year and look forward to working with colleagues across campus to discover all that we can do with it!The CAS theme for the 2021-22 academic year is “Intermountain Asia”. With this theme we seek to
- With the help of a new scholar, the Center for Asian Studies is launching a program that looks to educate students about this politically fraught regionThe University of Colorado Boulder is one of the top research programs in the country in Tibet
- From May 12th to June 2nd, 2021, the Center for Asian Studies hosted a three-week virtual Tang Global Seminar in China. While the Covid-19 pandemic has made it impossible to run our usual study tours in China, our experiment with a virtual tour this
- As people all around the world are aware, twenty years ago on March 11, 2011, an earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region in the northeastern part of
- We are pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2021 issue of the Colorado Journal of Asian Studies. This issue contains papers written by students in the ASIA 4830 Senior Seminar class, an excerpt from an honors thesis in
- Joyce Chapman Lebra, a pioneering professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been honored by the Japanese government for her lifelong scholarly work on Japanese history.In April, the Consulate-General of Japan in Denver
- It will be no news to anyone that 2021 has proven to be a year of change and transition. As we take our first tentative steps out of our quarantine homes where we’ve hunkered down for the past 16 months, we are eager to apply lessons we’ve learned