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Spring 2015 Friends of Asian Laurel Rodd Alumni Updates Outreach News Asian Library Student News Studies Recognized with Collection They studied Asia at This year’s Program for Help us celebrate our Prestigious Award Become our Friend and CU, but where are they Teaching East Asia’s outstanding fellowship support Asian Studies Former CAS Director now? K-12 outreach recipients and Asian at CU. awarded Japanese Page 7 activities. Studies graduates! Page 2 Foreign Minister’s Page 8 Back Cover Commendation Page 5 Asian materials have a new home in Norlin Library. Page 11

consumption. And while the digital Kenneth Chan of the University of Friends of CAS, ‘globalization’ of media production Northern Colorado in early March, as Greetings from our humble brick and consumption has certainly he presented on Hong Kong director cottage in Boulder! This year at CAS enabled further the market penetration Stephen Fung’s martial arts films. With we are focusing on the of Western media support from the Korea Foundation, theme of Asian media. content within Asian our own Hun Shik Kim, associate We’re interested in the societies, by no means professor of journalism and mass rising power and has Asian media been communication, is offering a course influence of media subsumed under the this spring on Korean media and industries within Asia. hegemony of ‘the West.’ popular culture. We’ll conclude the While the rise of social Indeed, Asian media and year with our annual symposium on media has changed the entertainment industries April 17th, featuring an international way people communicate are more powerful, and group of invited experts, including all over the world, we’ve media of Asian origin is journalists working in Asia, as well as been thinking about the implications easier to consume, than ever before. our own Asian Studies faculty and of digital media (and other, more graduate students. We hope you can Some of our events this year on media traditional, forms of media) for how join us for this exciting event! and Asia have included a panel we understand Asia. The rise of formal discussion, “Preferably Unheard: In addition to our media theme, there media industries and institutions in Indian Women in Western Media,” have been many other events at CAS Asia is not by any means a novel featuring Rashna Singh, Purvi Metha, this year. Some highlights have phenomenon; traditional print media, and Krithika Vachali of Colorado included hosting Korean Consul broadcast & satellite television and College and Aditi Mitra of CU General Dong Man Han, Yoshikazu film, and the broader culture and Colorado Springs, and a Korean Film Kawaguchi of Waseda University, entertainment industries have been Series that also featured talks by Syrian-American musician Malek well established throughout Asia for Korean film experts Hye Seung Jandali, Andrew Quintman of Yale generations. What has changed, Chung and Scott Diffrient from University, Grace Ge Gabriel of the arguably, is the integration of Asia’s Colorado State University. In February, Fund for Animal Welfare, and Haruo media industries into global media we hosted documentary filmmaker Shirane of Columbia University. (For streams. This has largely been the Adam Smith, screening his film about more information about our events, result of a digital media revolution urbanization in China: The Land of see page 10.) which has transformed profoundly all Many Palaces, and we just hosted aspects of media production and continued on page 2

CAS NEWSLETTER continued from page 1 Studies curriculum with new gateway Studies,” who also provide valuable and capstone courses for the major, financial assistance to the Center. As CAS also hosted the annual China Colleen will help us build the program Federal funding for area studies Town Hall event which this year with new internship opportunities, centers like CAS continues to decline, featured former President Jimmy study-travel, and community we rely more and more on individual Carter and Lionel Jensen of Notre outreach. It’s great to have her on donations to fulfill our mission of Dame University, as well as a forum board! building Asian Studies capacity at CU- discussion on the Hong Kong protests Boulder and in the broader Front featuring CU Asian Studies faculty CAS is fortunate also to have an active Range community. If you have and graduate students. Advisory Council of community contributed to CAS in the past, Thank leaders, chaired by Alice Renouf, CAS is fortunate to have recently hired You! If not, I invite you to become a Executive Director of the Colorado Colleen Berry as our new full time “Friend of Asian Studies.” To learn China Council (see Alice’s report instructor in Asian Studies (see page more, visit http://cas.colorado.edu/ below). Our Council members support 6). Colleen brings with her many years content/friends-asian-studies. You can the Center with their time, energy, of experience as an award winning easily donate online at our website as creative and inspiring ideas, and with teacher and scholar of Chinese from well. Just click on the “Make a Gift generous donations. We also have a the University of North Dakota. In Online” link. growing group of community addition to developing the Asian supporters, our “Friends of Asian Tim Oakes, CAS Director

Asian Studies Become a Friend of Asian Studies! Leadership Circle

The Center for Asian Studies As mentioned above, CAS is excited 2014-15 Friends of Asian Studies recognizes donors who give $1000 or about our new Friends of Asian Studies France Addington-Lee more each calendar year as members of initiative, a membership program for Betsy Armstrong our Asian Studies Leadership Circle. supporters of programming and Asian Richard Armstrong We are pleased to recognize our 2014 Studies curricular developments on Ariana Maki Leadership Circle member, Keiko Beer, campus. Inaugural members for the Jon Rush wife of the late Professor Larry Beer, a 2014-15 academic year follow. We thank Sara Sheldon longtime supporter of CAS and Asian them for their support and encourage Beth Ann Taylor Studies and professor of Political you to join them as a Friend of Asian Ronny Wells Science. Thank you, Keiko, for your Studies. support of Asian Studies!

Our second initiative is to create and oversee international CASAC Chair Report internships in Asia for our students. Many Advisory Council As the Chair of CAS Advisory Council members have suggested Asian companies with local outlets such (CASAC), now serving my second year, I as Subaru which might have a strong interest in hiring CU majors wanted to briefly report on one of our as interns. If you know of any companies whom you think would major initiatives. In order to broaden and be interested in this connection please contact me or Danielle at enrich our community outreach and the above email addresses. This would be an extraordinary university base of support we have started opportunity for our majors to explore Asia from inside the socio- to actively promote Friends of Asian economic culture. Details as to length and compensation for an Studies. We have had a positive response internship would be worked out on an individual basis. from the public and members of our And finally, if you know of graduating seniors or recent CU grads university community. We are organizing who are interested in teaching English at the university level in events and gatherings for our new Friends China for a year please contact me. this semester. Anyone with an interest in We have seen a lot of growth in our program attendance over the Asia is welcome to join by contacting me at [email protected] last few years and we would like to maintain this upward trend. or Danielle Salaz at [email protected]. Feel free to recommend Please help us in our mission! that friends and colleagues consider joining too. Everyone is welcome. Alice Renouf, CASAC Chair

2 Center for Asian Studies CAS NEWSLETTER Now Available: CAS Brings the JLPT to Graduate Certificate in Asian Studies the Front Range! The Center for Asian Studies is very discipline or department, and two For the first time in Colorado, almost 100 pleased to announce the launch of a courses should be taken outside that students and community members joined new Graduate Certificate in Asian discipline or department. Thematic us to take the Japanese Language Studies, available now. The certificate courses that have at least 50% Asia Proficiency Test (JLPT) last December! is available to all graduate students content may also be counted if the Previously, students along the Front Range currently enrolled at CU Boulder, and syllabus is submitted and approved by had to travel to California, Washington, or to non-degree-seeking ACCESS the Certificate Director and Chicago to take the highly-esteemed annual students with a bachelor’s degree. It Committee. To satisfactorily complete test. Now that CAS is an approved host enables students with intellectual or each course, students must earn a organization, this new opportunity will be professional interest in Asia who are grade of B or higher. available to individuals in the local not focused primarily on Asia within community and broader region each year In addition, students must their own degree program to acquire on the first Sunday of December. demonstrate proficiency in a language an official credential indicating that (equivalent to two years of language Preparation for and completion of the JLPT they have expertise in some aspect of study at the college level) relevant to provides students of Japanese an Asian knowledge or practice. their chosen area of study. Language opportunity to improve their language The Graduate Certificate in Asian study will not count toward the skills; furthermore, success on the JLPT Studies provides an interdisciplinary certificate credit hours. opens doors in business, education, specialization and draws on courses in international politics, and more. To be accepted into the Graduate Anthropology, Asian Languages and Certificate program, students can Thank you to the proctors and other Civilizations, Geography, Global contact CAS or meet with the volunteers who made the inaugural JLPT at Seminars administered through Study Certificate Director. CU such a great success. We look forward Abroad, History, International Affairs, to hosting the test again in 2015 and More information, including a list of Political Science, Religious Studies, beyond! and Women's Studies. The program approved courses for the certificate, is requires 12 hours of approved available at http://cas.colorado.edu/ graduate courses and offers the content/asian-studies-graduate- opportunity to focus on a specific certificate. region: East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, or West Asia. Two courses should be in a single CAS Directors & Staff Farewell to Kunga and Julie! Tim Oakes, CAS Director; Professor of We are sorry to have to say goodbye to two of our excellent CAS staff members. Geography Though we are sad to see them go, it was a great privilege to work with them, and we Tim Weston, CAS Associate Director; hope you will join us in wishing them all the best in their future endeavors! Associate Professor of History Danielle Rocheleau Salaz, CAS Executive Kunga Lama, our SSEWA Outreach Director; Newsletter Editor Coordinator and director of the Lynn Parisi, Director, Program for Teaching summer Hindi-Urdu STARTALK East Asia (TEA) Program, left at the end of the fall Catherine Ishida, Senior Staff Associate, semester to pursue a nursing degree Japan and Korea Projects Coordinator, TEA at Regis University’s accelerated Julie Kang, East Asia Outreach Coordinator nursing program. Joanne Sakaguchi, Assistant to the Directors for Grant Administration Colleen Berry, Instructor and Associate Julie Kang, our East Asia Outreach Director, Asian Studies Program and Event Coordinator and co- Laurel Singleton, Staff Associate, TEA director of the “It’s Elementary” Jon Zeljo, Senior Staff Associate, China and Service Project, is headed to NCTA, TEA Singapore with her family in May. Patricia Helfenbein, Graduate Assistant for Data Collection and Communications

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CU Global Citizen of Xi’an: Self-Awareness and Images the Year Rob McNown of the Other A generous grant from the CAS Tang sites of ancient China. But perhaps Reflects on Asian Family Endowment for the Study of just as importantly, they were able to China allowed me to return with 12 enjoy the bustle and energy of a Studies CU students to Xi’an, China, during modern Chinese city. The university Early in the 2014 Maymester. The group was campus is located adjacent to the city my career hosted by Xi’an Jiaotong University. center, just a mile outside one of the at CU I This Global Seminar aimed at few remaining intact city walls in developed understanding ideas of “self” and China. By living on campus and an interest “other” as constructs developed interacting directly with Chinese in Asia and under special historical, social, professors and students in classroom an affinity political, and economic circumstances settings, participants had the unique for Asian and on the basis of different beliefs opportunity to understand first-hand c u l t u r e s . and philosophical thoughts. Students the thinking and perspective of On every leave and sabbatical my wife, explored Chinese and American China’s next generation. concepts of self and society, and of Lauri McNown, and I have accumulated Finally, students were also able to individual, collective, and national Asian experiences, through Fulbright acquire some Mandarin language identities. Lectureships in Kathmandu and Hanoi, skills, enjoy Shaanxi cuisine, learn visits to several Asian ports while teaching During the Tang dynasty, Xi’an, in the about calligraphy, try Tai Chi with the on Semester at Sea, and a World Bank province of Shaanxi, was the largest masters, and become experts in tea educational project that put us in Beijing and probably most important city in culture. We also had the opportunity during the Tiananmen Spring of 1989. Our the world, marking the eastern to visit rural villages and concluded latest Asian experience in spring of 2014 was terminus of the legendary the trip with a few days in Beijing. spent in Malaysia, Thailand, and South between the Orient and the West. By Students returned from China with a Korea, engaged in research collaborations studying Shaanxi’s rich literature and unique perspective of its culture and and workshops for faculty and researchers. history on site, we were able to its people. In return, CU students In many of these visits my former Asian understand first hand where China enthusiastically served as great graduate students served as hosts or was yesterday, where it is today, and ambassadors from Colorado. provided local sponsorship for these where it will likely be tomorrow. projects, and also opened our eyes to their Anja Lange, Herbst Program of the societies in ways we could not have While in Xi’an, students visited some Humanities, Engineering experienced on our own. of the most impressive and significant I am delighted to join the Executive Committee and the Curriculum Committee of the Center for Asian Studies this year. Lauri and I have participated in CAS activities in the past, including presentations for Asia Day and a slide show from our experiences as witnesses to the demonstrations and events of the 1989 Democracy Movement in Beijing. While I was Director of the International Affairs Program at CU Boulder, I was happy to foster collaborations between our two units hosting visiting speakers and cultural programs. I am sure that my affiliation with CAS contributed to my recent recognition as Campus Global Citizen of the Year, and I am thankful to everyone in the Asian Studies and international communities who have contributed to this award.

4 Center for Asian Studies CAS NEWSLETTER Congratulations to Laurel Rodd, Recipient Marguerite Moritz Explores of the Foreign Minister’s Commendation “China through Time” On July 24, the Ministry of Foreign founding the Colorado Japanese Marguerite Moritz is a Affairs of Japan announced the Language Education Association UNESCO Chair and recipients of the Japanese Foreign (CJLEA) as well as leading the member of the CAS Minister’s Commendation for 2014. national American Association of Executive Committee This award recognizes individuals for Teachers of Japanese (AATJ). She whose interest in China outstanding contributions to the served the University of Colorado as dates back to 1980 promotion of mutual understanding Chair for the Department of Asian when she was a and goodwill between the people of Languages and Civilizations from Gannett Fellow in Japan and the United States. One 1995-2002, as well as Director of the Asian Studies at the recipient was past CAS Director Dr. Center for Asian Studies from University of Hawaii. Laurel Rasplica Rodd. Here is some 2005-2012. As a scholar and researcher As a faculty member, of what the she has received she and former PhD Consulate-General numerous awards student Zheng Liang developed “China of Japan in Denver and grants, and is Through Time,” a global seminar for had to say about well known for her undergraduates. Laurel and her a c h i e v e m e n t s , work in Japanese notably for the first In the course, Dr. Moritz explores the impact of studies: original translation of the Time Inc. empire on perceptions of China “Kokinshu: A both in the US and in China itself. Since its “Dr. Rodd of Collection of Poems inception in 1923, Time has run scores of China Boulder has been a Ancient and stories on its iconic cover and even more on its dedicated educator Dr. Rodd poses with Consul General Ikuhiko M o d e r n , ” a n inside pages, more than any other news outlet for over 40 years in Ono upon receipt of the Foreign Minister’s anthology of classical in the 20th century. Other news organizations the fields of Commendation for the promotion of mutual understanding and goodwill between the Japanese poetry…The reported on China, but Time’s legacy was Japanese language people of Japan and the United States. results of her efforts especially potent because of its preeminent and literature, are truly reflected in stature among other journalists and among the serving at several major universities the promotion of awareness and more highly educated ranks of the American nationwide and in Japan. She has understanding of Japanese culture middle class where it had become required been a Professor of Japanese and and language, and have contributed reading by the late 1930s, becoming one of the Comparative Literature at the significantly to greater mutual most pervasive interpreters of China in an era University of Colorado since 1994. understanding between Japan and the when had few information sources During her distinguished academic United States.” independent of mainstream mass media. career, she has been instrumental in Utilizing CAS’ Tang Endowment funding, in 2011, Dr. Moritz took 12 CU students to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, following the 1972 itinerary of Richard Nixon’s historic trip that re-established US-China diplomatic relations. Discussions were wide-ranging and focused on various aspects of news reporting: censorship policies, social media, blogging, the differences and similarities between the two systems, the impact of in China, environment, traffic, the detention of dissidents like artist Ai Wei Wei and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. CAS and a Tang Foundation Grant supported the course in both 2011 and 2013. Dr. Moritz retired from full-time teaching in 2014 and is now an independent writer and documentary filmmaker. One of her future projects: turning “China Through Time” into a documentary film.

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CU Faculty Promote Asian Studies on Campus and Beyond Dennis McGilvray Elected Introducing Colleen Berry, our New Instructor in Asian Studies! AISLS President Colleen Berry was bitten by the Chinese Jackson School at UW (Seattle) where language bug while attending she focused on modern Chinese history Dennis McGilvray, Emeritus Professor Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. and politics. She then led tours in China of Anthropology at CU and CAS After graduating, she spent several for twelve years before and during Executive Committee member, has been years in Taiwan studying Mandarin working on a Ph.D. in Chinese literature elected President of the American before receiving an MA from the at Indiana University. Her next move Institute of Sri Lankan Studies. His term was to Japan where she lived for four will run to October 2016. McGilvray is years while writing her thesis, studying the fourth President of AISLS since its Japanese, and working for a Japanese incorporation in 1996. He follows company. She then emigrated to Canada Chandra de Silva, Jeanne Marecek, and and taught Mandarin, Chinese Charles Hallisey. literature, and Japanese at the University of Manitoba. In 2005, she McGilvray was also invited to give two moved to a tenure track position at the talks at the South Asian Institute of University of North Dakota in Chinese Heidelberg University, , in Studies. After nine years in the Siberia November. During his stay he made a of the US, she’s delighted to be here in pilgrimage to the house where Max Boulder with its mountains and milder Weber wrote most of his major works winters and is looking forward to the on religion and society (pictured above). challenges of her new position. Tim Oakes on Urbanizing China: Cities as Machines for Making New Citizens China is urbanizing at a rate faster buildings are built to look old. Themed people actually inhabit them? Can the than any other place on the planet, and landscapes abound as cities brand kinds of social changes that emerged faster than any country ever in history. themselves centers of culture, gradually over several centuries in New cities are seemingly being built creativity, innovation, or technology. Europe be willed into existence in a overnight. The government is aiming matter of years via top-down policies In my latest research project, funded to increase the urban proportion of and plans? While the obvious answer by the National Science Foundation, China’s population to 60% by 2020 and to this question seems to be “probably I’ve been exploring whether all of this 70% by 2025, which means adding not,” humans have never before urban change produces the kinds of about 250 million people to the urban experienced something quite like results envisioned by planners and population over the next decade or so. China’s current massive urban officials. One goal of such rapid Not only are new cities popping up transformation. urbanization is to create a whole new everywhere to accommodate a society of urban, massive uprooting of rural residents, middle class but existing cities and towns are being consumers. China’s entirely reconstructed: shiny new leaders view cities as office towers, new shopping machines capable of complexes, and new residential blocks producing new are all being built on a giant scale. So kinds of people. But are new spaces for leisure, recreation, how do these and tourism. Old neighborhoods are ‘machines’ really being razed and replaced with work? How do ‘heritage districts’ where new

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CU Alumni in Action

I am currently pursuing my PhD in Since 2012 I have been an Assistant languages, in addition to Classical Chinese linguistics at the University of Oregon. My Professor at Akita University. I was hired and Japanese. After graduating from CU, I research involves grammatical description to teach English language classes and to entered the Buddhist Studies PhD and documentation of a small Tibeto- help run the English language resource program at the University of Michigan. Burman language called Pangkhua, center. I have recently also been teaching Aaron Proffitt (2005, BA, RLST/JPNS/ spoken in Bangladesh. I studied for an MA two literature classes: an introduction to ASIA; 2008, MA, RLST) in linguistics for a year (2010-11) at CU Japanese literature and an intensive class before moving in to Oregon for my PhD. on Matsuo Bashō, designed after my After CU, I studied at the U. of Michigan, Zahid Akter experience as staff on a 2009 Fulbright- receiving a PhD in 2004 with my Hays Group Project Abroad grant, dissertation, “The Tsukushi Man’yôshû I lived in Taiwan for a year, 1977-78, to awarded to CAS under Dr. Rodd. Teaching Poets and the Invention of Japanese study Chinese. Back then Americans were these classes has been really fulfilling! Poetry.” I am an associate professor of not permitted in China, but many of my Ben Grafström, (2009, MA, JPNS) Japanese language and literature at Grand teachers were from China, mostly Beijing. Valley State University, and I lead an I went on from CU to the American I was fortunate enough to spend the last 4 annual trip to Japan centered on Japanese Graduate School of International years supporting Accenture's Corporate theatre. I am currently conducting research Management in Phoenix, where I was able Development & Transaction Services on the aesthetic function of humor in to continue my Chinese language studies, organization based out of Beijing, China classical Japanese poetry. and I have since been engaged in (2010-11) and Melbourne, Australia Jeremy Robinson (1992, BA, JPNS; 1998, international business. (2011-14) before recently returning to New MA, JPNS/BA CHIN) Halina Bojarski (1979, BA, CHIN/ASIA) York. I not only got to experience the local sights within each country, but I also made I'm currently teaching Japanese at Red I attended CU on an NROTC scholarship. I time to enjoy the surrounding countries, Rocks Community College and have traveled throughout Japan, South all of which were incredible in their own Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver and I Korea, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, right. My time at CU, along with the serve as director of the Japanese Academy and Thailand. insight I gained through the programs of the Rockies, which provides experiences Joe Coco (1985, BA, ASIA) offered by CAS prepared me extremely for children to adults to help them learn well for my career and time spent abroad. and maintain Japanese skills; ultimately After completing a journalism internship Timothy Gurba increasing the Japanese speaking in DC with an international relations (2004, BA, CHIN; BS, FNCE) population in Colorado. I'm always journal called the American Interest, I went thrilled to meet the students, spend time to Asia, where I spent six months traveling Xinjiang is now home to me. I love it here with them in the classroom, and see them through China and Myanmar, freelancing and have traveled throughout the making progress in Japanese! for such publications as the Diplomat, Al- province. Immersing myself in the local Hisako Schibli (2010, MA, JPNS) Jazeera, the Telegraph and the BBC. I am culture, I have become fluent in Chinese now back in the States, continuing my and am making rapid progress in Uyghur. After CU, I went to UC Berkeley’s career as a full-time freelance journalist. I Apart from my job as an English teacher, I graduate program in Asian Studies. plan to return to Asia again this year. have become interested in contributing to Several years later, I went to Japan to Brent Crane (2013, BA, IAFS/CHIN) online newspapers and blogs. I am looking study Japanese while teaching English. forward to what Xinjiang has for me next. Returning to the Bay Area, I studied After graduating, I moved to Itsukaichi, a Kevin Peters (2012, BA, IAFS/ASIA) Chinese medicine at the American College suburb of Hiroshima, to be an ESL of Traditional Chinese. After years of instructor with a company called GEOS I have been quite busy since I left CU, and study and training, I was certified as one from 2004 to 2007. I taught school age I feel that the education I received there of four people in the US as an instructor of children, businessmen, pensioners, and truly prepared me for success in my Japanese acupuncture. I have continued to housewives. I continued teaching ESL in academic pursuits. After graduation, I be fascinated by most things Asian and the Czech Republic in 2007-08, and in worked in Japan for a year as an English appreciate my time at CU, which gave me Denver from 2009 to 2011. I have left the teacher in Kumamoto, before returning to a great introduction to what has become ESL profession and am working in social CU for an MA in Religious Studies. I my passion and my career. media in the Denver area. received FLAS funding from CAS for the David Scrimgeour Mark Davis (2004, BA, ASIA) study of modern Chinese and Japanese (1977, BA, ASIA/CHIN)

We’d like to hear from you! Send your alumni updates to [email protected]. University of Colorado Boulder 7 CAS NEWSLETTER Outreach News from the Program for Teaching East Asia

The Role of Outreach in Asian Studies program, “Chinese Language Instruction teachers. New funding from the Korea Ask many undergrads how they came to in the Digital Age,” focused on Foundation will support a four-day enroll in Asian studies courses at CU and incorporating learner-centered residential Korean studies workshop for they will mention an exceptional teacher technologies in the secondary Chinese secondary teachers nationwide. The or course in their K-12 education. In fact, language and culture curriculum. workshop, coordinated by TEA’s both CAS Associate Director Timothy Eighteen teachers from around the Catherine Ishida and CAS staff member Weston and CAS Executive Director country, including six from Colorado, Julie Kang, will be co-funded by TEA’s Danielle Rocheleau Salaz cite pivotal took part in the multi-week program, National Consortium for Teaching about high school experiences studying China which combined online learning and Asia (NCTA) Program, with support and Japan, respectively. As it happens, follow-up reporting with two weeks in from the Freeman Foundation. “Korea’s these two CAS leaders residence on the Journey into the 21st Century: Historical were engaged with Boulder campus. The Contexts, Contemporary Issues” will teachers and programs tied Often, becoming a 2014 program consider modern and contemporary to the Program for received both local South Korea’s distinct history, geography, Teaching East Asia (TEA), member of the next and national attention intra-peninsular and international as far back as the 1980s. due to the increased relations, and transnational cultural generation of interest in using transmissions (e.g., K-pop, film, and The goal of TEA is to enrich t e c h n o l o g y i n design). Thirty participating teachers, and expand the study of Asianists starts language learning. In who will be selected through a Asia in American K-12 addition to articles in competitive application process, will education—deepening with “outreach.” The Boulder Daily work with specialists, including CU teachers’ knowledge about Camera and the history professor Sungyun Lim, to learn East Asia, promoting more attention to Center for Digital Education national about the Korean peninsula beyond the Asia in the curriculum, and, ultimately, newsletter, Project Director Jon Zeljo, media coverage, drawing on Korean creating more young people informed from TEA, was invited to speak at the narratives and texts to enrich their about and interested in undertaking annual fall STARTALK conference in teaching about contemporary South formal study of Asia. Often, becoming a Indianapolis. Korea. member of the next generation of Summer Institute on China to Focus on Asianists starts with “outreach.” TEA TEA has since extended its track record “Citizens, Society, and the State” works toward this goal by offering in Chinese language pedagogy, receiving intensive professional development its fifth grant from the federal In addition to the new summer programs for teachers and exploratory STARTALK program for 2015. The 2015 programming on Korea, TEA is gearing programs for pre-college students. In program will repeat the focus of the 2014 up for a four-day residential summer 2014, TEA programs worked directly program. institute on contemporary China for high with more than 350 K-12 teachers and TEA Receives Funding from Korea school teachers on the CU-Boulder 800 K-12 students. Foundation to Expand Programs for campus. Funded as part of Year 17 of the Teachers National Consortium for Teaching about StarTalk 2014 and 2015: Teaching Chinese with Technology With Korea featuring prominently in the Asia (NCTA), “Citizens, Society and the news, TEA is pleased this year to be State: Adaptation and Change in Deemed a “model for other STARTALK significantly expanding its Korea-focused Contemporary China” will feature as programs” by the initiative’s national professional development programs for faculty CU PhDs Jessica Teets and Orion evaluator, TEA’s 2014 STARTALK

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Lewis, both of Middlebury College. The This year, NCTA at TEA is creating an technologies, and institutions of Asia, program, directed by Jon Zeljo and Lynn expanding library of short, high-interest Europe, or the United States. Also under Parisi at TEA, will accept 20 teachers video lectures and interviews designed to development is a curriculum package, nationwide. give teachers introductions to trending Reading Modern Japan, on early 20th- NCTA: Reaching Out to Teachers with Online topics and new resources for teaching century Japan, the product of TEA’s 2014 Courses, Curricula, and Resources about East Asia. This program, called summer curriculum workshop. Tied to NCTA Class Apps (http://nctasia.org/ the Common Core national reform TEA’s largest program, the National resources/class-apps/), currently offers movement, this collection of teacher- Consortium for Teaching about Asia, 11 programs and will add seven developed lessons focuses on historical entered its 17th year of programming in additional titles each year. CAS Associate inquiry through primary sources. Both January 2015, with ongoing funding from Director Tim Weston is one of the these curriculum packages will be the Freeman Foundation. For this featured speakers, with presentations on available in the spring at http:// program, TEA is a national director site, “Taiwan: The Other China” and “Hairy www.colorado.edu/cas/tea. working collaboratively with the NCTA Politics: What’s In a Braid?” national directors at the Asia Centers of “It’s Elementary” Service Project 2015 Works with 10 Boulder Elementary Schools Columbia University; Five College, Inc; TEA has been a leader in innovative Indiana University; the University of curriculum on East Asia for many years. Now in its 18th year, TEA’s “It's Pittsburgh; the University of Washington; In 1986, TEA (then the Rocky Mountain Elementary” Service Project is working and the University of Southern Japan Project) published Japan in the with 36 Boulder Valley elementary California. Nationally, NCTA’s Classroom, one of the first published classrooms at 10 schools from February coordinated programming provides c o l l e c t i o n s o f through April 2015. This seminars in East Asian history and supplementary lessons This year, NCTA at TEA is year, three CU on Japan. Since 1998, special topics for approximately 2000 creating an expanding u n d e r g r a d s a r e K-12 teachers per year. TEA curriculum participating in the publications and TEA library of short, high- program coordinated by Each semester during the school year, staff publications have Julie Kang and TEA engages approximately 200 teachers interest video lectures and been recognized three Catherine Ishida. The in its NCTA and J-OPP online seminars times with The interviews designed to give three—Clara O’Connor, and book discussion groups. During the Buchanan Award from Steven Knapp, and 2014-15 academic year, our courses have teachers introductions to the Association for Emily Orendorff— included “Cracking the Samurai Code: trending topics and new Asian Studies. This receive service learning Separating Fact from Fiction,” “Teaching year, with funding resources for teaching credit in Asian Studies. about China’s Political System,” “China from the United States- Each CU student is Under Mao,” “Japan in the World: about East Asia. Japan Foundation and charged with developing 16th-19th Centuries; Japanese Short NCTA, TEA is adding to its curriculum several lessons, practicing those lessons Stories for the High School Classroom,” offerings with a new online collection of with their peers, then teaching classes at and “Chinese Characters Book Group.” lessons developed by teachers who the elementary schools. Through the Courses are taught by TEA research participated in our 2013 TEA Fulbright program, Boulder children take part in faculty, with contributions from Asian Hays Group Project study tour in Japan. supplemental and engaging activities studies faculty on campus, including Cultural Encounters: Teaching Japan in about Asia, while CU students apply Marcia Yonemoto, Tim Weston, Miriam World History will include eight their own knowledge in authentic ways Kingsburg, and national consultants to secondary lessons examining Japan’s and provide service to the community. NCTA. encounters with peoples, ideas,

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Photos taken by Keven Peters (BA ’12, ASIA, IAFS) while in Xinjiang, China as an English Teacher. (From Left) Two Chinese tourists wave to the camera along the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. A Uyghur plays his rawop for tourists in the ancient city of Gaochang outside of Turpan. A group of Uyghur children pose for a photo in Old Town Kashgar. A Tajik family enjoys some sunshine along the Krakorum Highway in China.

CAS Brings Asia to CU in 2014 In 2014, the Center for Asian Studies both the performance piece and his development to overcome the offered 22 Speaker Series and 13 Luncheon larger artistic interests. “backwardness” of the country. Series events to a combined audience of 2/21/14 – Muddying the Waters: Co- 3/11/14 – Screening of the Documentary over 1500. We began the year continuing Authoring Feminisms Across Scholarship “Never Sorry.” We collaborated with the our 2013-14 theme, “Catastrophic Asia,” and Activism. CAS joined the Conference on World Affairs to bring in which we explored ways of Department of Geography to present Alison Klayman to CU to show her understanding Asia by looking at natural- the 20th Annual Critical Geography documentary, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. and human-caused catastrophes that link Conference, featuring Richa Nagar of the region, a study that culminated in our 4/4/14 – CAS Symposium 2014: the University of Minnesota as the annual symposium. Here are some events “Catastrophic Asia.” In this daylong keynote speaker. Professor Nagar from Spring 2014. symposium, we invited four scholars discussed the labor and politics of to discuss their research on Asia as a 2/11/14 – Materiality of Transmutation: translation across multiple borders site of catastrophe. From the 2011 What Persists and What Projects. that are often difficult to cross and earthquake and nuclear meltdown in Jongku Kim, an internationally explored the prospects for collective Japan, to the 1984 Union Carbide recognized Korean sculptor and action in terms of racial vulnerability. disaster in Bhopal, India, to the legacy painter, had a two-week residency at 3/10-11/14 – “Curating and Presenting of Soviet nuclear testing in the University of Colorado Boulder, at ‘3-11’ Online: Reflections from My Year Kazakhstan, to the ever-present risk of the end of which he created a with Harvard’s Digital Archive of Japan’s nuclear war in South Asia, we “performance piece,” a public 2011 Disasters” and “High-Growth examined how Asian sites reveal much demonstration of his art, which was Hydrosphere: The Sakuma Dam and about the intersection of the political followed with a panel discussion of “Comprehensive Development” Planning and the natural. in Post-1945 Japan.” Eric Dinmore, of Hampden-Sydney College, came to 4/23/14 – Tiananmen Retrospective: discuss his work curating online Reflections on Violence, Power, and “personal collections” for Harvard’s Protest in China and Beyond. A panel Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 discussion featuring Chris Hammons, Disasters. The following day, he and Tim Oakes, Tim Weston held in discussed his academic research – the commemoration of the 25th role of the Sakuma Dam in Japan’s anniversary of the Tiananmen Square early postwar comprehensive protest and June 4th crackdown.

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Update from the Asian Library Collection

In October, the CU-Boulder Asian Studies Collection collection had to be split between high-density shelving settled into its new home. Most of us have experienced in the basement level with another location for packing up our books and moving, but imagine doing reference materials on the second floor. The new stacks so with almost 77,000 volumes. The Asian Studies location will also accommodate the collection’s growth Collection hosts Chinese, Japanese, and Korean for years to come. vernacular materials, and spans three floors near the The new stacks and reading room not only reunite the southwest corner of Norlin Library. Adjacent to the collection, but as the Chinese and Japanese Studies main collection is the Reference Collection in the Asian librarians, we also have our offices in the new space. Studies Reading Room. The space feels light and open, This holistic approach to area studies collections has and has already become a popular quiet study area. become less common in the US. In the future, the Asian This collection has been on the the move for the last ten Collection reading room will receive a major renovation years. CU’s Asian vernacular collection is younger than with updated lighting, furniture, floors and shelving. many others across the US, having only been formally The librarians, faculty members, and graduate students established in 1989. It has rapidly grown to are happy to see the libraries make this commitment to accommodate the research needs on campus. It was supporting Asian Studies on campus. once housed on the first floor of Norlin in a small study Xiang Li and Adam Lisbon room, but quickly outgrew the space. For a time, the Chinese and Japanese & Korean Librarians

continued from previous page concert event featuring Malek Jandali, Transnational Korean Genre Films: Park With the start of the Fall 2014 semester, an American-Syrian and Chan-wook's Oldboy and Bong Joon- pianist who uses his art to highlight the Ho's The Host.” we kicked off our 2014-15 theme. atrocities in the ongoing Syrian conflict, “Mediating Asia” is an exploration of the invoke the principles of human rights, We are further developing the idea of multiple representations of Asia. We take a and to advocate for international aid. “Mediating Asia” this spring, as we offer broad definition of media to include not more events that address the theme, only print, broadcast, film, and internet 10/1/14 – The Making of Milarepa: Reading and Writing the Life of Tibet’s including the Fourth Annual CAS formats, but also arts and literature, Great Saint. Andrew Quintman of Yale Symposium, which will be on Friday, insofar as they might also be viewed as University delivered a lecture on his April 17. For more information about representations of Asia. This year-long recent work examining the life of Yogin upcoming events, visit our website at study will culminate in our 2015 annual Milarepa as composed by Madman http://cas.colorado.edu/events-list. symposium, “Mediating Asia,” to be held Tsangnyön, including the historical on April 17, 2015. formation of the narrative, the changing 9/4/14 – Korea Now. We were pleased to of the narrative voices, and the enduring host Consul General Dong Man Han, of legacy of the story across the region. the Consulate of the Republic of Korea This event celebrated the Tsadra in San Francisco. Consul General Han "Translation and Transmission" discussed the current state of the Korean Conference in Keystone, Colorado on peninsula, including South Korean October 2-5, 2014. economic development, its relationship 10/2/14 – Korean Film Series. CAS with North Korea and the United States, showed two popular Korean films, and the popularity of Korean culture Oldboy and The Host, in conjunction with worldwide. a lecture given by Hye Seung Chung 9/29/14 – Music, Cultural Heritage, and and Scott Diffrient, both professors in Syrian Peace Advocacy. CAS and the Film and Media Studies at Colorado College of Music hosted a lecture and State University, “The Politics of

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Students in Anja Lange’s “Xi’an: ‘Self-Awareness and Images of the Other’” global seminar pose on the Great Wall of China. Thanks to support from the CAS Tang Fund, students were able to explore Chinese and American concepts of self and society, and of individual, collective, and national identities while in China in Summer 2014. (Page 4.) Student Awards and Recognition Students on the CU campus recognize that studying Asia now will help them for years to come as they move out into the world.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships Asian Studies Graduates in 2014 Japanese Studies Fellowships FLAS Fellowships are awarded to CU graduate students CAS coordinates the undergraduate major and minor in A generous endowment from an studying Asian languages over the academic year or in Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary program that allows anonymous donor allows us to intensive summer language programs. Funding for these students to study the astonishing diversity of the Asian provide support to graduate fellowships comes from the U.S. Department of Education. region. Information about the major is available on the students to recognize and Support for Fall 2014 was provided by the Graduate School. Academics tab of our website. 2014 graduates: encourage the study of Japanese Summer 2014 2014-15 Academic Year at CU Asian Studies BA Asian Studies Minor history, literature, and language. Mason Brown (MUSC) - Alison Hanson (ANTH) - Hindi Sharon Chang (ASIA, JPNS; BS Anthony Borgia (CHIN; ASIA Tibetan 2014-15 Recipients Leah Justin-Jinich (ALC) - MKTG, MGMT) minor) Tyler Lehrer (RLST) - Sinhala Chinese Oranoos Ghiasy (ASIA) Daniel Peterson (ANTH; ASIA Jonathan Breiten (ALC) Bazil Manietta (LING) - Korean minor) Bazil Manietta (LING) - Korean Joshua Griswold (ASIA, CHIN) Patrick Chimenti (ALC) Galen Murton (GEOG) - Kelsey Reed (ASIA, CHIN, Alec Vishal Rouben (CHIN; Cristina Sajovich (RLST) - Hindi Chinese IAFS) ASIA minor) Lingshuang Mao (ALC/LING) Allison Shelton (ENGL) - Hindi Kristin Peterson (JOUR) - Alan C. Solomon (ALC) Dillon Webster (RLST) - Arabic

Colorado Journal of Asian Studies The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce publication of the third volume of our Colorado Journal of Asian Studies. Each Asian Studies major is required to complete a thesis based on original research, and each year, some of these outstanding theses are featured in CJAS. This year’s issue contains articles by Stanley Barnes (ASIA, Fall 2013), as well as recent graduates Sharon Chang, Joshua Griswold, Dennis Morin, and Kelsey Reed. The journal is available on the Academics tab on our website. Congratulations to these and all of our graduates.

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