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September 11, 2014
After Beijing’s promise of universal suffrage for the 2017 election, Hong Kong, which was handed over to China by the British colonial ruler in 1997...
August 15, 2014
On July 29th, 2014, the Council on East Asian Studies had the pleasure of hosting ten junior high school students from Nihonmatsu, Japan. Coordinated...
June 6, 2014
Jenna Cook (Davenport College, Class of 2014) was one of two winners of the 2014 Williams Prize in East Asian Studies for her essay submitted to the...
April 15, 2014
Hailing from as near as New Haven and as far as Beijing and beyond, more than 300 Yale alumni and students united over the weekend at the inaugural...
Ian Buruma
February 19, 2014
Ian Buruma, an award-winning journalist who has covered political and human rights issues, will speak at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 20 as a Poynter...
February 7, 2014
The Yale University Art Gallery is hosting a special exhibition of Japanese folding screens, or “byobu,” from the 16th century to the present. The...
January 16, 2014
Time passes so quickly; when I first came to work at Yale in the eighties, I was the youngest of the professors in the East Asia Languages and...

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