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Department News
Professor Teemu Ruskola Named 2024-2025 Penn Fellow
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Korean Language Program Students Win at Korean Speech Contest
2023-2024 EALC Student Prize Winners Announced!
Matthew Y Wang Memorial Fund Mental Health Wellness Series #10
Xiuyuan Mi Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Events
Korea Day @ Penn
The Penn Korean Language Program and the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies are excited to announce Korea Day at Penn – a special event for Democracy Prep Bronx High School students on November 8th 2024. The…
The Outbreak of the Jōkyū War (1221)
Triangulating Myth and History in Medieval Japan
Michael McCarty
In the Jōkyū War of 1221, retired emperor Go-Toba declared war on the Hōjō warrior family in attempt to destroy Japan’s first warrior government, the Kamakura bakufu, which had shared power with the imperial…
Through the Looking-Glass
A Glimpse into the Linguistic Ecology of Hainan Island
Dr. Zeng Xiuwei May 曾綉薇
Textual records about Hainan Island are scarce due to its remoteness and inhabitation predominantly by non-Han peoples until the 10th century CE. That the island has been settled by people of different ethnic groups…
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