To ensure the well-being of faculty, students, and staff, the University of Pennsylvania will be operating remotely until further notice. If you need to reach us, please send an email. You may also call the Department and leave a message. We will return your call as soon as we can. Please stay well and healthy.
We regret to announce that the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania will not accept applications for the PhD program during the 2020-21 admissions cycle. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the School of Arts of Sciences made the difficult decision to focus resources on supporting current students and ensuring that we are in a position to fully support future cohorts of Penn graduate students. Therefore, we will pause bringing new students into the program for one year, with the expectation of welcoming a new cohort of doctoral students in the fall of 2022. Admissions to the MA program will continue during the 2020-21 admissions cycle as in previous years. If you have any questions, please contact Graduate Coordinator Alexandra Zeiger at zeigera@sas.upenn.edu.
For Majors and Minors concerned about Study Abroad, please consult the following resources:
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Penn Resumption of Travel Criteria: https://global.upenn.edu/travel-guidance/travel-guidelines-and-procedures
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Penn Abroad COVID-19 FAQ: https://global.upenn.edu/pennabroad/covid-19-faqs
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Department News
Professor David Spafford in Netflix’s “Age of the Samurai"
Professor David Spafford is part of "an international cast of academicians,” who “deliver a historically substantiated account of the samurai” (WSJ, 1/23, https://tinyurl.com/yncdku6k) in the n
Two Language Faculty Win SAS Grants
Congratulations to both Mien-hwa Chiang and Ye Tian! Both have received SAS Language Grants.
Interview with EALC Professor Paul Goldin and the New Books Network
Please go to the link below to read about and listen to an interview with Professor Paul Goldin about his recently published book entitled "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them".
Freshman, Willow Wilkes, Earns Silver at J.LIVE
Willow Wilkes, a freshman in a dual program with Arts & Sciences and Wharton, received the Silver Award (College Division II category) in George Washington University's J.LIVE 2020 Talk, an event aimed at showcasing student abilities
EALC student, Feyi Makinde, is interviewed in Penn Today
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/breaking-classroom-barriers-over-zoom
2006 PhD graduate, Si Jia, passes away
Si Jia, a 2006 graduate of the PhD program in EALC, passed away on October 11 after a brief illness. A remembrance of, and tribute to, Si Jia from her advisor, Dr.
Fall 2020 Chinese Placement Test Results
Results of the Fall 2020 Chinese Placement Test can be found on the CLP website here: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/chinese/
Prof. Goldin's Book Makes the Times Literary Supplement's List
"Paul Goldin’s The Art of Chinese Philosophy (Princeton) is a book I’d wanted to find before: a lucid, but not simplifying, introduction to eight classic texts, full of lapidary poetry," writes Hannah Smith.
EALC Minor Andy Eskenazi Publishes Paper
EALC minor Andy Eskenazi, in collaboration with EALC PhD Dotno Pount, has published a revised version of the paper he wrote for Professor Atwood's EALC 004 course, "Mongolian Civilization: Nomad and Sedentary." The paper discusses China-
