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Department News
Rare Chinese scroll unfurled at Penn Museum
Students in Professor Nancy Steinhardt’s history of art course had the chance to closely examine a 200-ye
Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books Gifted to Penn Libraries
With the gift of the Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, the Penn Libraries has secured one of the best – if not the best – most complete and widest-ranging collections of Japanese illustrated books in the United State
Congratulations Professor Nancy Steinhardt!
Professor Nancy Steinhardt has won the 2019 Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring. Currently the Chair of our department, Professor Steinhardt has mentored over 30 PhD students during her time with EALC.
A tour of the ancient world—in Mandarin
The Penn Museum offers tours of its exhibits in Mandarin, increasing cross-cultural access to its invaluable assemblage of objects on display, the only known museum in Philadelphia with regularly scheduled tours in the langua
Nancy Steinhardt Wins College Art Association Award
Professor Steinhardt has been named the 2019 recipient of the 2019 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History. The award was present on February 13 in New York during the CAA's annual conference. Awardees wer
The Japanese Language Program's Tadoku Project
The JLP's Tadoku project helps our students try to read more challenging texts and enjoy reading in Japanese. See the full article in the Penn Library Newsletter.
Two Students Make It to Final Round of J.LIVE Talk
Barbara Chen (Undergraduate, Arts & Sciences) and Zizhou Wang (MA Student, EALC) proceeded to the final round in the speech competition called J.LIVE Talk, organized by George Washington University.
Mongolian Language Taught at Penn
The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article about the Mongolian course being offered through EALC. This is the first time Mongolian has been offered at Penn.
Chinese Placement Test Results
Test Date: August 24, 2018
Fall 2018 Placement Exam Information
Chinese: There will be a second test for those students who could not make the first test on Friday, August 31, 2018 at 10:00AM in Fagin Hall, Room 103
Japanese: Monday, August 27, 8:00AM to 10:00AM in Williams 315
Events
Myth, Management and Materiality in East Asia
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Conference
Keynote Speaker: Glenda Chao (Ursinus College, History) - 5PM
The Graduate Student Research Colloquium of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania presents its third annual graduate student conference: Myth…
A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī
*** NEW TIME & DATE ***
Professor Eric Schluessel, University of Montana
The Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī (1836-1917) is celebrated as a monument of Uyghur literature and the preeminent Muslim history of nineteenth-century Xinjiang (East Turkestan). Sayrāmī's work is also…
