Preparing students for careers in academia and industry in East Asia for over 150 years
Department News
AY2023-2024 Newsletter is Here!
Here is what we've been up to! Enjoy! We loved hearing from some of our alums. It's never too soon to send us an entry for next year's newsletter!EALC alum Chunhao Luo wins second place for his MA thesis in Hong Kong competition
2024 EALC MA alumnus Chunhao Luo wrote his Master's thesis, Environmental Etiology and Imperial Expansion: Miasma in Lingnan from the Twelfth to the Seventeenth Centuries, in fulfillment of his research requirement at Penn. ItEALC PhD student Marina de Melo do Nascimento named a finalist in 2025 Penn Grad Talks
Marina de Melo do Nascimento, a third-year PhD student in EALC focusing on Japanese Studies, was selected as a finalist for Penn Grad Talks.Vietnamese Language Program Featured in Penn Today
The Vietnamese Language Program was recently featured in Penn Today.Japanese Language Program Featured in The Daily Pennsylvanian
Japanese Language Program director, Tomoko Takami, was featured in The Daily Pennsylvanian following a discussion about the use of generative AI in modern Japanese language courses.Professor Teemu Ruskola Named 2024-2025 Penn Fellow
Professor Teemu Ruskola was selected as a Penn Fellow for 2024-2025. To read more about this appointment, see here. Congratulations, Teemu!
Events
A Talk with Sang Young Park
Sang Young Park
Meet bestselling South Korean author Sang Young Park as he discusses his Booker Prize-longlisted novel, Love in the Big City—a funny, surprising, and poignant story of a young gay man searching…
Kin and Kind
The Vocabulary of Ethnicity in Medieval China
Shao-yun Yang
While the standard terms for an ethnic group in modern Chinese are minzu …
