UC Berkeley East Asian Languages and Cultures

Official account of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley (@UCBerkeley). #FiatLux

[UC Berkeley East Asian Languages and Cultures @UCBerkeleyEALC]

Today, In-Person:

Yvonne Lin, “Quiet ruination: the aesthetics of half-life in Li Yang's 404 Not Found”

Friday, March 4, noon to 1pm, 287 Dwinelle Hall

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Join us Wed, Feb 9 at noon PST for the next installment of our #BerkeleyBookChats series: @EdwardTyerman (Slavic) will discuss his book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture, in conversation with Andrew Jones (@UCBerkeleyEALC).

https://t.co/lCaWXnU6nI

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Calling all Berkeley-affiliated faculty, grad students, et al:

Fri, Feb. 11 at noon PST, Margaret Guerrero and David Siegfried will be hosting a forum on grant-seeking in the arts and humanities!

Advance registration required.

More info here: https://t.co/tVM0GQJAcb

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Our very own Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Peter Zhou, has won the Council on East Asian Libraries Distinguished Service Award.

Congratulations, Director Zhou!

https://t.co/5A6E8zwrLr

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Spring 2022 EALC Talks! Schedule Available:
https://t.co/mNldsEKZC8

Series of talks on Fridays where we can share our work in an informal venue. Each talk has a 20-30 minute presentation, followed by questions and conversation

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Join us this Friday for EALCTalks!

Jiaqian Zhu, “On Touch: Sensing the Haptic Beauty in Kawabata Yasunari's Palm-of-the-
Hand Stories”

Friday, October 15th, 4:00pm EST

https://t.co/mNldsEKZC8

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While we were away from Twitter, our Chair, Andrew Jones, released the EALC Newsletter with news of graduate student placement, department changes, and the return-to-campus.

Please read it here:
https://t.co/PiMBTv6BqL

[UC Berkeley East Asian Languages and Cultures @UCBerkeleyEALC]

Berkeley EALC is back! Our classes are in session, and so is EALCTalks!
Our second session is Friday, October 15 at 4pm PST.

Jiaqian Zhu, "On Touch: Sensing the Haptic Beauty in Kawabata Yasunari's Palm-of-the-
Hand Stories"

Full Schedule:

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Join us for a two-day virtual workshop THIS WEEKEND, featuring ten humanist scholars from different areas of East Asian studies, who will share their teaching experience and reflect on new trends in their respective fields. To register visit: https://t.co/67hP3B4RQZ

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Grab your lunch and join us TODAY at noon for Professor Paula Varsano's EALCTalk! "Knowing People and Being Known: The Lyric Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry.”
Zoom link can be found in this flyer: https://t.co/y5qnX1zFuF

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Please consider supporting EALC as part of @UCBerkeley's #BigGive today! Your gift allows us to continue a rich tradition of teaching and researching East Asian languages, literatures, and cultures! #FiatLux #GoBears Link here: https://t.co/dutaHkCNpc

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TONIGHT at 6:30 pm PST, we invite you to join Professor Andrew Jones for his talk "Teresa Teng and the Network Trace," part of the "Sound and Screen from Taiwan" series hosted by @UCSBEastAsian, the Center for Taiwan Studies, and the Confucius Institute.
https://t.co/N7BWBaTY7G

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One day left to submit a presentation proposal for the Teaching East Asia in the Humanities conference in April!

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***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Teaching East Asia in the Humanities
Dates: April 24-25, 2021
Proposal deadline: January 31, 2021
Details here: https://t.co/MHpf1bToou

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Join us Wed, 01/27 at noon PST for this semester's 1st installment of #BerkeleyBookChats: Dorothy Hale (@UCBEnglish) will discuss her new book
The Novel and the New Ethics in conversation with Paula Versano (@UCBerkeleyEALC).

More info and watch online: https://t.co/IGLbBTMiUy

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All these upcoming @CCSBerkeley spring events look great, but esp looking forward to zooming in for Cynthia Brokaw's & Tom Kelly's colloquia - the former a brilliant mentor & the latter an equally brilliant former student https://t.co/MQZ77XochH

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Here is our exciting line-up of EALCTalks! for the 2021 Spring semester, on topics as diverse as medieval Chinese poetry, Cantonese pedagogy at Cal, and early avant-garde Japanese cinema!

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Her current project examines the relationship between landscape literature and stone inscriptions in China of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Welcome to UC Berkeley, Maggie! #GoBears #FiatLux

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We would also like to introduce (and welcome back for her second semester at UC Berkeley!) the newest member of the @UCBerkeleyEALC cohort, Maggie Jie Sun. Maggie works on medieval and early modern Chinese literature and poetics.

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Before joining EALC, Maggie received her BA in English literature at Nanjing University and her MA in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University. Her MA thesis focused on memory, identity, and writings on architecture in the Mid-Tang dynasty.

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Finally, current PhD candidate in Chinese Xiangjun Feng's article “Rhythm Revolution: How Music Modernized China” is forthcoming in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (@MCLClist ) volume 32 number 2. Congratulations Xiangjun! https://t.co/OkVa7TBaOq

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THREAD: Here are a few highlights from the Spring 2021 Chair's Newsletter by Professor Andrew Jones. Even in the face of a worsening pandemic and domestic political upheaval our department remained resilient! https://t.co/PiMBTuP0zd

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Professor Ling Hon Lam recently published a book chapter entitled “Allegory and the ‘World’ Formation in The Journey to the West” in the second volume of A WILEY-BLACKWELL COMPANION TO WORLD LITERATURE, edited by Christine Chism. https://t.co/INp6upROib