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  Early Buddhist Manuscript Project featured in National Endowment for the Humanities magazine
  November 15, 2019
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  UW Language Student Wins Awards by Blending STEM and Korean
  November 4, 2019
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  Professor Justin Jesty Wins ASAP Book Award
  October 31, 2019
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  October 10, 2019

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Recent Research

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  Paul S. Atkins, Teika:  The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet
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  Jennifer Dubrow, The Aesthetics of the Fragment
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  Chan Lü, Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program
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  John Christopher (Chris) Hamm, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang
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  Jennifer Dubrow, Cosmopolitan Dreams: The Making of Modern Urdu Literary Culture in Colonial South Asia 

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