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On Saturday, April 12, the 24th "Chinese Bridge" competition was held at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), bringing together nineteen students from four universities across Washington State: the University of Washington (UW), Western Washington University (WWU), Washington State University (WSU), and PLU.
The competition consisted of three challenging components: a three-minute speech in Chinese, a Q&A session on Chinese language and culture, and a talent performance. Due to the demanding… Read more
The Center for Southeast Asia & Its Diasporas has been supporting Thai language courses in the Jackson School of International Studies since the course series moved over from Asian Languages & Literature in the fall quarter of 2018. The Jackson School’s Thai courses use an online learning system named Moodle, which is managed by the UW Language Learning Center. Students complete lessons, practice exercises, and quizzes in the Moodle system and meet with an instructor to review materials… Read more
Dana Fried, a graduate student in the Asian Languages and Cultures Program at the Department of Asian Languages & Literature, has been awarded a … Read more
In a recent article written for the Northwest Asian Weekly, "The Enduring Power of the Omoro Sōshi", Prof. Davinder Bhowmik describes how the Omoro Sōshi, a collection of some 1,500 songs written in the 16th and 17th centuries and the oldest extant text in Ryukyuan literature, offers insights into how early Ryukyuans expressed and practiced indigenous linguistic,… Read more
"Songs are not mere entertainment if we consider the case of Japan. There, they can be the very essence of life itself," writes Davinder Bhowmik, a UW associate professor of Asian languages and literature.Featured
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On March 6, the Department of Asian Languages & Literature convened a distinguished gathering of community leaders, scholars, writers, translators, humanitarian activists, and film artists for a day of talks, presentations, and film screenings to commemorate fifty years since the end of the Vietnam War. Each of the conference's speakers, panelists, and discussants were united by their deep connections to postwar Vietnam and Cambodia, and shared personal stories, insights, and experiences… Read more
Jieyu Zhou, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature, has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Grant from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA) and the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL). The grant, which includes a $2,500 award, supports graduate student research in the fields of applied linguistics and language education, with an emphasis on less commonly taught languages.
Under the… Read more
The Year of the Snake begins Jan. 29. It’s the first time Lunar New Year is a legislatively recognized (though unpaid) holiday in Washington state, thanks to a bill signed into law last March. Chan Lü, associate professor of Asian languages and literature at the UW and coordinator of the UW's Chinese program, is quoted.
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AL&L's Professor Nazry Bahrawi sat down with Singaporean poet and scholar Samuel Caleb Wee and Vietnamese translator Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng for a discussion around the complexities of translation, multi-lingual writing, and more. Read the interview in diaCRITICS, a publication of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).
Professor Nazry Bahrawi has been quoted throughout an article published in the South China Morning Post, titled "… Read more