During his visit to Lisbon to receive a prize for his recent book, A Vietnamese Moses (UC Press, 2017), Prof. Dutton was interviewed by Diario de Noticias, the Lisbon-based Portuguese…
Read More
Professor SU Bai 宿白, just passed away due to sickness in morning of February 1, 2018, aged 96. Prof. Su Bai is the primary person to establish the archaeology discipline at Beijing…
Read More
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is delighted to congratulate Professor David Schaberg, Dean of the Humanities at UCLA, on being awarded the 2018 Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize…
Read More
Professor George Dutton’s latest book, A Vietnamese Moses (UC Press, 2017) has just received the 2017 Premio Fondaçaõ Oriente (Oriental Foundation Prize) for the best book on a topic related…
Read More
Distinguished Professor Stephanie Jamison of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) has been named to the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jamison is one of the…
Read More
Noriko Akatsuka, who established the foundation for the Asian linguistics program in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, passed away on Oct. 17, 2016, in Santa Monica at the…
Read More
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures would like to congratulate Richard E. Strassberg, Emeritus Professor of Chinese, on the awarding of the The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for…
Read More
Prof. Sung-Deuk Oak published two books on the history of early Korean Protestantism for the Korean audience, and three copious sourcebooks in both English and Korean. Two more sourcebooks come…
Read More
(Download book as a free PDF here) In a new book, George Dutton, a professor of Asian languages and culture and director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, explores…
Read More
The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is pleased to announce that faculty member Michael Berry’s translation of the novel To Live has been selected for the National Endowment for…
Read More
