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Emma Horio | June 5, 2024 When Harry Li begins teaching Chinese to high school students in Pasadena this fall, he’ll bring with him highly relevant instruction experience, having already…

  The animated short was conceived and brought to fruition by Yanai Initiative director Michael Emmerich Sean Brenner May 7, 2024 Among the responsibilities UCLA professor Michael Emmerich figured he…

Diego Loukota, assistant professor of Asian languages and cultures, died at the age of 38 on March 17, in his home in Santa Monica, surrounded by family and friends. He…

The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities present a world tour of restored Japanese silent films coupled with live narrators, known as benshi. BY SAMANTHA BERGESON…

UCLA professor Michael Berry, shown here with the cover of the English-language version of Han Song’s “Hospital,” which was published in March of this year. (Photo: Peggy McInerny/ UCLA.) Michael…

Sean Brenner | April 7, 2023 Five UCLA professors are among the 171 Guggenheim Fellows for 2023. Presented annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellowships…

Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his wife Christina will establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist Studies outside of Korea By Margaret MacDonald The UCLA…

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition at the Japanese…

Asian languages and cultures lecturer Juliana Wijaya worked as a linguist for Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.” As a member of the Southeast Asia Story Trust, Wijaya reviewed character…

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures is excited to announce a brand new undergraduate major, Southeast Asian Studies, starting Fall 2021. Southeast Asia is a critically important area of…