Spring 2020 Newsletter

Greetings from our new home in the CASE Building on the CU Boulder campus! Our humble brick cottage has made way for a new campus hotel and conference center. We are happy to welcome several new Asianists who joined our community in the fall of 2019. Marjorie Burge (Assistant Professor...

Parting Thoughts from Colleen Berry The last five years have been challenging, interesting, exciting, and gratifying. The opportunity to expand my field from Chinese literature to Asian studies has been daunting at times, but one that has thoroughly enriched my life. I’ve been delighted to have had the chance, through...

Asia Internship Program – China Having never taken an Asian Studies class and not having spoken a word of Mandarin since high school, to say I was nervous before my departure for the Asia Internship Program would have been an understatement. I was an economics major whose only experience with...

In Maymester 2019, Dr. Anja Lange from the Herbst Program returned to Xi’an, China with a new group of 12 CU students. Dr. Lange’s course is designed for students with no Chinese language skills, or even experience abroad. The objective is to expose students to the unique cultural heritage of...

Help us celebrate our students as they prepare for careers in the global marketplace. 2019 Asian Studies Graduates The interdisciplinary major and minor in Asian Studies allow students to study the astonishing diversity of the Asian region. Information is available on the Academics tab of our website. Asian Studies BA...

Colin Flahive (ASIA/ANTH 2001) has been living and traveling in China for more than 16 years. In 2019, Colin published Great Leaps: Finding Home in a Changing China , where he explores China’s rural-urban migration against the backdrop of his own move from Colorado to southwestern China. In Kunming, he...

New Post-Doc CAS was pleased to welcome Darren Byler to CU in the fall as a new postdoctoral fellow, working with CAS Director Tim Oakes on the China Made project. Meet Darren: My research focuses on the dispossession of ethno-racial Muslim minorities through forms of surveillance and digital capitalism in...

The year 2019 ended with two major projects that showcased Japanese language teachers and learners in the United States. The Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), which is taken worldwide by tens of thousands of people who are learning Japanese, was administered to almost 8,000 test-takers in the US, at 18...

I’m delighted to report that two new members have joined our ranks: Michael and Betsy Zink . Michael and Betsy have spent three decades working internationally, most of it in China and Southeast Asia. Each member brings skills & ideas, new networks and new energy to the Council. Welcome! Advisory...

In 2019, CAS hosted 24 speaker series events and 13 lunch talks, reaching a total audience of almost 1800 students, faculty, and community members. Many of our events were dominated by response and inquiry into political crises throughout Asia. In March, the Center brought together a panel to discuss first-hand...