The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia is thrilled to announce the launch of a new colloquium series, the Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium (CCH). The CCH encourages innovative and critical approaches to the study of Chinese humanities across established disciplinary, temporal, and regional boundaries. It seeks to open up a space for the exchange of ideas and methods to deepen our understanding of China, its past, present, and future, in critical dialogue with other parts of the world. We have curated a lineup of scholars who will share their most recent research and insights with our community and the general public.

The details for the two CCH events in the fall semester are as follows:

 

October 12, 2023, 6:00PM-7:30PM

Place: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (first floor) 

Aspirations: China and the Global South—

The inaugural event of the Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium

A special panel with Wang Hui (Tsinghua University), Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), and Michael G. Hill (William & Mary), moderated by Lydia Liu (Columbia University)

Co-sponsors: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute

                       Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

                       The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities

                       Office of the Dean of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

November 9, 2023, 6:00PM-7:30PM

Place: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (first floor)

The China That Could Have Been:

Rhetorical Learning and Political Thought of the Early Modern World

Speaker: Shoufu Yin (The University of British Columbia)

Co-sponsor: Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Both events are hybrid events, open to the public. Zoom webinar information will be provided soon on our website: https://www.columbiaucch.org/cch. We look forward to welcoming you to the CCH and embarking on this intellectual journey together!

The EALAC department has now moved temporarily to the 6th and 7th floors of Uris Hall! Please check our website for the updated offices of our faculty and staff! http://ealac.columbia.edu/

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Ono, Naofumi Tatsumi

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative textbook for students specializing in scholarly Japanese for Asian studies. This book is aimed at scholars in any Asian Studies field in which Japanese scholarship is extremely important.

The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who need to learn to read scholarly Japanese.

The book contains concise descriptions of grammar points essential for reading scholarly writings in Japanese and exercises based on excerpts taken from prominent Japanese scholarly texts. Each exercise reading provides a list of vocabulary and explanations of expressions. The reading materials provided mainly cover Chinese history, comparative literature, religion, and culture.

The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who have completed two years of basic language learning and need to learn to read scholarly Japanese. Available now: http://routledge.com/9781032014890