East Asian Studies

Director: Rebecca Copeland

Home Page: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~eas/ Email: eas@artsci.wustl.edu Telephone: (314) 935-4448

The East Asian Studies Program at Washington University offers a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the cultures and societies of East Asia. Since its inception, nearly four decades ago, the East Asian Studies program has trained hundreds of students for careers in academia, diplomacy, law, and business.

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A tale of two artists A Challenge to Democracy explores legacy of Japanese internment camps Sept. 17, 2009 -- Ansel Adams, Smiling Girl (Oriental Type), 1943 In the 1930s, the photographer Ansel Adams struck up a friendship with California painter Chiura Obata. Yet the arrival of World War II would set these two celebrated artists on radically divergent paths — paths that would, in very different ways, lead both to the now-infamous "war relocation centers" at which the U.S. government forcibly interred approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans. Next month their sons, Michael Adams and Gyo Obata, will explore the impact of internment on their respective families in a public dialog at Washington University.

In Defense of Food Michael Pollan to receive Washington University Humanities Medal Nov. 20 Nov. 4, 2008 -- Alla Mailey Michael Pollan Celebrated food writer Michael Pollan will receive the Washington University Humanities Medal as part of "Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors," the university's seventh annual faculty book colloquium. The biannual award is given to a distinguished scholar, writer or artist whose career merits special recognition for excellence and courage.

Tale of Genji Campus celebrates 1000th anniversary of 'world's first novel,' April 18 April 4, 2008 -- One mark of a great novel, it's been said, is its ability to stand the "test of time" — to remain captivating to readers from generation to generation. Washington University will honor such a novel on April 18 with two campus events celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of the Tale of Genji, a central pillar of the Japanese literary canon often hailed as the world's first novel.

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Rebecca Copeland Professor of Japanese Language & Literature Copeland received her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University in 1986. Her dissertation concerned the writer Uno Chiyo (1897-1996). This study was subsequently published as The Sound of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992.) Copeland's study of ... Expertise: Japan, Japanese Literature, women writers, gender issues, translation theory and practice Direct contact: (314) 935-4903 / copeland@artsci.wustl.edu

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