The EAS annual newsletter announces new graduate students, staff, faculty and lecturers and visitors to the Program in East Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Studies.
Full version of the newsletter is available for download (link)
At noon on September 22nd, there will be a departmental colloquium in which Professor Anna Shields, in the Department of East Asian Studies, will speak.
This is an invitation-only event, not open to the public.
The Department of East Asian Studies is greatly saddened to announce the death of Ying-shih Yü, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, and Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Emeritus on Sunday, August 1, 2021. Professor Yü was an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese history who served at Princeton from 1987 until…
Effective August 1, 2021, Professor Thomas Conlan has agreed to serve as Director of the Program in East Asian Studies. His contact information is tconlan@princeton.edu 609-258-4773
Princeton University - Program and Department of East Asian Studies
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the promotion of He Bian effective July 1, 2021.
Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies.— He Bian
Effective July 1, 2021, Professor Amy Borovoy, will be the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of East Asian Studies. Her contact information is aborovoy@princeton.edu (609) 258-2471.
Effective July 1, 2021, Paize Keulemans, will be the Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of East Asian Studies. His contact information is pkeuelma@princeton.edu (609) 258-5364.
Chih-p’ing Chou (known to colleagues as “CP”), Professor of East Asian Studies, Director of the Chinese Language Program in East Asian Studies, and Director of the Princeton-in-Beijing summer language program, will transition to emeritus status after 42 years on the Princeton faculty. CP was born in 1947 in Shanghai, and his family moved from…
Xin Wen received a Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies Early Career Fellowship for his book project titled Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang'an, 900-1400. This book tells the history of Chang'an from 900, when it lost its status as the Tang capital, to 1400, when, in much reduced form, it…