Category: Chinese Program

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Announcing Partnership with Santa Barbara Chinese School, Internship Opportunities

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We’re excited to welcome young Chinese-language learners to our building on the weekends through our partnership with Santa Barbara Chinese School!

Founded in 1985, the Santa Barbara Chinese School promotes the teaching of Chinese language and culture to students from pre-K through high school. It offers the only formal, in-person classes in Chinese language for young learners in Santa Barbara County. They offer a variety of opportunities to learn and improve one’s Chinese language abilities, including classes on the weekend and more informal meetings throughout the week. Please visit their website for more details (Fall 2024 schedule can be found here).

UCSB students may also volunteer for Santa Barbara Chinese School and receive UCSB credit through our internship program. Please visit their website and fill out their volunteer form for more information.

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Humanities Decanted 5/14: Thomas Mazanec in conversation with Xiaorong Li

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Please join us for an in-person conversation between EALCS Professors Thomas Mazanec and Xiaorong Li about Mazanec’s new book, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China. The event, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, will take place at 4pm on May 14, 2024, in HSSB 6020. Refreshments will be served.

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Yiming Ma receives AAS Grant for Dissertation Research

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We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Yiming Ma has recently received an AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) small grant to support a research trip for his dissertation, “In Search of Industrial Modernity: Working Cultures and Literature in Modern China, 1873-1953.” With this funding, Yiming will be conducting archival research in Shenyang, Fushun, and Harbin for a dissertation chapter focused on post-WWII workers’ factory-protection movements, internationalism, and literature in Northeastern China. Congratulations, Yiming!

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Chinese Popular Culture course offered in summer session B

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This summer, in session B, EALCS is proud to offer the course, “CHIN 40: Chinese Popular Culture,” taught by Prof. Hangping Xu, meeting on Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:30–5:35pm.

As described on the poster:

YOU WON’T BE BORED IN THIS COURSE, as you watch Chinese films, TikTok videos, reality TV shows, and Boys’ Love dramas; listen to Taiwanese diva Teresa Teng’s sugary voice and rock star singer Cui Jian’s on-the-top-his-lungs singing; look at online streamers and social influencers. DO NOT BE FOOLED, however, by its entertaining content.

Students will learn to analyze popular culture intelligently and arrive at a theoretical account of global popular culture, including its political economy, changing infrastructure, aesthetic features, and cultural politics. We will undertake Popular Cultural Studies as a serious inquiry. As it is also a China-specific course, students will better understand Chinese history, society, and culture.

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Yiming Ma awarded UC-wide grant to lead “CARE: Collective for Archival Research of Embodiment”

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We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Yiming Ma has been awarded a University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) grant for a Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group over 2024-25. As the organizer of this group, titled “CARE: Collective for Archival Research of Embodiment,” Yiming will be organizing year-long workshop series on archival theories, embodied archiving practices, and community digital archives, working alongside faculty advisor Professor Hangping Xu and several other UCSB students, including Uudam Baoagudamu (Religion), Diandian Zeng (Music), and Tinghao Zhou (FAMST), as well as students from other UC campuses.

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UCSB students place high in statewide Mandarin Speech Contest

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On April 13, the UCSB Chinese language students attending the 48th CLTAC Mandarin Speech Contest—Ethan Sayang, Hannah Ho and Athena Cruz Albrecht—won Third Place in his/her category in the 48th annual Chinese Language Teachers’ Association in California (CLTAC) Mandarin Speech Contest in the college level division. It was the first time that all the contestants delivered their speech in person after the pandemic.  293 students from K-16 participated in the speech contest and among them there were 142 contestants in the college level participated this year.

We are very proud of them since they were competing with the students from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, UC Davis, Defense Language Institute foreign language center at Monterey, and other prestigious universities.

Their achievements would not have been possible without the care and nourishment of all the Chinese language instructors along their learning journey.

Please join us in congratulating them!