Chinese Program – Page 3 – East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies

Flyer for "Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics", lecture by Venerable Yifa on Feb 21, 2023 at 5PM in McCune Hall, 6020 HSSB

Lecture: Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics by Ven. Yifa

Posted on January 30, 2023 | by Thomas Mazanec

Feb. 21, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

McCune Hall, 6020 HSSB

This lecture addresses how Chinese Buddhist teachings and practices can contribute to global efforts to protect the environment, tackle pollution, and deal with climate change. It will provide examples from Chinese Buddhist scriptures as well as Buddhist practices. Venerable Yifa will also discuss the compatibility and divergences between Buddhist teachings and modern environmental science.

Venerable Yifa is from Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Yale Universitv and Dean of the University of the West in Los Angeles. She founded the Woodenfish Foundation in 2002 to educate Western college students in Buddhism at important historical religious sites of Chinese Buddhism.

Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with the Chinese Language Program

Posted on January 19, 2023 | by Thomas Mazanec

The Lunar New Year is just around a corner. The Chinese language program is organizing a Spring Festival celebration on January 27th from 5:30pm-8pm at Student Resource Building, Multi Purpose Room. We would like to warmly invite you to join us in this event. We will have delicious dumplings, snacks, drink, live music, performances, fun games, and of course, raffles and prizes (hóngbāo).

Mid-Autumn Welcome Party

Posted on October 10, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

Thursday, October 13

4:30–6:00pm in the HSSB Courtyard

Come mingle with your classmates, professors, and new friends!! We will provide delicious snacks, live music performances, and fun games!!

Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies, Chinese Language Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, with support from our CLP Volunteers, CSSA ICE (International Cultural Exchange), and Jasmine Echo.

Banner for "Study Abroad Scholarship 'Taiwan Huayu Best' Information Session"

Announcing New Exchange with National Taiwan Normal University

Posted on September 28, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts has signed an Agreement with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei, Taiwan.

Each year, they will fund a total of 12 UCSB undergraduate and/or graduate students to study Chinese language at NTNU. Ten of these fellowships are short-term (3 months); 2 of them are longterm (5 months). It is open to UCSB student applicants who are U.S. citizens. It provides free tuition and a monthly stipend of NT$25,000 (U.S.$786), which is enough to cover modest accommodations and meals in Taipei. Students of both beginning to advanced Chinese language levels are welcome to apply.

Right now, they are recruiting for the 2 longterm fellowships of 5 month study — besides language, students may also choose content classes in Chinese history, philosophy, Taiwan Studies, literature, media, etc. The deadline of application for the long term study is:

October 31, 2022.

(Deadline for short term fellowships will be announced in early 2023.)

For a valuable information session, Please see the flyer with the Zoom link for Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm Pacific Time. You will meet with instructors at NTNU in Taiwan, speaking English.

For further questions, please consult with Bella Chen, Chinese language lecturer in our East Asian Studies Dept:

bellachen@eastasian.ucsb.edu

There is a possibility of receiving UCSB course credit for this study abroad, but you must apply for it before you leave for Taiwan.

Please see the flyer for more information

Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World

Posted on September 22, 2022 | by Thomas Mazanec

Please join us for the upcoming symposium, Translatability/Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World, organized by Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu.

Schedule

Session 1
October 7, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8

Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu:
Welcome and opening remarks

Haun Saussy: Ways of Reading Worlds in Chinese Poetry

Shengqing Wu: Lyrical Looking and World-Visions in Late Qing Poetry on Overseas Journeys

Xiaorong Li: Globalizing Chinese Sensual-Sentimental Lyricism: Zhou Shoujuan’s Xiangyan Conghua

Chris Song: Failures of Diplomatic Intents in Poetry Translation: On Thomas Francis Wade’s Chinese Translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life”

Lucas Klein: Assimilation or Detention: Poetic Form and the Retranslation of the Angel Island Poems

Session 2
October 8, 11 am-1 pm ET / 11 pm-1 am GMT+8

Michelle Yeh: The Russian Imaginary and Modern Chinese Poetry in Taiwan

Nick Admussen: The Poetry Turn: Writing Chinese Cultural Studies Between Empires

Cosima Bruno: Intersections, Interactions, Integrations: Chronological Entanglement of a Chinese Poem

Maghiel Crevel: China’s Battler Poetry and the Hypertranslatability of Zheng
Xiaoqiong

Hangping Xu: Crossing the World to Sleep with You: Yu Xiuhua’s Poetry as Performance and its Cross-cultural Translatability

Jacob Edmond: Literature as Translation: Bei Dao beyond World Poetry

Co-hosted by:
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Sponsored by:
The Carsey-Wolf Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.