2022 is the Year of the Tiger. We invite you to join us to virtually celebrate the 2022 Lunar New Year event, put together by students and instructors in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. We hope you enjoy the video and wishing you a wonderful New Year!

In October, Elizabeth Tinsley, assistant professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies, together with Lindsay Gilmour, assistant professor in the Dance Department, engaged in a lively online conversation about the relationship between Buddhist Mudra and dance/bodily movement. This was part of an annual celebration of a large scale and four year long research.

Meet alumna Dr. Ssu-Fang Jessie (@cheshire_kiki), who earned her Ph.D. in East Asian studies at @UCIrvine in '18.

Program Director Dr. Jerry Lee plays a game of ddakji with Director of Diversity Initiatives Dr. Raven Baxter on Ring Road in anticipation of the Squid Game @ UCI Event on Tuesday, 10/26/2021.

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the Squid Game @ UCI! The event, which will take place on Tuesday, 10/26/2021, will feature a short talk and Q&A session from UCI's Professor Kyung Hyun Kim, who is internationally renowned for his research on Korean media and popular culture. The second part of the event will feature games inspired by the series.

Your Morning What's behind the success of Netflix's 'Squid Game'? on CTV

"What Squid Game's Fantasies and Harsh Realities Reveal about Korea" on VOX

Duke University Press releases Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim's new book on Korean popular culture

Professor Michael Fuller is retiring after 29 years at UCI and nine years as the Chair of East Asian Studies. He is a specialist in Song dynasty poetry and a pioneering scholar on the intersection of philosophy, neuroscience and aesthetics. We are deeply grateful for his dedication to the educational mission of the university.

Susan Blakeley Klein participated in a podcast discussing her new book, Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater, for the New Books Network: New Books in Japanese Studies podcast series hosted by Jingyi Li, PhD candidate in Japanese History at University of Arizona.

(To access the podcast click on the link above.)

Hu Ying, Professor of Chinese, participated in the recent podcast 'Literature Out Loud' on the Chinese author Xue Yiwei, whose book Traveling with Marco Polo she is translating.