Click the link below to hear a great podcast interview on the New Books Network by Ph.D. candidate, Linshan Jiang. In the podcast, Linshan interviews Susan Chan Egan, co-author with Pai Hsien-yung (Bai Xianyong) on the new book, A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide.
EALCS professor Hangping Xu was recently interviewed by the BBC to discuss the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing and how poet Yu Xiuhua challenges official narratives about disability in China. Prof. Xu has previously written about Yu Xiuhua for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and co-edited a special section on Yu Xiuhua for Chinese Literature Today. He is also one of the founders of UCSB’s Disability Studies Initiative.
Please join us for “Coastal Formosan, Nuclear Austronesian, and Beyond: How do Formosan Languages Inform Theories of Austronesian Expansion?” with Victoria Chen (Victoria University of Wellington).
4:30-6:00 p.m. PST on Thursday March 3, 2022
Please register at: https://forms.gle/88TFEMBSQ1xqmVsZ6
The Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the talk.
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Center for Taiwan Studies Audio Interview Award for Winter 2022: Lauren Lee, a UCSB undergraduate student. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to CTS’s research project, Made in Taiwan—examples of interviews conducted by UCSB students of individuals who grew up in Taiwan.
Please check out Lauren’s interview of Vicky on the CTS Youtube channel here. The next CTS Audio Interview Award will be given in May 2022. For more details, visit website.
To encourage international students and individuals to undertake Mandarin Chinese language study in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Republic of China (Taiwan) established the MINISTRY OF EDUCATION HUAYU ENRICHMENT SCHOLARSHIP (HES) Program. The application period is February 1 – March 1, 2022.
In addition to the Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) and starting this year, the Ministry of Education launched the Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program (TFETP) to expand the recruitment of English teachers and teaching assistants. Please see the links below for more information on both of these wonderful opportunities:
Ring in the Year of the Tiger by celebrating Lantern Festival with us this Friday, February 18, 3-5pm in the HSSB Courtyard! There will be snacks, games, and trivia. All are welcome!
