Eleven graduating Master of Arts in East Asian Studies students received their diplomas on Friday, May 11, 2018, at a ceremony in the John Hope Franklin Center. Joined by friends and family as well as many of their faculty, this dynamic group...

Mark-To-Joe（马克吐舟）is an avant-garde Chinese poet and folk-rock singer-songwriter. He graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree Chinese Literature, and earned his M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University (2015). He was the...

Congratulations to Prof. Xi Lian on the publication of his newest book, Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China . Part biography, part history, this meticulously researched work explores the tumult of China's Cultural...

Internationalisms and Solidarities at the Duke Center for Multicultural Affairs and Looking North (Feb. 15 - March 30) at the John Hope Franklin Center.

Beginning Spring 2018, Dr. Richard Jaffe , Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, will take on the role of Faculty Director of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute.

Professor Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian History at Duke University, has been elected vice-president of the Association of Asian Studies of America. Following his term as vice-president, he will take on the role of AAS president...

Want to know how to say "trick or treat" in Chinese? Just ask the EAS-MA students of APSI!

On Saturday, October 28, the students were hosted by APSI's Director of Graduate Studies, Kristina Troost , who introduced them to the joy of...

"We have to remember the nuclear crisis is about the Korean peninsula, not about the U.S."

With these sobering words, B. R. Myers, a professor of international studies at Dongseo University in South Korea, explored North Korea's nuclear...

What does a respected researcher and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution share with martial arts superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li? With this opening query (and introduction of the Chinese characters that make up his name), Dr. Cheng Li...

On September 1, 2017, Prof. Prasenjit Duara was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oslo, Norway.

As part of his award, he travelled to Oslo and presented a seminar on Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The...