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Jerry Lee Norman (July 16, 1936 – July 7, 2012) was an American sinologist and linguist known for his studies of varieties of Chinese, particularly Min varieties, and also of the Manchu language.
Michael Dylan Foster is a professor of Folklore and the current Chair of the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at the University of California, Davis. His work has focused on Japanese literature and culture. He has published several short stories, articles, and novels.
Kingdom of Characters is the third book authored by Jing Tsu, a professor of comparative literature and East Asian languages and literature at Yale University. [1] Her previous two books, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, also covered Chinese linguistic history.
Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim, [1] Kaya Press is housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
East Asian studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present. The field includes the study of the region's culture, written language , history and political institutions.
Starosta also proposed an East Asian linguistic macrophylum. A paper on his East Asian proposal was published posthumously in 2005. [3] Starosta's primary interests included the morphosyntax of Austronesian languages (particularly the Formosan and Philippine languages) and various languages of South Asia (such as Gujarati), and historical ...
East Asian literature is the diverse writings from the East Asian nations, China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan. Literature from this area emerges as a distinct and unique field of prose and poetry that embodies the cultural, social and political factors of each nation.
Professor Lancaster speaking in Australia, 2013. Lewis R. Lancaster (born 29 October 1932) is emeritus professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, US, and has served as president, adjunct professor, and chair of the dissertation committee at University of the West since 1992.