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In 2006, UW-La Crosse received a "Grand Award" at the 2006 Green Star Awards competition for its campus landscaping from the Professional Grounds Management Society. [57] To the east of campus is the La Crosse bluffs, of which the most prominent is Grandad Bluff (mentioned in Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.
Kim Ainsworth-Darnell, in The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, wrote that the work "is intended as an introduction for the Western reader to the writing systems of East Asia." [ 2 ] William C. Hannas of Georgetown University described it as "the first sustained treatment of writing in East Asia."
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.
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.
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.
Morgan is the provost at UW-La Crosse, which is essentially the second in command at the university. According to the announcement naming her interim chancellor, Morgan joined the university in ...
David Der-wei Wang was born in Taipei.He graduated from Cheng Kung Senior High School and took his B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from National Taiwan University and his M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The concept has taken its share of criticism for a seeding process that disadvantages teams actually ranked higher. For instance, if the playoff was today, No. 12 Clemson and No. 13 Alabama would ...