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  2. David Der-wei Wang - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. John D. Dunne - Wikipedia

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    John D. Dunne (born 1961) is the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities through the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a co-appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature.

  4. Turrell V. Wylie - Wikipedia

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    He taught as a professor of Tibetan Studies at the University of Washington and served as the first chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. Wylie founded the Tibetan Studies program at the University of Washington, the first of its kind in the United States, setting a major precedent for future programs and research in the field.

  5. East Asian literature - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Shakespeare and East Asia - Wikipedia

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    The book explores the diverse landscape of Asian Shakespeare, spanning Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore. In contrast to other works focusing on a single nation or genre, this monograph resists national allegory approaches, opting for rhizomatic readings that emphasize connections and cross-fertilization between Asian and Western Shakespearean works.

  7. East Asian studies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Languages of East Asia - Wikipedia

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    The languages of East Asia belong to several distinct language families, with many common features attributed to interaction. In the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area , Chinese varieties and languages of southeast Asia share many areal features , tending to be analytic languages with similar syllable and tone structure.

  9. Andrew Nelson (lexicographer) - Wikipedia

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    In 1918, he began his long career of service in the Seventh-day Adventist missions of East Asia, where he gained particular distinction in the fields of general education and language training. The University of Washington awarded Nelson a Ph.D. in 1938 for his dissertation on The origin, history, and present status of the temples of Japan. [1]