On Thursday, December 5, 2019, faculty, students, and staff gathered at the East Asian Languages Program offices to celebrate the awarding of this year’s Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Prizes. Co-sponsored by the Japanese Language Program and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the event was well attended, including an appearance by newly-designated Consul General of Japan in Boston, Setsuo Ohmori.
Three faculty members in EALC have recently been awarded named professorships by Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay and Provost Alan M. Garber: David Howell, the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Wai-yee Li, the 1879 Professor in Chinese Literature; and Karen Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations .
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The AAS China and Inner Asia Council Hanan Book Prize Competition honors Patrick D. Hanan, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University, who passed away in 2014. Hanan studied... 