As many of you already know, our Thai instructor of 12 years, Kannikar Elbow, passed away last week after her courageous fight against cancer. Her obituary and the information regarding the Memorial Gathering scheduled tomorrow …
Professor Huntington tells a traditional Chinese ghost story
Rania Huntington, professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, tells a traditional Chinese ghost story during a Chinese-style haunted house at the Mosse Humanities Building Friday. The benefit event, hosted by the UW-Madison Chinese Language and Culture …
Lecture: The Efficacy of Pragmatics-Informed Instruction: a Case of Teaching the Korean Verb Ending -ney
This research study compared two instructional approaches to teaching a Korean verb ending (i.e., -ney). These instructional approaches differ in terms of their respective emphases on target form’s semantic and pragmatic meanings. In the first …
The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume 10: The Memoirs of Han China III
In The Grand Scribe’s Records: Volume X, readers can follow Ssu-ma Qian’s depiction of the later years of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (r. 140–87 BC). The volume begins with four chapters …
Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader, Volume 2
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The …
Collaborative Training Grant: Training for Scholars of Pre-Modern China
William Nienhauser, Rania Huntington, and Mark Meulenbeld of Asian Languages and Cultures have teamed up with Joseph Dennis and Judd Kinzley of History and Yuhang Li of Art History for this training grant. Interdisciplinarity is …
John Dunne, new Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities
A few years back, John Dunne was part of a team studying the effect of compassion on the mind. The researchers asked a group of advanced Tibetan meditators to practice while having their brains scanned and then …