ASIAN STUDIES

Welcome to UMBC’s Asian Studies program, which offers an inter-disciplinary major, minor and certificate. Please visit the links below for more information, and feel free to contact individual faculty members to discuss your options in the new program.

Samurai

Samurai of the Choshu domain, in Japan, during the Boshin War, 1868.

Skyline

Contemporary Pudong Skyline, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

Page

A page from the Hunminjeongeum Eonhae (lit. The Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People), 1443, Korea

Harihara

Harihara—the combined deity form of Vishnu (Hari) and Shiva (Hara), India

Rice Fields

Rice fields (Longji Terrace), Longshen County, Guilin, China

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WHAT'S NEW

ASIA (Asian Studies) COURSES FOR SUMMER 2012. (Read more)

ASIA (Asian Studies) COURSES FOR FALL 2012. (Read more)

ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM in The Baltimore Sun, Education Section (Read Article)

UPCOMING ASIAN STUDIES EVENT with Dr. Mrinalini Sinha (Department of History, University of Michigan): "“Totaram Sanadhya’s Mere Fiji Dwip me Ikkis Varsh (My 21 years in Fiji) and the Second Abolition”" 4/18/12, A.O.K. Library 7th Floor, 4 p.m. Event co-sponsored by the Social Science Forum, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Departments of History, English, and Political Science. (Read more)

STUDENT NEWS: Amy Fowler, Jillian Long, Vadim Rubin and Nieshia Watts win Ministry of Education Huayu Scholarships to study Mandarin in Taiwan, June-August 2012.

FACULTY NEWS: New book by Ka-che Yip (Department of History), Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia. Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-che Yip (Routledge, 2011). (Read more...)

New book by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis (Department of History), Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life in the Age of the Shoguns (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2012). (Read more...)

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ASIA BLOG

Asian Studies' Blog and Archives of Faculty and Student News: umbcasianstudies.wordpress.com

ASIAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Administration Building 720-721
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: 410-455-2094
Fax: 410-455-1045
E-mail: asianstudies@umbc.edu

Director: Constantine N. Vaporis
Program Management Specialist: Julie A. Rosenthal