AUTUMN 2006 BULLETIN

NEWS

Professor David Knechtges Inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Professor David Knechtges received the singular honor of being inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The 2006 class of inductees included former presidents William Clinton and George H.W. Bush, as well as other notables in academics, public affairs, and the arts. This honor is in recognition of Professor Knechtges' impressive achievements in the fields of Chinese literature and Sinology. He is one of the foremost scholars of his generation in the analysis and translation of classical Chinese poetry and prose. Read the on-line University Weekly feature article on Prof. Knechtges.

New Book Announcement

Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku Paul Atkins, University of Washington University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Monograph Series, 2006. Revealed Identity is the first comprehensive study of the noh plays of Komparu Zenchiku, an actor, playwright, and theoretician of noh drama in fifteenth-century Japan. A renowned performer in his own time, Zenchiku was rediscovered in the modern period as the author of numerous treatises on his art, which he studied under the tutelage of his father-in-law Zeami Motokiyo (1363–1443). Yet Zenchiku is also a major playwright in the Japanese dramatic tradition, and his plays have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve. More ...

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Communications 226, University of Washington campus)

Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Lin Deng and Ed Lien "Impressions of Minbei (Northern Fujian)" During the past summer, two AL&L graduate students, together with Prof. Anne Yue-Hashimoto, spent several weeks in northern Fujian province investigating local Chinese dialects, which belong to the Minbei (or "Northwest Min") dialect group. Lin Deng and Ed Lien share their experiences working in this remote part of China, accompanied by slides. Rafting on the Nine-Bend River in Wuyishan National Park, Fujian

Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 7:30pm (Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, University of Washington campus)

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Jerry Norman, University of Washington (emeritus) "Inner Asian Words for Paper and Silk" Jerry Norman taught in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature from 1972 to 1998. A renowned linguist with expertise in several language families of Asia, Norman is best known for his work on the Min dialects (spoken in China's Fujian province) and the Altaic languages (including Manchu and Mongolian). Prof. Norman is a past president of the American Oriental Society and the author of the definitive book Chinese in the Cambridge Languages Surveys series.

Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 3:30pm-5:00pm (Communications 226, University of Washington campus)
	Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium Series Colloquium lectures are free and open to the public Emily Curtis, University of British Columbia "Linguistic Rhythm in Japanese and Korean" Details will be posted on the department web site.

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