Like most nations, China regulates the content that goes over its airwaves, runs through its printing presses, and is transmitted through its Internet. In July 2009, when tensions in the predominately Muslim population of China’s Xinjiang province escalated into violent riots, Chinese authorities turned off the Internet there. This inspired Jason Q. Ng to devise a computer script to test all 700,000 terms in Chinese Wikipedia to see which ones are routinely blocked on Sina Weibo, China’s most important social media site.

Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.

Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series - all are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack! Abstract TBA.

You can now search for more than 1.4 million Japanese articles from 220 Japanese academic institutions through PittCat+. There are also over 15,000 Japanese dissertations freely available at the Digital Library of the National Diet Library and 227 LibGuides are developed by Pitt liaison librarians to support your research and course work. Library research tools are evolving rapidly. This presentation will illustrate the state-of-the-art research tools and new functions of Japanese databases.

All are welcome to join and bring a lunch or snack!

Contemporary Japanese taiko drumming (wadaiko) emerged in the 1950s as a way to resurrect and revitalize regional folk drumming traditions. As it evolved, many different regional drumming styles were incorporated, including festival traditions from the Shitamachi area of Tokyo.

The Asian Studies Center welcome reception for students will be held on Thursday, September 13th from 3:00 to 5:30 PM in 4130 Posvar Hall. All students and faculty are welcome to join us to meet center staff and faculty, learn about upcoming events and opportunities related to Asia, including lectures and cultural programming, undergraduate internship and career workshops, language tutoring and study groups, language proficiency testing, volunteering, and more! Announcements will take place at 4:00 pm - refreshments will be served!

5pm Friday November 16 to 12:15 pm Sunday, November 18, 2012 (2400 Sennot Square University of Pittsburgh)

To meet student interests and time constraints, the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University collaborate to offer intensive courses on topics of interest taught by expert faculty, with lectures from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, followed by a research paper. The courses are 1 credit hour with about 14 hours of lectures and an expected 30 hours of work for the paper. The courses focus on countries with emerging economies: Brazil, India, China, Russia, and South Africa (BRICS).

Are you interested in a career and/or internship with the CIA? Come to this
information session to hear about opportunities from current CIA employees!