Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies

South Korea's Academy of Korean Studies has awarded Sonia Ryang, T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies, a $20,000 grant to investigate the repatriation of Koreans in Japan to North Korea (Grant ID: AKS 2020-R-04).

From 1959 through 1984, approximately 90,000 Koreans and six... Read more

Published by Bloomsbury, Lisa Balabanlilar's new royal biography, The Emperor Jahangir, unravels power and kingship in early seventeenth century Mughal India. Her book may be purchased through Bloomsbury at a... Read more

The Kinder Institute's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) has awarded a $2000 course development grant to Chao Center's Ka-Kin Cheuk for... Read more

As the Chao Center’s mission statement indicates (https://chaocenter.rice.edu/about), from its very beginnings, the Center’s research, teaching, and outreach activities have focused primarily on the transnational, transhistoric, diasporic, and global movements of the peoples... Read more

Once there was a woman who lived inside a rock. She had a husband, a desiccated, barren yogi, who also inhabited the rock and spent his days and nights in meditation, striving for liberation from earthly existence; he never touched his wife, whom he had created out of his own imagination. The... Read more

Audience members at the Oct. 4 performance of “The Hard Problem” at Main Street Theater stayed for a special post-production talk by Jeffrey Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought and associate dean of... Read more

By his own admission, Rice University Professor of Religion Jeffrey Kripal writes — and lectures — “about very strange things.” He’s fascinated with near-death events, precognitive dreams, abduction narratives and other paranormal phenomena Kripal categorizes within the catch-all... Read more

Craig Joiner, an Asian Studies and Materials Science & Nano Engineering double major and a senior at Duncan College, was awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study in Japan for the 2018-19 academic year.

Joiner plans to work in foreign service as a diplomat and... Read more

Over lunch at the Chao Center for Asian Studies on April 22, the Rice Asian Studies... Read more

Baker College’s Schellhammer awarded a Critical Language Scholarship Rice student... Read more

Rice University Office of Public Affairs / News & Media Relations MEDIA ADVISORY... Read more

HOUSTON – (Feb. 7, 2019) – As President Trump prepares for his second summit with... Read more

HOUSTON – (Oct. 24, 2018) – Experts will gather at Rice University's Baker Institute... Read more

Asian Studies alumnus Jaymin Kim ('08) joins the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota as an Assistant Professor focusing on East Asian history.

Maria C. Hwang, Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies at the Chao Center, is one of four recipients of the 2018 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award at Brown University.

Benjamin Chou '13 receives a Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support work towards an MBA/JD at Northwestern University.

As graduation approaches, these seniors are looking forward to graduate school and international travel.

 
A new exhibit introducing the Rice community to Jainism, one of the oldest religious traditions of India, is now on display at Fondren Library. “Structures of Striving,” consisting of colorful 24-by-36-inch photos of Jain temples and structures, will be viewable through March 23 in the... Read more

Anne Chao '05, '09 grew up a child of the world. Her father was a career diplomat who moved his family from Taiwan to the Republic of the Congo, Australia and the United States. Young and eager, she learned the languages of those countries - Chinese, French and English - and readily absorbed... Read more

Baker College senior Aaron Huang was awarded a 2017 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign... Read more

What began as an assignment in Sonia Ryang’s Asian studies seminar in the fall to... Read more

As a continent, Asia occupies a strategic place for the United States in foreign... Read more

The Bioscience Research Collaborative first-floor auditorium was amply filled Jan. 11... Read more

Anne Chao ‘05, adjunct lecturer in the School of Humanities, presented “Live! The... Read more