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The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary unit composed of faculty members whose teaching and research focus primarily on China, Japan, Korea, and bordering areas.

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Apply now for the STARTALK Penn Chinese High School Academy - the May 18th deadline is less than one week away!

The University of Pennsylvania is delighted to announce the sixth year of its summer STARTALK Penn High School Chinese Academy. The University of Pennsylvania’s STARTALK Penn High School Chinese Academy is an intensive Chinese language program that couples Penn’s internationally known Chinese language and studies programs with its extensive experience in intellectual development programs for high school students. For more information on how to apply, please visit our STARTALK website.

Summer 2012 Dates: July 2 - August 10, 2012

Curriculum
• Curriculum tracks in Intensive Beginning Chinese I and II
• Language instruction Monday through Friday
• Lectures on Chinese culture, literature, religion, history, and philosophy on Wednesdays
• One-on-one practice sessions with language teachers
• Language lab instruction in writing and website navigation
• After-school field trips and dance and martial arts demonstrations

Apply Now until May 18, 2012!

Penn Launches Center for the Study of Contemporary China

The Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC) was established in 2012 at the University of Pennsylvania to advance Penn’s leadership in programs, research, and scholarship about the political, legal, economic, and social factors shaping China and its role in the world today. The Center will sustain and extend the University’s work on and partnerships in China, providing an institutional home for campus-wide collaboration among departments, programs, institutes, faculty and students at Penn engaged in work pertaining to contemporary China. Activities will include conferences, roundtables, and a speaker series. The Center will also provide support for faculty and graduate student research and serve as host for visiting international scholars and prominent public leaders. The new website for the CSCC can be accessed at http://cscc.sas.upenn.edu/

Last Session will be held on April 16, 2012
Mondays at 4:30 pm
Silverman Hall, Room 240B in the Penn Law School

This spring semester, the University of Pennsylvania offers a lecture series and seminar on China and human rights. China’s human rights record and China’s approach to international human rights law and norms are issues of major and growing international concern as China becomes more powerful and influential. Human rights are also a perennial point of friction in relations between the United States and China. Led by Jacques deLisle (Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn), this program will bring to Penn leading experts from academia, the public sector and NGOs in China and the United States to address selected aspects of human rights in China. Topics include the role of law—and its limits—in protecting human rights and providing redress, China’s engagement with international human rights regimes, the role of “rights protection” lawyers, religious liberties, media freedom, treatment of political dissidents, elections and democratic rights, discrimination against people with communicable diseases, the effect of international human rights law in China, and other issues.

Speakers include:
- Bob Fu, China Aid Association
- Carl Minzner, Fordham University Law School
- James Zhaojie Li, Tsinghua University Law School
- Eva Pils, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tiancheng Wang, Penn Law School
- Sharon Hom, Human Rights in China
- Harry Wu, Laogai Research Foundation
- Jerome Cohen, NYU Law School
- Amy Gadsden, Penn Law School
- A panel of Chinese judges, and others

East Asian Area Studies Major and Minor