New Scholarship Website

Here is a link to a new website which makes the scholarship search much much easier for UH students:

https://www.star.hawaii.edu:10012/Scholarship_live/login.jsp

WELCOME the YEAR of the OX

with the Center for Chinese Studies and the Confucius Institute
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

on Friday, January 30, 2009, at Lau Yee Chai Restaurant 留餘齋, Waikiki Shopping Plaza, 2250 Kalakaua Ave, 5th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96815, tel: 923-1112, at 6:00 p.m. (Free validated parking at Waikiki Shopping Plaza; from Kalakaua Ave, turn left on Seaside, then left again on Lauula St. to entrance of parking garage.)

Cost: $30; $15 for CCS Students.

Program: Delicious Chinese New Year's cuisine, music by UH Chinese Music Ensemble; martial arts demonstration by students from Hawaii Wushu Center; raffle; traditional New Year's games; presentation of Chinese Studies graduate student prize.

To Make a Reservation, call 956-6083 or e-mail Helen Lee (helenlee@hawaii.edu) by January 19 with name, status (regular / CCS student), and menu preference (regular / vegetarian) for all in your party (if you want to sit together, please choose the same menu). To make payment, please write a check payable to "East Asian Outreach" or pay cash, and mail or deliver it to the Center for Chinese Studies (Moore Hall 416) so that we receive payment by January 19, please. Xiexie 謝謝!

ARTstor

What is ARTstor?

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to use images for teaching and learning.

Check out the new ARTstor:
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=53714

You will find approximatley 83,761 images related to China Studies.

K.T.

Series F of China Academic Journals Now Available

Back issues (starting from 1915) of Series F of China Academic Journals are now available:

http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=2550

# Literature/History/Philosophy: 1915-

China Digital Times

The China Digital Times website is one of the products of the Berkeley China Internet Project (BCIP).

CDT is a collaborative news website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. CDT aggregates the most up-to-the-minute news and analysis about China from around the Web, while providing independent reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, perspectives from across the geographical, political and social spectrum, and daily recommendations of readings from the Chinese blogosphere.

I really wish I had discovered this earlier!

How to Be an Excellent Grad Student

Found this excellent outline for getting through graduate school in the H-GRAD Links section.

Association for Asian Studies

The Association for Asian Studies has some good resources for graduate students. I am not a member, but it could be worthwhile for thos of us going on to pursue an academic career in this field.