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If it was the filter, was it explicitly outlined as such in the course description?

I’m sure it stopped any concerns about meeting the language requirements!

I’ve heard similar things. Or places with direct admission to the PhD with the expectation that MA requirements are met along the way (and the possibility of “mastering out” if the department is not convinced of potential). Not sure how coursework etc. works in such cases.

On the other hand, at this point in time, it’s hard to recommend a two-year MA as a prerequisite to a six- or seven-year PhD program

The loss of FLAS is going to have a terrible impact on this infrastructure. Ugh.

Pretty much my case as well, though the “funding” was a TAship

Princeton is a great example. MA not *required* for PhD admission, but offhand I can only think of one or two people who were admitted straight from BA.

My gut feeling is that it’s pretty rare for the MA to be an actual requirement for PhD admission, but common in practice to do an MA first to be competitive or just to test the waters

I’m curious about MAs in East Asian Studies. If you have a PhD or are working on one, did you get a standalone MA first? Was it required for admission to your PhD program?

2025年的“悼明”风潮：当年轻人在历史里寻找替罪羊 Mourning the Ming: When China’s Young People Seek Scapegoats in History

“Mourning the Ming” and the “1644 historical view” on Rednote (Chinese and English):
chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/2025

I hope you have better luck integrating Asian Studies into K-12 in Canada than we are having down here. The cancellation of National Resource Center grants is stopping valuable outreach work by universities.

Escaping the End of Times by Brigid Vance

Dedication: “For you”

New from the innovative CUHK Press, looking forward to reading this one!

D.O.A. -- War YouTube video by BarbaricGoose

Greeting from Vancouver, Canada, home of the mighty DOA
youtu.be/jqR9SQGrlBE

See you at Ming Studies!

名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

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The humble Preview app is my go-to but don’t know what to do here, sorry!

Have you tried the stock Preview app?

Announcement for Ming Studies scholars to apply for funding to attend the AAS2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver, deadline December 18, 2025.

Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity!

bit.ly/AAS2026Ming

The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out YouTube video by Hank Green

I would probably just assign this Hank Green video. Bonus: many undergrads will already know who Hank Green is.

Women Writers of Huizhou Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural...

Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)

The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama Peng Xu’s The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama argues that courtesans of the era played an active role in the theater and their impact manifested in Chinese literary history, albeit conc...

Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)

They shouldn't be anxious! Our ad calls for "Native or near-native proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English," which sounds to me like either way would be fine. Meaning, professional duties would require adequate levels of both for teaching and research.

...suggestions?

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

The link gave me a 404 but I found the article here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...