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The Center for East Asian Studies is the nexus of East Asia-related research, teaching, outreach and exchange across the Stanford campus.

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  • Student Spotlight
Making a laser beam red is more than an aesthetic choice in Nan Xu’s (M.A. '26, Modern Chinese Literature) M.A. thesis “How Colorless Light Turns Red: Laser, Affect, and the Logic of Activation in Post-Socialist China".
  • Student Spotlight
The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) sat down with MA student Yiyi Gu (MA '26), who recently completed a transformative winter quarter internship with the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Section (GESIS) at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) in Bangkok.
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Advanced Language Study for Women's Science Fiction ResearchSandi Khine, East Asian StudiesThis winter and spring, I spent a semester at the Inter-University Consortium (IUC) at Sungkyunkwan University learning advanced academic and research Korean.

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Horizons 2024-25

CEAS invites you to read Horizons, our annual newsletter offering updates on faculty, alumni, students, interesting programs, and other developments in the East Asian Studies community at Stanford. 

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