Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Virginia

Faculty

• Janet Ikeda - East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese)
• Ken'ichi Ujie - East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese)
• Hongchu Fu - East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
• David Bello - History - Chinese and Japanese
• Hugh Blackmer - Anthropology of East Asia, Science Librarian: East Asian Bibliographic Resources
• Roger Jeans - History
• Robin Le Blanc - Politics
• Tim Lubin - Religion
• Joan O'Mara - Art - Japanese and Chinese art history / Director, East Asian Studies, and Associate Professor
• Lad Sessions - Philosophy Michael Smitka - Economics

Resources

Art: University collections at the Reeves Center and the Watson Pavilion, which include in their collections a selection of Chinese export ware porcelain that is the 6th largest in the U.S., and other Chinese and Japanese ceramics and decorative arts and painting.

Library: Videos/dvd's that Professor Ujie has created for use in the teaching of Japanese language

Facilities and Programs: Japanese Tea Space and Landscape Garde, to be installed, summer 2005

East Asian Educational/Other Institutional Relationships

Japan: Kansai Gaidai (for a semester or a full year). Rikkyo University in Tokyo (for a semester or a full year). International Christian University in Tokyo (full year only). We also operate an independent program in Kanazawa, Japan, during our short 6-week spring term. From late April until the end of May, Ken Ujie takes Washington and Lee students to the city of Kanazawa for language study and related cultural studies. The program is not affiliated with any Japanese institution, but is facilitated by the Ishikawa Prefectural Government.

China: Chung Chi in Hong Kong in previous years; it has not been active in recent years, and has now lapsed. Tung Hai in Taiwan either through the U. Mass program, or independently

Majors/Minors
Asian Studies: Major. Students major in East Asian Studies; there is no separate major for Chinese or Japanese

Professional Development

• Glenn Grants, a program of summer grants used by East Asian Studies faculty for research and travel
• Global Education Grants, awarded by the W&L GLobal Stewardship Program for faculty, to aid them in developing new courses that will have a global focus
• Global Education seminars that allow faculty to focus on one region of the world; a program was to have been focused on China over the past year, before SARS made postponement of the program necessary. It may be back on the table at some future time.
• 2 in-house summer grant programs