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Boston University’s Department of World Languages & Literatures (formerly Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures) is an intellectually vibrant and collegial community of scholars engaged in teaching and research about literature, film, and media culture in more than a dozen languages. Some of languages studied include Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Turkish.

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Department chair: Keith Vincent
Campus address: 718 Commonwealth Avenue
Phone: 617-353-2642
Fax: 617-353-6246
Website: https://www.bu.edu/wll/

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On the Chinese character 治 (Governance)

Huang, Weijia; Liu, Jue (2018-05-17)
The town of Middlebury and Chinese Summer School at Middlebury College 明德和明德暑校

Huang, Weijia (Guangming Daily, 2013-08-30)
Boston University, a Long stretch 长长的波士顿大学

Huang, Weijia (Guangming Daily, 2013-03-29)
The Serenity of West Point 寂静的西点军校

Huang, Weijia (The China Press, 2017-06-16)
Formulating a thesis; or: chaos and cosmos

Schwartz, Peter J. (Boston University, 2016)
Recasting the Chinese novel: Ernest Major's Shenbao publishing house (1872– 1890)

Yeh, Catherine V. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 2015)

Recent studies have convincingly mapped the literary beginnings of the modern Chinese novel since the 1890s. However, the pivotal role of the Shenbaoguan publishing house and its British owner and manager Ernest Major ...
Development and practice: intermediate-advanced reading materials to improve reading skills and to enhance the understanding of Japan advancing cross-cultural literacy

Ishikawa, Satoru
"Kyo ni tsukeru yuube" no digitaru chizu: Soseki to jinbungaku no dijitaru jidai. (A digital map of arriving at Kyoto one evening: Soseki and the era of the digital humanities)

Frederick, Sarah (Kyoto Soseki no Kai, 2017-10-28)
Teaching Chinese Characters with Etymology

Chang, Hsiao-chih (NECLTA website, 2017-10-28)

Etymological knowledge is a powerful tool for learning Chinese characters because it will allow students to better understand how a character is created, thus will make learning more interesting and efficient.
Keynote: The pleasures of haiku: From Basho to Shiki and beyond

Beichman, Janine (Boston University, 2017-10-12)

Haiku is a "globe-trotting" form now, as the website for this symposium says, but a little more than a century ago it was moribund and about to die out. Masaoka Shiki and his group of dedicated fellow poets revived it, as ...