Asian Studies

Finding new life in world’s classics

How UChicago translations revived Chinese and Indian texts by looking beyond standard editions


Wen Huang and Dagny Dukach

Finding new life in world’s classics

How UChicago translations revived Chinese and Indian texts by looking beyond standard editions


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UChicago celebrates opening of Center in Delhi

U.S. ambassador joins ribbon-cutting, highlighting weekend of scholarship and ceremony.


Sarah Nolan and Steve Kloehn

Preserving Afghanistan’s cultural heritage

Oriental Institute works with National Museum of Afghanistan to catalog priceless artifacts.


Susie Allen

William Harms

‘Envisioning China’ highlights sweeping influence of Chinese opera

Traditional, contemporary arts and culture of China represented in five-month festival.


A Lifetime Fascination

David Tod Roy finishes his translation of a once-banned Chinese classic.


Elizabeth Station

South Asian culture takes center stage

Annual show celebrates cultural heritage of students from the subcontinent


Dianna Douglas

We Love Beijing!

Watch a video on the UChicago Study Abroad program at the Center in Beijing.


Julianne Zhang

After war, classroom offers a new outlook

Three veterans trade military service for graduate studies in the humanities.


Susie Allen