Guide to the Department of Asian Studies Records, 1988-
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Department of Asian Studies: Records, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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The Asian Studies Department focuses on a curriculum that incorporates anthropology, art, government, history, literature, film, music, religion, sociology, and language instruction of Chinese and Japanese. Majors can focus on either South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal) or East Asia (China and Japan). The department encourages students to study abroad in an Asian country to better grasp culture and society, and to incorporate cross-cultural topics from other subjects into their majors.
Department of Asian Studies announcements, newsletters, reports, programs and posters.
1988-1991, Announcements and flyers
1990-1994, 1996-1999, Newsletters
2000-2007, Newsletters
2008-2011, Newsletters (not published after 2011)
1990, Sagehood and Systematizing Thought in Warring States and Han China, edited by Kidder Smith, Jr.
1991, Report of the Committee on Asian Studies
2003 Oct, Colloquium on Contemporary Korea - report from the Bowdoin/Sun online
2006 Feb, Announcement of film screening of "Mama's Gold: The Orphans of Shangri-La"
2008 Apr, Program for Min Xiao-Fen: Blue Pipa Trio
Posters, 2016-