Japan Study Colleges

Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio

Faculty

Faculty

Jun Kawabe - Japanese Language

Wang (Arlene) Chen - Chinese Language

Ching-hsuan Wu - Chinese Language

John Boos - Economics Management

Barbara Macleod, Economics Management

Ji Young Choi, Politics and Government, International Political Economy

Xiao Min Chen - History

Anne Sokolsky - Humanities/Classics, Japanese literature

Blake Michael - Religion

James Peoples - Sociology/Anthropology, Director, East Asian Studies

Resources
Art
Thanks to a donor, the sociology/anthropology department displays several Korean brass teapots, bowls, along with hundreds of coins and amulets from the Choson (Joseon) dynasty. Artifacts from prehistoric Thailand also are housed in this department.

In the basement of Beeghly Library, there is a four-feet tall bronze Japanese bell of the type used in Buddhist monasteries. It is displayed permanently, and rung at the end of each academic year. The archives of Beeghly Library house many artworks and other noteworthy objects from East Asia that missionaries, alumni, and other persons donated to the university over a period of 150 years.

The Ross Art Museum has dozens of prints by Japanese woodcut artists, including Hiroshige, Kunisada, and Kuniyoshi. The museum also has notable prints by more modern artists such as Miyagawa Shuntei, Takahashi Hiroaki, Inagaki Nenjiro, Hagiwara Hideo, Saito Kiyoshi, Mori Yoshitoshi, Tomoe Yokoi, and Hiratsuka Un'ichi.

Through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation administered by ASIANetwork, these and other East Asian materials were examined and evaluated in 2006. Selected holdings of Asian art and materials from these collections are available for online viewing at www.ideasproject.org/collections/asianetwork/index.html. Enter "Ohio Wesleyan" in the search box.

Library
The East Asian Studies Program has added many volumes on China, Japan, and Korea in the last five years. The University Library with the cooperation of the East Asian Studies Program has over 40 popular films from China, Japan, and Korea, as well as numerous documentaries.

East Asian Educational/Other Institutional Relationships
Japan
Aoyama Gakuin
Kansai Gadai

Waseda University through Japan Study
Sister school relationship with Kwassui University, Nagasaki

Korea
In 2006, Ohio Wesleyan established a student exchange relationship with Ewha Woman's (sic) University in Seoul, with which the university has a relationship through missionary efforts of the early twentieth century.

China
Ohio Wesleyan also sends students to China through existing GLCA and CIEE programs

Majors/Minors
Japanese and Chinese languages: Four courses
East Asian Studies: Major and Minor
International Studies: Major with an East Asian concentration

Professional Development
Through the Thomas E. Wenzlau fund, the university provides financial support to faculty for visits to and seminars on Japan. In 2006, two faculty participated in the summer institute on Japan sponored by the Japanese Studies Association at Tokai University in Honolulu. The Director of East Asian Studies visited Japan in June and July, 2007, to attend a faculty development seminar offered by the Council for International Educational Exchange. Ann Sokolsky, a specialist in Japanese literature, visited Japan and Taiwan in June, 2007. In 2008, eight faculty visited the Peoples Republic of China to learn firsthand about its culture and massive economic changes since the Deng reforms. As a result of these visits and additional readings and lectures, these faculty cooperatively offered an interdisciplinary Honor's Seminar titled The China Experience in the spring of 2009. The seminar will be offered again in spring of 2010.