Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, this is the office of a man interested in many cultures--so how did he end up studying Inner Asia, the central Asian region once crossed by people as diverse as Alexander the Great, Buddhist monks and Marco Polo...
...started studying Arabic, Russian and Chinese," recalls Di Cosmo, who now teaches Manchu, the language of the last imperial Chinese dynasty, along with his Inner Asian history classes. "But then I realized I couldn't study both Arabic and Chinese, so I dropped Arabic. I studied Chinese literature, language and history...
...Cosmo, who also runs the East Asian Studies sophomore tutorial, says he is trying to reach out to a broader population of undergraduates, perhaps with a Foreign Cultures Core course on the history of the "Silk Road...
...Cosmo says his research into the Inner Asian nomadic tribes have given him glimpses of a past rare in this age of transatlantic supersonic travel. He recalls a trip he made two years ago to visit Kazakh nomads in Xinjiang, the northwestern province of China...
Some coalition members also said they wanted to publicize the fact that it is the John K. Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research, not the University, that organized Jiang's visit to Harvard...