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Language Placement Tests Fall 2007 Placement Test Schedule Chinese: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 2:00-5:00pm in 2 Divinity Avenue , Room 18 Japanese: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 2:00-4:00pm in CGIS S-010 (Tsai Auditorium) Korean: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 2:00-4:00pm in Vanserg 29 Vietnamese: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 2:00-4:00pm in 5 Bryant Street , Seminar Room Students are required to sign up in advance of the placement test at 2 Divinity Avenue. Sign up sheets are posted on the bulletin board inside the front doors of 2 Divinity approximately one week prior to the exam. Students must bring their university ID or a photo- ID to take a placement test.   Results of the test will be posted on the bulletin board at 2 Divinity Avenue by the Friday prior to classes beginning 48 hours after you took the test. The FAS Registrar's Office will receive all results. If you require these results to be given to your graduate program administrator please have your administrator contact the East Asian Language Program office at eal@fas.harvard.edu. Regretfully we are unable to give out placement test results over the telephone. Students should speak to their advisor for information on Advanced Placement, and meeting their language requirements.

New Books Two new books by Professor Stephen Owen, James Conant Bryant University Professor, have been published by the Harvard University Asia Center and are now available from Harvard University Press. Marginality and Subversion in Korea: The Hong Kyongnae Rebellion of 1812  (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) by Professor Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History Available from Amazon For information on availability of Chinese verhalen uit Dunhuang, contact Professor Wilt Idema. Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Hardcover) by Professor Adam L. Kern, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature. Available from Amazon.