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  1. lordtiandao
    I'm hoping Berkeley results come out this week. Good luck everyone!
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    Congratulations and best of luck with your other applications! I got an offer from SOAS too way back when I was applying to Masters programs too, but I passed it up to come to Hong Kong. I'm doing my MPhil here in Chinese history here (one of the good things about Hong Kong is that all MPhil programs are fully funded). The other school that accepted me was, funnily enough, USC haha.
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    Thank you so much! Have you applied to any other programs?
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    Hi there, fellow Bruin. I was an undergrad at UCLA too and it looks like I might be going back for grad school! haha
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    Sorry to hear that. Good luck on your other applications!
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    Someone just posted an acceptance for Chinese history at UCLA. If you'r out there, will you be attending the visiting days?
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    @35mm_Very sorry to hear that. I think your experience with UCLA is one of the major problems with the UC system. Because of funding issues, it's much cheaper for them to fund a US student than an international student, and a professor at Berkeley explicitly told me I should make it clear on my application that I was a US citizen because he told me it was very difficult for international applicants to get in. Hope to hear good news from you on your other applications! Also, does anyone know how funding package details are sent out? I received my official USC offer letter today, but it doesn't mention any type of funding and the web portal doesn't state it either.
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    @TheHessianHistorian Thank you! That was very helpful, I'll try to write something along those lines as well.
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    @pim81590 Nothing from Berkeley. I guess we'll have to wait until next week to see.
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    @Qtf311 I received e-mails from two professors in the department informing me of admissions, with the formal letter going out in 1-2 weeks. You should keep an eye out these next few days as I think more decisions will be going out.
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    I've received congratulatory e-mails from two professors concerning my admissions. It's the usual "congratulations you've been admitted, more info coming soon, please write if you have any questions" e-mails. I want to politely thank them and express my interest in the program but at the same, I don't want to make any commitments yet as I'm still waiting for more decisions. What is the best way to craft such an e-mail?
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    UCLA decisions should also be out. Good luck!
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    Also refer to this study about school prestige and TT placement. Basically more prestigious schools have better placement, with the top 25 schools accounting for 71- 86% of all TT positions placements. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
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    @TMP answered a similar question I had here: You can do it for any professor in a department and see what you get.
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    @kochan Hello there, fellow Bruin! Yes, UCLA has been doing well in terms of funding. I spoke with Professor Von Glahn recently and he mentioned that there was a donor who has been giving a lot of money.
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    UCs are known to prefer American applicants over International applicants, because it's more expensive to fund an international student than it is to fund an American student. I had a UC Berkeley professor tell me to make it clear on my application that I was an American citizen, because he said it's difficult for international applicants to get in. Private schools with more money usually don't have this problem, they take in a lot of international students.
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    A good way to practice Classical Chinese is to translate them into English. Harvard used to (perhaps still does?) make all their students translate passages from the 資治通鑒. It's also what my adviser made me do. Classical Chinese is very difficult to translate but once you get into the habit of doing it, it's actually quite interesting.
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    Your posts seem to suggest that the committee wants you to work on your Classical Chinese. I'm not sure what level you are at currently, but for your stated interests, you will be coming into contact with a lot of Classical Chinese documents. As someone who studies the Song-Yuan-Ming transition, I can tell you that these documents, particularly Yuan-era texts, are not easy to read. My advice to you is to use your one year of M.A. to really work on your Classical Chinese and make sure you have a working competency. Japanese can wait, in fact, it's not a requirement to get into PhD and you'll probably have to take it during your PhD anyways. The department will usually provide some kind of funding to cover it (or apply for the FLAS grant) and you can even apply for summer programs in Japan. Obviously, it would be great to learn it as early as possible, but I would advise you to place the language of your primary source over languages needed for secondary sources.
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    @Ouyang That sounds interesting! Where have you applied? I know Peterson at Princeton does intellectual history, but he's getting close to retirement I believe. Peter Bol in Harvard is another major intellectual historian. I'm not from Hong Kong, but I am doing my MPhil here.
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    @Ouyang Hello! What kind of comparative studies are you interested in? East-West? China-Japan?
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    I never understood the appeal of this series. They basically turned it into some weird palace intrigue drama where the emperor's concubines are instead replaced by Cao Cao's sons. I would say that a better Three Kingdoms drama is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Cao_(TV_series), which is based more on the SGZ and tries to paint Cao Cao in a more historically accurate light.
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    Someone from Los Angeles Googled me and went to my academia.edu profile and looked at everything I uploaded. I wonder if it's a faculty member from UCLA...
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    May I ask what your field of history is? I'm in Chinese history and was told by a potential POI at UCLA that I was very high on their list, but they didn't ask me if UCLA was my top priority. My undergrad alma mater is UCLA, so I still hear a fair bit of gossip from current students and professors there. I know that for Chinese history, two of the three professors there haven't been getting very many students recently so they're very eager to take people take think is a good fit. It could also be the case with other historical fields. I've heard nothing from Columbia or Chicago.
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    Very true, but that's also why we have journals that cater to specific fields, for example Ming Studies for Ming dynasty related articles.
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    Honestly, getting your first book published by any of A ranking academic publishers is good enough. HUP is prestigious, but it's not the most prestigious publisher out there. In fact, I would argue that Cambridge University Press might even be more prestigious than Harvard. Most of the publisher rankings I've seen rank them by categories (A, B, C). Within the categories, all publishers are basically equal. For example, this is the A+ category of academic publishers for humanities according to the City University of Hong Kong (which should be similar to lists used by other HK universities): Cambridge University Press Cornell University Press Columbia University Press Duke University Press Harvard University Press John’s Hopkins University Press John Wiley & Sons MIT Press Cambridge Mass Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Clarendon PHAIDON Princeton University Press Stanford University Press University of California Press University of Chicago Press University of Pennsylvania Press Yale University Press Full list here: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/scm/pbpr_roa/PBPR%20Final%20Draft.pdf
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