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The Blakemore Freeman and Blakemore Fellowships support one academic year of advanced level language study in East or Southeast Asia. Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for study in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, and Vietnamese at specific approved language programs throughout East and Southeast Asia. Blakemore Fellowships are specifically for study at the IUP-Chinese Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Both programs cover full tuition and provide a stipend for travel, living costs, basic educational expenses, and transportation. The Foundation seeks individuals who will make significant contributions to their fields through careers requiring professional fluency in an Asian language, such as academia, STEM, international business, law, medicine, journalism, government service, and NGO work. Fellows are expected to devote themselves exclusively to full-time intensive language study and remain in the study country during the entire grant period. Applicants must have completed at minimum three years of college-level language study and be at or near an advanced level in the target language.