Nhung Tuyet Tran has won funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a group proposal
November 5, 2014
http://news.utoronto.ca/karen-ruffle-ajay-rao-walid-saleh-and-nhung-tuyet-tran-faculty-arts-science
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Lynette Ong interviewed for BBC’s Program on China’s Urbanization and Migrant Workers
September 23, 2014
Asian Institute Professor Lynette Ong, a political scientist and China specialist, was interviewed by BBC World on their September 8, 2014 BBC World Service Daily Podcast. The program was about how the Chinese government is trying to manage internal migration...
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CSAS Director Ritu Birla Comments on the #RiceBucketChallenge in Globe and Mail Article
August 29, 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/meet-ricebucketchallenge-indias-answer-to-the-ice-bucket-challenge/article20205858/#dashboard/follows/
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Lynette Ong comments on China’s local governments relocation policies in The Economist’s Special Report: China.
May 13, 2014
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21600803-seizing-land-and-running-up-debts-no-way-finance-local-government-emerging
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Lynette Ong Weighs In on Shadow Banking in China
February 5, 2014
http://www.stasiareport.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/worry-over-chinas-shadow-banking-mess-20140127
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Online Search Tool Launched for Vivienne Poy’s Senate Documents at RCL Library
January 21, 2014
By Carmen Choi The University of Toronto’s Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library (RCL Library) has created a finding aid for their collection of records from the former Senator Vivienne Poy’s Office, dated from 1997 to 2012. This collection encompasses...
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Yiching Wu Receives SSHA President’s Book Award
January 9, 2014
Asian Institute and East Asian Studies Professor Yiching Wu has won the 2013 President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association (SSHA) for his forthcoming book, The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis, which will be...
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Jacques Bertrand’s new book: Political Change in Southeast Asia
November 15, 2013
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/research/political-change-in-southeast-asia/
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Naisargi Dave Wins 2013 Ruth Benedict Prize
November 11, 2013
http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/news-amp-events/news/nasargi-dave-wins-2013-ruth-benedict-prize
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Lynette Ong weighs in for New York Times: New China Cities
November 11, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/world/asia/new-china-cities-shoddy-homes-broken-hope.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp&
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