September 6, 2012
The book Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries appeared in August 2012 as the first volume in a new Gandharan Studies series published by the Early Buddhist Manuscript Project, University of Washington.
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August 28, 2012
Interweaving insightful and theoretically informed discussions of rural credit, development, governance, and bank bailouts, Asian Institute’s Lynette Ong identifies various sources for China’s uneven development.
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This book offers a major challenge to our understandings of nationalism, racism, colonialism and wartime mobilization during the Second World War.
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Munk School of Global Affairs presents book launch with lecture and discussion on Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State by Professor Joseph Wong, Director of the Asian Institute.
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Joseph Wong presents on his new book Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State at the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia.
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In this new book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the “culture of fact” in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state to ensure its survival.
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In “Betting on Biotech” Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. These economies have invested billions of dollars in biotech industries since the 1990s, but commercial blockbusters and
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This book co-edited by Senator Vivienne Poy has been cited as “key reading for those hoping to bone up on the list of complex bilateral issues with China” by the weekly Embassy Newspaper (on their top 20 list of foreign policy books for 2011).
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Anthropology Professor and former Asian Institute Acting Director Tania Murray Li has co-authored a new book, “Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia.”
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The Asian Institute’s Asia Pacific Reader is pleased to announce the second volume of “Passages”.
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