November 19, 2009
This collection, translated and edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam, brings together seventy-five poems by three internationally known Tamil poets, whose works, over the last three decades, have dealt with issues ranging from
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New book by Asian Institute scholar Janet Salaff, Siu-lun Wong, and Arent Greve provides an intimate account of what migration means to Hong Kong families.
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The evening’s program features the launch of the book, Wilting Laughter: Three Tamil Poets, and a play, Not by Our Tears. The event is co-hosted by the Centre for South Asian Studies and the Canadian Tamil Congress.
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Mapping colonial law on economy as a new archive for modern governance, Professor Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India’s market society.
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Translated for the first time into English, these anecdotal essays by one of Korea’s most influential writers give an unprecedented insight into daily life in colonial Korea during the Pacific War. (Columbia University Press, 2009)
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The inaugural issue of “Passages” is an online journal of articles and photo essays by winners of the Dr. David Chu Scholarship in Asia Pacific Studies, who wrote about their travel to Asia for research, language study, or to take part in a field school.
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This is a path-breaking study of leading scholars of comparative politics examining the internal transformations of dominant parties in both authoritarian and democratic settings. Edited by Edward Friedman and Joseph Wong (Asian Institute).
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Frances Garrett, core faculty of Centre for South Asian Studies, has published her book “Religion, Medicine and the Human Embryo in Tibet: Critical Studies in Buddhism” (New York: Routledge, 2008).
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This book, by Doctors Dipak Mazumdar and Sandip Sarkar, examines in detail the aspects of post-reform India and discerns the changes and trends that these new developments have created.
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Asian Institute’s Acting Director, Professor Tania Li, recently released a new book entitled, “The Will to Improve: Governmentaility, Development, and the Practice of Politics”. It is a remarkable account of development in action.
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