March 1, 2012
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has a number of six month internship opportunities for Canadian students in China beginning May 2012. The Asian Institute will be accepting applications.
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Asian Institute, jointly with Asia Pacific Foundation, launches Canadian lecture tour, Bearing Witness: Documenting China’s Rise, by documentary photographer Ryan Pyle.
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For eight days in January, five students of the Asian Institute travelled to Taipei, Taiwan to conduct field research, timed to coincide with Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections.
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Geography and Asian Institute students get inside look at urbanization and development in western interior.
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The Asian Institute is proud to announce three students affiliated with the Asian Institute have been selected to intern at the Canadian missions in Beijing and Shanghai.
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The Library houses the largest research collection on Hong Kong and Canada-Hong Kong studies outside of Hong Kong. The Asian Institute is a collaborator of the Library’s speaker and cinema series. View the Library video here.
Read full articleJanuary 25, 2012
On January 10, professors William Hurst, Ito Peng, and Ronald Pruessen met to discuss the implications of Kim Jong Il’s death for North Korea and other countries in the Asia-Pacific. The Centre for the Study of Korea event is available for viewing.
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North Korea, to borrow Winston Churchill’s phrase, is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
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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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