Jacques Bertrand (Director, Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies and Professor, Political Science) has published Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winning by Process asks why the peace...
Tong Lam’s photo essay for positions analyzes the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in China through an urban village renewal project. Tong Lam; The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks have co-published a chapter in a new book published by Brookings Press. The book, The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Their chapter, “The Party’s Struggle...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2022 Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar and Thibaut d’Hubert. (2022). Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000718 Abstract Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed...
Lynette H. Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A compelling examination of China’s engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to...
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September 9, 2022
Jacques Bertrand (Director, Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies and Professor, Political Science) has published Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winning by Process asks why the peace...
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August 17, 2022
Tong Lam’s photo essay for positions analyzes the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in China through an urban village renewal project. Tong Lam; The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege...
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August 9, 2022
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks have co-published a chapter in a new book published by Brookings Press. The book, The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Their chapter, “The Party’s Struggle...
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June 29, 2022
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2022 Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar and Thibaut d’Hubert. (2022). Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000718 Abstract Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed...
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June 1, 2022
Lynette H. Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A compelling examination of China’s engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to...
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June 1, 2022
Diana Fu has published a policy essay for the Wilson Centre as part of the 2021-22 Wilson China Fellowship Essays on China and U.S. Policy. Read the full essay on the Wilson Centre website. Abstract Since Xi Jinping took power...
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June 1, 2022
On March 26, 2021, the Asian Institute hosted the webinar “How Urban is Contemporary India?”. The panel provided critical commentary on the State of the Cities: India Report (SOCR) published by Om Prakash Mathur and his colleagues. The Urban Affairs...
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April 29, 2022
The Oxford History of Modern China (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, includes a new chapter on the Xi Jinping Era of Chinese Politics written by Diana Fu and Emile Dirks. Learn more about the book on...
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March 24, 2022
Yoonkyung Lee, (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology; Director, Centre for the Study of Korea) has published Between the Streets and the Assembly: Social Movements, Political Parties, and Democracy in South Korea (University of Hawai’i Press, 2022). Description Streets in Korea...
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March 18, 2022
Kajri Jain, (Professor of Department of Visual Studies, UTM, and History of Art, UTSC) has published Gods in the Time of Democracy (Duke University Press, 2021). Description In 2018 India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world’s tallest statue: a...
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