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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March 24, 2015
“We asked for workers. We got people instead.” Such is the nature of the lives of migrant women in Hong Kong. On March 2, 2015 Nicole Constable, director of anthropology and Asian studies at the University of Pittsburg, visited the...
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February 9, 2015
What does a transition from subsistence agriculture to capitalist agriculture look like? At the January 23, 2015 book launch for Tania Li’s new book, Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Development...
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February 9, 2015
Picture this: A sprawling metropolis situated in the middle of a barren desert, comprised of a multitude rows of glimmering, but empty apartment blocks. Welcome to Ordos City.
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February 7, 2015
Judy Han, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, and Jennifer Jihye Chun, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, were guest editors for a special edition of the Journal of Korean Studies on “Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea.”
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February 6, 2015
In the West, when we think of Chinese intellectuals, the figures that come to mind are dissidents and democrats, activists and idealists. Often, the ones on our radar are those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for their ideas and...
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Rachel Ball-Jones sat down with Professor Takashi Fujitani to talk about his research on Japan in World War II and how Hollywood plays a role shaping memory.
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Lily Li sat down with Professor Beatrice Jauregui to talk about publications and her study of the police force in India.
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Katy Wang sat down with Professor Janet Poole to talk about her new book and her work as a literary translator.
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Katy Wang sat down with Professor Yiching Wu to talk about his new award-winning book and the website he maintains as part of his on-going research.
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January 5, 2015
Non Alignment and Afro-Asianism, two terms deriving from similar ideological roots, are distinct movements that projected an enormous influence on the so-called third-world. On November 28, 2014, Dr. Lorenz M. Luthi presented at the Asian Institute an intriguing overview of...
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