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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May 6, 2016
Opening the Second Annual Meeting and Workshop of Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership program (UCRSEA) in Hanoi, H.E. David Devine, Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam, highlighted the importance of building resilient urban futures for the countries in the Mekong...
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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 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 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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December 5, 2014
What do rice, politics, and infrastructures have to do with each other? More than intuition would have us believe, as Atsuro Morita highlighted in his November 28, 2014 talk at the Asian Institute on multispecies infrastructures in Thailand’s Chao Phraya...
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November 26, 2014
The English Poet, Rudyard Kipling believed that the western civilization was duty bound to enlighten the more brutish and barbaric parts of the world. His poem, the White Man’s Burden opens by referring to these people as “new-caught, sullen peoples,...
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November 20, 2014
An unresolved war in the Korean Peninsula continues to affect people’s lives even today. Korea’s geopolitical conditions have justified as state of emergency as a rule governing life. To address this issue, on October 24, 2014 the Centre for the...
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November 20, 2014
The Korean War continues to be the longest drawn conflict in the 20th century. Despite relative peace and tranquillity at the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas, the war officially is still ongoing sixty-four years from its breakout. Korea thus...
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