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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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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October 8, 2015
South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies put together an Editor’s Choice Collection of influential articles, in part to run concurrently with the Annual Conference on South Asia, held at the University of Wisconsin. One of the 10 articles selected is by...
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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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September 23, 2014
Asian Institute Professor Lynette Ong, a political scientist and China specialist, was interviewed by BBC World on their September 8, 2014 BBC World Service Daily Podcast. The program was about how the Chinese government is trying to manage internal migration...
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March 1, 2013
Students in CAS400Y1: Critical Perspectives on Asian Modernity and JPA411H1: Global Taiwan successfully received funding from the Faculty of Arts and Science to embark on an international course module (ICM) to Taipei, Taiwan, and Xiamen, China, over Reading Week 2013....
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February 6, 2013
In 2012, a group of undergraduate students in the University of Toronto’s Contemporary Asian Studies program founded and organized the first annual “Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress” (INDePth) conference, bringing together future leaders to ask important questions and devise...
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