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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November 15, 2013
Dr. David Chu Distinguished Visitor Series This talk concerns the fascinating nexus between Time and Nationalism in the late 19th century and especially in the colonized world. This was the time when suboceanic telegraph cables, owned by huge private corporations,...
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October 10, 2013
Webcast of talk by David Shambaugh at the Asian Institute on October 10, 2013
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October 3, 2012. Full event details here: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/12588/ Series East Asia Seminar Series Description Pranab Bardhan, a Cambridge University PhD, has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the...
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March 10, 2012. Full event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/11592/ Series Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of Asian Heritage Month Description China, in the last thirty years, has industrialized faster than any other nation in our history. This policy of rapid economic growth has...
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January 24, 2012 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/11469/ In Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State, Joseph Wong examines the emerging biotechnology sector in Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. These economies have invested billions of dollars in biotech...
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January 10, 2012 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/11536/
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June 10, 2011 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/9562/ Exploring Korea Through Its Foods and Foodways interrogates these fascinating dynamics in the context of Korea. Over the past several years, the South Korean government has attempted to globalize Korean cuisine as a cultural...
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