When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities … Read more
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Vivek Wadhwa will deliver a lecture, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way,” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in … Read more
Language is a central medium through which cultural systems operate. In the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Peoples’ Languages, the vast majority of these languages are at risk of losing their vitality, with some already gone to sleep. The precarity … Read more
In this lecture, Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer will examine how ideas about waste and wastefulness have shifted in postwar Japan, from the mid-1940s through the present day. Discussions of what constituted a waste of time, stuff, and resources, she will … Read more
Susan Thornton (former Acting Assistant Secretary & Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 2016-2018); now senior research scholar at Yale University's Paul Tsai China Center & Fellow at Brookings) The events will … Read more
During the Cold War, when the border between British Hong Kong and Communist China was known as the “bamboo curtain,” the boundary between Hong Kong’s New Territories and China’s Bao’an County—today’s Shenzhen—was seen as a closed frontier. Yet the everyday … Read more
Open lecture with Andrew Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University. Along the Mekong, where it creates the border between Thailand and Laos, hydropower projects have triggered a transformation. Strange floods and ebbs disrupt fish migrations, undercut riverbanks, and … Read more
The Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power on October 10-11, 2019. Driving Innovation will explore India’s increased role … Read more
The Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a conference entitled Driving Innovation: Technology and India’s Rise as a Global Power on October 10-11, 2019. Driving Innovation will explore India’s increased role … Read more
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