Come join Wayne Karlin and Eric Henry for a discussion, and an account by each of how they first came to know Trần Văn Thủy. Wayne Karlin is a United States Marine Corps Veteran of the Vietnam War … Read more
Please join Dr. Martin Schoenhals for a talk on cultural beliefs about the urban and modern in China. He will discuss his observations of the Chinese government’s treatment of peasants since the 1949 Chinese Revolution and how the government focused … Read more
The misperception of North Korea as a communist state is responsible for most of the main errors made in Pyongyang watching: the predictions of regime collapse in the mid-1990s; the hopes placed in arms negotiations; the expectation that economic changes … Read more
Please join Rebecca Karl as she discusses her book "The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in 20th-Century China."
Dr. Michael Frishkopf’s latest edited volume brings together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture to investigate how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression. Join us for a discussion about … Read more
These films, art, music and talks highlight critical issues of citizenship and belonging across world regions. As international debates center migration and belonging, these events will provide space for education and reflection on what it means to belong, what it … 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
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