Calicut (also known as GULI in Chinese) was an important node in the overall links between China and Kerala (a state in southern India). The film brings out the cultural-historical ties, the physical artifacts and, most importantly, traces of...

A Joint Workshop by Triangle East Asia Colloquium (TEAC) and Global Asia Initiative (GAI)

The workshop will present six papers discussing human-nature historical relationships on six major rivers in Asia: the Yangzi, Mekong, Indus, Ganges,...

Tainan, City Pluriferent

**Due to the inclement weather, this event will take place on January 18, 2018, from 12 PM to 3 PM in the home of Professor Duara. Address: Prasenjit and Juliette Duara 21 Brookside Place Durham, NC 27705 Home 984 219 1581 Juliette’s mobile 919 344...

Water management in historical and contemporary trans-regional perspective is an important theme of the Global Asia Initiative (GAI). The immensity of the issue can be seen in the circum-Himalayan region which is the source of ten major rivers of...

Japan's Meiji era (1868-1912) has been cast and recast in narratives that have focused on change: the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate; the adoption of Western ideas and institutions; high-speed modernization, industrialization, and...

In the northeast corner of Dali Prefecture in modern-day Yunnan one finds "Stone Gate Pass (shimen guan)" in a steep mountain valley along the ancient Southwestern Silk Road. Located in the southern region of modern-day Yanjin county on the...

Three Faces of Contemporary India: Local, National and Global Thursday, October 12, 2017 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (101), West Duke Building

(The C2 campus bus stops at West Duke and runs every 10 minutes)

4:30...

It has become something of an academic fashion in the last decade or so to bring China and India, these two “Asian” giants and fast-growing global economies, into the same comparative framework. These acts of comparison have generally focused on...

For the secular citizen-artist of our times, is the inheritance of the twentieth century a burden to be overcome, or a gift to be embraced? Iconic Interruptions explores this question with the help of some select works of Indian artist Gigi...