The Myanmar military's campaign against the Rohingya population is set in a tenuous backdrop of ethnic armed conflict, a stagnant national peace and reconciliation process, and a fledgling democracy led by a now-controversial Nobel Peace Prize...

Professor Huck-ju Kwon is the deputy director of the Asia Development Institute at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University.

Dr. Yi Wu, Clemson University

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan Province, this presentation examines how the three major rural actors-local governments, village communities, and rural households-have contested and negotiated land...

Despite ongoing censorship and repression, public opinion and debate in China has become increasingly common and consequential. How did this happen? Professor Ya-Wen Lei, drawing on her new book, The Contentious Public Sphere, will discuss how...

The connections between images and societies are manifold. Humans weave meanings into matter that speak to our identities as individuals and groups. Bodies interact with objects through lived experience, embedding doctrines and socially...

Blood Letters is the first authoritative biography of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist executed in 1968 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. The only Chinese citizen known to have openly and steadfastly opposed communism under Mao, she rooted...

The ecology of languages has profoundly impacted by language standardization in modern nation-states, global and regional migration and displacement of people, and the unprecedented dominance and spread of English, resulting in numerous...

The methods of surveying, counting, and categorizing the population, particularly through the household registration system, reflected core functions of the emerging modern state in Korea from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. In...

For three decades the world has witnessed China's fast economic development. In 2008 the Chinese government issued a $586 billion (USD) plan as an attempt to minimize the impact of the global financial crisis on the world's second largest economy...

Winner of the Arts Programming award at the 41st International Emmy Awards, "Hello?! Orchestra" follows Grammy-nominated violist Richard Yongjae O'Neill and his forming of a multicultural orchestra for underprivileged children in Ansan, S. Korea...