Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Li Yuan on China’s Crisis of Confidence
Ms. Li Yuan is a journalist and reporter who writes the New New World column for The New York Times, which focuses on the intersection of technology, business, and politics in China and across Asia. B... Read More
Professor Mayfair Yang on China’s “Guanxi” Culture
Mayfair Yang is a 50% faculty member in Department of Religious Studies and 50% in Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, where she is the Department Chair, at the UC Santa Barbara... Read More
Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry
Akiko Takeyama is a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. She is also President of the Association for Fe... Read More
Professor Mikhail Alexseev on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Dr. Mikhail Alexseev is the Bruce E. Porteous Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. Dr. Alexseev is a native of Kyiv and has been working at SDSU since 2000. His publications f... Read More
Professor Patricia Thornton on “Lying Flat” in China
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor in the Department of Politics (DPIR) and the University of Oxford China Centre, and Tutor in the Politics of China at Merton College. She is currently a ... Read More
Professor Yamashita on the Influence of Japanese Cuisine in America
Samuel Yamashita is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor at Pomona College, and he has been doing research on five food projects since 2009. He completed the first in 2019 when he published Hawai’i Regi... Read More
Professor Molony on Gender Inequality in Japan
Barbara Molony is a Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University and the past co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (2020-2023), the past co-President of the Coordina... Read More
Professor Moody on American Foreigners in the Japanese Workplace
Stephen J. Moody is Associate Professor of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University. His research deals with intercultural communication, primarily between Americans and Japanese i... Read More