Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Terry Lautz on “Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic”
Terry Lautz is former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation and has chaired the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Lingnan Foundation, and the Yale- China Association. Lautz attended Taipei America... Read More
Susan Brownell on the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
Susan Brownell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is an expert on Chinese sports and Olympic Games, and is frequently interviewed on these topics by internationa... Read More
Minglang Zhou on Linguistic Diversity in China
Minglang Zhou earned his Ph. D. in linguistics from Michigan State University in 1993. His teaching and research interest include the sociology of language, language and ethnicity, bilingual education... Read More
Sheldon Lu on his book, “Contemporary Chinese Cinema and Visual Culture: Envisioning the Nation”
Sheldon Lu has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Davis since 2002. His research, scholarship, and teaching lie at the intersection of literary studies, visual... Read More
Kyung Hyun Kim on Squid Game, Class Inequality, & South Korean Film
Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim is a creative writer, a scholar, and a film producer, who is currently a professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, UC Irvine. He has worked with internationally renowned ... Read More
Yong Cai on East Asian Pro-Natalist Policies
Yong Cai's research focuses on China's one-child policy and its implications for fertility and social policies. The one-child policy, engineered to control China's population growth by restricting fer... Read More
Michael Meyer On The End of The Peace Corps Program In China
Michael Meyer is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction books The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed and In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the... Read More
Vivien Wen Li Anthony on Video Game Addiction In China
Vivien (Wen Li) Anthony is an assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work and research associate at the Center for Gambling Studies. Dr. Anthony’s research centers on addictions... Read More