Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Rachael Hutchinson on Japanese Culture Through Videogames
Rachael Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware, where she teaches Japanese language, literature, film and videogames. She has published widely on represent... Read More
Diana Kim on the Opium Industry in Colonial Southeast Asia
Diana Kim is Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a core faculty member of the Asian Studies Program. Her scholarship is animated by concerns with how modern states... Read More
Aynne Kokas on the Chinese Movie Industry
Aynne Kokas is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Her multiple-award-winning first book, Hollywood Made in China (University of California Press, 2017) argues that ... Read More
Suk-Young Kim on K-pop’s Global Rise
Suk-Young Kim is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA where she also directs the Center for Performance Studies. She is the author of Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Perfo... Read More
Thomas Pepinsky on Indonesia’s Climate Change Crisis
Thomas Pepinsky is Professor of Government at Cornell University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy,... Read More
Dr. Manisha Priyam Revisits the Clean India Campaign
Dr. Manisha Priyam is an Associate Professor at the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, Ministry of Human Resources Development, New Delhi. She has a doctorate in Internati... Read More
Erin Kamler on Bride Trafficking from Myanmar to China
Dr. Erin Kamler is an American writer, composer, researcher, and international gender equality specialist who works at the intersection of feminist social justice and the arts. Dr. Kamler earned her... Read More
Frank Langfitt on Exploring the Real People Behind Shanghai’s Shining Lights
Frank Langfitt is NPR's London correspondent. Before coming to the United Kingdom, he spent a decade as a reporter in China, most recently as NPR's correspondent in Shanghai. Shreya Bhatnagar CMC '... Read More