Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Barbara Demick on Her Book “Eat the Buddha”
Barbara Demick is a journalist and author of three books. Most recently Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, as well as Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street:... Read More
Catharin Dalpino on the Role of Women in the 2020 Thai Protests
Catharin Dalpino is Professor Emeritus at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she taught courses in Asian Studies and in US foreign policy. She has also taugh... Read More
Marie Geneviève Cyr on the Chinese Empire of Counterfeit Goods and Fast Fashion
Marie Geneviève Cyr is a designer, educator and researcher. She interrogates the relationship between visual advertisement, its materiality, and its representation in a global landscape, with a focus... Read More
Molly Roberts on Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall
Margaret Roberts is an Associate Professor joint with the Department of Political Science and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. Her research interests lie in the intersection of po... Read More
Jinying Li on Live Streaming Culture in China
Jinying Li is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where she teaches media theory, animation, and digital culture in East Asia. Her essays have been published in Film I... Read More
Rachael Joo on South Korean Domination in Esports
Rachael Miyung Joo is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. She is trained as a cultural anthropologist who also works in the field of cultural ... Read More
Luzhou Li on Zoning China
Luzhou Li is a lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on digital media studies, global media industries, media policy, political eco... Read More
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