Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Katharine Moon on Sports Diplomacy: Winter Olympics 2018
Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon is a professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1993. She is also a nonresident senior fellow ... Read More
Wang Zheng on Feminism in China
Wang Zheng is professor of Women’s Studies and History and Research Scientist of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is the author or editor of Women in... Read More
Wendy Su on Chinese film-making
Wendy Su is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California Riverside. Her research falls along the intersections of global communication, Chinese media... Read More
Christine Loh on Hong Kong environmental concerns
Dr. Christine Loh is Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She was the Under Secretary for the Environment in Hong Kong (2012-2017) and was a member of the legisl... Read More
Catharin Dalpino on Mother Mushroom in Vietnam
Catharin Dalpino is Professor Emerita at Georgetown University, where she taught Southeast Asian Studies and launched the university’s Thai Studies Program. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Wa... Read More
Manisha Priyam on the Indian Toilet Crisis
Dr. Manisha Priyam is an academic and researcher, and she works on issues of development and politics in India. She has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), in ... Read More
Danielle N. Lussier on Indonesia’s blasphemy law
Indonesian Muslims reciting Al Quran after shalat (prayer). Istiqlal Mosque, Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Danielle N. Lussier is an assistant professor in political science at Grinnell College, Iowa. H... Read More
Raka Ray on sex-selective abortions in India
Raka Ray (AB Bryn Mawr 1985, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison 1993) is Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the former Chair... Read More