Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Haiyan Song on mass tourism in China and the future of U.S.-China travel
Professor Haiyan Song has a strong background in Economics. His major research areas include tourism economics with a particular focus on tourism demand modelling and forecasting as well as tourism fo... Read More
Nicole Constable on migrant workers in Hong Kong
Nicole Constable is a Professor of Anthropology and a Research Professor of International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is former JY Pillay Professor of Social Sciences at Yale-NUS Coll... Read More
Badruun Gardi on Ulaanbaatar’s ger districts
Badruun Gardi is the founder and CEO of GerHub, a nonprofit social enterprise that seeks to find innovative and creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues in the ger areas of Ulaanbaata... Read More
Professor Imamura on Japan’s demographic crisis
An elderly man at Shimonose Park, Sasebo, Japan Dr. Anne E. Imamura is currently Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Until her retirement in 2015, she was the Area Studies Divisio... Read More
Amrita Basu on women’s safety in India
"Indian Women" by Joshua Song — Own work. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr Creative Commmons — https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3028/2968699883_75d13b7c4d_b.jpg Amrita Basu is the Paino P... Read More
Andrew Jacobs on his experience being a reporter in China
Chinese citizens holding up IDs and cameras, wishing to gain entrance to the guard zone at the Bo Xilai trial Andrew Jacobs has been a reporter for The New York Times since 1995. Over the years, he ha... Read More
Adams Bodomo on African Immigrants in China
Baohan Straight Street in the African area in Guangzhou, China Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo, a native of the Ghana region of Africa, is Professor of African Studies (holding the chair of African Languages a... Read More
Andrew Small on China’s growing economic engagement with Pakistan
Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which he established in 2006. He was based in GMF’s Brussels office for five yea... Read More