Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
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
Fiona Hill on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Putin’s Attempt to Re-establish “Russian Imperium”
Fiona Hill is a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. She recently served as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for... 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
Geoffrey Cain on “Samsung Rising”
Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, technologist, and scholar of East and Central Asia. His first book, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set... 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
Michael Davis on His Book “Making Hong Kong China”
Michael C. Davis is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Professor of Law and International Affairs at Jindal Global University in India and a S... Read More
Jon Mitchell on the Environmental and Humanitarian Damages Caused by the US and Japanese Militaries in the Pacific
Jon Mitchell is a British journalist and author based in Japan. In 2015, he received the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for his investig... Read More
Ulrike Schaede on Japanese Startups and Her Book “The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters”
Ulrike Schaede (ウリケ・シェーデ) is director of JFIT and professor of Japanese Business and head of the International Management Track at GPS. Schaede holds a Ph.D. in Japan Studies and Econo... 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