Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
Ya-Wen Lei on her book “The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China”
Ya-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs a... Read More
Saadia M. Pekkanen on the Critical Implications of Global Competition in Space
Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In addition to this appointment in The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, ... Read More
Professor Mikhail Alexseev on Russia’s War in Ukraine
Dr. Mikhail Alexseev is the Bruce E. Porteous Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. Dr. Alexseev is a native of Kyiv and has been working at SDSU since 2000. His publications f... Read More
A Conversation on the Indonesian Elections of 2024 with Dr. Catharin Dalpino
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 taug... Read More
Sung-Yoon Lee on Rising Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
Sung-Yoon Lee is a Wilson International Competition Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Caroline Kim '24 interviewed Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee on February 8, 2024. Photograph an... Read More
Professor Patricia Thornton on “Lying Flat” in China
Patricia M. Thornton is an associate professor in the Department of Politics (DPIR) and the University of Oxford China Centre, and Tutor in the Politics of China at Merton College. She is currently a ... Read More
Professor Yamashita on the Influence of Japanese Cuisine in America
Samuel Yamashita is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor at Pomona College, and he has been doing research on five food projects since 2009. He completed the first in 2019 when he published Hawai’i Regi... Read More
Professor Vinay Lal on the Rise of Hindu Nationalism
Vinay Lal is a cultural critic, writer, blogger, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His intellectual and research interests includ... Read More
Professor Molony on Gender Inequality in Japan
Barbara Molony is a Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University and the past co-President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (2020-2023), the past co-President of the Coordina... Read More