Category: Society & Culture in Asia
Ju Hui Judy Han on South Korean Feminism
Ju Hui Judy Han (Geography PhD, UC Berkeley) is a cultural geographer and Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses on power and (im... Read More
Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji on Chinese International Students and Mental Health
Cirecie A. West-Olatunji serves as full professor and director of the Center for Traumatic Stress Research at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is also a past president of the American Counseling As... Read More
James Leibold on China’s Assimilationist Turn in Xi Jinping’s China
Professor Leibold has research expertise on the politics of ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society, and is currently engaged in research on ethnic policy-making an... Read More
Xiaowei Wang on Blockchain Chicken Farm
Xiaowei Wang is a designer, writer, and coder. The creative director at Logic Magazine, their work encompasses community-based and public art projects, data visualization, technology, ecology, and edu... Read More
Gi-Wook Shin on Racism in South Korea
Dr. Gi-Wook Shin is the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; the William J. Perry Professor of Contemporary Korea; the founding director of the Korea Program; a senior f... Read More
Catharin Dalpino on Thailand’s Monarchy
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
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