Category: Society & Culture in Asia
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
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
Yong Cai on East Asian Pro-Natalist Policies
Yong Cai's research focuses on China's one-child policy and its implications for fertility and social policies. The one-child policy, engineered to control China's population growth by restricting fer... Read More
Michael Meyer On The End of The Peace Corps Program In China
Michael Meyer is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction books The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed and In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the... Read More
Vivien Wen Li Anthony on Video Game Addiction In China
Vivien (Wen Li) Anthony is an assistant professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work and research associate at the Center for Gambling Studies. Dr. Anthony’s research centers on addictions... Read More
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