Category: Society & Culture in Asia
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
Yunxiang Yan on familialism and individualization in China
A child in Nanjing is pretending to pedal away with a cart carrying his entire family in the back seats. Yunxiang Yan is professor of anthropology and the director of the Center for Chinese Studies, U... Read More
Uncritical thinking in China? Think again! with Scott Rozelle
Students preparing for gaokao. Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University and is Senior Fellow in the Food Security and Environment Program and the Shorenste... Read More