Professor Minxin Pei on his book “The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China”
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
After killing TPP: now what?
Gary Hufbauer has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment between China and the United States (... Read More
Katharine Moon on President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal
Katharine (Kathy) H.S. Moon is a professor of Political Science and the Wasserman Chair of Asian Studies at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 1993. She is also a nonresident senior fellow ... Read More
Yoichi Funabashi on the legacy of President Obama’s East Asia policy
Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and President Barack Obama shaking hands at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Yoichi Funabashi is an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist and author. He has writt... Read More
Stephan Haggard on North Korean refugees: the Chinese “underground railroad,” integration into South Korea, and the future of U.S. policy
"The Yalu River seen from the Yunfeng dam with a railway bridge and a factory. North Korea on the left, China on the right." by Jacky Lee — Panoramio. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons ... Read More
Syaru Shirley Lin on Taiwan’s China dilemma: contested identities and multiple interests in Taiwan’s cross-strait economic policy
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen (right). Syaru Shirley Lin is a member of the founding faculty of the master’s program in global political economy at the Ch... Read More
Gary Jefferson on the Chinese steel industry
Gary Jefferson writes about institutions, technology, economic growth, and China’s economic transformation. At Brandeis, Jefferson has joint appointments in the Department of Economics and the Inter... 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