Last month, Disney cast Chinese actress Liu Yifei as Mulan for their live-action Mulan remake. The decision was applauded by many, and over 100 thousand people had signed an online petition calling for Disney to […]
On 26 October 2017, the Centre for the Study of Korea sponsored a lecture at the Munk School of Global Affairs titled “Igniting the Internet: South Korea’s Internet-Born Protests and Popular Politics, 2002 to 2017.” […]
On November 3, 2017, the event “Transnational Domesticity in the Making of Modern Korea” happened at North House in Munk School of Global Affairs. The Asian Institute of the Munk School of Global Affairs introduced professor […]
In 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. About two decades later the eastern segment of Pakistan was declared independent and became what is known […]
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