On March 4, 2022, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted an event titled “China’s Growing Digital Reach.” The event was moderated by Lokman Tsui, a research fellow at Citizen Lab […]
Introduction If China plans to keep President Xi Jinping’s Two Carbon Promises (a carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060), the end of the coal era will have to come soon. Given the […]
Keywords: Trust, China, Society, Education The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer suggested that residents in countries not of western-style liberal democracy, including China, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, reported significant increases of overall trust […]
On November 22, 2021, the Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto and the Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) at York University hosted a virtual event titled “Suffering and […]
Keywords: electricity, infrastructure, centralization, grid in China Ying Jia Tan’s new book, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955, seizes on an extraordinary subject: where did China’s electrical industries come from, and why did they […]
Abstract: The Hallyu wave of the 1990s brought soft masculinity to the forefront of Korean entertainment. Exemplified in pop music stars and the male leads of dramas, the Hallyu movement centered a “pretty boy” image […]
In early October 2021, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) student union disbanded after 50 years of service. The union stated that this decision was made primarily due to the university management’s dissociation from […]
There has been an established trend in the fertility rates of East Asian countries in the 21st century that has generated alarm for its continuous decline in each respective nation. With patterns of steep decline […]
On October 27th, 2021, the Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Yujin Woo, Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Hitotsubashi University. This seminar […]
Recently, the huge success of Parasite has shone a new light on Asian cinemas, drawing global (read: Western) attention to the productions of the region. This context of globalization, where new technologies in form of […]
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