Category: Society
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Event Report “Security Cooperation in East Asia, Japan, South Korea, and the United States”
On February 9, the event “Security Cooperation in East Asia, Japan, South Korea, and the…
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China’s State Response to LGBT Rights
With the recent move by Taiwan’s Constitutional Court to legalize same-sex marriage, some regional political…
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The Diaspora of Indonesian Female Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia: A Case of Abuse and Mistreatment
Abstract: Since the 1970s, Saudi Arabia’s oil revenue-driven high GDP growth has led to an…
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The Transformation of Women in Views of Socialist Japan
Abstract The unity of the themes gender and class have always been a point of…
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A Case for Taiwan’s Participation at the World Health Assembly
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is encouraging Canadians during this Mental Health Week to raise…
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Event Report “INDePth Conference 2017: Worlding South Asia Beyond Borders”
The 2017 Interrogating Notions of Development and Progress Conference, also known as INDePth, was held…
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Event Report “The Crisis of ‘Society’ and Explosion of ‘The Social’: Social Construction Projects in South Korea and China”
On March 21, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted Professor Mun Young Cho…
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Event Report “Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification”
On March 24, 2017, as a part of the Global Taiwan Lecture Series, the Munk…
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Event Report “Religion and the Modern: Discussing J. Barton Scott’s Spiritual Despots”
The intersection between religion and politics is of interest to many scholars. J.Barton Scott’s work…
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Event Report “The Resettlement of North Korean Refugees in South Korea and Beyond: What Do We Know?”
On 15 March 2017, Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies hosted a panel discussion titled…
