Category: East Asia
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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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The Tale of One Tibetan Refugee in Nepal: Memories, Insecurity and Home
I met Tenzin in Kathmandu, Nepal, on a research trip. He was born and raised…
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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 “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…
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East Asia Between the Two Imperial Doctrines: The Ideologies and Realities of Western Empires and Imperial Japan in the Pacific War
Abstract This article debunks the simplistic assumptions of the Pacific War being a battle between…
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Event Report “Curative Violence: How To Inhabit The Machine With Disability”
On February 8, 2017, the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted a book release for…
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Western Artistic Influences in the Cultural Revolution (Primary Source Analysis of “Creating the Socialist New, Fostering Proletarian Originality” in the Peking Review, 1968)
Abstract The Cultural Revolution is widely considered to be a time when cultural life in…
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Event: Resettlement of North Korean Migrants in South Korea and Beyond: What Do We Know? 15 March 2017
Synergy Lecture South Korea has long promoted a sense of ethnic and cultural homogeneity, but…
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An Analysis of the Korean Wave
Abstract This paper is an analysis of the Korean Wave and scholarly reaction to it.…
