Category: East Asia
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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.…
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China’s Rising Footprint into Latin America: Geopolitics, Economics or Both?
Abstract As China endeavors to set the terms of global governance, it is important for…
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Heil Hirohito: Was Imperial Japan a Fascist Totalitarian State?
“To Spencer–may you never have to hear this history rhyme.” Abstract Was Imperial Japan a fascist…
