The Crown, the Capitalists, and the ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ in Thailand

Sébastien Billioud, Professor of Chinese studies at Université de Paris, traces the rapid global expansion of Yiguandao ("the Way of Pervading Unity"), one of the largest "new religious movements" in "cultural China."

This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China, and later throughout East Asia, in the lead up to and throughout World War II.

The Long Aftermath of the 2003 SARS Epidemic: How the Pandemic that Wasn’t Presaged the Pandemic that Was

Despite rising inequality, daily life in both America and China is afflicted more by culture conflicts than class struggle. Richard Madsen (Sociology, UC San Diego) argues here, however, that in both societies, these cultural conflicts are...

Reading Seoul in Pyongyang: Rethinking Cross-border Media Flows in 1950s-1960s Korea

Hong Kong in 2020: Pandemic, Protest and Great Power Rivalry

A conversation with Prof. Michael Berry (UCLA) -- Translation and the Virus: COVID-19, Cyber Politics, and Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary