Taipei - July 15, 1961: 15-year-old Mao Wu stabs his girlfriend to death for her unfaithfulness. Three decades later, Taiwanese director Edward Yang created A Brighter Summer Day , restaging the crime of passion amid the socio-political events...
Four graduates of Duke’s East Asian Studies Master’s degree program, Helen Wu, Vivian Wang, Huijuan Li, and Veronica Zhao, participated in a dynamic alumni panel at the John Hope Franklin Center on November 19, 2016. Reconnecting for the first...
On October 28th and 29th, Duke University held a two-day conference titled Cultural Revolution in Asia and Beyond at the Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room. The conference, co-sponsored by Duke’s Global Asia Initiative and...
On October 26, 2016, Sorbonne-trained art historian Catherine Raymond explored a fascinating moment in Burmese art history for a diverse audience of faculty and students. As fifty years of heavy-handed censorship and enforced isolation came to a...
Prof. Prasenjit Duara was interviewed by New York Times reporter Ian Johnson for a story appearing October 17 on the role of religion in environmental protection in China. Over the course of the interview, Prof. Duara discussed the role of...
On September 7, Kaiser Kuo took a large audience for a ride through the evolution of China's information superhighway. For students of contemporary China, there's no better window onto the fast-changing landscape than China's Internet. Both as a...
Bora Clara Park joins us as a postdoctoral research associate with interests in international political economy and economic policies in the Asia Pacific region.
