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Stars & Stripes quotes Asian Studies faculty member Dr. Jojo Abinales about Chinese plans to invest in a shipping company and an industrial park on the grounds of the former US military bases at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base.…
Lessons from China’s Engagement with the West a talk by Dr. Sungmin Cho of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Monday, April 8, 12pm Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room) In March 2018, Xi Jinping removed the term…
Asian Studies professor Patricio N Abinales has published an analysis of last week’s arrest of journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines. Ms. Ressa is CEO and Executive Editor of The Rappler, the Philippines’ most successful online news outlet and one that has not shied…
Smartphones, sanctions and death sentences: what’s going on with Huawei? Faculty member Eric Harwit of University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Asian Studies department weighs in on Huawei Technologies with BBC News! The tech giant has had a meteoric rise over the last ten years. It…
Dr. Anna Stirr receives the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize Asian Studies faculty member Dr. Anna Stirr has been selected to receive the 2019 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. The Cohn prize honors outstanding and innovative scholarship across…
ASAN 464, a summer session course on K-Pop and J-Pop, was recently featured in Ka Leo, the student newspaper. This unique course combines business, cultural studies and pop culture studies and was a whole lot of fun for fans or…
Dr. Anna Stirr is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers NEH Senior Fellowship for research in Nepal during her sabbatical year of 2018-2019. Her research project, “Performing Aspirations: Love and…
Dr. Kristi Govella, Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Program, recently commented in The New York Times and USA Today about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political challenges at home and abroad. Domestically, Abe is facing the fallout of a…
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies Kristi Govella commented in two news articles this weekend on the impact of the Trump administration’s recent announcements about tariffs and North Korea: The New York Times, “Trump’s Unpredictability on Trade and North Korea Opens…
Dr. Stirr’s Book Dr. Anna Stirr’s book, Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal, was recently released from Oxford University Press. An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love…