Asia News Archive

Her Time to Shine

Hoping to make third Olympic appearance, Bruin Nicolette Teo prepares for Southeast Asian Games.
Posted: 12/11/2007

National Identity in Postmodern Japanese Dance

U of Tokyo's Tadashi Uchino discusses the birth of Butoh dance and the performance of "children's" bodies in postmodern Japanese dance.
Posted: 12/11/2007

Panels Assess Prospects on Korea Peace Day

One scholar says the United States needs to adopt an approach that allows North and South Korea to normalize relations quickly.
Posted: 12/10/2007

'Japan' Arrived Later than Some Think

Durham University's Gina Barnes challenges prevailing views on mounded-tomb culture and the development of the Japanese state in the earliest historical period.
Posted: 12/3/2007

Former Thai Foreign Minister Back at UCLA, with Stories to Tell

Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thailand's UCLA-educated former 39th foreign minister, shares his experiences with students in a lecture delivered as part of International Education Week. Suphamongkhon is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center and a UC Regents' Professor.
Posted: 11/20/2007

Overrated Rebels

Eva Goldschmidt of the U of Heidelberg reviews UCLA Associate Professor George Edson Dutton's recent book on "The Tay Son Uprising: Society and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam." The review was written for the H-War military history network.
Posted: 11/20/2007

China's Long-Term Approach to Africa

A South African scholar shares her perspective on China's investments in the continent.
Posted: 11/12/2007

Panel Speaks on Oil Politics

The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
Posted: 11/7/2007

Lecture Focuses on Buddhism, Tibet

The Center for Buddhist Studies held its third and final event in an initiative to establish a permanent endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies on Monday.
Posted: 11/6/2007

At UCLA, Mongolia's First Lady Seeks Ties with 'Third Neighbor'

Tsolmon Onon Enkhbayar addresses UCLA scholars and members of L.A.'s Mongolian community.
Posted: 10/30/2007

Myanmar, the Latest Petro Bully

Sky-high oil prices allow the junta, and other bad actors, to thrive and buy political protection, writes Michael L. Ross in The Los Angeles Times. (Photo courtesy of Thompson/Essential Science Information)
Posted: 10/26/2007

Muslim Feminist Seeks to Educate Journalists

Zainah Anwar, executive director of Malaysian-based Sisters in Islam, pushes a message of diversity and progressivism within the framework of Islam.
Posted: 10/19/2007

Speak Up

In the film 'Dust of Life,' set in Westminster, the words people use and the languages they speak establish their rank and authority over others.
Posted: 10/19/2007

Rethinking Kyoto Art

Art historian Shigemi Inaga discusses the transformation of Japanese art in the first half of the 20th century.
Posted: 10/18/2007

Architecture in Context

World-renowned architect Hitoshi Abe, the new chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, discusses his fascination with Los Angeles' environs and Japanese-influenced structures.
Posted: 10/4/2007

Oak to Spearhead English-Language Studies of Korean Christianity

This summer Sung-Deuk Oak, a UCLA faculty member in Asian Languages and Cultures, was chosen to be the first scholar funded under the Dong Soon Im and Mi Ja Im endowment. He'll be charged with telling a remarkable story in the history of religion.
Posted: 10/2/2007

Richard Baum: The Political Impact of China's Information Revolution

Scholar traces the explosion of new media-facilitated forums and examines how the government seeks, with limited success, to limit open discussion.
Posted: 10/1/2007

New Terasaki Center Director Studies Japan's Changing Political Landscape

Political scientist Michael Thies sets current Japanese politics in context and discusses his plans as director of the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies at UCLA
Posted: 9/17/2007

Anderson Students Go Global

The Anderson School, in partnership with the National University of Singapore, offers an executive MBA program which gives students an opportunity to further their business studies in a global context. Students travel to four cities on two continents for classes.
Posted: 8/20/2007

Q&A: Cheris Chan

A UCLA Global Fellow explains how Chinese people's inhibitions about discussing premature death have made it hard, but not impossible, for a life insurance market to develop in the country.
Posted: 8/3/2007

The Difficult Questions

62 years after bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documentarian Stephen Okazaki tells the stories of survivors in modern cities that are struggling to remember their horrific pasts.
Posted: 7/31/2007

Latin American Scholars Meet over Kimchi

A conference this month in Koreatown was the first step in bridging studies of Korea carried out in North and South America. Under a five-year grant, UCLA Korean studies researchers and their Latin American colleagues are planning collaboration and exchanges.
Posted: 7/30/2007

Obituary: Medha Yodh, 79, Professor and Expert on Classical Indian Dance

Her documentary film "Garba-Ras: A Glimpse Into Gujarati Culture"--a study of the Garba and Ras communal dances of the western Indian state of Gujarat, as practiced by the immigrant Gujarati community of Los Angeles--was highly regarded in academic circles.
Posted: 7/30/2007

Majority World Finds Voice in Photos

Photographer from Bangladesh delivers lectures at UCLA about human rights, images, and new takes on citizen journalism.
Posted: 7/23/2007

307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07

View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007

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