Taiwan Women as Workers, Women as Agents: Studying Labor and Gender in Industrial and Postindustrial Taiwan February 12, 2019 0 Written by Anru Lee One question central to my anthropological enquiry has been the role of social being – the person, subject, actor – in society and…
China The eternal debate: Do all Chinese outbound tourists want to eat Chinese food? Answer: No. Do all Chinese outbound tourists prefer to eat à la chinoise? Yes February 12, 2019 0 Written by Wolfgang Georg Arlt. A little more than two hundred years ago, in January 1817, one of the greatest banquets in the history of…
China Development trends in Chinese outbound tourism February 11, 2019 0 Written by Songshan (Sam) Huang and Jun Wen. China’s Open Door policy has led to the country becoming a major outbound market for international tourism.…
Taiwan LGBT issues in 2019 February 11, 2019 0 Written by Timothy S. Rich, Andi Dahmer and Isabel Eliassen. If 2017 saw the rise of marriage equality in Taiwan, then the backlash in 2018…
China Declining Taiwanese identity? February 8, 2019 3 Written by T.Y. Wang. The results of Taiwan’s 2018 local elections shocked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and came as a surprise to some.…
Human Rights Redefining the issues in Kashmir February 5, 2019 0 Khalid Jarral Following the example of his predecessors, Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed his inability to engage in mediation or preventive action on the Kashmir…
Africa China in Africa and the American response February 5, 2019 0 Written by Tom Harper. China’s engagement with Africa appears to be causing headaches in Washington. After two decades of neglect, American interest in the African…
China Peppa Pig celebrates Chinese New Year and provides the potential for a copyright campaign February 1, 2019 1 Written by Hiu Man Chan. The UK children’s animation Peppa Pig has caused a storm in the media both at home and in China recently…
Belt and Road Initiative The Invention of the Silk Road – how to legitimise the BRI with a historical myth February 1, 2019 1 Christian Mueller In September 2013, the announcement of a new “Silk Road” programme for infrastructure development by the President of the People’s Republic of China,…
Central Asia The presence of camps causes tension along the ‘Pivot of Asia’ February 1, 2019 0 David O’Brien The Kazakh Foreign Ministry recently announced that it had been informed by its counterpart in Beijing that China was allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakh…
