Culture and Society Chinese food culture: Influences from within and without May 5, 2015 1 Written by Ken Hom. In Food in Chinese Culture (Yale, 1978), Michael Freeman writes that any cuisine worthy of the name comes not from a single tradition,…
International Relations Old Chapters, New Chapters: The Memory Wars in East Asia March 16, 2015 0 Written by Adam Cathcart. From the very beginning of the so-called ‘post war,’ the territorial and temporal parameters of the memory wars between China and…
Asia New visiting fellow joins IAPS February 16, 2015 0 IAPS is delighted to welcome Dr Andrew Whitehead as a visiting fellow. Andrew Whitehead is an expert on contemporary South Asia, and particularly on Kashmir.…
Nationalism and national identity Chinese and Japanese Nationalism: The Clash and Convergence of Ideologies February 12, 2015 0 Written by Brian J. McVeigh. International relations can be understood by examining detailed specifics (individual leaders, national policies articulated in position papers and laws, etc.).…
Nationalism and national identity China in Vietnamese Nationalism February 11, 2015 1 Written by Claire Sutherland. China looms large in Vietnamese nationalism to this day, most obviously in ongoing disputes over control of the South China Sea…
Nationalism and national identity Challenges of Taming Nationalism in Northeast Asia February 10, 2015 0 Written by Gi-Wook Shin. In a speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in May 2013, South Korean President Park Geun-hye contended, “Asia…
Nationalism and national identity Nationalism and Chinese public opinion February 3, 2015 4 Written by Andrew Chubb. Few terms in public political discourse are as contested, contradictory and downright slippery as nationalism. Deployed to describe an enormous variety…
China-Japan Xi Jinping’s Nanking Massacre Commemoration and China’s Anti-Japanese Calendar December 15, 2014 0 Written by Adam Cathcart. 2014 has been a banner year for the Chinese Communist Party's politics of historical commemoration of the War of Resistance against…
Taiwan local elections Taiwan: A Great Choosing Day is Coming November 25, 2014 0 Written by John Keane. For democrats, made in Taiwan is a seductive brand with definite global appeal. ‘Through the promotion of its democratic ideals’, says…
Asia IAPS PhD Studentship in History December 16, 2013 0 IAPS is co-funding a PhD studentship in conjunction with the Department of History, within the School of Humanities at the University of Nottingham. We invite…
