Asia Tell the World I am Coming Home: Asian Culture and the Third Culture Kid October 16, 2018 0 Written by Niyati Pingali By definition, a third culture kid (TCK) is one who has grown up in a culture different to that of their…
Culture and Society Taiwan’s cross-border marriages: Discrimination via the discourse of love November 6, 2017 0 Written by Hong-zen Wang and Mei-hua Chen. In the old days, the purpose of marriage in traditional Han Chinese society was to establish a relationship between two…
Asia Belonging through documents: Kashmiri Muslims of Lhasa July 6, 2017 0 Written by Anisa Bhutia. In the wake of the political resurgence in the Kashmir Valley, this article discusses a community settled in Srinagar, whose identity…
China The experiences of Chinese Students and Returnees November 25, 2016 0 Written by Qing Gu. Over the last two decades, Chinese student mobility has undergone profound changes. Exponential growth has taken place, driven ‘in part by…
Taiwan The Consolidation of Taiwanese Identity and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations January 8, 2016 0 Written by Yitan Li. As the new year begins, the 2016 presidential election in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan has entered the final…
Social movements Why do individual Chinese participate in environmental governance? April 1, 2015 1 Written by Lei Xie. China, like many parts of the world, has seen intensifying environmental degradation put traditional state-led governance under increasing strain, even as…
Diaspora The Vagaries of Building Subnational Diaspora: Hmong Abroad Encountering Miao in China March 6, 2015 0 Written by Louisa Schein. It was a sunny day in 1983 on the south side of the New England town of Providence, Rhode Island, where…
China-UN Norm Consumer, Norm Entrepreneur: China in the UN Peacekeeping Regime December 9, 2014 0 Written by Courtney J. Fung. There are almost 130,000 UN peacekeepers in the field today, with over two thirds in active conflict zones. The United…
Taiwan local elections Voters assert themselves as Taiwanese in a warning to KMT December 1, 2014 0 Written by Bruce Jacobs. Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won an unprecedented landslide victory in the country’s local elections. The ruling Kuomintang (KMT)…
Taiwan Rethinking the cross Strait economic relationship November 20, 2014 0 Written by Chun-Yi Lee. Taiwanese investments in China started in 1987. Since that time, academic research on Taiwanese investment across the Strait has been dominated…
