Asia News Archive

Afghan leader forges new state, ties to UCLA

A full lecture hall of UCLA students heard about the progress of Afghanistan's government directly from Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.
Posted: 3/20/2006

Nuclear Deal Fueled by India's Energy Needs, Says Diplomat

Consul General B.S. Prakash says Indo-U.S. relations are warming.
Posted: 3/16/2006

Tainted Legacy

U. of Pittsburgh's Akiko Hashimoto examines the debate surrounding Japan's guilt over World War II.
Posted: 3/16/2006

Q&A: Lucy Burns

UCLA Filipino American theater expert says teaching is like performance, and scholarship and activism go hand in hand.
Posted: 3/10/2006

Senda Koreya: Theater for Change

UCLA's Thomas Rimer examines the life and art of a Japanese actor.
Posted: 3/1/2006

China's Clout in Africa

Absence of political strings makes Chinese investment attractive for African governments, says Maryland foreign policy specialist Ernest J. Wilson III.
Posted: 2/21/2006

Song & Silence: Ethnic Revival on China's Southwest Borders

Sara L.M. Davis discusses her new book.
Posted: 2/21/2006

One for all, and all for one: The Japan Center's Graduate Student Symposium

The Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies faces its share of challenges. Not least of all the question of how to do so much in such little time.
Posted: 2/20/2006

Anime's 'Transnational Geekdom'

Mizuko Ito explores anime culture in Japan and its popularity abroad.
Posted: 2/17/2006

Call for Papers for OYCF-UC Irvine Joint Conference on Social Classes in Transitional China

Abstracts are due by March 15; conference to be held May 26-28, 2006
Posted: 2/15/2006

Professors Caught in the Machine

South Korean universities are losing their ideals, says Kang Nae-hui.
Posted: 2/14/2006

Prof's perspectives on Asia reach millions

Tom Plate's "Pacific Perspectives" is widely syndicated in the U.S. and in Asia
Posted: 2/13/2006

Chaos and Hope for Writers of History

Carol Gluck urges historians to seek new directions, quick.
Posted: 2/10/2006

Korean Press Lauds UCLA Donors

A $1 million gift from humble, hard-working Fullerton couple makes news in their country of birth. Dong Soon Im and Mi Ja Im have endowed a chair in Korean Christianity at UCLA.
Posted: 2/1/2006

Missing Merchants

A Paris researcher says historians of colonial India have been neglecting an important part of history.
Posted: 1/25/2006

Southeast Asian Dancers Illuminate New Course

A theory course in the Department of World Arts and Culture brings practicing dancers from Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia into the classroom.
Posted: 1/17/2006

Changing Times for Japanese Sex Workers

In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.
Posted: 1/13/2006

New Courses: Music and Politics, U.S. China Policy, and Chinese Dance

Three new courses offered in the winter quarter
Posted: 1/11/2006

UCLA Asian Studies Faculty in the News -- December 2005

Comment on the Vietnamese American community, China's one child policy and adoption trends, and the place of Mao in today's China
Posted: 12/20/2005

UCLA Club Reaches Out to Families with Children from China

The UCLA-based Chinese Cultural Dance Club works with area youth, including children adopted from China.
Posted: 12/15/2005

Chinese Labor Activist Han Dongfang on Why China Needs Unions

Han's UCLA Regents Lecture is now available via streaming video.
Posted: 12/14/2005

Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005