Political scientist Joseph Wright urged policymakers to consider the political impact of migrant remittances, which support democratization in authoritarian states.
CSEAS Director, Stephen Acabado, reflects on the first 25 years of the center's history as it prepares for a yearlong celebration.
This project on Cantonese language and cultures was co-initiated by Dr. King-Kok Cheung (Professor Emeritus of the Department of English at UCLA) and Dr. Min Zhou (tenured Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at UCLA and Director of the Asia Pacific Center). The goal is to utilize teaching, cultural promotion and community cooperation to advance the inheritance and development of Cantonese.
The fall 2024 conference explored the concept of an "Arabicate" world as a predicate to the "Persianate" world in Islamic civilization elucidated by historian Marshall Hodgson.