A Week in Hainan - An Introduction
I recently visited Hainan Island (海南岛), China's smallest province located in the South China Sea. This was my second trip to the island; the first was in 2008 when my family and I went to visit our ancestral village close to Bo'ao.
Before I go on to blog about my trip to Hainan, I figured I'll get the awkward first introductions out of the way. My name is Faith and I am one of the publications editors at the APR (do check out Passages 2009-2010!). Besides spending time with the APR, I am also a first year grad student at the University of Toronto where I am currently in the middle of completing my Masters in Political Science and Asia-Pacific Studies, with a focus on Chinese society and politics.
"Malaysia, Truly Asia"
Once again, the Asia Pacific Studies capstone seminar has secured generous funding of nearly $30 000 for an overseas field school. This year, eleven students will be travelling with Program Director and Professor of Geography Rachel Silvey to Bandung, Indonesia for two weeks to learn about urban planning and other issues.
Although I’m not enrolled in the seminar, I will be joining the field school as one of the additional students. I will be blogging about our discoveries in Bandung. Before the field school begins on April 25, I decided to stopover in Malaysia for a week to visit my paternal grandmother.
Passages 2009 - 2010 Published!
We are very proud to announce the publication of Passages 2009-2010. Building on the inaugural volume, this year's draws from a much wider range of student research - U of T Summer Abroad program in Shanghai; ASI400 class trip to South Korea; and, as always, research notes on East and Southeast Asia by Dr.David Chu Scholarship recipients. What is more, we are absolutely delighted to have received submissions from graduate students from Columbia University, Fudan University and Harvard University. This marks an important step of the Passages - and the APR - expanding its international reach. Above all, we are indeed privileged to publish an op-ed from Mr. Gordon Chang, forbes.com columnist and author of "The Coming Collapse of China".
Yao Adam Liu, Faith Pang, Sherry Lu
Takashi Fujitani Job Talk: Koreans as Japanese Soldiers: Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII
Wednesday April 7, 2010
2-4pm
Munk Centre for International Studies, Room 208N (North House)
Canada and North Korean Engagement - Talk with Hartmuth Kroll
Canada and North Korean Engagement
Friday, March 26 - 10:00 @108N Munk Center
Speaker:
Hartmuth Kroll
Abstract:
Kellee Tsai Job Talk: The Great Socialist Transformation: Capitalism without Democracy in China
Date: March 19, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 208N, North House
SPEAKERS
Kellee Tsai
Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University
CONTACT INFO
Katherine Mitchell
DESCRIPTION
Is China developing a capitalist class that will rise to demand democracy? Based on an original national survey of business owners and extensive field research, Professor Tsai finds little evidence for such popular expectations. Nonetheless, private entrepreneurs have profoundly reshaped China’s political economy through a myriad of adaptive informal institutions.
Political Attitudes and Economic Change in North Korea
Date: March 18
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 208N, North House
SPEAKERS
Marcus Noland
Deputy Director, Peterson Institute For International Economics
CONTACT INFO
Katherine Mitchell
DESCRIPTION
Marcus Noland will speak about economic change in North Korea (including the failure of recent currency reforms) and the criminalization of economic activity in North Korea (including the expanded use of the penal system). His talk is based on two large scale refugee surveys conducted by Noland, who will also touch upon nascent dissent and political attitudes in North Korea based on his findings.
Funded Research Opportunity in Indonesia - May/July 2010
ATTENTION UNDERGRADUATES
FUNDED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY IN INDONESIA – MAY-JULY 2010
INDEPENDENT EXPERIENTIAL STUDY PROJECTS (399Y)
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 22, 2010
Producing Wealth and Poverty in Indonesia’s New Rural
Economies
Professor Tania Li, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Professor Pujo Semedi, University of Toronto/ Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
This research programme examines the social relations through which rural people gain
access to, or are excluded from, the benefits of high growth agriculture in Indonesia. It
uses a team approach to examine two rural sites currently undergoing high rates of
growth. In West Kalimantan, the focus is on a bulk commodity – palm oil – supplied to
