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With Asia's ever growing influence on international politics, economy and culture, Asian studies is gaining more significance in the global academic sphere.
- Memorial events held to reflect on war tragedies
The year 2014 is the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. A century after the war causing casualties and destruction on an unprecedented scale, scholars, …
- California racial preference bill dropped
Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, a controversial California bill aiming to bring back affirmative action into public higher education, has been indefinitely placed on…
- China, India collaborate on groundbreaking low carbon report
At a prelaunch event hosted by UNDP China on March 17, several leading academics and representatives from participating organizations discussed the study, one of the fi…
- UK Leeds University starts China Forum
UK Leeds University starts China Forum
In celebrating the 50th anniversary of its Chinese Studies, now East Asian Studies, the University of Leeds inaugurated a China …
- Feed 9.6 billion by 2050?
Interim findings of the World Resources Report 2013-2014: Creating a Sustainable Food Future project that the world will need to produce 69% more calories than it does …
- Stanford to launch poverty initiative
The Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies at Stanford University will launch the university-wide "Global Development and Poverty Initiative".
- US-China Exchange Foundation and CAP: make major power relations mor…
According to the report, U.S.-China Relations: Toward a New Model of Major Power Relations, China and the U.S. need to discuss bilateral relations in a broad global con…
- Critics question the relevance of poetry
What is the true state of contemporary poetry? Does poetry have a future? These are questions thought-provoking, but they are not new.