In memory of the great writer and thoughtful commentator, Louis Cha 金庸, who passed away this week. 金庸：我的中国历史观

The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) starts to invite submission for its first Undergraduate Research Paper competition! The winner will receive a $250 cash award and be invited to present at NATSA’s annual conference in Seattle on May 16-18, 2019. Click here for more information. Also, don’t miss the next webinar—click here to learn […]

香港研究是以「香港」作為中心分析對象的跨學科區域研究，而香港 研究學院成立於2015年7月， 是目前香港大專院校中唯一專門推動香港研究的學院。 香港研究學院以「世界香港」為策略方向， 從事以香港為中心的知識創造和傳遞， 致力於建立跨地域的香港研究社群。 Hong Kong Studies is an interdisciplinary field of area studies that takes “Hong Kong” as a central subject of analysis, and The Academy of Hong Kong Studies (AHKS), established in July 2015, is the first academy dedicated to fostering Hong Kong Studies within local tertiary institutions. Adopting the strategic direction […]

In much of its history from the 19th century to the last decade of the 20th, comparative literature remains largely Euro-centered, and the rise of world literature today offers an opportunity to transcend Eurocentrism and introduce many of the yet unknown canonical works from non-Western and “minor” European literature to a global readership. We need a […]

In this talk, Dr. Hanser described an emerging culture of intensive mothering among middle-class, urban Chinese women that focuses on infant feeding. Based upon interviews with new mothers in urban Shanghai, she described the intense efforts and commitment by these women to provide their babies with breast milk and described the complexities of their attempts […]

The talk used a wide range of historical statistics to classify these problems according to a heuristic “solvability index” based on the biophysical and sociopolitical tractability of these problems, as well as on the histories of how they have been addressed in countries that have faced them earlier: Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea.  In […]