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AAS Fall 2020 Election Nominees

08/04/2020 by Asia Now AAS Member Matters, Announcement

Vice President Nominees Represented Area: South Asia Philip Lutgendorf Current position: Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, Emeritus Institution/Affiliation: University of IowaDiscipline: cultural history, literature, cinema, religious studiesCountry or area(s) of interest: South AsiaSpecialization: Cultural history of North India; popular and devotional Hindi literature; performance, cinema and mass media; tea promotion and consumption Select PublicationsThe Epic […]

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AAS Statement Regarding Remote Teaching, Online Scholarship, Safety, and Academic Freedom

07/23/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Digital Technology, Higher Education, Teaching

Download as PDF AAS Board of DirectorsJuly 23, 2020 Executive Summary Videoconferencing tools such as Zoom present universities with stark technological, pedagogical, and moral considerations, especially with regard to the security of student and faculty data. These issues arise from the censorship and data-monitoring and informing requirements imposed by various foreign jurisdictions, in particular China, […]

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On the Inevitable Politics of Our Lives and Institutions

07/21/2020 by Christine Yano President's Column

It has been fifty years since the Journal of Asian Studies published William Theodore de Bary’s by now iconic presidential address, “The Association for Asian Studies: Nonpolitical but not Unconcerned” (Aug. 1970, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 751-759). De Bary spoke in the context of very different, but not unrelated, times, marked by debates over […]

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Statement on the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law

07/17/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, China, Higher Education, Hong Kong

This is a lightly revised version of the July 10, 2020 statement on Hong Kong issued by the AAS Board of Directors, which more than 20 other scholarly societies have now joined as signatories. We, the undersigned scholarly societies, express our deep concern over the PRC government’s imposition of sweeping new security legislation that severely […]

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Member Spotlight: Ekaterina Serbina

07/17/2020 by Asia Now Member Spotlight, China, East Asia

Ekaterina Serbina is a PhD student at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation, Moscow). She joined the AAS in February 2020. What is your discipline and country (or countries) of interest? My research field concerns Chinese “policy” banks—such as the Agricultural Development Bank of China, Export-Import Bank […]

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AAS Statement on Fulbright Exchange Program

07/16/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, China, Higher Education, Hong Kong

In response to Section 3 (i) of “The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization,” issued by Donald Trump on July 14, 2020. AAS Board of DirectorsJuly 16, 2020 The executive order to end the Fulbright Exchange Program for China and Hong Kong is extremely short-sighted and will result in long-lasting implications for U.S. foreign […]

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AAS Statement on the 2020 Hong Kong National Security Law

07/10/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Higher Education, Hong Kong

AAS Board of DirectorsJuly 10, 2020 The Association for Asian Studies expresses its deep concern over the PRC government’s imposition of sweeping new security legislation that severely curtails the freedoms guaranteed in Hong Kong’s Basic Law, the Sino-British Joint Declaration, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The new legislation potentially puts at […]

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AAS Statement on Modifications to Student and Exchange Visitor Program Rules

07/10/2020 by Asia Now AAS Statements, Higher Education

AAS Board of DirectorsJuly 10, 2020 The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) opposes the unnecessary decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to modify the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) rules. This decision affects over 1 million international students on F-1 and M-1 visas. Not only does the new guidance from ICE unjustifiably penalize […]

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Excerpt: “The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China”

07/07/2020 by Asia Now Books, China, East Asia, History

Below, we are pleased to present an excerpt adapted from The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, written by Macabe Keliher and published by University of California Press. Keliher is assistant professor of history at Southern Methodist University; he has also written about law in Yuan China and how relatives threatened and […]

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#AsiaNow Speaks with Yoon Sun Yang

06/25/2020 by Asia Now Books, 2020 Book Prizes, East Asia, History, Korea, Literature

Yoon Sun Yang is Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea, published by Harvard University Asia Center and winner of the 2020 AAS James B. Palais Prize. To begin with, please tell us what your […]

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Vietnam Studies Group 2021 Graduate Paper Prize Competition

06/22/2020 by Asia Now AAS Member Matters, Announcement, Vietnam Studies Group

Deadline: Friday, August 28, 2020 The Vietnam Studies Group (VSG) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its annual graduate student paper prize competition. The competition encourages the direct involvement of graduate students in the growth of Vietnamese studies and supports their professional development. The competition is open to full and part time […]

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Luce Foundation Awards AAS $150,000 in Support of Urgent Projects

06/22/2020 by Asia Now AAS Member Matters, Announcement

The Association for Asian Studies is pleased to announce that we have received a $150,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support new programs and publications responding to the needs of Asian Studies scholars in 2020. The challenges presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have inspired new paradigms for research, outreach, and education on […]

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