Kishor K. Podh is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has been a member of the Association for Asian Studies since 2019. What is your discipline and country (or countries) of interest? I received academic training in Sociology. My area of interest […]
After a devastating earthquake hit China’s southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008, thousands of volunteers left their homes in other parts of the country and traveled to Sichuan to help victims of the quake. This outpouring of assistance surprised many Chinese, who for years had lamented about a perceived moral vacuum and lack of […]
Hyun Ok Park is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and author of The Capitalist Unconscious: From Korean Unification to Transnational Korea, published by Columbia University Press and recipient of the 2017 AAS James Palais Award Honorable Mention. To begin with, please tell us what your book is about. This book […]
