Shenzhen

Pun Ngai conducted her ethnographic fieldwork (1995-1996) for Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace in the S ... (more)

Manila

On April 25, 1898 the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on Febru ... (more)

Bandung

The first large-scale Asian-African Conference, a meeting of formerly colonized, newly independent Asian and African nations, to ... (more)

Uraga Harbor

U.S. Naval Commodore Matthew Perry's "Black Ships" sailed into in Uraga Harbor in July 1853 with a show of military might that ev ... (more)

Tokyo

In the early 1870s "globe-trotter" Charles Longfellow, son of the famous American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, traveled to Ja ... (more)

Beijing

Tianjin

Felice Beato, Panorama of the Abandoned Fort, August 1860. (Photograph taken from The Face of China: As Seen by Photographers & T ... (more)

Taipei

In her book Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan, Pei-Chia Lan writes about how Filipina and ... (more)

Japan

Kawaii(可愛い)- Literally translated as ‘cute’ in Japanese, kawaii refers to a phenomenon centered around the celebration ... (more)

Lhasa

In 2008, the protest in Lhasa erupted into violence. The violent protest attracted media attention worldwide. CNN and other wes ... (more)

Shanghai

Xintiandi Development

Class

Pun Ngai refers to class not only as fluid historical relationships but also as specific relationships that contain many human te ... (more)

Ise

Hong Kong

The idea of sisterhood can be understood as commonalities between women around the world, but here sisterhood is examined only in ... (more)

Nippon

While the term "haafu" is one to express someone racially or ethnically, sometimes the value that one may add to a "haafu" person ... (more)

Seoul

Netizen has many interpretations that are different in global Asia, such as the comparison between two social networks of Cyworl ... (more)

DPRK-PRC Border

In the mid-1990s, a combination of economic collapse, severe flooding, drought, and food shortages resulted in famine-like condit ... (more)

chengdu

The only extant cemetery of red guards in Mainland China

Containers

Containers are being shipped all around the world and it can be said that they are truly globe trotters of our economical world. ... (more)

Containers

Containers are being shipped all around the world and it can be said that they are truly globe trotters of our economical world. ... (more)

Mongolian Steppeland

In a survey conducted in 1997 by Chinese scientists and officials that monitor the situation closely, 27.3% of the landmass was c ... (more)

Asian

Asian /ayshn, -&ulzh;n/ • noun a person from Asia or a person of Asian descent. • adjective relating to Asia. http:// ... (more)

Propaganda

The Propaganda Poster Art Centre in Shanghai is located in the basement of an apartment high rise in the French Concession neighb ... (more)

Korean Demilitarized Zone

A Demilitarized Zone (commonly referred to in shorthand as a DMZ) is an established boundary or area where military activity is p ... (more)

Korean-American

In examining the term first generation I am looking specifically at first generation in terms of Korean - Americans. I have yet t ... (more)