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  • Asia Pacific Memo

    Featuring accessible scholarly knowledge about contemporary Asia

Notice May 5, 2017 Endnotes and Gracenotes

Latest memos

East Asia

  • We Are Soldiers, Bolting Across the Heavens: Women’s Contradictory Empowerment and Sisterhood in Shirai Yumiko’s “Wombs”
    April 28, 2017
  • Abe Shinzō and Japan’s Proactive Contribution to Realism
    April 25, 2017
  • Unfit for Broadcast: The Censorship of K-pop Girl Groups
    April 18, 2017

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Southeast Asia

  • Improving Political Engagement via Facebook in Thailand
    April 12, 2017
  • The Future of Cambodian Heritage under China
    March 29, 2017
  • Heritage-Making in Singapore
    March 22, 2017

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South Asia

  • Is tourism the solution to insurgency in the North East of India?
    January 29, 2016
  • Urban Narrative in Delhi, India: Art Explorations and Urban Ethnography
    October 24, 2015
  • After a Massive Earthquake, Rebuilding it Right in Nepal
    May 6, 2015

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Central and Inner Asia

  • Permanent Neutrality Debate in Mongolia
    December 7, 2015
  • Russia’s New Pivot to Asia: The Emergence of a New Geopolitics
    October 8, 2015
  • How the EITI May Become Mongolian, Part 2 of 2
    May 14, 2015

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Oceania

  • The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation
    March 1, 2017
  • A Tough Choice: the Criminalization of Indonesian Fishermen
    November 30, 2016
  • Can Canada Follow New Zealand’s Model for Free Trade with China?
    October 19, 2016

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Global Asia

  • Why should we care about transnational social capital in development cooperation?
    November 23, 2016
  • For Love of Languages, Travel, and Fieldwork: A tribute to Benedict Anderson
    December 16, 2015
  • Lingua Franca?: Francophone scholarship on the Asia-Pacific
    November 12, 2015

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Themes

Asia Pacific Memo covers a wide-range of issues, in a variety of Asia Pacific countries. But we’ve touched on similar topics more than once and sometimes weeks apart. We’ve categorized our Memos into Themes, so that our readers will be able to easily access all that we’ve offered on certain events and topics.

Since September 2011, we’ve recruited guest editors and authors to help organize newly developed Memos.

General Themes

  • Culture
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  • Politics
  • Pacific Affairs
  • Video Interviews

Event-focused Themes

  • 100 Years after the Xinhai Revolution
  • Asia at the 2011 Cannes G20
  • 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
  • Celebrating 150 Years of Tagore
  • Thailand 2011 Election and 2010 Conflict

Topic-focused Themes

  • Digital mobilization and censorship in the Asia Pacific
  • Labour Migration to Northeast Asia
  • Labour Migration from Southeast Asia
  • Political Development of Mongolia
  • Water, Scarcity, and Tibetan Plateau Frontiers
  • Ezra Vogel’s Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
  • Origins of Social Protests in China
  • Chinese Literature

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