August 29, 2008

Interview with Steven Cahn, Author of From Student to Scholar

The following is an interview with Steven Cahn, author of the just-published From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor: Q: What do you believe is the most important ingredient for success in graduate school? Steven Cahn:...

August 28, 2008

The Art of War Translated by Victor Mair Ranked #1

Recently the Web site Sonshi, a site dedicated to Sun Zi’s The Art of War scholarship and interpretation, ranked Victor Mair’s translation of The Art of War as their most highly recommended translation of all the versions available. Founded in...

August 27, 2008

The Panorama: Past, Present, and Future / A Post by Alison Griffiths

The following post is by Alison Griffiths, author of the just-published Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. You can also read an interview with Griffiths. In his “State of the Art” column in the business section...

August 26, 2008

Save on Titles in the Social Sciences and Environmental Studies

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August 25, 2008

Zhang Yimou … Filmmaker

With the Olympics now finished, we can look forward to Victor Cha’s Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia, which provides historical and political perspectives on the just-completed Games.For those more interested in the man behind the...

August 22, 2008

Measles Cases Grow in Numbers / Autism's False Prophets

As has been widely reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, cases of measles are on the rise in the United States and throughout the world. The Times writes that “more people had measles infections in the first seven...

August 21, 2008

Coming Soon from China: Dystopic Futures, the Next Steve Jobs, and a World Full of Drumming Androids

On MangoBot, a great blog dedicated to Asian futurism, Andrew Nathan,editor of How East Asians View Democracy, joined other experts to speculate on the future of China. In particular, Nathan was asked to offer a prediction regarding China’s political future...

August 20, 2008

Saddleback a Comfy Fit for McCain – an op-ed by Alan Schroeder

In an op-ed piece for the Boston Globe yesterday, Presidential Debates author Alan Schroeder explains how the appearance of both candidates over the weekend at Rick Warren’s Saddleback church sheds light on what to expect for the upcoming presidential debates...

August 19, 2008

Award News – Reworking Race

Earlier this month at the American Sociological Association annual conference the Labor and Labor Movements Section named Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement, by Moon-kie Jung the Best Book on Race, Labor, and Empire. Reworking Race looks...

August 15, 2008

The Georgian Crisis and Beijing´s Olympics

The following post is by Victor Cha, the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and associate professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming Beyond the...

August 14, 2008

The Insider Forum at NewsHour – Experts Answer Questions about China's Olympic Moment

Yesterday Victor Cha, author of the forthcoming Beyond the Final Score, was invited to participate in the Insider’s Forum hosted by the website for NewsHour. The discussion between Victor Cha and Orville Schell of the Asia Society was hosted by...

August 13, 2008

Day 6 of the Beijing Olympics – So Far, So Good….

The following post is by Victor Cha, the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and associate professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming Beyond the...