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...

August 12, 2008

Review of Hyping Health Risks in the Wall Street Journal

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a review of Geoffrey Kabat’s new book, Hyping Health Risks. The review says of the book: In “Hyping Health Risks,” Geoffrey Kabat, an epidemiologist himself, shows how activists, regulators and scientists distort or magnify...

August 11, 2008

Victor Mair interviewed on The Art of War

Recently, Victor Mair, the translator of our new edition of Sun Zi’s classic work, The Art of War, was interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on Philadelphia NPR station WHYY. Listen to the interview, which discusses whether Sun Zi was in fact the true...

August 8, 2008

The power of the Olympics to bring democracy to China

          This week C.U.P. authors have been hitting the pavement to discuss on tv, radio, and in print the prospect of China becoming more democratic as a result of the Olympic games that open tonight in Beijing....

August 7, 2008

Interview with Geoffrey C. Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks

The following is an interview with Geoffrey C. Kabat, who is senior epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology....