This issue has gained particular relevance in recent years given the growth in African economies and increasing investment in its markets, governments, and societies especially from emerging market powers like China…
This talk presents some results of a study which assesses recent decades of legal reform in China. Constructing and analyzing a dataset of all laws and administrative regulations promulgated between 1978 and 2014, it…
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| Foreign Policy Research Institute (Open to faculty, post-docs and graduate students. RSVP required to: events@fpri.org) , 1528 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, United States
For many years, China has been successful at utilizing a variety of means (such as formal agreements, investments, preferential trade) to insert itself into the economies of Hong Kong and Taiwan. But 2014 has seen…
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| Class of 55 Seminar, Room 241 in Van Pelt Library
Without the tools that structure today’s public memory such as a pervasive written record and a continuous year count, how did the stars of early imperial China ever hope to secure historical remembrance? This…
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Wayne Patterson, professor of history, has been a member of the faculty since 1977, specializing in the history of East Asia. His undergraduate degree in History is from Swarthmore College. He holds two masters…
After her airplane explodes, a princess reappears as a prophet of doom while a meteorite transforms into a giant monster. Mothra convinces Godzilla and Rodan to repel the invader.
Two tiny natives of a mysterious island survive nuclear fallout only to be exploited by a capitalist taskmaster. A giant moth destroys Tokyo to save her tiny friends.
