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Visas, Medicine, Education: Feeling Chinese Soft Power in Mongolia

Pacific Prospective features the research of graduate students. Memo #256 By Jargalsaikhan Mendee - mendee [at] alumni.ubc.ca China has been gradually increasing its soft power in neighbouring...

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The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education

Memo #271 Featuring Julian Dierkes Recently, Ee-Seul Yoon of the Faculty of Education at UBC in coordination with the Asia Pacific Memo sat down with Dr. Julian Dierkes, Associate Professor and...

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A New Look at Chinese Liberalism among Elite Students

Memo #330 By Fen Lin – fenlin [at] cityu.edu.hk Peking University, the traditional locus of Chinese liberalism, seems to be yielding this role to China’s economics and financial universities. A 2012...

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South Korea Moves Ahead with Plans to Publish State-Authored Textbooks

Memo #348 By: Rufina K. Park – rufina.park [at] asiapacific.ca South Korea Nationalizes History Textbooks In October 2015, the South Korean government announced its decision to nationalize middle and...

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Reflection Requires Reading: A New Japanese Middle School History Textbook

Memo #379 By:Hyung Gu Lynn – hlynn [at] mail.ubc.ca Despite the regular protests by South Korean and Chinese governments there remains confusion about Japanese history textbooks in terms of their...

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NYU Shanghai and the Future of International Higher Education in China

Memo #261 By Joel Heng Hartse – joelhartse [at] gmail.com New York University Shanghai recently completed its first semester of operations. Though NYU Shanghai was recently touted by National Public...

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Lingua Franca?: Francophone scholarship on the Asia-Pacific

Memo #348 By: Gisèle Yasmeen – gisele.yasmeen [at] ubc.ca While English is often thought of as the international academic lingua franca, there is significant scholarship on Asia in other languages,...

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Investigating Evidence: Japan’s War Responsibility in Southeast Asia (A Video...

Memo #349 Featuring Nobuyoshi Takashima A few weeks ago the Asia Pacific Memo sat down with Dr. Nobuyoshi Takashima, Professor Emertius at the University of the Ryukyus. He is a noted scholar in the...

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Why should we care about transnational social capital in development...

Memo #386 By: Rennie J. Moon – rennie.moon [at] yonsei.ac.kr and Gi-Wook Shin – gwshin [at] stanford.edu Higher education aid as transnational social capital Current approaches to higher education aid...

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Multicultural Policy in South Korea and its Implications for Social Inclusion...

Memo #391 By: Léo-Thomas Brylowski – ltbrylowski [at] gmail.com A record number of children born from mixed marriages are starting to make their way through South Korea’s public schooling system since...

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