South Korea’s Moon Jae-in victorious on May 9, 2017. AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon Markus Bell, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Democrat Moon Jae-in is the new president of South Korea. Moon, a former special forces soldier turned human rights lawyer, won a snap…
Markus Bell, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences South Korea is under serious pressure on two fronts. Internationally, Seoul and its allies are scrambling to head off the threat from North Korea, which some fear is ramping up for another nuclear test –…
By Dr Markus Bell, Lecturer in Korean and Japanese Studies, SEAS Source: Mrs. B., A North Korean Woman (France/South Korea, 2016) North Korean forced migration has become a hot topic in the Western media. Largely driven by the publication of memoirs by several high-profile North Korean ‘defectors’, the plight of the North Korean citizenry and the…
By Luca Dorottya Pihaj, PhD student in the School of East Asian Studies Professor Christopher Hughes, Alumnus of SEAS, gave a public seminar on the newly emerged Abe Doctrine and its implications on Japanese foreign and security policy. Listen to Prof Hughes Seminar Christopher W. Hughes is a Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies, and…
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By Markus Bell, University of Sheffield and Marco Milani, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, ousted for cronyism and corruption, the massed protesters who spent months demanding her resignation breathed a collective sigh of relief. Their country…
The recent cancellation of planned “track 1.5” talks is disappointing By Maria Rosaria Coduti, North Korea Analyst at NK News and Academic Tutor at the University of Bologna. She is due to start studying for her PhD in The School of East Asian Studies in late 2017 The perception, by some North Korea analysts, that…
By Dr Peter Matanle, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Director of Research and Innovation, School of East Asian Studies. Prime Minister Abe of Japan returned to Tokyo on Sunday 12 February having sealed his country’s position as a principal ally of the United States of America, in the process potentially even ousting the United…
Student voices from the lecture hall By Yuma Osaki and Emma Micklewright, Masters students Security in East Asia matters for the states and people in the region, and it matters for the rest of the world. Structural power shifts now coalesce with military modernisation and a multiplicity of transnational threats – ranging from the spread…
By Dr Markus Bell, Lecturer in Korean and Japanese Studies, SEAS, in collaboration with Marco Milani, University of Southern California The common thinking is that North Korea’s nuclear programme poses a threat to global peace and diverts economic resources from an impoverished population. North Korean leaders are depicted in the Western media as a cabal of…
By Dmitry Filippov, PhD Student, School of East Asian Studies This article was originally posted on East Asia Forum Russo–Japanese ties gained traction throughout 2016 after over two years of marked stagnation brought on by the Ukraine crisis. In mid-December, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Japan, indicating that a Russo–Japanese rapprochement is clearly taking shape.…
“At the Edge of the Modern Chinese Nation and Ex-Colonial Milieu: Transnationalism of the Chinese Community in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to 1970” Dr. Sonoda Setsuko, an award winning transnational historian from Japan, recently gave a public research seminar at the School of East Asian Studies. Her seminar offered a fascinating account…
Forced migration takes numerous forms and, in tandem with the resettlement process, is often a traumatic experience that requires significant emotional and physical rehabilitation, and time to recover.
By Dr Kate Taylor-Jones, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, SEAS Earlier this year, Dr Fiona Handside and myself published a collection of essays entitled International Cinema and the Girl (London: Palgrave Mcmillan). Inside this collected edition we bought together a group of scholars to explore how the girl has been visualized in global cinema. Our…
By Melissa Pilgrim, BA Chinese Studies, SEAS My name is Melissa Pilgrim and I’m a final year Chinese Studies student in the School of East Asian Studies. On 31st August 2016, a team of seven students, myself included, and two academic staff from the Faculty of Social Sciences travelled to Hangzhou, in China’s Zhejiang province,…
By Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and Editor-in-Chief of East Asia Forum in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Prof Drysdale recently gave a public lecture at the University of Sheffield as part of the School of East Asian Studies Seminar Series…
