Tag: Asia

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard-Yenching Institute names visiting scholars, fellows

    The Harvard-Yenching Institute recently welcomed 33 visiting scholars and fellows to the institute for the 2007-08 academic year.

    8–12 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    EALS accepting submissions

    The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program of Harvard Law School (HLS) is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Chinese diarist opens door to history

    Liu Dapeng (1857-1942), the subject of Henrietta Harrison’s book “The Man Awakened from Dreams” (Stanford University Press, 2005), seems an odd choice for a biography. A Confucian scholar and teacher in the village of Chiqiao in Shanxi province, northern China, Liu was poor and unknown, and, although a prolific writer, never published a word.

    4–6 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Friendly wave hits Asia

    Six years after sweeping across Asia, the Korean wave hit Cambridge with a crash on Friday (Feb. 16) during a panel at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “Korean wave” – or Hallyu – refers to the sizzling popularity of South Korean popular culture throughout Asia. From the Philippines and Malaysia, to Singapore, Japan, and China,…

    4–6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Economics in the apple heartland

    A Harvard doctoral student has traveled to the wild apple’s home in the mountains of Central Asia to lend a hand to an international nonprofit working with local apple farmers to improve how they grow, harvest, and sell their crops. Plamen Nikolov, a first-year Ph.D. student in health economics, has designed an assessment survey and…

    4–5 minutes
  • Health

    Poor fall behind in birth control

    Modern contraception has come a long way in the past 20 years, what with diaphragms, hormones, implants, intrauterine devices, condoms, spermicides, and sterilization. But the boom in birth control has been a bust for the poorest women in the world.

    3–4 minutes
  • Health

    World’s largest flower evolved from family of much tinier blooms

    The plant with the world’s largest flower – typically a full meter across, with a bud the size of a basketball – evolved from a family of plants whose blossoms are nearly all tiny, botanists write this week in the journal Science. Their genetic analysis of rafflesia reveals that it is closely related to a…

    3–4 minutes