Media
Scholarly Publications
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia
February 2016
Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema.
Japan under the DPJ: The Politics of Transition and Governance
July 2013
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) came to power in 2009 with a commanding majority, ending fifty years of almost uninterrupted Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule.
Social Media in the Workplace
May 2011
The objective of this paper is to discover the social media platforms (SMPs) that are economically relevant to a business organization, the uses to which these platforms are put, and the reasons...
Other Publications
Behind the Comfort Women Agreement
January 2016
The breakthrough agreement on the comfort women issue between Japan and South Korea on Dec. 28, 2015, was the culmination of at least four years of negotiations between the two governments.
Japan-Korea Relations: Time for U.S. Intervention?
January 2014
Daniel Sneider writes that relations between South Korea and Japan have noticeably deteriorated in the past few months.
Digital Media as a Catalyst for Political, Cultural, and Economic Change in the Asia-Pacific Region
December 2013
The digital information technology (IT) revolution currently underway is profoundly reshap- ing economic activity, influencing politics, and transforming societies around the world.
News
A New Look at Cinema in Southeast Asia from Former LKC Fellow Gerald Sim
August 2020
Gerald Sim, a former Lee Kong Chian Fellow with the Southeast Asia Program, explores how Southeast Asian identities, histories, and cultures are portrayed in film in a new book, ‘Postcolonial Hangups...
Tom Wright, Coauthor of Bestseller 'Billion Dollar Whale' and Longtime Asia Reporter, Wins 2020 Shorenstein Journalism Award
April 2020
STANFORD, CA, April 8, 2020 — Stanford University’s Walter H.
Shining Light on the Threats to Democracy and Human Rights in Asia
November 2019
Around the world, democracy is in retreat.
Events
A New Perspective on News: The SmartNews Approach and Political Balancing
October 5, 2018
In 2012, as giants such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google began to position themselves as the go-to places to read news, a little-known news app called SmartNews emerged and started gaining...
Red Stage, or Bringing the Authoritarian Streak Out
February 12, 2018
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is often labeled a hermit kingdom, supposedly one of the most isolated, mysterious, and inaccessible countries on earth.
Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism
January 9, 2018
Who watches over the party-state? In this talk, Maria Repnikova examines the uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China.
Projects
Reckoning with the Past: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Asia
This colloquia will bring several scholars to Stanford to discuss the "history problem" in a series of lectures analyzing the ways in which past conflict has or has not been addressed and resolved...
English
History Textbooks and the War in Asia
History Textbooks and the War in Asia is the first phase of the Divided Memories and Reconciliation project. It carries out a comparative examination of the high school history textbooks in those...
English
Multimedia
Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in India
April 2017
Audio and transcript from the Shorenstein APARC colloquium, "Eight Threats to Freedom of Expression in India," on April 5, 2017, with Ramachandra Guha.India prides itself on being the "world's largest democracy." In some respects it is certifiably...
Impeachment and After: What Does the Future Hold for Korea's Politics?
February 2017
Video and transcript from Shorenstein APARC's Korea Program panel discussion, "Impeachment and After: What Does the Future Hold for Korea's Politics?" on Jan.
Anti-Americanism in Democratizing South Korea
November 2015
Video and transcript from "Anti-Americanism in Democratizing South Korea," a book launch event for the publication that carries the same name.
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