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Photo by Aaron Juarez. Christopher Mayo is a current Assistant Professor of History at Grinnell College, replacing Matthew Johnson, who is on leave for the 2013-2014 academic year. Mayo received his Bachelors and Masters in East Asian Languages and...

Blake Wentworth, an assistant professor in University of California-Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian studies department, has filed a defamation lawsuit against three women—two graduate students and one former undergraduate—who accused him of repeated...

He (Sri/a Prabhupada) seemed to know that he would have temples filled up with devotees. He would look out and say, "I am not a poor man, I am rich. There are temples and books, they are existing, they are there, but the time is separating us from them...

GLOBAL ASIAS 4 CONFERENCE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY March 31-April 1, 2017 Penn State’s Department of Asian Studies announces Global Asias 4, a biennial conference hosted to complement the work of our journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias (published...

Christopher Rea, a professor in UBC’s department of Asian studies, was quoted in The New York Times about his recently published a book on Chinese humour. Rea noted that humour is not prospering in China under the leadership of President Xi Jinping...