What do you know about the environment in Taiwan? What do you really know about the environment elsewhere, maybe back in your home country? How good or bad are things here in Taiwan? Since arriving in Taiwan I’ve become alot more environmental aware. This has a lot to do with the type of conversations that [...]
The professor of my Government and Politics in South East Asia course came up to me a few weeks back and told me it was her impression that I’ve very opinionated regarding the issue of democratization in East-Asia, especially that of Taiwan’s, and asked me whether I would be willing to review and critic a [...]
Most of the courses that I took in the last semester were brilliant. Sagiv’s Cultures and Organizations was an in depth analysis into the complications of cross-cultural psychology, Kogan’s Urban Society in Contemporary China – Changes was a unique journey through modern China, Pinnes’ China 1917-1978 was an extraordinary overview of the most amazing political [...]
Israel might seem at first as a strange place to consider conducting East Asian research in, but this year a new East-Asian Louis Frieberg Center is being setup at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem-Israel and the new center is offering fellowships. About the new Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies – The Center has set [...]
In a wonderful course titled "Modern Society in Urban China" with Mr. Dror Kochan we were asked to watch two movies out of a list given which deal with urban life in China and write a short review relating to the course’s material and the issues discussed. I thought the list was so good, that [...]
The essay is about a subject discussed in the “Modern Society in Urban China” course: class subject – “Market economy – the poor, the rich and what’s in between; widening the class gap and the growing middle class in China”. Xinhua – China’s university tuition 25 times higher than in 1989 www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-12 15:11:20 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/12/content_5598419.htm [...]
In almost all of my class discussions there is a general assumption that Democracy is what’s good for China. Especially when it comes to discussing urban China and the modern changes in society the question of whether this is good for bringing democracy to China always comes up, usually accompanied with the hope that China [...]
China in the Red, a documentary film about people’s lives during the economical reforms of 1998-2002, was shown to us today in Dror Kogan’s wonderful "Urban Society in Contemporary China – Changes" course. The movie deals with the personal story of various people from different locations and social status struggling with the shock China went [...]
