by admin | May 18, 2026
The Idea of China: A Contested History is a multifaceted examination of the country, which seeks to transform our understanding of ideas about China and our shifting definitions of what it is to be Chinese. Written by Professor Xu Guoqi, David H Y Chang Professor in...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
The Historic City of Vigan in the Philippines, established in the 16th century, is one of the best preserved planned Spanish colonial towns in Asia. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, it experienced two powerful earthquakes in 2022 that severely...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Archaeology investigates the ancient human past based on the things people left behind – from pottery and stone tools to architecture and landscapes. In order to collect information, archaeologists excavate and remove artefacts and structures from a site, so...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
When Professor Dov Levin of the Department of Politics and Public Administration was embarking on his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in the early 2010s, he picked up a book from the library that would open a whole new field to him. The book concerned...
by admin | May 22, 2024
The generally accepted image of the Boston Tea Party is of defiant colonists dumping crates of tea belonging to the East India Company into Boston Harbour in protest at British taxes on tea. Then they opposed the goods themselves, boycotting tea and British products,...
