Tag: Asia Explained
From beef ribs to a ‘heavenly’ walk: Xi‑Trump summit symbolism underscored...
Xianda Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
Diplomacy often masquerades as theater. And nearly nine years after his first...
Cheers! Welcome to the Nepalese village where everybody knows how to distill
Geoff Childs, Washington University in St. Louis
Imagine a place where every home has paraphernalia for distilling spirits, where...
China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s...
Dudley L. Poston Jr., Texas A&M University
Once the world’s most populous nation, China is now among the many...
Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the...
Sam Vong, Smithsonian Institution
In 2005, Antonio Somera, a Filipino American member of the Legionarios del Trabajo, a Masonic...
Trump tariffs and warming India-China ties have silenced the Quad partnership...
Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M University and Yoon Jung Choi, Texas A&M University; Sejong Institute
When leaders of “the Quad”...
Singles’ Day is a $150B holiday in China. Here’s why I...
Peter McGraw, University of Colorado Boulder
On Nov. 11 each year, a curious holiday takes over China. What began...
Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have...
Jessamyn R. Abel, Penn State
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for...
How hardships and hashtags combined to fuel Nepal’s violent response to...
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Days of unrest in Nepal have resulted in the ousting of...
EXPLORING NATURE
How tarot readers are using AI – and what it says...
Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, University of Michigan, and Vana Goblot, Goldsmiths, University of London
