Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, has co-edited a new book published by Amsterdam University Press titled ‘Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization‘. In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban

David Bachman, Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, was interviewed on KIRO7 News on the significance, opportunities and challenges of the US visit to Taiwan.    

James Lin, assistant professor of Taiwan Studies and a historian of Taiwan, on recent events in US-Taiwan relations & more: South China Morning Post quoted James Lin on Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan (July 30, 2022)- Hyphen Magazine roundtable interview on Taiwanese Americans and recent Taiwan news quotes James Lin (Aug. 2, 2022) Conversation Six, a platform for short audio

James Lin, assistant professor of Taiwan Studies and a historian of Taiwan, is quoted in the media below about the May 15 attack on a Taiwanese-American church in southern California in which one person was killed and five injured by suspected gunman David Chou, who was born in martial-law era Taiwan but identified as Chinese:

Jackson School Professor Deborah Porter’s new book “The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences” (Routledge 2022) brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution.

Jackson School Professor David Bachman, an expert on China, pens an article titled, “Beijing Olympics may get points for boosting China’s international reputation, but Games are definitely gold for Xi Jinping’s standing at home” in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics on how hosting of the event may impact China’s international and domestic standing.

In “China’s Evergrande is in trouble. But so is China’s top-down political economy,” featured in the Monkey Cage of the Washington Post, Jackson School and China Studies Adjunct Professor and Professor of Political Science Susan Whiting analyzes four things to know about the distortions behind the real estate crisis in China. Evergrande, a Chinese real estate company

We are saddened to announce that Kyoko Tokuno, one of the longest serving senior lecturers at the Jackson School with Comparative Religion and Japan Studies, passed away on September 28, 2021, in Seattle. She was 77 years old.

David Bachman is the sole quote in The Seattle Times editorial board article titled “International condemnation of Microsoft hack points the way on China.”

The Jackson School of International Studies Director, along with the Jackson School Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, are writing to acknowledge and condemn horrific racist attacks against members of the Asian American, Pacific Islander American (AAPI), and the Asian diaspora community.