There are MANY excellent reasons to pursue the MAIS in East Asia. This includes the choice of focusing your studies in one of four tracks including China, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan.  We have over 55 faculty focused on East Asia topics and the degree has a one and two year option. Read about MORE great

Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025) brings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists, and others for a collection that addresses the last two decades’ hollowing out of social connections, socioeconomic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asian societies. Written

In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought these practices to the developing world. In the Global Vanguard elucidates the history and impact