The Art, Design, & Architecture Museum at UCSB is currently displaying "Sound of a Thousand Years: Gagaku Instruments from Japan," an exhibition organized by Fabio Rambelli. Photograph by Daigengna Duoer. […]
As part of the "Sound, Screen, and Stages from Taiwan" series at the Center for Taiwan Studies, we are pleased to welcome Prof. Kyle Shernuk (Queen Mary University of London) […]
Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 broke up local communities by forcing their inhabitants into exile in locations scattered though the prefecture. In subsequent years, government compensation policy […]
China plans to send its first manned mission to Mars by 2033, and eventually establish a permanent colony on the planet. Many outside China see this ambitious turn towards space […]
Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, accounting for larger outlays than ivory, rhino horn, and big cats put together. Nearly all rosewood logs are sent to […]
Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for sex. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed […]
