Internationalization in Action: Transformative Student Research at the Asian Institute - 2019 Richard Charles Lee Insights through Asia Challenge (ITAC) & Big Ideas Competition: Exploring Global Taiwan Student Research Presentations

Known as the “Beijing Purge Campaign,” these actions aimed at “purging low-end populations.” While most criticisms focus on the violence of the campaigns, my research argues that the Purge was driven by a new wave of marketization of rural land within cities as part of the exacerbation of the neoliberalization of urban planning in China. [...] Based on “developmental state” theory, I trace how the marketization of rural land comes hand in hand with the qualitative turn in the discourse of development in China, and the neoliberalizing of the Chinese developmental state. [...] Where would Israel repatriate these children to, when Israel is the state in which they were born? The Invisible Hand of South-South Globalization: A Study of Chinese Migrants in Tehran Man (Angela) Xu, Sociology Department Media and academic debate on China’s emergence as a source of investment, aid, and migration in the Global South often foregrounds the geopolitical strategies of the PRC and th. [...] I analyze the latent forms of discrimination in the tensions and politics of navigating between expression and censorship in the family and the workplace, how legalization exacerbates rather than alleviates these forms of discrimination, and how pro-LGBTQ+ organizations protect LGBTQ+ minorities and accordingly develop recommendations for public policy. [...] Despite concerns regarding this new wave of redress efforts’ unwillingness to tackle past and ongoing forms of injustice related to the legacies of Japanese imperialism and Han settler colonialism in Taiwan, the establishment of the Transitional Justice Committee and National Human Rights Museum in 2018 (a year that also marked the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), in.