Asia Pacific Memo update: India’s Karmapa controversy and immigration issues in Korea and Japan

The Institute of Asian Research (IAR)’s Asia Pacific Memo features accessible scholarly knowledge about contemporary Asia. Each Tuesday and Thursday, short text memos or video interviews are published on their website http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/

  • Karmapa Controversy – Raid on a Tibetan Monastery in India, by Tsering Shakya, Canadian Research Chair on Religion and Contemporary Society of Asia at the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at UBC.
  • Diverging Patterns for Incorporating Immigrants in Korea and Japan, by Erin Aeran Chung, professor at John Hopkins University who also wrote an article for the December 2010 issue of the IAR scholarly journal, Pacific Affairs.

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