Asia Pacific Memo update – Japan One Month after Earthquake / Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei Detained

Asia Pacific Memo update –  Japan One Month after Earthquake / Chinese Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei Detained

Those interested in current issues in Asia and across the Pacific are invited to subscribe to the Asia Pacific Memo (APM) series. Twice-weekly, APM publishes short text memos or video interviews at http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/Current headlines:

  • Japan One Month after the Earthquake (Video Interview with David Edgington, UBC)
  • Chinese Artist/Activist Ai Weiwei Detained, by Alison Bailey, UBC
  • Literature in 21st Century China – Harvard professor David Der-wei Wang (Video Interview)
  • Japanese Buddhism after the Earthquake: Memorials, Spiritual Comfort, and Emergency Response by Jessica Main, UBC
  • Capital-islam: Spiritual Economies in Southeast Asia, by Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria

To read the memos, visit http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/