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Witzel added that South Asia??s increasing global presence has prompted the department to reevaluate its academic focus on the region...
Howell is “one of the finest archival historians in the study of Japan and East Asia??, said Ian J. Miller, an assistant professor of history. Howell views Japan from the margins looking in, instead of the traditional view of the political city looking out, said Helen Hardacre, a professor of Japanese religions and society...
...their gender. Sex-selective abortions continue to be a problem in many parts of India and China, and female literacy rates throughout the developing world are markedly lower than those of men. In traditionally patriarchal communities—not only in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia??women are not permitted to leave their homes or show their faces in public. The United Nations International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million women are working as sex slaves at any given time. Rather than letting these problems go unacknowledged, increasing focus on liberating women from...
...value of Harvard’s publicly traded equity portfolio has nearly doubled in recent months as the University reinvests—particularly in emerging markets and in Asia??after dramatically slashing stock holdings last fall amidst the global financial crisis. According to a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure report released in August, Harvard had 112 publicly traded equity holdings valued at over $1.4 billion as of June 30. The figures represent a significant increase from the 99 holdings worth $771 million reported three months earlier. The SEC’s 13F report only discloses a small fraction...
...Mahabharata,” where dividing the kingdom of Hastinapura among cousin, princely heirs is proposed as an alternative to war (although war inevitably ensues). In 1947, geographic partitioning of the subcontinent, intended to veil cultural-turned-political differences, later became the subtext for South Asia??s modern political narrative...