Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year I took a freshman seminar on the rise of the Asia-Pacific Rim, so I already fully tasted what it is like to be defending a country that is commonly regarded as possessing a hellish human rights record. It seems very likely that I will have to continue fighting against popular views in sections and papers this term...
...examine closely the histories of other countries in the world, it's not hard to find out that student movements have rarely succeeded. Especially in East Asia, where the rapid economic growth has involved heavy government intervention, anything pro-democracy arising in an inappropriate time would be almost certain to fall short of its goals. By "inappropriate" I mean a time when the economic base of the social structure is not yet sufficient to afford freedom and human rights...
After graduating summa cum laude from the College, Butterfield won a Fulbright grant to study East Asia in Taiwan. He returned to Harvard to earn a masters degree before joining the Times...
First shown in fuller form at the Asia Society in New York City, even this pared-down version of the exhibit illuminates the ever-relevant subject of split national identities. To the exacting eye, however, the show comments more tellingly on the individual, human reaction to adversity in general, merely placed against the sometimes straight-forward backdrop of nationalities...
...conference was originally created in 1993 by two Business School students, C.K. Tan and Jiwahn Park, who also founded the Asia Business Club