Monthly Archives: June 2017

China Visit – Tianjin, Beijing and Hong Kong

June 19, 2017 at 3:34 AM

I had not gone back to China since I left Beijing after dissertation fieldwork on July 31, 2012. So my visit to China marked a return in almost five years. The Zhou Enlai School of Government of Nankai University in Tianjin, where I gave my first presentation within mainland China in 2008, had built a […]

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‘Pay It Forward’ in the Age of Anti-Immigration

June 8, 2017 at 12:48 PM

In mid-April, one of the personnel at a global immigration law firm came to me after seeing me in a series of TV interviews on current international affairs, and explained that his firm wants me to give a keynote at an upcoming immigration conference his firm will be hosting. He had looked up my research profile […]

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US Visit – East Asian Policymaking Workshop

June 8, 2017 at 12:03 PM

I recently returned from a trip to five major US cities in the Northeast – New York, Middletown, New Haven, Boston, and Washington, DC – via the Incheon International Airport in Seoul from May 15 to May 29. The trip was planned around the East Asian Policymaking Workshop at Wesleyan University. Because the trip was […]

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