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The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is @stanford.edu's hub for research and education on contemporary Asia. We're part of @fsi.stanford.edu. Reposts ≠ endorsements. Visit us at aparc.stanford.edu
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⏰ Asia researchers, don't miss the Dec 1 application deadline for our 2026-27 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship on Contemporary Asia!

The fellowship offers two positions to recent PhDs working in a variety of disciplines. Learn more and join us at Stanford > stanford.io/4eEUegQ
Portrait of Shilin Jia and a quote by him about his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford APARC.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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🌏 In Manila on November 10-11? Join us for the 2025 Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue: Sustainable Cities and Communities!

#TPSD2025 gathers scientists, social science researchers, policymakers, industry experts, and emerging leaders to accelerate progress on #SDG11.

👉 stanford.io/4o8hIQI
Cover of the 2025 Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue Agenda (3D mockup).
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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How can Southeast Asia claim its place on the world stage? Entrepreneur and educator Gita Wirjawan, a visiting scholar with @stanfordenergy.bsky.social and former minister of trade of Indonesia, outlines a roadmap.

📽️ Watch his book talk: youtu.be/JNgZqJsB9EY

🗞️ Read more: stanford.io/3Ll73Uo
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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📽️ Join APARC's China Program, Stanford's Department of Art & Art History, and the Center for East Asian Studies for a screening of the award-winning documentary The Six and a discussion with film co-creator and lead researcher Steven Schwankert.

🗓️ Oct 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
👉 Register: buff.ly/fjiCRaq
Poster for the documentary film The Six.
October 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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📣 Job opening at APARC! We're hiring a Finance Manager to join our team. This position plays a vital role in overseeing the center's financial day-to-day operations, planning, and forecasting activities.

Learn more and let us hear from you > aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/jobs
Photo: Stanford Quad. Text: APARC Hiring Finance Manager.
October 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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We were delighted to honor @netranews.bsky.social, recipient of the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award, for its fearless journalism and efforts to defend democracy and freedoms in Bangladesh. Congratulations as well to Founding Editor-in-Chief Tasneem Khalil.

Stay tuned for event highlights!
Tasneem Khalil is presented with the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award.
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In a European Corporate Governance Institute paper, @law.stanford.edu/ APARC's Curtis Milhaupt & University of Hamburg's Wolf-Georg Ringe argue that global stock exchanges, moving beyond regulatory competition for IPOs, have become sites of economic and geopolitical contestation.

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Cover and first page of the paper "The Political Economy of Global Stock Exchange Competition."
September 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Oct 7 @ noon | Don't miss Tasneem Khalil, chief editor of our 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award winner @netranews.bsky.social, as he discusses reporting under censorship and defending democracy in Bangladesh, with experts William Dobson, James Hamilton, and Elora Shehabuddin.

✅ stanford.io/46gJuE6
Flyer for the 2025 Shorenstein Journalism Award, featuring Tasneem Khalil, William Dobson, Elore Shehabuddin, and James Hamilton.
September 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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📣 APARC's Taiwan Program invites applications for its 2026-27 visiting fellowship. The interdisciplinary research focus is on issues related to addressing Taiwan's economic, social, tech, and institutional adaptation challenges and opportunities.

Learn more, share, and apply: stanford.io/3Brn8Tt
Call for applications for APARC's Taiwan Program Visiting Fellowship. Photo: Stanford Quad.
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🌍📚 NEW PAPER | In International Migration Review, APARC's Gi-Wook Shin & @um-psc.bsky.social's Kelsi Caywood show how countries can mitigate brain drain via strategic brain circulation and linkage. Lessons from China and India offer roadmaps for other countries. Read 👉 buff.ly/fuh4F0P
Screenshot of the cover page of the article "Countering Brain Drain through Circulation and Linkage: Illustrations and Lessons from China and India"
September 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🌏 #AcademicJobsAlert APARC’s fellowships invite applications from scholars of contemporary Asia across disciplines.

💡 In today’s spotlight: the 2026-28 Postdoctoral Fellowships and 2026-27 Visiting Fellow Positions with the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab (SNAPL).

✅ Join us! stanford.io/3TQXWw6
Han River at night. Text: Call for Applications for Stanford Next Asia Policy Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellowships.
September 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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🌏 APARC’s fellowships invite applications from scholars of contemporary Asia across disciplines.

💡 In today’s spotlight: the 2026-27 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship — 2 positions for recent PhDs on Asia-Pacific politics, economics, society, or IR. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025.

✅ stanford.io/4eEUegQ
Photo: Encina Hall, Stanford University. Text: Call for applicationsn for Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship on Contemporary Asia.
September 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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😎 While we're on a pause from regular programming during the summer break, you can rewind to featured events from the past academic year — expert panels, fireside chats, and deep dives into Asia-Pacific affairs — all on our YouTube channel!

▶️ buff.ly/MHT3u1P
A collage of speakers at APARC events and a Press Play icon at the center.
August 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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80 years after WWII, the US and Asian nations mark the Pacific War in sharply different ways, while divergent war memories in Asia are still contested and shape politics today. A joint commemoration is necessary but requires courage and honesty, writes APARC's Gi-Wook Shin.

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Photo of Korean activists released from prison on August 16, 1945. Text: "Can the United States and Asia Commemorate the End of the Pacific War Together?" – essay in the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, by Gi-Wook Shin. Quote: "Within Asia, war memories and commemorations are not only different from those in the United States but also divided and contested. Japan’s remembrance is marked by narratives of victimhood and pacifism, while neighboring countries like China and Korea stress Japanese wartime atrocities." Quote: "Divergent memories of war have been a source of tension in [Japan-Korea] bilateral relationships, and China’s narrative of the Asia-Pacific war, which emphasizes national resistance and victory over a foreign power, is increasingly invoked to stoke anti-foreign nationalism against the United States." Quote: "In an era dominated by strongmen who weaponize nationalism and manipulate historical memory for political gain, the distortion of the past has become a common tool of division and confrontation. It is imperative that U.S. and Asian leaders [...] come together to mark the end of the Asia-Pacific war, as has been done in Europe."
August 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Like financial investors, governments must diversify and rebalance human resources as portfolios made of domestic, foreign, and diasporic talent, explains Stanford's Gi-Wook Shin. His book, THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS, is out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Get 20% off w/ code SHIN20: bit.ly/3S4jUdM
3D mockup cover of the book "The Four Talent Giants" by Gi-Wook Shin.
August 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Brain drain. Geopolitical tensions. Demographic shifts. To address these risks, countries must treat skilled talent like a financial portfolio, says Stanford sociologist Gi-Wook Shin. His book, THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS, is out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Get 20% off w/ code SHIN20: bit.ly/3S4jUdM
Photo: Gi-Wook Shin in his office and a cover of his book, The Four Talent Giants. Text quote: "Talent Portfolio Theory views a country’s talent development as capitalizing on the capabilities of its human and social capital. It also explains [...] how its talent portfolio, like a financial portfolio, is diversified and rebalanced over time." Text quote: "What really matters is not just the current stockpile of talent but also a constant healthy flow of human and social capital that will continue to fill and improve the talent pool and its capacity [...] Stock is important for the present, but flow determines the future. In today’s world, a flow that is transnational in nature is a particularly keen way for a country to ensure a robust talent pool." Text quote: "It is, therefore, imperative to consider multiple layers of talent available for use — domestic, diasporic, and foreign — each with a different capacity and potential of human and social capital, and as both stock and flow. Based on such understanding of talent, I identify four main methods by which a country can harness talent across these various dimensions: brain train, brain gain, brain circulation, and brain linkage." Cover of the book The Four Talent Giants. Text: "Now available from Stanford University Press" and "Receive 20% off at sup.org with code SHIN20"
July 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A new study by APARC's @j-nakahara.bsky.social & Gi-Wook Shin unveils patterns of #racism denial in #Asia. Analyzing UN reports submitted by 16 Asian countries over 45 yrs, they present a novel framework for understanding racism and racial discourse in non-Western contexts. Read on: buff.ly/nXawgx5
Cover for a summary of a study on racism "denial" in Asia. Photo: anti-racism demonstration in South Korea. The research question: How do Asian states understand and talk about race and racial discrimination? Illustration: silhouette heads in different colors. Filling in the gap: a sentence summarizing the study. Background: logo of the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. A slide with a quote from the study about the findings.
July 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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📘 The Four Talent Giants by Gi-Wook Shin is out now via
@stanfordpress.bsky.social! It reveals how Japan, Australia, China & India rose through distinct talent strategies.

The U.S. should take note—restricting talent inflow could hurt long-term success.

🔗 Get the highlights buff.ly/iLbmXbk
July 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A new study from the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab at APARC analyzes 45 years of UN reports from 16 Asian countries, revealing patterns of racism denial and presenting a conceptual framework for examining the diverse manifestations of race and racism in non-Western contexts. Read > buff.ly/ftA3lDG
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June 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The North American #TaiwanStudies Association 2025 Conference, Toward an Otherwise in Taiwan and Beyond, starts tmrw, highlighting marginalized aspects of Taiwan and challenging conventional methodologies and narratives in Taiwan studies.

Co-hosted by our Taiwan Program

✅ Join us > natsa2025.org
June 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🌏 The Asia-Pacific has become a global powerhouse—but how did such diverse nations like Japan, China, India & Australia rise?

📖 In @stanfordpress.bsky.social The Four Talent Giants, Gi-Wook Shin explores how talent shaped the region’s growth—and why it matters now.

Watch here 👉 buff.ly/wYMMtxk
June 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Skilled talent is a global power, explains APARC's Gi-Wook Shin in his new book, The Four Talent Giants, now out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Every country needs a flexible system — a talent portfolio — connecting local and global skilled people strategically. WATCH ➡️ youtu.be/wOuJlFE4Yv8
Gi-Wook Shin in his office during an interview.
June 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Age-friendly jobs are key to sustaining economic growth and social stability in aging societies. But in rapidly aging South Korea, older adults aren’t benefiting as expected from such jobs. Research by APARC’s Karen Eggleston explains why & what this means for other aging societies: buff.ly/dIGSMEM
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June 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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South Korea's new President, Lee Jae-myung, is pushing what he calls "pragmatic diplomacy." What does it mean in practice, and what are the challenges he faces ahead, personally and politically? APARC and Korea Program Director Gi-Wook Shin breaks it down on Arirang TV. WATCH ➡️ buff.ly/SbESmae
Gi-Wook Shin speaks during an Arirang TV studio interview.
June 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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❗ North American #TaiwanStudies Association (NATSA) 2025 Conference Signature Roundtable: Three Decades of Taiwan Studies

Part of the "Toward an Otherwise in Taiwan and Beyond" conference, held June 30-July 2 @ Sanford, co-hosted by APARC Taiwan Program.

✅ Learn more & register: natsa2025.org
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM