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Storytelling in the Time of Hate Deciphering Law(s) through Literature
Youth for Better Society
Recent Advances in High Density EEG Research and its Epilepsy Applications
Real Truths: The Life of Estela (VERDADES VERDADERAS: LA VIDA DE ESTELA)
Career opportunities and the placement process
Welfare Dynamics Measurement: Two Definitions of a Vulnerability Line and their Empirical Application
What's Happened to the Rich Farmers?: Political Economy of Indian Agriculture Revisited
Why Crows: another intelligent biped
India and Turkey : Past and Emerging Ties
Mortality and Causes of Death Studies in India: Requirement, Availability and Analysis during past four decade
Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Route: Opportunities and Challenges
Open Access in the Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing
The Role of Technological Conditions of Production in Explaining India's Manufacturing Growth: Some Policy Perspectives
Reading texts
Framing a Region: New Perspectives on North East India
Capital: An Other Reading
INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURS: POLICY PRIORITIES FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT
Revolutionary Ideas in Urdu Poetry
Sulabhā's Refutation of King Janaka, Mahābhārata12.308: A Systematic Argument for the Construction of Gender
An Ordinary Election
KIZUNA-2015
The Inscription of Life in Law
Regarding School
(Re)-Imagining World Literature
Latin America in Asia Pacific
Host genotype does not affect ability of the parasite to invade hosts
Parasitology-2015
Access to Higher Education: Overcoming Challenges faced by Students belonging to SCs, STs, OBCs& Students with Disabilities
Cooperation for Peace and Development in the Silk Road Region - Turkmenistan and India
The marriage between traditional dialectology and generative syntax in the era of digital research infrastructure: Some results from a large scale Dutch dialect syntax project

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.