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"Organ Donation and Tissue Transplantation"
What the Canadian Public Is Being Told About the More Than 1200 Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and First Nations Issues: An Analysis of how major mainstream Canadian media is shaping the national narrative
Mythic Landscapes: Narratives of Belonging and Possibility
Fractured Tales Invisibles in Indian Democracy
"Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) for Material Science"
Climate Change Prediction
Origin of Multiferroicity in the Hexagonal Manganite and Ferrite Systems
EU's New Global Strategy and Asia
The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971
Scale, Dimensions and Attendant Concerns
Geopolitics of Energy Resources in Central Asia
Recent Advances in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology-2016 (ICRAN-2016)
Migration, ILP and AFSPA in India's Northeast: A Ringside View
'Televisual' Body Journalistic Field and Corporate Media Culture in India
Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Ultrafast Dynamics in Spin Crossover Cobalt Perovskites
Divine Music-Evil Women Caste, Gender and Music in the making of Modern South India
Women's Biographies in Kannada
No Rerun of 1983 – Shah Bano Se Shayra Bano Tak: Religion, Rights and Muslim Women
Intersection of Labour and Technology in India's Informal Economy: A Policy Perspective
Intersection of Labour and Technology in India's Informal Economy: A Policy Perspective
War as Revolution, 1904-1923
Distinct Features of Mongolian Capitalism Today
Toxic Urbanism: Air, Politics and Learning in Delhi
Anomaly Detection in Big Data
Integrable Representations of Toroidal Lie Algebras
Immigration in Assam during 1951-2011?
Migrants and Human Security: Contemporary Theories, Abiding Questions
Language Rights in a Divided Society: Some Reflections
The Centre for English Studies, SLL&CS, JNU
'Explaining the Persistence of Nehruvianism in Indian Strategic Culture'

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.