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Advances in Indian Defence R&D
An Economic (Demographic) Explanation for the Relationaship Between Land Inequality and Female Infanticide Among Chinese Peasants: From 1930's data
"Afghanistan and Changing Regional Security Complexes"
India's Role in Space, The Ultimate Frontier
Why women scientists don't make it to the top? The social and cultural dynamics of exclusion and bias
Benefits of Air Pollution Control
EU-China Relations and its Implications for India
"Potential impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on trade and investment: A look at the European Union, emerging markets and the global system of Investor-State-Dispute-Settlement"
Messengers Reading Transnational Relations between India and Europe through the Trajectory of Biological Material
'Central & Eastern Europe in the European Union'
The Chahbahar Connectivity: Strategic Perspective
Violence and Displacement in the Forest Areas of Bodoland, Assam: 1993-2012
What does "I am not religious" mean in India and Germany?
"Allot me a Father" A History of Family, Private Property and the State in colonial Himachal Pradesh
Generalizations of Problems of Pomerance on Residue Systems
Sculptures, Paintings and Music An Experience from Early Medieval Karnataka
Entanglement Generation in Periodically Driven Integrable Systems: Dynamical Phase Transitions and Steady State
"The Art and the Science of Policy Making"
Role of Biomedical Research in Public Health: Nepal Perspective
Genocide in Balochistan
Short-Range Interactions versus Long-Range Correlations in Bird Flocks
Indian Bhakti tradition and Kanakadasa
Current Political Scenario in Malaysia and Impact on Ethnic Relations
LOCATING AGENCY: FEMINISMS, RELIGIONS AND EMPIRE AFTER THE TRANSNATIONAL TURN
"Writing and Filming the Pacific Universe: Myth, History and Identity"
Sophia Dobson Collet and Rammohun Roy: writing cosmopolitan biographies between Btitain and India
Forest Rights Act After Ten Years
Distinct Phosphorylation States and Diverse Transcriptional Activities of BCL3: An Oncoprotein in the NF-kB-IkB Family
Inaugural Lecture 2016 Documenting Agrarian Distress through the People's Archive of Rural India
Protein Folding-Unfolding Dynamics and Hydrophobic Force Law

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.