Our Department staff are involved in a variety of pathbreaking research projects. Here are a selection of them:

• Balancing Trade Growth and Environmental Protection in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) (Professor Jörn Dosch)
• Becoming 'White-Collar Beauties' in Urban China: The Impact of Economic Reforms on Young Chinese Women (Dr Jieyu Liu)
• Beijing Opera Performers and Performance (Dr Li Ruru)
• Better Governance by Remote Control? How Foreign Donors Steer ASEAN (Professor Jörn Dosch)
• East Asian Aid Donors (Dr Soyeun Kim)
• Free Trade Agreements and Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific  (Professor Christopher Dent)
• Identities in Motion: the Sociology of Cultural Change in Southeast Asia (Professor Terry King)
• Imag(in)ing the Asia-Pacific War in Japan (Professor Mark Williams)
• Individuality and Identity in 17th Century China (Dr Alison Hardie)
• The Management of World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Professor Michael J G Parnwell and Professor Victor T King)
• Mao Zedong: Life Legacy and Current Evaluations (Emeritus Professor Delia Davin)
• The Origin of Complex Society in South Sulawesi (Dr Ian Caldwell)
• Relations between East Asia and Latin America (Professors Jörn Dosch, Christopher Dent and Flemming Christiansen)
• Staging Shakespeare in China (Dr Li Ruru)