Asia

This project studies the interaction between ethnopolitics in Yanbian, the ethnic Korean enclave in the China-North Korea borderland, and the international relationship between the two newly-emerged communist states.

Throughout antiquity, alcohol belonged to private and public realms, devotional and everyday settings.

This project uses the many religious sites in the red cypress forest of Alishan to investigate conceptions of human and nonhuman personhood in twentieth century Taiwan.

This CGII Center Grant supports the next phase of targeted field research in the South Asian nation of Bhutan.

In this “Community-Engaged” education abroad program UVA undergraduates will gain applied research experience focused on the proposed redevelopment of a 40-km stretch of the Hồng (Red) River in Vietnam’s capital.

The Vietnam Polymath REU is a research program for undergraduates targeted at promising Vietnamese mathematics undergraduates.

The Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum in Hong Kong, which opened in 2019, is one of the world’s largest Buddhist mega-projects with a state-of-the-art museum underneath a colossal Guanyin statue.

This project will partner a UVA global health student with a Cambodian community mental health team to develop a research project focused on family and community supports for people with severe mental illness in Cambodia.

This project is a comparative ethnographic study of gender-based community care programs and their impact on LGBTQ elderly in a non-Western context.

Concerted efforts to study China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the University began with the major conference, “Complementing and Competing Visions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” held on March 2, 2019.