On the first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at maps of the ...

Programme Name: Mammoths - TX: n/a - Episode: Mammoths - Annoucment (No. n/a) - Picture Shows: Sir David Attenborough - (C) Windfall films - Photographer: Julian Schwanitz The BBC is to spotlight Asia ...

On Aug. 5, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake ruptured the northern reaches of the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing at least 319 people, displacing more than 160,000, destroying tens of thousands of homes ...

ON Tuesday, March 24, at a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Sir Aurel Stein read a paper on “Innermost Asia: its Geography as a Factor in History.” It dealt with the part which the ...

In ancient China, spring rains were called “as precious as oil” for their vital role in nature’s spring revival. Today, a unique climate phenomenon known as “spring persistent rainfall” (SPR) prevails ...