Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Based on Ravi Kalia’s latest publication, Gandhinagar, this presentation traces India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, became a battleground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as … Read more
This presentation is set against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies of economic reform instituted in India in 1991. I examine the decade of the 1990s as a period of dramatic change from prior decades of Independent India. I suggest that with the opening of the Indian economy in conjunction with the privatization of television the … Read more
As Taiwan was settled by waves of Han-Chinese from the Minnan speaking areas of Fujian and the Hakka-speaking areas of northern Guangdong, a sense of both local, regional and island – wide identity began to develop. By the 1870s, Taiwan had become a province of the Qing Empire, thus reinforcing the people’s sense of being … Read more