Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Amitava Kumar will read from his new non-fiction work, A Matter of Rats (Duke University Press, Spring 2013). It is not only the past that lies in ruins in Patna, it is also the present. But that is not the only truth about the city that Amitava Kumar explores in this vivid, entertaining account of … Read more
The financial and cultural prominence of Chinese populations outside of the mainland of China has heightened because of the recent phenomenal economic growth of the People’s Republic of China. With settlements in disparate regions of the world, overseas Chinese have been linked to those in the mainland both culturally as well as financially. The underpinning … Read more