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What Will the Olympics Mean for China?
A Conversation with Professor Andrew J. Nathan

Professor Nathan has been a China scholar and human rights advocate for more than 35 years. With the Olympics quickly approaching, Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, took the opportunity to discuss the Beijing Olympics, describing them as one of the most political Olympic games in at least a generation.
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A Civil Society Emerges from the Earthquake Rubble
Assisted by an open media and a newly cooperative government, Chinese citizens mobilize on disaster relief

By Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
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WEAI announces First Book Award winner
Weai is proud to announce that the 2007-2008 recipient of the First Book Award is Scott O’Bryan for his upcoming book, The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2009). The $2,000 award, given annually by WEAI to young scholars to publish their first work, will contribute towards the editing and printing costs of O’Bryan’s book.
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