Research at Shorenstein APARC

The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center conducts multidisciplinary research projects in which Stanford faculty members collaborate with American and Asian colleagues. The Center's research covers a broad range of topics centered on Northeast, Southeast, and South Asia.

Shorenstein APARC Programs & Research Areas

Asia Health Policy Program
The Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center promotes a comparative understanding of health and health policy in the Asia-Pacific region through research, collaboration with scholars throughout the region, and conferences and publications on comparative health policy topics.

» Global Tobacco Prevention Research Initiative

Divided Memories and Reconciliation
This project is a three year research effort to compare the formation of these divided memories in Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States.

» History Textbooks and the War in Asia

» Reckoning with the Past: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Asia

Korean Studies Program (KSP)
The Korean Studies Program offers courses on Korea, hosts biweekly Korean luncheon seminars, sponsors workshops and conferences, conducts research projects, and has sponsored many Korean scholars, bureaucrats, and business people as visiting scholars.

» Does Perception Matter in International Relations?: Trends in US and Korean Media Coverage of the Alliance, 1992-2004

» Korean Studies Colloquium Series (a.k.a Korean Luncheon Seminar)

» National and Regionalism in Northeast Asia

» New Beginnings: Post-Election Prospects for U.S.-ROK Relations

» Reconciliation and Cooperation in East Asia

» Stanford Korea Democracy Project

South Asia Initiative
This multi-faceted project undertakes an agenda of policy research in information technology, financial sector, and energy reform.

» India Risk Capital Project

Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF)
The Southeast Asia Forum seeks to understand and explore the histories, cultures, political economies, and international relations of the ten countries and half-billion people of the Southeast Asian region.

» Late Democratization in Pacific Asia

» Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia

» Worker Identities and the Origins of Capital in Vietnam

Stanford China Program
The Stanford China Program (SCP) will facilitate multidisciplinary, social science-oriented research on contemporary china, with a dual emphasis on basic and policy-relevant research.

Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE)
SPRIE's mission is to contribute to the understanding and practice of innovation and entrepreneurship by examining the development conditions of Silicon Valley and other key global regions; and the flows of ideas and technology, capital, and people among them.

» China's Quest for Independent Innovation

» Entrepreneurship in Japan: New Patterns After Post-Bubble Reforms

» Leadership in China's High Tech Companies

» Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship (STAJE)

Research Projects

» Causes of Japan's Economic Stagnation

» Corporate Restructuring and Governance in China

» Economics and Political Decision-Making in China's Villages

» Information and Communication Technology in Rural India

» Introducing Power Pricing Reforms in India

» Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

» Rural Education Action Project (REAP)

» Social Stratification in China during an Age of Transition

» Taiwan Democracy

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