CEASG Blogs

Read Matthew Hughes' blog on TPP. Matthew is one of the international students in the MA East Asian Studies whose blog was selected for CEASG's blogsite.

Let’s start with the fact that Taiwan is great, the people are really hospitable, the food great and the country very developed. If you love nature you will be more than happy in this country. Do take into account that it is really warm here and that...

I have had the great opportunity, this summer from the 1st until the 8th of August 2015, to be the delegate of the University of Groningen at the 6th edition of the University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Hong Kong. The experience was greatly...

In late August this year, I attended The World Congress for Korean Politics and Society, which took place in Gyeongju, a history-laden city located in the Southeast of the Korean peninsula. It was the first time for me to present my work (on comics and...

Around 9:30 pm we were ready to go. It was a hot Japanese summer day, somewhere in July, though I was wearing my winter coat, two pair of socks and a warm hat. All of this had to do with the fact that by that time we had been some 2.200 meters above the...

Silvia Cortés has won the MA Thesis Award East Asian Studies 2015 with her master's thesis "China's Public Diplomacy in Latin America". She was awarded because of the the quality of her research and writing and especially the contribution towards the much...

Most of us will be familiar with the strong meanings attached to numbers in East Asia. Indeed, the prize money for the MA Thesis Award in East Asian Studies in Groningen is EUR 888, referring to positive connotations attached to the number eight in Asia:...

Last summer, I participated in the Netherlands-Asia Honours Summer School (NAHSS). It was a life changing experience!
As an International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) student, I have a special interest in the rise of China within Asia,...

As big as my home town, more inhabitants, more facilities. That’s the campus of Peking University. People tell me approximately 10.000 people reside in these dorms, while I come from a Dutch town with nearly 7000 inhabitants. Here you can buy phones, go to...

Culture; the ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people or society. You can find different cultures within a village, a country and between the different continents and it’s impossible to say your own culture is best, because it is directly...