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Lanya Feng

The Chinese Problem in Indonesia: A Ghost from the Past that Haunts the Present

Lanya Feng May 25, 2018

The Chinese question is nothing new in Indonesia. Two decades after the post-Suharto reforms, Chinese-Indonesians enjoy greater political freedom and no longer face the coercive assimilation and legislative discrimination they endured…
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Art Not For Art’s Sake: The Politics of CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala

Lanya Feng Mar 27, 2018

Since its appearance in 1983, China’s Central Television’s (CCTV) annual Spring Festival Gala, or chunwan, has accompanied millions on the eve of Lunar New Year. This thirty-five year-old program is a variety show featuring music, dance,…
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Eating Pure and True: Halal Businesses in China

Lanya Feng Feb 25, 2018

Food safety has always been problematic in China. After the 2008 milk scandal, in which an estimated 300,000 babies were made ill from contaminated milk that was reported to contain melamine, demands from society have driven the food…
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A City More Divided—The United Jerusalem Bill

Lanya Feng Jan 21, 2018

As the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jerusalem serves as more than the Holy Land over which believers of the Abrahamic religions fight. After President Donald J. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on…
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China’s Glass Ceiling: Exclusion of Women from High-Ranking Positions

Lanya Feng Nov 27, 2017

The closing of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also known as the Party Congress, once again presented the same old story: all seven Politburo Standing Committee members are male. Even with 26% of the 86.3…
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Road Toward Reconciliation? A New Start for a Divided Palestine

Lanya Feng Oct 24, 2017

After a decade-long rift, the two political parties of Palestine, Hamas and Fatah (also known as the Palestinian Authority), finally shook hands in a reconciliation agreement. Mediated by Egyptian intelligence officials, the parties reached…
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