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NEW YORK, January 31, 2012 — Ambassador Nicholas Platt (who accompanied Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China), veteran journalists Max Frankel and Mike Chinoy, and Asia Society's Orville Schell discuss China then and now and and the importance of Nixon's diplomatic breakthrough. (6 min., 21 sec.)

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NEW YORK, January 31, 2012 — U.S. President Richard Nixon's breakthrough 1972 trip to China is the subject of a discussion with Ambassador Nicholas Platt (who accompanied Nixon), Max Frankel (the former New York Times correspondent who covered Nixon's trip), documentary filmmaker Mike Chinoy, and Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. (38 min.)

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NEW YORK, December 8, 2011 — In these highlights from the latest event in Asia Society's Great Debates series, Duke University's Ebrahim Moosa leads a panel discussion on Shari'a and Islamic law with Imam Khalid Latif, Executive Director of the Islamic Center at NYU and Imam

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NEW YORK, December 8, 2011 — In the latest event in Asia Society's Great Debates series, Duke University's Ebrahim Moosa leads a panel discussion on Shari'a and Islamic law with Imam Khalid Latif, Executive Director of the Islamic Center at NYU and Imam Shamsi

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NEW YORK, November 29, 2011 — Excerpts from Asia Society's Great Debates discussion between Moshe Halbertal and Jeff Israel on the traditions behind Talmudic debate. (14 min., 11 sec.)

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NEW YORK, November 29, 2011 — In the latest event in Asia Society's Great Debates series, Moshe Halbertal and Jeff Israel explore the traditions behind Talmudic debate, and the concepts underlying it. (1 hr., 37 min.)

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NEW YORK, October 19, 2011 — The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund awarded its annual grant and fellowship to photographers who are pursuing long-term documentary projects. Sebastian Junger, co-director of Restrepo, gave the keynote address and photography from Asia by Stephen Dupont, Christoph Bangert and Stephanie Sinclair was showcased. (1 hr., 24 min.) 

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NEW YORK, October 13, 2011 — Actress and activist Yangzom Brauen reads from and discusses her new family memoir Across Many Mountains, which traces the harrowing yet ultimately uplifting story of three generations of Tibetan women. (1 hr., 46 sec.)

Interview with Yangzom Brauen

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NEW YORK, October 4, 2011 - Historian Ezra Vogel speculates about Deng Xiaoping's motives for ordering the 1989 massacre Tianamen Square crackdown. (4 min., 30 sec.)

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NEW YORK, October 4, 2011 — Historian Ezra Vogel and Center on U.S.-China Relations Director Orville Schell discuss the personality traits that might have enabled Chinese official Deng Xiaoping to hold onto power. (1 min., 26 sec.)

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