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89 relations: A. R. Rahman, Akira Kurosawa, Ambeth Ocampo, Amjad Ali Khan, Ang Choulean, Ann Hui, Anthony Reid (academic), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashis Nandy, Augustin Berque, Azyumardi Azra, Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh, Ba Jin, Benedict Anderson, Cai Guo-Qiang, Charnvit Kasetsiri, Chie Nakane, Chris Baker (writer), Clifford Geertz, Culture of Asia, Dick Lee, Donald Keene, Douangdeuane Bounyavong, East Asia, Ezra Vogel, Farida Parveen, Fei Xiaotong, Fukuoka, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Hwang Byungki, Im Kwon-taek, James C. Scott, Jiro Kawakita, Joseph Needham, Ju Ming, K. M. de Silva, Kidlat Tahimik, Kim Won-yong, Koentjaraningrat, Kong Nay, Kukrit Pramoj, Lat, Leandro Locsin, Li Yining, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Minoru Miki, Minoru Takeuchi, Mo Yan, Muhammad Yunus, Nalini Malani, ..., Nam June Paik, Namjilyn Norovbanzad, Nidhi Eoseewong, Noboru Karashima, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ong Keng Sen, Padma Subrahmanyam, Partha Chatterjee (scholar), Pasuk Phongpaichit, Phan Huy Lê, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Qawwali, Ramachandra Guha, Ravi Shankar, Romila Thapar, Samul nori, Sarod, Shagdaryn Bira, Sitar, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Tang Da Wu, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Tetsu Nakamura, Than Tun, Thant Myint-U, Thaw Kaung, Thawan Duchanee, Ungku Abdul Aziz, Vandana Shiva, Wang Gungwu, Wang Ming, Wang Zhongshu, Xu Bing, Yasmeen Lari, Yoneo Ishii, Yujiro Hayami, Zhang Yimou. Expand index (39 more) »
A. R. Rahman
Allahrakka Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar, best known as A. R. Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, and music producer. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, fifteen Filmfare Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India. In 2009, Rahman was included on the ''Time'' 100 list of the world's most influential people. The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011. South Indian fans of Rahman refer him with the nickname of "The Mozart of Madras", and "Isai Puyal" (the Musical Storm). With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema, and theatre, Rahman is one of the best-selling recording artists, with an estimated 200million units sold. In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has also become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities. In 2017, Rahman made his debut as a director and writer for the film Le Musk.
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Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.
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Ambeth Ocampo
Ambeth R. Ocampo (born August 13, 1961) is a Filipino historian, academic, journalist, former cultural administrator and author best known for his writings about Philippines' national hero José Rizal and for Looking Back, his bi-weekly editorial page column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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Amjad Ali Khan
Amjad Ali Khan Bangash (born 9 October 1945) is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans.
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Ang Choulean
Ang Choulean (អាំង ជូលាន) (born 1 January 1949 in Kompong Kleang, Siem Reap) is a Cambodian anthropologist.
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Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, MBE (Hepburn: Kyo Anka; born 23 May 1947) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter and actress.
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Anthony Reid (academic)
Anthony Reid (born 19 June 1939) is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia.
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul (อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล;; IPA:; born July 16, 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
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Ashis Nandy
Ashis Nandy (আশিস নন্দী; born 1937) is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, and critic.
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Augustin Berque
Augustin Berque (born 1942 in Rabat, Morocco), is a French geographer, Orientalist and philosopher.
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Azyumardi Azra
Sir Azyumardi Azra, CBE was born in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on March 4, 1955.
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Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh
Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh (Pleiku, 1961) is a fashion designer from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Ba Jin
Li Yaotang (25 November 190417 October 2005), better known by his pen name Ba Jin, was a Chinese author and political activist best known for his novel Family.
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Benedict Anderson
Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson (August 26, 1936 – December 13, 2015) was a political scientist and historian, best known for his 1983 book Imagined Communities, which explored the origins of nationalism.
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang (born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey.
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Charnvit Kasetsiri
Charnvit Kasetsiri (ชาญวิทย์ เกษตรศิริ); born May 6, 1941, is a Thai historian.
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Chie Nakane
is a Japanese anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Tokyo.
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Chris Baker (writer)
Christopher John Baker (born 3 January 1948) is a Thailand-based British writer who has made his home in Bangkok for more than 20 years.
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Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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Culture of Asia
The culture of Asia encompasses the collective and diverse customs and traditions of art, architecture, music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, politics and religion that have been practiced and maintained by the numerous ethnic groups of the continent of Asia since prehistory.
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Dick Lee
Richard "Dick" Lee Peng Boon (born 24 August 1956) is a Singaporean pop singer, composer, songwriter, and playwright.
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Donald Keene
Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 18, 1922) is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
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Douangdeuane Bounyavong
Douangdeuane Bounyavong (Lao ດວງເດືອນ ບຸນຍາວົງສ Dūangdư̄an Bunyāvong, born 11 June 1947, also known by her maiden name Douangdeuane Viravong), pen name Dok Ked (Dō̜kkēt), is a Laotian writer.
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East Asia
East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or ethno-cultural "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system." terms.
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Ezra Vogel
Ezra Feivel Vogel (born July 11, 1930) is a Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and has written on Japan, China, and Asia generally.
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Farida Parveen
Farida Parveen (born 31 December 1954) is a Bangladeshi folk singer.
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Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-Tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist.
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Fukuoka
is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of Japanese island Kyushu.
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Hwang Byungki
Hwang Byungki (31 May 1936, Seoul – 31 January 2018) was the foremost South Korean player of the gayageum, a 12-string zither with silk strings.
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Im Kwon-taek
Im Kwon-taek (born May 2, 1936) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors.
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James C. Scott
James C. Scott (born December 2, 1936) is a political scientist and anthropologist.
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Jiro Kawakita
was a pioneer in participation of remote Nepalese villagers in researching their problems, resulting in practical benefits of portable water supplies and rapid rope-way transport across mountain gorges.
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Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9 December 1900 – 24 March 1995) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology.
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Ju Ming
Ju Ming (born 1938) is a Taiwanese sculptor who attained fame in Taiwan in the 1970s, and in New York City in 1983.
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K. M. de Silva
Professor Kingsley Muthumuni de Silva is a Sri Lankan academic, historian and author.
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Kidlat Tahimik
Eric de Guia (born October 3, 1942 in Baguio City, Philippines), better known as Kidlat Tahimik (a Tagalog translation of "silent lightning"), is a film director, writer and actor whose films are commonly associated with the Third Cinema movement through their critiques of neocolonialism.
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Kim Won-yong
Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) was a South Korean archaeologist and art historian.
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Koentjaraningrat
Kanjeng Pangeran Haryo Prof.
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Kong Nay
Kong Nay (born 1946) is a Cambodian musician who plays the chapei dong veng.
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Kukrit Pramoj
Mom Rajawongse Tun Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช,,; 20 April 1911 – 9 October 1995) was a Thai politician and scholar.
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Lat
Datuk Mohammad Nor b Mohammad Khalid (Jawi: محمد نور خالد), more commonly known as Lat, (born 5 March 1951) is a Malaysian cartoonist.
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Leandro Locsin
Leandro Valencia Locsin (August 15, 1928 – November 15, 1994) was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects.
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Li Yining
Li Yining (born 22 November 1930) is a Chinese economist.
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Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Marilou Díaz-Abaya (March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) was a multi-awarded film director from the Philippines.
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Minoru Miki
Minoru Miki (三木 稔 Miki Minoru) (16 March 19308 December 2011) was a Japanese composer and artistic director, particularly known for his promotional activities in favor of Japanese (as well as Chinese and Korean) traditional instruments and some of their performers.
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Minoru Takeuchi
Minoru Takeuchi (竹内 実 Takeuchi Minoru, born February 23, 1971 in Nishinomiya) is a former volleyball player from Japan, who played as a wing-spiker for the Men's National Team during the 1990s.
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Mo Yan
Guan Moye (born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (মুহাম্মদ ইউনূস; born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
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Nalini Malani
Nalini Malani (born 1946, in Karachi, undivided India) is a contemporary Indian artist, who extends the concept of "painting beyond the frame" into video plays and video/shadow plays.
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Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist.
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Namjilyn Norovbanzad
Namjilyn Norovbanzad (Намжилын Норовбанзад); (1931–2002) was a Mongolian singer of the traditional long song.
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Nidhi Eoseewong
Nidhi Eoseewong (นิธิ เอียวศรีวงศ์;;; also rendered Nithi Aeusrivongse, Nithi ‘Īaosīwong, and Nithi ʻĪeosīwong; born May 8, 1940) is a prominent Thai historian, writer, and political commentator.
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Noboru Karashima
was a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus in University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Urdu/نصرت فتح علی خان‎; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis.
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Ong Keng Sen
Ong Keng Sen (born 20 November 1963) is a Singaporean director of the theatre group TheatreWorks, which was founded in 1985.
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Padma Subrahmanyam
Padma Subrahmanyam (born 4 February 1943, in Madras), is an Indian classical Bharata Natyam dancer.
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Partha Chatterjee (scholar)
Partha Chatterjee (b. November 5, 1947) is an Indian political scientist and anthropologist.
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Pasuk Phongpaichit
Pasuk Phongpaichit (ผาสุก พงษ์ไพจิตร,, born 11 February 1946) is a Thai economist.
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Phan Huy Lê
Phan Huy Lê (Thạch Châu, Lộc Hà district, Hà Tĩnh province, 23 February 1934 – 23 June 2018) was a Vietnamese historian and professor of history at the Hanoi National University.
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Pramoedya Ananta Toer (EYD: Pramudya Ananta Tur) (6 February 1925 – 30 April 2006) was an Indonesian author of novels, short stories, essays, polemics and histories of his homeland and its people.
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Qawwali
Qawwali (Nastaʿlīq:; Punjabi: ਕਵਾਲੀ (Gurmukhi); Hindi: क़व्वाली; Bangla: কাওয়ালি) is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia: in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan; in Hyderabad, Delhi and other parts of India, especially North India; as well as Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions of Bangladesh.
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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.
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Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India.
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Samul nori
Samul nori is a genre of percussion music originating in Korea.
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Sarod
The sarod (or sarode) (सरोद, সরোদ) is a stringed instrument, used mainly in Hindustani music.
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Shagdaryn Bira
Professor Shagdaryn Bira (born September 1927) is a Mongolian historian and scholar noted for his research that examines the history, culture, religion, and languages of the Mongols.
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Sitar
The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.
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South Asia
South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.
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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (16 January 1929 – 19 January 2014) was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University.
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Tang Da Wu
Tang Da Wu (born 1943) is a Singaporean artist who works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation art and performance art.
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Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki (born 29 October 1951 in England) is a historian of modern Japan and Korea.
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Tetsu Nakamura
is a Japanese medical doctor.
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Than Tun
Than Tun (သန်းထွန်း,; 6 April 1923 – 30 November 2005) was an influential Burmese historian as well as an outspoken critic of the military junta of Burma.
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Thant Myint-U
Thant Myint-U (သန့်မြင့်ဦး.; born 31 January 1966) is a historian, writer, a past fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a former United Nations official, and the founder and chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust.
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Thaw Kaung
Sithu Thaw Kaung (သော်ကောင်း) is a Burmese university librarian, historian and leading authority in Asian library studies.
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Thawan Duchanee
Thawan Duchanee (September 27, 1939 – September 3, 2014) was a Thai contemporary painter, architect and sculptor with an international reputation.
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Ungku Abdul Aziz
Ungku Abdul Aziz bin Ungku Abdul Hamid (born 28 January 1922, London, United Kingdom) is a Malaysian economist.
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Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and alter-globalization author.
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Wang Gungwu
Wang Gungwu, (born 9 October 1930) is an Australian historian of overseas Chinese descent.
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Wang Ming
Wang Ming (May 23, 1904 – March 27, 1974) was a senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the mastermind of the famous 28 Bolsheviks group.
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Wang Zhongshu
Wang Zhongshu (15 October 1925 – 24 September 2015) was a Chinese archaeologist who helped to establish and develop the field of archaeology in China.
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Xu Bing
Xu Bing (Chinese: 徐冰 /ɕý pīŋ/, born 1955) is a Chinese artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years.
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Yasmeen Lari
Yasmeen Lari (born c. 1941; یاسمین لاری) is Pakistan's first female architect.
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Yoneo Ishii
was a Japanese historian who specialized in the study of Thailand.
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Yujiro Hayami
was a Japanese agricultural economist, widely considered to be an authority on the subject.
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Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.
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