From Funding to Foundries: How China Builds AI Power
On May 7, at the AI+ Expo hosted by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) convened a panel on one of the most consequential questions shapi...
Sir Gordon Wu, Founder and Chairman of Hopewell Holdings, received the Asia Society Hong Kong Game Changer Award on June 18, 2026. The award celebrates individuals, organizations and movements that...
LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2026 — Takashi Murakami accepts Asia Society Southern California's Art Game Changer honor at the 2026 Asia Game Changer Awards SoCal presented by MindChamps. LACMA CEO and Walli...
This year is especially meaningful for us as we celebrate our own 35th anniversary. For over three decades, we have remained steadfast in bridging cultures and communities through programs in busin...
China Was Ready for the Age of Anarchy
As a global power, China faces a growing tension between its ambitions to reshape the international order and its disinterest in bearing the costs of upholding that new system. In this episode of&
Award-winning Chinese portrait painter Professor Li Qian’s classically staged tableau paintings are renowned for their portrayals of the individual as part of a collective. In conversation with Gao...
LOS ANGELES, June 9, 2026 — Bandai Namco Entertainment America Senior Vice President of Corporate Development Karim Farghaly and Senior Business Development Manager Yukiko Hanzawa, and Skybound Ent...
LOS ANGELES, June 9, 2026 — LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Sport Manager of Baseball, Softball, and Goalball Joan Garcia Pagán and THE·TEAM President of Global Talent Representation Jason Ranne ...
Louise Adams of Aurecon discusses how the organisation is engaging with Asia and the ideas shaping its work across the region. (7 min., 14 sec.)
Part of Member Spotlight, Asia Society Australia’s ...
Eric Gao of Boman Group discusses how the organisation is engaging with Asia and the ideas shaping its work across the region. (5 min., 56 sec.)
Part of Member Spotlight, Asia Society Australia’s ...
LOS ANGELES, June 9, 2026 — Asia Society Policy Institute Senior Vice President Wendy Cutler and USC Gould School of Law Center for Transnational Law and Business Executive Director Brian Peck exam...
...ugihara introduce the panel. (14 min., 42 sec.)
As part of the 4th Annual AWE (Asian Women Empowered) Luncheon, the conversation covers Kwan's stop-motion adaptation of her...
LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2026 — Curator, dealer, and advisor Jeffrey Deitch and LACMA Associate Curator of Japanese Art Rika Hiro trace the dissemination of postwar and contemporary Japanese art in...
The Asia Game Changer Award was launched by Asia Society in New York in 2014. It was created to fill an important gap—to recognize and honor true leaders making a positive impact on Asia's future. ...
LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2026 — ESPN SVP of Programming and Acquisitions Ilan Ben-Hanan, Fanatics Asia EVP and Managing Director Masanori Kawana, and A&V Sports Group Partner Takumi Jeannin dis...
LOS ANGELES, January 19, 2026 — Filmmaker HIKARI (Rental Family, Searchlight Pictures), Dentsu Entertainment Global EVP Geneva Wasserman, and Sony Pictures Entertainment SVP Tohru Iokibe discuss ho...
How to manage #China? Ask Canada.
In our latest episode of #AsiaPacificConversations, APF Canada's Vina Nadjibulla sits down with Lizzi C. Lee of the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis to unpack China's evol...
TOKYO, June 2, 2026 — What truly makes a great dining culture? According to gastronomy expert Takefumi Hamada, the answer lies not only on the plate but in the systems that make exceptional food po...
China’s most fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since. In this book, Daniel A. Bell d...