A spy story with all the ingredients for a best-selling novel provided the inspiration for Paul Winter’s 2018 research project, funded in part by a grant from the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
Education/News
Kapiti exchange student gets a taste of Japanese high school
Varenica Gunawan describes the two months she spent living the life of a first year Japanese high school student and living with a local family.
Education/News
Japan 'like second home' following class visit
Travelling through Japan and seeing first hand the country she had been learning about for so long was an inspirational journey writes Year 13 Cashmere High School student Rachel Batzloff.
Education/News
Language exchange opens doors to Japanese culture
A fascination with Japanese history and culture inspired Yalu Zhou to travel to Japan to study Japanese language. She says to truly know a culture you must understand its language, and vice versa.
Research/News
Investigating Chinese perspectives on South China Sea issues
Looking to get a Chinese perspective on issues relating to South China Sea dispute, master's student Jack Petterson travelled to China to talk to academics and officials. He was assisted by an Asia Ne
Education/News
Action-packed Japan trip for Dunedin girls
Otago Girls High School teacher Bronwyn Thomson recounts her school’s action-packed three-week trip to Japan for a class of 10 Japanese language students. The Foundation assisted to make the it possib
Research/News
PhD student investigates
soft power in the Pacific
With the help of a Foundation postgraduate research grant, Ashalyna Noa travelled to Samoa and China to conduct fieldwork for her PhD, which examines New Zealand and China’s foreign aid and soft power
Research/News
Philippine prison visit inspires research thesis
Daniel Kleinsman describes how visiting a prison while living in the Philippines as a Catholic seminarian inspired him to return to New Zealand to undertake studies in international human rights law.
Research/News
2016 Postgraduate Research Grantees named
The Asia New Zealand Foundation is pleased to announce the successful applicants for our 2016 round of Asia New Zealand Foundation postgraduate research grants. The $5000 grants will go towards assist
Arts/News
Artist shares Samoan dance and culture in Malaysia
Dancer Ufitia (Tia) Sagapolutele describes her time at Rimbun Dahan residency in Malaysia, where she shared Samoan dance forms and learned about indigenous practices.
Arts/News
The artist's heart - Shayne Carter at Bangkok 1899
Musician Shayne Carter writes about his time as the inaugural artist in residence at creative hub Bangkok 1899 where he immersed himself in local culture and composed and performed with Thai artists.
Arts/News
Creative insomnia in Singapore
Choreographer Natalie Clark says she experienced 'creative insomnia' born of a flood of ideas while on a four-week Foundation/Creative New Zealand residency with T.H.E Dance Company in Singapore.