BA Asian Studies

Home to more than half of the global population, Asia in the twenty-first century is reclaiming the place it held in world affairs before the rise of Europe in the eighteenth. The Asian continent contains some of the world s largest economies as well as its largest cities, and Asia s industrial production leads the world. Its societies are a wellspring of creative energy the world s largest film industry, for instance, is in India, and Japanese manga has had an enormous influence on global pop culture. In everything from the global economy to climate change, Asia s sheer size makes it a force to reckon with in the dynamics that will shape our common future.