Photographing Shangri-La from Center on US-China Relations on Vimeo. National Geographic magazine photographer Michael Yamashita will share images and stories from his newest publication, Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa this Thursday Feb. 21 at the Asia Society in New York. Event Details Photographing Shangri-La with Michael Yamashita Feb. 21, 2013, 6:30pm – 8:00pm […]
Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians but the whole world. MediaStorm and Asia Society have collaborated to produce On Thinner Ice: Melting Glaciers on the Roof of the World, examining the loss of these […]
Asia Society and MediaStorm collaborated to publish Clearing the Air: China’s Environmental Challenge. With the 2008 Olympics starting in a matter of days, Beijing’s air quality has been under close scrutiny, and despite efforts to clean it up, the pollution still poses a serious problem for everyone around. Clearing the Air looks at the overall […]
