A life-changing week in the other heart of Asian civilization

A brief and intense sun-filled tour of the temples, shrines, river, canals, malls, jazz bars, and historic sites of Bangkok

A tour of Hanoi with its lakes, temples, museums, and shops in labyrinthine streets of the Old Town reveals a Chinese- and French-inflected though distinctively Vietnamese heritage

There are a growing number of British universities building campuses in Asian countries, including China, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Americans, the leading proponents of liberal arts education in the world, are less active in this region, though now Yale, Duke, NYU, and a few other intrepid explorers are leading the way. For the rest of you out there, I have a simple message: The time to invest in liberal arts education in Asia is now!

In my previous post, I recapped a five-week tour of Asia that was the first part of my two-part recruiting mission for DKU and the launch of our new undergrad degree program in fall 2018. This time I’ve decided to break up my current Asia tour into separate posts by country, starting with Singapore.