A recounting of a week long trip to Barcelona for the first time, told by a Shanghai flaneur in the second person.

As the director of our new study abroad office at Duke Kunshan University, it was my honor and privilege to participate in the CIEE annual conference held this year from November 7-10 in Barcelona. It was also a great pleasure to visit this wonderful city for the first time (which I will write up in another entry to follow). The focus of the CIEE conference was on “educating global citizens in the digital age” and the conference included many insightful presentations and panels on a wide range of topics relating to the central theme.

Some musings on where Asia begins and ends, where is the center and what are the peripheries, and where does Southeast Asia fit in? With some reflections on my recent trip to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore