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Luce Scholars Program

News and Highlights

March 29, 2021

The Asia Foundation Announces the 2021-2022 Luce Scholars

After a three-month remote selection process, The Henry Luce Foundation and The Asia Foundation are delighted to announce the 2021–2022 class of Luce Scholars. This year, nominations came from over…

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InAsia Blog and Podcast

May 27, 2020

Notes from the Field: Luce Scholar Interrupted

When Luce Scholar Davis Butner fled Shanghai ahead Covid-19 travel restrictions, he took only his dufflebag and a set of indelible impressions of a city he calls “a boiling hotpot of overlapping daily routines and paradoxical interactions.”