Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

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The Indonesian Ministry of Education & Culture Darmasiswa Scholarship Program is now accepting applications from Filipino students interested in studying Bahasa Indonesia and Indonesian culture in any of 71 participating universities in Indonesia this 2019. Deadline of applications is on 1 March 2019.

The book, Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644 : Local Comparisons and Global Connections, may be downloaded free from the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) website. Written by Birgit Tremml-Werner, it was published in 2015 by Amsterdam University Press. 

The College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman will be hosting a lecture by Jung Bong Choi, The Political Economy of Korean Blockbusters, Then and Now, on Thursday, March 22 at 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Film Studio, CMC Media Center, University of the Philippines Diliman. 

The Opening Night of the Haruki Murakami Festival will feature a lecture by Dr. Alona Gueverra, alumna of the UP Asian Center’s Japanese graduate studies program. Her lecture, along with other presentations and performances, will be held on 27 February 2018, 5 pm to 7 pm at the Leong Hall Auditorium, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City.

Popular imagination pegs the Kama Sutra primarily as a sex manual; certainly it is, but there’s more to it than that, as James McConnachie shows in The Book of Love: The Story of the Kamasutra, published by Metropolitan Books in 2008.