East Asian studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present.
 The field includes the study of the region's culture, written language, history, and political institutions.
 East Asian Studies is located within the broader field of Area studies and is also interdisciplinary in character, incorporating elements of the social sciences (anthropology, economics, sociology, politics etc.) and humanities (literature, history, art, film, music, etc.), among others.
 The field encourages scholars from diverse disciplines to exchanges ideas on scholarship as it relates to the East Asian experience and the experience of East Asia in the world.
 In addition, the field encourages scholars to educate others to have a deeper understanding of, and appreciation and respect for, all that is East Asia and, therefore, to promote peaceful human integration worldwide.
The historical phenomenon of colonisation is one that stretches around the globe and across time.
 Modern state global colonialism, or imperialism, began in the 15th century with the "Age of Discovery", led by Portuguese and Spanish exploration of the Americas, the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India and East Asia.
 The Spanish and Portuguese empires were the first global empires because they were the first to stretch across different continents, covering vast territories around the globe.
 The phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was first used for the Spanish Empire in the 16th century.
 During the late 16th and 17th centuries, England, France and the Dutch Republic also established their own overseas empires, in direct competition with each other.
 The end of the 18th and early 19th century saw the first era of decolonization, when most of the European colonies in the Americas gained their independence from their respective metropoles. Spain was irreversibly weakened after the loss of their New World colonies, but the Kingdom of Great Britain (uniting Scotland with England and Wales), France, Portugal, and the Dutch turned their attention to the Old World, particularly South Africa, India and South East Asia, where coastal enclaves had already been established.
Provincial Highway 11, also known as Hualien-Taitung Coastal Highway for its connection between Hualien County and Taitung County is located on the east coast of Taiwan.
 This highway, which is 178.229 km, begins in Hualien City and ends in Taitung City.
 It also has 3 branch lines.
 The East Coast National Scenic Area and Farglory Ocean Park (Hualien Ocean Park) are also located on this highway.
 It was called Tōkaidō during Japanese rule period.
CrossAsia is an internet portal offering access to printed and electronic resources concerning Asian studies to individuals affiliated to a German institution which is part of the "Blauer Leihverkehr".
 CrossAsia is being created and supervised by the East Asia Department of Berlin State Library, until 2015 the responsible library for East- and Southeast Asia (6,25) within the special research collection programme of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
 From 2016 onwards "CrossAsia" is coordinated and supervised in cooperation with Heidelberg University.
 "CrossAsia", formerly known as Virtual Library East- and South East Asia, merged in 2015 with "Savifa", Virtual Library South Asia.
 Information is presented as well in Latin as in Asian script.
Dibrugarh (pron: ˌdɪbru:ˈgɑ:) is a city and is the headquarters of the Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam in India.
 Well known as the Tea City of India, Dibrugarh is considered to be a major city in eastern India in line with Guwahati and Bhubaneswar and is the emerging communication and industrial hub of North East India.
 Dibrugarh is also one of the two main cities in the state of Assam to receive urban development aid from the Asian Development Bank and is the nerve centre of industry, communication and healthcare of the upper Assam region.
 Dibrugarh is located 439 km (273 miles) east of Guwahati, the largest city of the Indian state of Assam.
 Dibrugarh is well connected to the rest of India by rail, road and air transport and thus serves as a gateway to eastern Assam and also parts of Arunachal Pradesh.
 Moreover, there has also been a consistent demand, particularly from the industrial sectors, for starting international flights from Dibrugarh to Bangkok and Singapore.
 Mega projects like Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited, India's longest rail cum road bridge Bogibeel bridge and other upcoming modern urban infrastructure are transforming Dibrugarh into a vibrant city.
 Of late, the city of Dibrugarh is emerging as a popular destination for business and leisure trips for tourists from India and abroad and the 9th edition of the North East Business Summit was held in the city with the theme "Building bridges with South East Asia", where representatives from South East Asian nations and business leaders of the country pledged to contribute substantially for the socio-economic growth of the North East.
 Dibrugarh is also a centre of education and research and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) organized the 18th National Space Science Symposium in the city in January–February, 2014.
 The city Master Plan area of Dibrugarh is 66.14 sq. kilometres and population is .
Chen Shu-chu (, born circa 1951) is a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung in southeastern Taiwan.
 She gives generously with her modest incomes.
 She said "Money serves its purpose only when it is used for those who need it and always be happy when she helped others."
 She was selected as one of the Time 100 for year 2010 in the Heroes category.
 She is also one of the 48 heroes of Philanthropy by Forbes Asia. "
Reader's Digest" also honors her as the winner of 2010 Asian of the year.
 In 2012, she also was selected as one of the Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
Asia Cosmopolitan Awards is an international award established by Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in the context of commemoration of the 1300-year anniversary in 2010 of Heijo-kyo (ancient capital of Japan located in present-day Nara) as the last destination of the ancient Silk Road and one of the first cosmopolitan cities in East Asia.
 It will be awarded to individuals or organizations who have made substantial and significant contributions to the development and enrichment of East Asian Community in the field of cultural and economic integration, narrowing the developmental gaps, and establishing sustainably growing society in the region.
The Huatung Valley or Hualien-Taitung Valley (), also known as East Rift Valley or the Longitudinal Valley, is a long and narrow valley located between the Chungyang Range and Haian Range.
 It is also recognized as a plain area which stretches for about 180 kilometers near the eastern coast of Taiwan, passes from Hualien City at the north to Taitung City at the south.
 It was called Nakasendō Plain (中仙道平野 , Nakasendō heiya ) or "Nakasendō" during era of Japanese rule.
Taiwan ( ), officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.
 Its neighbors include China (officially the People's Republic of China, PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Developmental state, or hard state, is a term used by international political economy scholars to refer to the phenomenon of state-led macroeconomic planning in East Asia in the late twentieth century.
 In this model of capitalism (sometimes referred to as "state development capitalism"), the state has more independent, or autonomous, political power, as well as more control over the economy.
 A developmental state is characterized by having strong state intervention, as well as extensive regulation and planning.
 The term has subsequently been used to describe countries outside East Asia which satisfy the criteria of a developmental state.
 Botswana, for example, has warranted the label since the early 1970s.
 The developmental state is sometimes contrasted with a predatory state or weak state.

Question: What state in East Asia is the city Taitung located?
Answer: Taiwan