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China and India in Africa: Comparative Assessments on Trade, Technology, and Knowledge Flows
Antonio Andreoni Professor of Development Economics, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Co-Director, Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation, SOAS Veda Vaidyanathan Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
December 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC
We are pleased to invite you to a thought-provoking discussion that explores China in Africa paradigm in a comparative perspective with India. While much attention has been centered on China in Africa and Global China as a lens through which to examine changing patterns of investment and infrastructure in Africa, this…
大学沙龙261期:孙立新——性的起源与演化:从生物多样性到社会性别观的再审视
主讲人 : 孙立新 纽约州立大学行为进化生物学博士,哈佛大学拉德克利夫高等研究院研究员,中央华盛顿大学杰出研究教授,著有《性的起源》,《天择之骗》及《人的公平本性》,研究横跨动物行为,演化逻辑与人类心理。目前致力于灵长类社会,认知与行为经济学的交叉探索,以科学视角追问人性本质。 评议人 : 徐艺珊 加州及纽约州执照临床心理学家。美国跨文化心理诊所Mind & Body Garden Psychology创始人兼CEO。持有睡眠治疗与性心理治疗双专科认证,专长于失眠、性心理障碍及焦虑等临床问题。现任斯坦福大学医学院睡眠科兼任临床教员,兼任美国行为睡眠医学会分会主席。著有《像吃火锅一样做爱》,译有《让孩子睡个好睡》,并主持Deep into Sleep等多档播客。 主持人:张海云 加州理工学院物理与神经生物学博士。学术背景涵盖神经细胞建模、膜片钳单通道记录及膜蛋白特性分析。在硅谷创办 Enspire school,拥有十余年数学和科学教育经验。长期关注并致力于全人教育、青少年心理健康与女性身心安全等议题。
September 6, 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC
讲座基于英文版著作《性的起源》,揭示自然界繁殖的狂野与离奇: 黏菌可有上百种交配类型,某些真菌更超两万种可能,而鞭尾蜥与加州秃鹫等80多种脊椎动物竟能孤雌生殖;小丑鱼会由雄变雌,爬行动物可随温度决定性别。这些科学新发现一再告诉我们,自然界中的性别远非固定不变的二元划分。那么,当科学不断撼动我们对性的根本认知时,我们的社会制度,法律规范,教育理念乃至日常生活中的性观念是否还跟得上这场静默的革命 ?我们又该如何重新定义自己,以及彼此之间的关系?搜索“大学沙龙” Youtube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙260期:王震宇——当“智能体”成为“思想者”:它将如何改变社会科学研究?——从美国国会决策建模到总统选举预测
主讲人:王震宇 上海社会科学院新闻研究所副研究员、青年学术研究交流中心主任,香港大学当代中国与世界研究中心客座研究员,法雨科技CEO。研究方向:智能社会科学与数字地缘政治。 评议人:王裕华 哈佛大学政府系福特基金会现代中国研究讲席教授。 主持人:李成 香港大学当代中国与世界研究中心创始主任,治理与政策学院教授。兼任多伦多大学蒙克全球事务与公共政策学院杰出研究员。华东师范大学外语系本科,加州大学伯克莱分校亚洲学硕士,普林斯顿大学政治学博士。
August 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
人工智能的快速发展正在推动社会科学研究范式革命。智能体正成为具备认知、推理和角色模拟能力的“生成式思想者”:既能辅助研究者分析现实数据发现新的知识,也能在理论指导下生成行为数据,模拟具体行为体在特定情境中的判断与选择。本次讲座将围绕人工智能赋能社会科学的两条路径展开:一是作为通用问题执行者”,嵌入资料搜集、文本分析、变量构造和模型解释等“科学环”的全流程;二是作为“社会系统模拟器”,构建代表各类人类行为体与情境构成的模拟社会。讲座结合两个政治科学的研究案例展开:第一项研究聚焦精英政治与政策生产,介绍如何通过人工智能来识别和分析美国两党议员在涉华立法上的决策模式分野,并最终形成可复用的地缘政治分析系统;第二项研究聚焦选举政治的结果预测…
大学沙龙259期:张琳——创业打工人:从数字经济到AI超级个体的中国经验
主讲人 : 张琳 南加州大学安纳伯格传播学院博士,美国新罕布什尔大学副教授。主要研究全球数字经济、科学技术与社会及文化创新产业,著有The Labor of Reinvention:Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy (《重塑自我的劳动:新中国数字经济中的创业》),《创业打工人:数字经济时代的个体、市场与国家》。现任《中国传播学刊》 (CJC)副主编。 评议人 : 王星 南开大学社会学院教授、博士生导师。南开大学中国式现代化发展研究院高级研究员、南开大学工匠研究中心主任。天津市产业工人研究中心主任,全总工会理论和劳动关系智库专家。中国社会学会经济社会学专业委员会主任委员、中国社会学会发展社会学专业委员会副主任委员。研究方向为经济社会学和劳工社会学。 主持人 : 邢麟舟 香港科技大学公共政策学部助理教授。研究领域为技术与工作社会学,科学技术与社会 (STS),中国科技与创新政策,聚焦平台经济、数字基础设施与 数字劳工的社会影响及治理。研究成果发表于《研究政策》 (Research Policy)、《科学、技术与人类价值》 (Science,Technology & Human Values)、《大数据与社会》 (Big Data & Society)、《自然辩证法通讯》等国内外重要学术期刊。
August 16, 2026 at 12:30 PM UTC
过去几十年,创业被视为少数人的冒险。而在互联网平台和人工智能快速发展的今天,它正逐渐成为越来越普遍的生活方式。从淘宝店主、跨境代购到AI赋能的“一人公司”,越来越多的人开始成为自己的老板,也成为自己的员工。但当技术赋予个人更强大的能力时,我们是否真的进入了一个更加自由的时代 ? 创业究竟意味着解放,还是另一种形式的劳动强化?本次讲座将回顾中关村创业者与淘宝村家庭创业者的故事,并结合对AI落地的调研,探讨数字经济如何重组劳动、家庭与市场关系,以及AI时代“一人公司”和“超级个体”的兴起。从互联网创业到AI创业,技术不断改变工作的形式,也促使我们重新思考劳动、创新与人的价值。搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙258期:夏春——AI算力半导体热潮:这次真的不一样吗 ?
主讲人 : 夏春 智汇集团创始人,兼任智谷趋势首席经济学家。香港国际金融学会副会长、香港全球价值投资协会首席经济廊问及香港城市大学特邀金融教授,并为多家金融组织理事。毕业于北京大学,获国际经济学学士、硕士学位,后于美国明尼苏达大学获经济学博士学位。曾任香港大学金融系教授、博士生导师,并在美国上市金融机构及香港家族办公室担任高管。其研究聚焦全球宏观、投资策略与资产配置,兼具学术与实践经验。 评议人 : 姚志勇 复旦大学管理学院应用经济学系教授。研究领域涉及产业经济学、企业理论、创新与企业家精神等。长期关注中国企业的创新实践,致力于从经济学与管理学的交又视角理解企业家行为及其对经济发展的意义。 主持人 : 孙国栋 中国社科院经济学博士,WorldViews 中国首席代表。研究方向:奥地利经济学、制度与空间经济学、发展中国家转型研究、货币银行信用理论等等。
August 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
AI热潮与互联网泡沫截然不同,它更像19世纪末的电气化革命先是基建狂热催生第一轮泡沫,破裂后经历十年冷却,待新发明、新商业模式成熟后再引爆第二轮应用泡沫。本次讲座将带您复盘过去200年铁路、电气化与互联网的演进轨迹,揭示几个反直觉判断: 铁路泡沫的破裂主因并非融资问题,而是蝗虫灾害 ;康波周期等传统框架可能无法套用于技术突变时代,未来无法被历史经验简单推导,过去流行的很多经济学观念与历史经验并不吻合。我们还将剖析泡沫破裂前普遍存在的六个步骤,目前已在算力租赁、订单营收等领域看到相似信号,我们还要警惕加息、反垄断等变数。历史告诉我们,真正收益于技术和产业革命的巨无霸往往是同时掌控基础设施与应用端的平台型公司,未来类似通用电气的企业,将…
大学沙龙257期:吴玲伟——AI对伦理的挑战
主讲人: 吴玲伟 清华大学经管《人工智能伦理》课特聘导师,宁波大学客座教授,清华、北大 、人大、南开、港大等校创业导师。书籍《为改变而生》的作者。 评议人 : 邵青 弗吉尼亚理工大学教育管理学博士。莫干山研究院专家咨询委员会委员、副院长,苇草智酷创始合伙人。 主持人: 陆斌泉 大学沙龙首席AI官。原数字资产研究院长二角分院副院长,原横琴新区数链数字金融研究院CTO;曾获上海市科技进步二等奖。
July 26, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
AI伦理究竟应该探讨什么? 为什么今天谈论AI伦理如此重要? 面对AI的高速演进,我们究竟应该如何定义AI,又该如何理解人的价值? 如果说生命不断演进,社会关系也将从部族、家庭、个体走向人机共生,我们将如何面对全新的生命状态和社会关系? AI是否正在形成某种自主意识和新的生命状态?当AI比人更高效正确,思考、行动、创造,甚至目的和选择都逐步让渡给AI,人类是否还会选择那条更费力却更有意义的道路 ?人会更幸福还是更空洞?AI为何物?人为何物?搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙256期:程乐松——AI 时代的身体与生命:从人文主义出发的观察与反思
主讲人: 程乐松 2005年毕业于香港中文大学,获博士学位,嗣后任教于中国人民大学及北京大学。现任北京大学博雅特聘教授、博士生导师,北京大学哲学系宗教学系主任。教育部长江学者奖励计划长江学者特聘教授 (2022年度)。主要研究领域为早期道家思想、中古道教、两汉思想史等。出版专著四部,中英文论文数十篇。 评议人: 铃木将久 东京大学人文社会系研究科教授。专攻中国现代文学,主要研究方向为1930年代到1940年的上海现代主义文学,抗战时期到解放初期的现实主义文学理论等。日文著作主要有《上海毛夕二天么、(上海现代主义)》 (中国文库,2012年) 等,中文编著主要有《当中国深入世界:东亚视角下的中国崛起》 (亚际书院2016年)等。 评议人: 冯应谦 香港中文大学社会科学院院长和香港亚太研究所所长。他也是北京师范大学艺术与传播学院教授。研究范畴包括数字亚台、流行文化、青年和文化研究、文化创意产业与政策研究等。他在多个政府委员会中任职。目前他是教育局资讯科技教育策略发展督导委员会成员、大屿山发展及保育公关策略专家小组成员(土木工程拓展署),以及通讯事务管理局委员。 主持人: 刘世鼎 澳门大学传播系教授、高等研究院成员,曾任哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心访问学者。长期关注情感如何形塑政治、媒介、性别与社会。著有 The Politics of People: Protest Cultures in China,合著Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China。目前聚焦情感性别及AI时代的文化政治。
July 12, 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC
生命总是以进行时的方式浸入时代,同时以主动和创造的方式形塑其所处的时代。现代性进程中的一个重要特征是在身心二元论的结构中身体与生命的分离,以及通过对世界的祛魅与技术的发展让身体不断从生活世界中的退场。智能时代成为我们对当下世界的某种总体性定义模式,就是因为它在以不可逆转且毫无缝隙的方式改造着我们的生命,这一改造过程的关键变量之一就是:身体是进一步地与生命与生活世界分离,还是在某种独特的技术语境中重新凸显出有限身体与鲜活经验的价值。搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙254期:汪玉凯——从结构行政主义到智能行政生态主义:人工智能将如何解构传统科层结构和改变政府运行逻辑
主讲人:汪玉凯 国务院特殊津贴专家,国家行政学院二级教授、博士生导师。曾在北京大学政府管理学院招收博士研究生。主要从事公共管理、行政改革、数字化战略、数字政府、数字经济等领域研究。出版著作37部,其中个人学术专著9部,发表论文560余篇。长期参与国际学术交流与合作,主持中德、中韩公共政策与行政改革比较研究项目。2024年出版学术自传《丹青难写是精神——我的学术和思想历程》。 评议人:郑磊 复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授、数字与移动治理实验室主任。纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校公共管理与政策博士。担任《政府信息季刊》(GIQ)副主编、联合国全球电子政务报告专家组成员、达沃斯世界经济论坛全球未来理事会数据公平委员会理事、国际数字政府学会中国分部联合主席等社会职务。2021年以来连续每年入选爱思唯尔(EIsevier)中国高被引学者榜。 主持人:燕继荣 政治学博士。北京大学政府管理学院教授、院长;教育部长江学者特聘教授,教育部政治学研究基地、北京大学国家治理研究院研究员、副院长,北京大学公共治理研究所所长。著、译书15部,发表学术论文、政策评论等文章250余篇。
July 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
在本演讲中,作者提出三个新概念:结构行政主义、公共行政视域下的人工智能、智能行政生态主义。演讲以这三个新概念作为基础,展开全部内容的分析和论证。作者认为,工业文明语境下,以马克斯·韦伯理性官僚制为理论根基形成的结构行政主义,长期占据现代公共行政的主导范式地位。数字文明时代到来后,分布式智能治理技术的全域嵌入与深度应用,从技术基础、社会结构、治理需求与权力逻辑层面彻底颠覆了结构行政主义赖以存续的现实前提,其层级壁垒固化、运行流程僵化、条块分割明显、治理弹性不足的内在短板被持续放大,传统行政范式面临全方位理论危机与实践困境,呈现出被人工智能系统性解构、渐进式衰落的发展趋势。作者系统梳理结构行政主义的历史演进逻辑、时代生成必然性,深度剖析…
Chinese Citizenship Webinar Series (2026) – Session 4 | Performative state presence shapes citizenship in the China-North Korea borderland (27 June 2026)
Shiwei Chen Erasmus University Rotterdam Shiwei Chen (PhD in sociology, Nanyang Technological University Singapore) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department for Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. As a sociologist and ethnographer, she is working on issues related to migration, medical sociology and STS.
June 27, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
This talk examines the everyday practices of citizenship in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Based on an ethnographic fieldwork in a rural village along the North Korean border, I introduce the concept of “performative state presence” to comprehend how residents and officials navigate China’s political landsca…
The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow, Banking and Monetary Changes, Boom and Bust from the late Qing to the Chinese Republic
Professor David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Sun Yat-sen University) David Faure is an Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and currently a research fellow at the Sun Yat-sen University Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities.
June 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM UTC
Historians know very little about the movements of silver within China for all of the Qing dynasty and yet some understanding of them is crucial for appreciating how the country fitted together as a monetary whole. They also mattered to the development of currency and banking in the last decades of the Qing dynasty and…
大学沙龙253期:丛瑞安——在“稳”与“挂逼”之间:理解日结工以及更多劳动者
主讲人: 丛瑞安 清华大学 政治学系博士研究生,主要研究方向为马克思主义政治学、政治社会学。长期关注城中村治理,进行调研并撰写文章,近期出版作品《马驹桥的时间》。 评议人 : 严飞 清华大学 社会学系副教授 ,《清华社会学评论》执行主编。 他的研究领域为历史社会学、政治社会学、文化社会学、转型社会学、大数据与量化历史。著有《悬浮:异乡人的都市生存》《穿透: 像社会学家一样思考》等。 主持人: 韦雯 毕业于波士顿大学社会学系。前媒体人,目前以志愿者身份担任大学沙龙董事会秘书及《大学沙龙评论》编辑。
June 20, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
从马驹桥的日结工出发,到城市青年的“躺平”,我们或许可以慢慢发现这样一种生活状态——在“稳”与“挂逼”之间徘徊。他们为何躺平,又为何奋起?在他们身上,藏着理解更多人,包括理解我们自己的密码。搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。
UW Taiwan Studies Spring Colloquia
Bernard Chih-chieh Chou, Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and UW Visiting Scholar Yang-hsun Hou, University of Washington Doctoral Candidate, Learning Sciences and Human Development Hui-nien Lin, Associate Professor in the Studies of Indigenous Cultural Development Program at National Pingtung University, Taiwan and UW Visiting Scholar Tin Pak, University of Washington Senior, Political Science and International Studies Charlie Shih, University of Washington Masters Student, Culturally Sustaining Education Margaret Yun-PuTu (Nikal Kabala'an), University of Washington Doctoral Candidate, School of Law
June 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM UTC
Please join us for our annual Taiwan Studies Program Spring Colloquium where we celebrate the end of a busy academic year with research presentations from graduating students as well as visiting scholars of the Taiwan Studies Program. RSVP at bit.ly/TSP-26 Presentation information on our website at https://jsis.washing…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年5月:蓝正辉——走向国际的中国重水墨
主讲人:蓝正辉 中国重水墨的开拓者,活跃于纽约和北京的结构表现主义艺术家。中国“八五运动”参与者。1987年毕业于四川美术学院,目前是哈佛大学CAMLab访问学者。 他曾代言多个国际顶端品牌:梅赛德斯奔驰-迈巴赫,BMW宝马汽车,大众辉腾汽车,法国DS汽车,美国野马汽车,意大利顶级男装定制Kiton。2013年被评为舒适跨界艺术年度人物,2018获得首届上海国际进口博览会展陈学术奖。参加第56届威尼斯双年展,香港art central博览会。 作品收藏于美国古根海姆美术馆,美国罗斯查尔德家族美术馆,美国卢贝尔家族博物馆,美国普林斯顿大学博物馆,中国美术馆等。 点评人:邓菲 复旦大学文史研究院研究员,复旦大学艺术研究院副院长。北京大学历史系毕业,牛津大学博士。2017年-2018年、2025年-2026年哈佛燕京学社访问学者。东京大学亚洲高等研究院访问研究员和雷恩第二大学汉学系访问教授。
May 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
讲座简介: 本次讲座将系统性地拆解重水墨的当代构建与国际化进程。讲座内容贯穿创作者的个人实践历程、本体方法论的理论推演,以及在全球化语境下的跨文化接受逻辑,最终落脚于人工智能时代东方视觉艺术的未来走向。 1. 跨界游走与寻道经历:主讲人从工科到艺术、从东方到西方,包括四川、沈阳、成都、重庆、海南、广州、深圳、香港、安徽、北京,威尼斯、米兰、东京、巴黎、多伦多、纽约、波士顿。2. 重水墨的界定与当代创新:探讨重水墨在传统与现当代艺术结合点上的位置。客观梳理其发展脉络、标志性里程碑与关键创新,结合学术层面的综合评价,明确其在当代水墨领域的艺术史坐标。3. 跨文化语境与视觉语言:分析重水墨的国际视野与跨文化适应性。在全球化语境中,重水…
Chinese Citizenship Webinar Series (2026) – Session 3 | Making Belonging at the Margins: Borderland Citizenship among Myanmar Brides in Southwest China (30 May 2026)
Xiaoxin Zhong Yunnan University Xiaoxin Zhong is Associate Professor of Ethnology in the School of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University. His research focuses on Myanmar studies and border studies along the China–Myanmar border.
May 30, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC
The third session of the Chinese Citizenship Webinar Series (2026) will take place online on 30 May 2026. This session features a talk by Xiaoxin Zhong from Yunnan University, focusing on the everyday lives, social agency, and forms of belonging developed by Myanmar brides living in southwest China’s border regions. Da…
大学沙龙252期:信强——中美俄能否新塑世界格局?
主讲人: 信强 复旦大学教授、国际问题研究院学术委员会主任、美国研究中心副主任,台湾研究中心主任。曾任美国哈佛大学耶鲁大学、约翰·霍普金斯大学、美利坚大学客座研究员,并在美国国会众议院担任众议员立法助理近一年。主要从事台湾问题、中美关系、美国政治与外交、海洋安全等方面的研究,出版中英文各类学术著作10余部,学术论文90余篇。 主讲人: 黄靖 上海外国语大学特聘教授,上海区域与国别研究院美国与亚太研究所所长。先后任教于哈佛大学、犹他州立大学(终身教授)、斯坦福大学、北京语言大学、李光耀公共政策学院,曾任布鲁金斯学会资深研究员。其专著《中共政治中的宗派主义》获大平正芳奖。研究领域涵盖中国高层政治、发展战略、中美与中俄关系及亚太安全等。德国博思学院终身院士,哈佛大学政治学博士。 评议人 : 庚欣 深圳广电集团 (深圳卫视)时事评论员、驻港澳办事处首席顾问,参与各档新闻节目的点评和《直播港澳台》《决胜制高点》等节目的常任评论。曾长年任凤凰卫视评论员,新闻今日谈》《金石财经》等节目的常任评论。曾任日本道纪忠华智库首席研究员、中国人民大学重阳金融研究院高级研究员。 主持人兼评议人 : 高兰 复旦大学日本研究中心教授,山梨学院大学教授。研究领域:中美日关系、日本外交思想。曾在法国巴黎政治学院日本早稻田大学、美国哈佛大学等访学。出版中日文专著五部,发表中英日文学术论文130余篇。
May 30, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
战后以来,中美俄战略大三角主导了战后世界秩序的建构与发展。近期中美、中俄首脑峰会,达成了中美建设性战略稳定关系,再次确认中俄“新时代全面战略协作伙伴关系”。今后,尽管依然存在战略分歧与摩擦,中美“肩并肩”的竞合态势、中俄“背靠背”的合作深化发展将重塑世界格局的走向。围绕战争与和平、竞争与合作、经济繁荣与共生发展等议题,中美俄三国在新型战略大三角关系框架下,如何更好地发挥领导力并继续引领世界各国的和平发展,受到极大关注。基于此,本次讲座将聚焦中美俄三国各自的战略诉求,展开对今后世界格局变化趋势的深入分析与探讨。
How the Tang Fed Its Frontiers: Military Farms and Environmental Constraints in the Northwestern Borderlands
Professor Maddalena Barenghi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Maddalena Barenghi is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She has held teaching and research appointments at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the University of Salzburg. She pursued academic training at Wuhan University and National Central University (Taiwan), received an MA in Sinology from SOAS, University of London, and earned her Ph.D. in co-supervision from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and LMU Munich. Her research focuses on Chinese imperial history and historiography, with current work examining medieval Inner Asian frontier institutions, imperial economies, and military systems, as well as state–environment interactions across the ecological margins of empires.
May 28, 2026 at 2:00 AM UTC
During the first millennium of imperial history, East Asian empires expanded into the semi-arid zones of Inner Asia and established agricultural settlements to sustain frontier garrisons. Under the tuntian system, soldier-farmers cultivated land to provision troops and livestock. A comprehensive analysis of how this ag…
Competition without Self-Harm: Managing Securitization in U.S.–China Relations
Associate Professor Xiaoyu Pu
May 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM UTC
This talk examines the growing securitization in U.S.–China competition. As both Washington and Beijing increasingly treat interdependence as a source of vulnerability, securitization has become a central feature of economic and technological policy. While some expansion of security is necessary, its unchecked growth r…
Mule Carts in Beijing: Knowledge and Ignorance in Transportation Planning in the 1950s
Professor Yujie Li (University of Florida) Yujie Li is a historian of twentieth century China with a focus on labor, technology, and political economy in the socialist era. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida. Yujie received her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her book manuscript Foolish Man Moves the Mountains: Labor and Technology in Maoist China examines how the Chinese Communist Party struggled to support a modernizing and revolutionary agenda with peasants’ muscle power and predominantly rural, pre-modern technologies. Yujie’s work has been published in Technology and Culture, Twentieth Century China and Artefact. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, among others.
May 15, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
Economic planning in socialist China required the local planners to gather comprehensive information within their jurisdiction on one hand and implement centrally issued plan on the other. The dual challenge of knowing the real economy and following ever shifting policy targets is particularly daunting in pre-mechanize…
Book Talk: 'Chop Fry Watch Learn': Fu-Pei Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food' with Michelle T. King
Professor Michelle T. King Michelle T. King, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in modern Chinese food and gender history. She is the author of Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food (2024), which was named one of the best books of 2024 by the New York Times and NPR, and received the support of a NEH Public Scholars Fellowship. She is also co-editor of Modern Chinese Foodways (2025), editor of Culinary Nationalism in Asia (2019), and author of Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (2014).
May 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004), Taiwan's beloved and pioneering postwar cook book author and television celebrity, was often called the "Julia Child of Chinese cooking." Fu appeared continuously on television for forty years, wrote dozens of best-selling Chinese cookbooks, owned a successful cooking school and traveled the wor…
Programmable Relations: The Governance of Intimacy in the Sinofuturist World
Hsin-Hui Lin
May 7, 2026 at 6:00 AM UTC
This talk examines how intimacy becomes a site of governance in contemporary Sinophone speculative fiction. Rather than treating intimacy as a private or purely affective domain, I explore how it is increasingly regulated by state power and techno-capitalist systems. Focusing on works by Hon Lai-Chu (韓麗珠), He Jing-Bin…
Local Lore of a Sacred Landscape: The Daoist Tradition of Peach Blossom Spring
Professor Mark Meulenbeld (The University of Hong Kong) Mark Meulenbeld teaches Chinese Religion in the School of Chinese at HKU. In addition to research on Daoism and the history of its interaction with the traditions of local cults in Hunan Province, he has begun to engage in projects that incorporate the Chinese legacy traditions in Southeast Asia, especially the rituals of ethnic Yao minorities in Northern Thailand. An increasingly prominent issue driving his current work is ecology. His publications include Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel (University of Hawai’i, 2015), and The Presence of Peach Spring: Daoism, Ritual, and Locality (Harvard Asia Center, July 2026).
May 5, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
Daoist priests in central and northern Hunan Province (PRC), an area known as Plum Mountain (Meishan 梅山), are the custodians of many local traditions. Among them is an ancient and elaborate ritual dedicated to a sacred site famous since medieval times: Peach Blossom Spring (Taohuayuan 桃花源), or Peach Spring Grotto (Taoy…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年5月:Mark Greeven—中国AI生态:竞争新理论的试验场
主讲嘉宾:Mark Greeven 马克教授(Mark Greeven)是管理创新教授,现任瑞士IMD国际管理发展学院亚洲区院长。他拥有二十年在中国进行研究、教学和咨询的经验,专注于如何在动荡的世界中组织创新。他于2025年及2023年入选Thinkers50排行榜,并在2017年被列入Thinkers50 Radar下一代30位商业思想领袖名单。 马克教授与多家创新型中国企业(包括平安、阿里巴巴、联想、海尔等)以及具有创业精神的跨国企业(包括拜耳、强生、戴姆勒、ASML、博世、雀巢、历峰集团、沃尔玛、友邦保险等)合作,探索新颖的组织方式,加速企业创新,推动数字业务转型,并打造能够在不确定性中蓬勃发展的商业生态系统。 马克教授精通中文。他2018年出版的《中国商业生态系统:阿里巴巴与百度、腾讯、小米、乐视的竞合之道》一书,得到了著名风险投资家Tim Draper的鼎力推荐,该书探讨了中国的数字商业生态系统,为全球企业高管和专业人士提供了在不确定性中如何引领、创造和颠覆市场的见解与实践经验。2019年,他出版了《中国式创新》,为读者深入揭示了中国那些不为人知但在全球范围内具备竞争力的创新者。该书得到了加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校教授Henry Chesbrough的大力推荐。2021年,他出版了《无界零售》,解读了中国的零售变革,帮助全球零售和创新领域的高管理解其对全球的影响,获得了乐高集团执行主席Jørgen Vig Knudstorp的背书推荐。在IMD,马克教授担任构建数字生态系统(Building Digital Ecosystems)、决胜未来战略(Strategies for Future Readiness)、新加坡卓越致胜绩效(Orchestrating Winning Performance Singapore )的项目主任;同时,他还是 IMD与麻省理工学院联合推出的决胜未来企业(Future-Ready Enterprise)项目联席主任。 马克教授是商业生态系统联盟(Business Ecosystem Alliance)的创始成员。其战略前瞻研究成果为公共与私营部门的未来发展对话提供支持,他亦担任世界经济论坛全球前瞻网络理事会成员。此外,他与施耐德电气旗下数字生态公司 AVEVA 联合进行深度工业智能研究。其研究成果发表于《哈佛商业评论》《MIT 斯隆管理评论》《欧洲管理期刊》《亚太管理期刊》等国际学术期刊,同时被福布斯、金融时报、连线、CNN、彭博社、快公司、《对话》、伦敦政治经济学院商业评论、商业时报、日经亚洲评论、每日电讯报、南华早报、中国日报等全球媒体报道。2019 年加入 IMD 前,他曾在浙江大学任教。 主持嘉宾:黄晶生 黄晶生先生现任哈佛商学院亚太顾问委员会成员,目前致力于探索、实践并倡导幸福工作与防衰老疗护。 黄晶生先生拥有哈佛大学商学院工商管理硕士学位、斯坦福大学社会学硕士学位,以及北京外国语大学英语学士学位。加入哈佛大学之前,他曾任中华股权投资协会(CVCA)理事、上海国际股权投资基金协会(SHPEA)副理事长,并在创业投资和私募股权投资领域拥有多年经验。2014年至2020年,担任哈佛中心(上海)董事总经理。 黄晶生先生职业生涯横跨学术界与产业界,早年曾在中国传媒大学担任英语讲师。之后历任美国Gartner Group公司亚太区市场研究部总监,美通无线公司市场部副总裁,软银亚洲信息基础投资基金(SAIF赛富)中国区董事总经理、香港新意控股公司企业风险投资部门合伙人,英特尔公司战略投资机构高级经理,贝恩投资董事总经理(负责建立和管理上海办公室),以及德太集团(TPG)成长基金及人民币基金驻上海合伙人。
May 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
DeepSeek的崛起让西方企业界措手不及,也暴露了一个盲区。现有的AI竞争框架,全是基于西方市场结构、监管环境和企业边界的假设搭起来的——而这些假设在中国根本站不住脚。Mark Greeven最近在《哈佛商业评论》上发了篇文章,试着换个思路:与其盯着模型跑分,不如看生态系统怎么搭。当然,这只是开了个头,远没到盖棺定论的时候。AI原生生态系统的竞争优势是什么?AI和平台逻辑撞在一起,会冒出什么新组织形态?中美AI竞争,各自强在哪、弱在哪,终局会怎样?这场分享,我们会共同探讨这些问题。
大学沙龙线下系列2026年5月:朱嘉明——六十年变迁:从珠算到AI —— 学术的内心历程与外部环境
主讲嘉宾:朱嘉明 经济学家,中国社会科学院博士,美国麻省理工学院MBA。 1980 年代,朱嘉明深度参与中国的经济改革和开放,曾任国务院技术经济研究中心综合组、中国国际信托公司(CITIC)国际研究所、西部研究中心、北京青年经济学会、中国改革与开放基金会负责人,中国社会科学院工业经济研究所副研究员,《走向未来》 丛书编委和《中青年经济论坛》主编。被誉为“改革四君子”之一。此外,朱嘉明是 1984 年“莫干山会议”的主要组织者和发起者之一。 1990年代,朱嘉明先后在哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、英国曼彻斯特大学等大学作访问学者。2000 年之后,朱嘉明曾任联合国工业发展组织经济学家,并任教于维也纳大学和台湾大学。 2010 年以来,朱嘉明一直关注并深入研究加密数字货币和区块链以及前沿科技的发展。现担任横琴粤澳深度合作区数链数字金融研究院学术与技术委员会主席。朱嘉明代表作有《国民经济结构学浅说》《现实与选择》《非均衡增长》《从自由到垄断:中国货币经济两千年》《一战与中国:一战百年会议论文集》《书话集》《Libra:一种金融创新实验》《未来决定现在:区块链、数字货币与数字经济》《元宇宙与数字经济》《突围:区块链与数字经济》《变革:元宇宙与数字经济》《区块链去中心化指数研究——计算方法、技术及其数字经济意义》《对话时代:铸造新质生产力的强国之路》《历史不能熔断》《第三种存在》《思想天际线》《加密货币原理》(即将出版)。 主持嘉宾:王开元 哈佛大学费正清中心研究员,大学沙龙资深志愿者。
May 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC
朱嘉明是一位七十有余的学者,拥有长达一个甲子的学术生涯。六十年来,他经历了非同寻常的学习、思考与探索过程,而每一个阶段都与其所处的时代变革紧密相连。作为经济学家,朱嘉明的研究与写作早已超越经济学本身,广泛涉及历史、科技、制度、文明变迁与未来社会等多个领域。在本次讲座中,朱嘉明将与听众分享他在过去六十年时代变迁中的思想演进、学术体会与人生观察。这场讲座不只在于回顾一位学者的个人历程,更能借此为我们理解知识生产与时代变迁之间的关系,提供一个具体而富有启发性的观察角度。
2026 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium | Enclosures: In and Out of Worldmaking
Prof. Eugene Y. Wang, Harvard University (keynote speaker) Prof. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University (faculty discussant) Prof. Xiaotian Yin, Williams College (faculty discussant) Yining Zhu, University of Pennsylvania (presenter) Yingxin Li & Dong Han, University of Chicago & University of Warwick (presenter) Sun Zhijian, National University of Singapore (presenter) Eli Troen, University of Kansas (presenter)
May 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
Throughout history, the meeting of images and architecture has generated spaces of imagination, devotion, and meaning. From murals and sculpture ensembles in Buddhist cave temples to digital projections and immersive installations, images and architecture have long collaborated in the making of worlds. Yet the relation…
CCS Spring 2026 Book Launch - China Sounds Across Borders: Migration, Mobility, and Modernity
Editors Andreas Steen: Professor of Modern Chinese History and Culture, Department of Global Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark Frederick Lau 劉長江: Esteemed ethnomusicologist, flutist, and conductor with a focus on Chinese, Western, and Asian music and cultures Andrew F. Jones: Louis B. Agassiz Professor in Chinese at UC Berkeley, focusing on modern Chinese literature and media culture Contributors Yuan-Yu Kuan 官元瑜: Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Barbara Mittler: Chair, Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Co-Founder, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Marc L. Moskowitz: Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina Wang Di 王笛: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yuelu Academy, Hunan University
April 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM UTC
Tracing the global journeys of Chinese sounds from the nineteenth century to the present, this volume charts a vast sonic territory: from Cantonese opera arias in San Francisco to the “Far East sound” that shaped Jamaican reggae, and from the melodies of pigeon whistles over Germany to the revolutionary anthems of Cold…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年4月:Steve Xia——AI & Finance前沿动态与创业机会
主讲嘉宾:Steve Xia 超过二十年在华尔街担任投资管理工作。在Vanguard,Fidelity, Guardian Life等Fortune 500企业担任合伙人, 高级董事总经理等职务。 负责管理量化投资,资产负债管理,投资策略团队。同时担任 Brandeis 国际商学院实践金融教授,长期专注于量化投资、固定收益,资产配置,风险建模与数据驱动决策。他将结合产业与学术经验,解析 AI 在金融中的核心应用场景、最新发展趋势,以及金融科技初创企业的前景。 活动主持人: Francis Huang Apers AI 联合创始人,公司为 MIT 孵化的 AI 金融科技创业项目,聚焦机构级房地产领域的智能化升级。他将从创业者视角出发,分享 AI 技术在垂直行业中的落地经验,以及从0到1打造AI金融产品的关键思考。
April 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
AI 正在以前所未有的速度重塑金融行业,从量化投资到资产配置,从风险管理到产业应用,新的机会不断涌现。本次「AI & Finance 前沿动态创业机会分享会」将带来更系统、更深入的一线洞察,帮助你理解技术与资本如何融合,并发现可落地的创新方向。 本次分享将重点涵盖: AI 在量化研究与资产管理中的实际应用 金融机构如何构建数据与模型驱动的决策体系 AI + 金融创业的机会地图与典型路径垂直场景(如房地产等)中的技术落地与挑战 从研究到产品,从模型到业务的转化逻辑 适合对 AI、金融科技、量化投资或创业感兴趣的学生、从业者与创业者参与。在这里,你不仅可以获取前沿信息,更能建立对未来行业结构的清晰认知。
China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) China-Russia Talks | China and Russia in the Arctic – partners or rivals?
Rush Doshi, Director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and former deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council (NSC) under US President Joe Biden Marc Lantaigne, Professor and researcher in politics, security and international relations at the University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) Minna Ålander, Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) and Associate Fellow at Chatham House Europe Programme in London Moderator: Tim Rühlig, Senior Analyst Global China, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
April 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC
Throughout the coming months, we will explore with experts different angles of the cooperation between Beijing and Moscow as well as the limitations and frictions between the two. Join us for the launch of a new series of online roundtables: China and Russia in the Arctic – partners or rivals? on Wednesday, 24 April 20…
Lessons from COVID-19 for Chinese Governance and State-Society Relations
Speaker: Xueguang Zhou, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development and Professor of Sociology, Stanford University Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work
April 23, 2026 at 8:00 PM UTC
Xueguang Zhou analyzes organizational responses to the COVID-19 crisis in a comparative perspective and discusses how this episode sheds light on the key characteristics of governance in China, particularly the relationship between mobilization capacity and institutional adaptability. His talk draws on his longstanding…
Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
Speaker: Yan Long, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work
April 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
Yan Long examines how China absorbed global health norms while remaking epidemic politics through its own authoritarian logics. Her talk highlights the interplay between transnational influences, community activism, bureaucratic control, and digital statecraft in shaping China’s pandemic response. The analysis draws on…
Taiwan Legal: How Does the EU Engage with Taiwan?
Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy
April 23, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC
We continue our speaker series about Taiwan’s status in the world with a look at its relationship with the European Union. None of the EU’s twenty-seven member states has diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but nineteen member states and the EU itself have opened quasi-embassies there and the EU holds a ministerial-level…
CCS Spring 2026 Book Launch - Chinese Socialism: Can Shanghai National Bourgeoisie be “Remolded” in the Mao Era?
Speaker/Author: Lei Ping is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at The New School University in New York. Her latest book, Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism (Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2025), offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Her writings have also appeared in leading peer-reviewed academic journals such as Journal of Asian Studies and Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism. Discussant: Satoru Hashimoto is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea (2023). His current book project, provisionally titled “Stateless Times: Transwar East Asian Literatures and Possible Postwar Worlds,” investigates transregional literatures and criticisms in East Asia in the immediate postwar period. Moderator: Cathryn Clayton is the Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
April 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
Why did bourgeois dreams persist in socialist Shanghai, even at the height of revolutionary transformation? This talk invites audiences to explore one of the most intriguing paradoxes of early Chinese socialism—the survival of bourgeois lifestyles and sentiments within a society determined to eliminate them. Drawing fr…
Recasting the National Fengshui Master: Local Knowledge, Textual Authority, and Centralized Order in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Ms Ye Hua (The University of Hong Kong) Ye Hua is a PhD candidate at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research examines the emergence of geographic physiognomy (xiangdishu) in southern China (12th–18th c.) and how this terrain-based geomantic expertise evolved from local practice into widely accepted knowledge mediating state–society relations. More broadly, her work explores Chinese cosmology and its visual and material expressions in everyday life during late imperial China.
April 21, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
This talk investigates how local constructions of the “national fengshui master” (guoshi 國師) reshaped geomantic discourse in the Ming in ways that indirectly reinforced the imperial model of centralized control. Before the fourteenth century, guoshi referred primarily to Buddhist and Daoist court preceptors. In Ming lo…
Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2025-26) - 開書考試:書院課藝與十九世紀中國的知識通脹
Dr. Shiuon Chu Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
April 21, 2026 at 2:00 AM UTC
All are welcomed, no registration required. Seats are on first-come-first-served basis.
大学沙龙线下系列2026年4月:黄庆明——朝鲜与韩国:分裂半岛上的民族主义垄断
主讲人:黄庆明 现任香港中文大学(深圳)人文社科学院发展与治理研究院副研究员。他于2022年获得美国佛罗里达大学政治学博士,研究领域为地缘政治、国际秩序与全球治理、中国与周边国家外交关系、东亚和东南亚政治。他曾在中国福建省和浙江省的报业从事记者编辑8年,曾任美国佛罗里达大学政治学系教学助理、独立讲师,佛罗里达大学人文与公共领域中心罗斯曼博士研究员,首尔国立大学奎章阁韩国学研究院特别研究员、青年研究员、访问学者,香港中文大学(深圳)国际事务研究院助理研究员等。他已出版两部专著:聚焦朝鲜半岛的英文专著North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula由Bloomsbury Publishing于2026年出版;聚焦美国、韩国、中国等社区营造实践和社区治理的中文著作《再造生活地图:见证世界的社区新生、景点再生与乡村重生》(与蔺桃合著)于2025年由台湾秀威出版社出版。其他学术成果已发表于Journal of Chinese Political Science、Problems of Post-Communism、Communist and Post-Communist Studies、Perspectives on Politics等SSCI期刊。 评议人:Seong-Hyon Lee 乔治·H·W·布什美中关系基金会高级研究员 哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心访问学者 主持人:孙国栋 经济学博士,香港中文大学(深圳)发展与治理研究院助理院长,World Views 中国首席代表。主要研究方向为奥地利经济学,货币金融及制度与空间经济学。
April 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
新书简介: 由香港中文大学(深圳)人文社科学院发展与治理研究院副研究员黄庆明撰写的英文专著North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula(Bloomsbury出版社,中文名暂译为《朝鲜与韩国:分裂半岛上的民族主义垄断》),聚焦二战后的朝鲜半岛,探讨朝鲜和韩国的威权政权如何在国家建设过程中尝试垄断民族主义话语,并以此构建政权创始叙事,获得政权合法性。本书重点关注金日成治下的朝鲜以及韩国的李承晚、朴正熙、全斗焕政权,通过对不同政权时期的教科书、官方文件和档案、媒体报道等资料的考察,作者认为,相比于朝鲜,韩国的三个威权政权并没有实现对…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年4月:张礼卿——国际货币体系变革与人民币国际化
主讲人:张礼卿 中央财经大学金融学院前院长、国际金融研究中心主任 与谈人:李汉松 美利坚大学国际服务学院助理教授、哈佛大学国际服务学院及南亚所研究员 主持人:王开元 哈佛大学费正清中心研究员、大学沙龙资深志愿者
April 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
讲座内容: 现行国际货币体系可以追溯至第二次世界大战结束前。这一体系以美元为中心,有其历史必然性,也存在内在局限性。长期以来,国际货币体系改革一直是国际经济金融领域的热点话题,也曾有过不少重要的变革倡议。展望未来,伴随着全球地缘政治和经济格局的多极化,货币领域的多元化将是大趋势。美元霸权地位如何演变,人民币国际化如何推进,黄金和虚拟货币又将如何影响国际货币体系的变革进程,这些不仅为各国政策制定者所关心,也与企业和个人的切身利益相关。本讲座讲围绕以上问题进行前瞻性讨论。
Can US Courts Provide Remedies for Forced Labor in Asia
Agnieszka Fryszman, founder and chair of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein William S. Dodge, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at George Washington University Law School Aaron Halegua, founder of a boutique employment law litigation firm in New York City
April 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
In 2003, the U.S. Congress added a civil liability provision to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) permitting victims to seek damages from those who engaged in or benefitted from forced labor and human trafficking. Over the last 20 years, labor advocates have sought to use this statute to ho…
Reading and Conversation w/ Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land
MICHAEL LUO is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics, religion, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times, as a metro reporter, national correspondent, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. KAT CHOW is a journalist, writer and the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing), named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award. She is currently the Newsday/Laventhol Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
April 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM UTC
Reading and Conversation w/ Michael Luo - Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America. Join us for a book reading by Michael Luo in conversation with Kat Chow, with welcoming remarks by Qin Gao, Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative. In Strangers in the Land, awa…
大学沙龙251期:童世骏——谈谈哈贝马斯的思想遗产
主讲人: 童世骏 华东师范大学哲学系教授,现任上海纽约大学校长。华东师范大学学士、硕士学位,挪威卑尔根大学博士学位。曾在德国马堡大学、美国哥伦比亚大学等从事访问研究。 著有Dialectics of Modernization、《中西对话中的现代性问题》等著作十余部,发表中英文论文百余篇,并有多部译著。 现兼任教育部社会科学委员会委员、《哲学分析》总编、上海科技大学校务委员会委员及挪威科学院外籍院士等职。 评议人 : 郁喆隽 复旦大学哲学学院副教授,博士生导师,宗教学系副主任,德国莱比锡大学哲学博士,主要研究领域为西方哲学与宗教学,长期关注现代性问题。著有《神明与市民》《财富、救赎与资本主义》《当柏拉图遇到卢米埃尔》《50堂经典哲学思维课》等。 主持人 : 李汉松 政治哲学与思想史学者,芝加哥大学学士、剑桥大学硕士、哈佛大学博士,曾留学巴黎第四、第七和第十大学,担任柏林自由大学法学院研究员,现任教于美利坚大学国际服务学院,兼任哈佛大学国际事务研究员和南亚研究所研究员。
April 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
最近以96岁高龄离世的德国哲学家和社会理论家于尔根·哈贝马斯 (Jurgen Habermas)在其长达70余年的学术生涯中,以哲学家和公共知识分子的双重身份参与了大量讨论,留下了大量文字。在赢得诸多赞誉和追随的同时,也引起了许多争议甚至非议。哈贝马斯去世的消息传出以后,世界各地涌现出大量追思与评价文章;本次讲座将在介绍这些文章概况的基础上重点论述: 哈贝马斯的思想遗产对中国意味着什么 ?
Pioneers in a Distant Land: The Overseas Chinese Business Community in South America, 1960-2000
Dr Jian Ren (Stanford University) Jian Ren is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Hoover History Lab, with a PhD in history from Rutgers University. Ren is a historian of diplomacy, business, and migration in China-Latin America relations. He is working on his book manuscript “Dancing on the Periphery: China, Latin America, and the Cold War”.
April 10, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
In the post-2020 era, South America has become a key arena for Chinese global enterprise, with Chinese goods and services achieving unprecedented popularity. This presentation argues that the groundwork for this contemporary success was not only laid by recent state-led initiatives, but also by a much earlier, understu…
Book Talk | Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings
Speaker: Chris Fraser Chris Fraser is Hon-Yin and Suet-Fong Chan Professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Late Classical Chinese Thought (Oxford University Press), Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way (Oxford), and The Philosophy of the Mozi (Columbia), among other works. Discussants: Pengbo Liu, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Bentley University Esther S. Klein, Associate Professor in School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University Sera Kong, Sera Kong is a Ph.D. student majoring in Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Moderator: Franklin Perkins, Professor & Editor of Philosophy East and West, Graduate Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
April 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings is a new translation that draws on traditional and recent scholarship to present the ideas, reasoning, and worldviews of the Zhuangzi writings (4th-2nd century BCE) as clearly and accurately as possible using smooth, natural English. The translation aims for fidelity to the source text a…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年4月:邹振东——流量时代的红与黑:从后妈、唐诗、董宇辉说起
主讲人:邹振东 《弱传播》作者。二级教授,厦门大学人文与艺术高等研究院执行院长、舆论研究中心主任、新闻传播学院南强特聘教授,博士生导师,历史学博士,享受国务院特贴,国家万人计划哲学社会科学领军人才,全国文化名家及“四个一批人才”。 直接参与新媒体实践,2016年在厦门大学毕业典礼致辞及2020年央视频的新生入学致辞,视频播放量都达几亿,大量文章获百万加。2020新浪微博十大影响力校园博主、2016年新浪微博热点人物40名。 邹振东教授创设“弱传播理论”,总结舆论战一百多个分析工具、解释工具与实战工具。专著《弱传播——舆论世界的哲学》,获得进入当当第六届影响力作家评选人文社科作家榜单前三名,长期稳居亚马逊、kindle、当当网、京东等各大平台同类型畅销书排行榜前三名,2020年,香港三联书店出版繁体字版。 主持人:他塔拉Tatara 哈佛校友、戏剧工作者、跨平台自媒体博主。自2019年至今,其创作的教育及学术相关内容在全网累计获得10亿次播放,拥有超过360万活跃订阅者。她专注于内容的大众化表达与转化,致力于提升大众对学术性话题的关注与理解。
April 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
网红为什么可以红?网红为什么又会被黑?以雷军、董宇辉、俞敏洪、西贝事件等案例入手,分析舆论事件与网红现象背后的传播规律,介绍单车理论、表情包传播、缺陷传播、舆论主语分析法、舆论的小女孩现象、舆论海拔分析法、灰姑娘马车等好用的传播工具(分析工具、解释工具和实战工具),讲解流量时代的传播密码,认识舆论世界与现实世界的不同“交规”,让传播改变人生,改变世界。互动环节,如果观众感兴趣,可以分享一下特朗普的传播案例复盘。
Stone Grinding as New Military Technology: How Early Complex Societies Rose in Neolithic China
Professor Zhiwu Chen (The University of Hong Kong) Professor Zhiwu Chen is Chair and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He currently serves as director of both Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) and Centre for Quantitative History (CQH). His research covers finance theory, the sociology of finance, economic history, quantitative history, emerging markets, as well as China’s economy and capital markets. He was a former Professor of Finance at Yale University (1999 – 2017) and a Special-Term Visiting Professor at Peking University and Tsinghua University.
March 31, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
This study examines how stone-grinding technology accelerated the growth of complex societies in Neolithic China (8000–2000 BCE) primarily through the war channel rather than the productivity channel. Utilizing data from the China Archaeological Database (CADB), where large settlements (≥10 hectares) indicate complex s…
Chinese Global Environmentalism
Alex Wang
March 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTC
We find ourselves at a remarkable moment in global environmental governance. China actively supports green development on the global stage, while the US under the Trump administration rejects the Paris Agreement and actively opposes the development of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Professor Alex Wang of the U…
大学沙龙250期:任剑涛——许诺与承诺:现代政治观念面向未来的两种姿态
主讲人:任剑涛 清华大学政治学系教授,教育部“长江学者”特聘教授。主要研究领域为政治哲学、中西政治思想与中国政治。著有《建国之惑:留学精英与现代政治的误解》《复调儒学——从古典解释到现代性探究》《拜谒诸神:西方政治理论与方法寻踪》《公共的政治哲学》《当经成为经典:儒学的现代型变》《中国的现代国家构造》《混搭的承诺:现代政治观念史40讲》。 评议人:陈建洪 浙江瑞安人,北京大学文学学士、哲学硕士;比利时鲁汶大学哲学博士,主要研究领域为外国哲学、政治哲学。2006-2015年任教于南开大学哲学院。现任中山大学哲学系(珠海)教授兼系主任、博雅学院院长。著作出版包括《远离苏格拉底》《既无君子,何以天下》(韩译)、《论施特劳斯》、Between Politics and Philosophy、《耶路撒冷抑或雅典:施特劳斯四论》等。 主持人:李筠 中国政法大学政治学系教授、博士生导师,美国哥伦比亚大学访问学者(2015-2016学年)。主要研究领域为政治理论、西方政治思想史、中西政治史。著有《论西方中世纪王权观》《英国政治思想新论》《西方史纲》《罗马史纲》《中世纪》《什么是权力》。
March 27, 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC
复杂多样的现代政治观念均信誓旦旦地刻画未来。这是一种未来向度的政治思维产物。这类刻画大致可以区分为两种类型:一是向接受者许诺自己将优良传统、大众意愿与完满未来治于一炉并交予他们,但对其现实性与可行性的关注较弱;二是向接受者承诺自己从弊端丛生的现实通达美好的未来,且以扎实论证与实践方案诱导人们紧随而行。前者是典型的乌托邦观念,后者则基于现实进行建构。细分起来,后者又可以区分为立于现实的优化与超越现实的颠覆两种进路。这类论说,均呈现出强烈的阵营性与相斥性,但透过观念的表象,相互之间借取资源是一个常态。在政治观念的相互激荡中,最终胜出的是兼得各种政治优势的融合性观念。
Global China: Inside Out and Outside In—Japan’s Perspectives
Multiple speakers
March 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
As China expands its global influence, it simultaneously grapples with economic slowdowns and tightens its governance system at home. These global and domestic trends reinforce each other, sharping business environments, foreign and security policies of the Global South, and the political, economic, and cultural landsc…
When AI Reads Emotions: Affective Computing Approaches to Historical Psychology
Professor Yuqi Chen (The University of Hong Kong) Yuqi Chen is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong. She received both her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Peking University and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. She is actively engaged in the fields of Quantitative History and Digital Humanities. Her research focuses on integrating AI and computational methods with humanities research, aiming to uncover new insights through innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
March 24, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
Across cultures and centuries, emotions have been expressed, encoded, and preserved in both texts and images. Recent advances in affective computing now offer new opportunities to study these emotional traces at scale. This talk examines how computational approaches to emotion—from early dictionary- and rule-based tech…
大学沙龙线下系列2026年3月:张乐天——生活世界的全球化:义乌小商品品牌出海的启示
主讲人:张乐天 复旦发展研究院当代中国社会生活资料中心主任,教授。原复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院创始副院长。当代中国社会生活资料共建共享联盟发起人,中国口述与社会记忆专业委员会委员。代表作《告别理想 人民公社制度研究》,并发表学术论文数十篇,主持国家重大项目《苏浙赣皖农村基层档案的搜集、整理与出版》。近年来专注义乌研究,并开展非虚构写作。 评议人:严飞 清华大学社会科学学院副教授 主持人:宋怡明 哈佛大学东亚语言文明系教授
March 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
讲座简介:2025年,义乌市这个仅90多万人口的县级市,进出口总值达8365.0亿元,商品抵达全球230个国家与地区,再次以“买全球,卖全球”而令世界注目。这是义乌人推动的全球化。与此前的科技的、工程的、资本的、制度的全球化不同,义乌人把高品质的日常生活用品送全球每一个角落的寻常百姓家。主讲人将此定义为“生活世界的全球化”。 这是一种“全球地方化,地方全球化”的双向互动,有三个明晰可辨的特征:全球-地方“生活方式的互嵌”(文化互嵌);全球-地方“生活方式的互融”(文化互融);全球-地方“生活方式的互动”(文化互动)。本讲座将从义乌商品“品牌出海”故事出发,揭示“品牌出海”故事所蕴含的全球化的新趋势及其重要特征。
American Dreams of Chinese Businessmen: U.S. Capital and China’s post-war Economic Reconstruction (1944-1949)
Professor Huangfu Qiushi (Fudan University) Huangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s, from the perspectives of different market actors, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction.
March 13, 2026 at 1:30 AM UTC
Forming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alert…
CCS Spring 2026 Tensions in Translating Heritage Concepts: Zhongyue Temple’s UNESCO Buffer Zone
Ben Parker, AIA, is an Assistant Professor in Comprehensive Design at the UH Mānoa School of Architecture and the founder of OBP Design. His urban design research concerns idealized global imperatives and their localized implementations, with a specific focus on urban conservation in China. He is currently at Tongji University in Shanghai as part of the School of Architecture’s Global Track program. He practices as a licensed architect in Hawaiʻi and Texas and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Discussant: Dr. Boya Guo is a Research Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at Tongji University. She received her doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2022. Her research explores the intersection of heritage conservation and urban studies, with a specific focus on heritage theory, governance, and the history of cartography. She is particularly interested in the dynamic relationship between cultural power and the historic built environment within today's consumer and media-driven society. Moderator: Kate A. Lingley is Associate Professor of Art History at UH Mānoa. Her research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular interest in the social history of religious art in medieval China. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the lives of Buddhist women in medieval China, as seen through the votive monuments they dedicated, and an edited collection on the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in early Buddhism across Asia.
March 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
This research investigates how the buffer zone, a heritage concept designed to preserve sensitive sites, has been misapplied in urban conservation contexts, undermining the very heritage it was designed to protect. Using a combination of archival documents, historical research, aerial imagery, and on-site reconnaissanc…
大学沙龙249期:刘蟾——魏晋名士与权力的五种关系
主讲人 : 刘蟾 又名大生,青年作家、书法家。不参加国展,非书协会员。曾主编《中国书房》。出版《重新发现诗经》《诗词中的田园耕读》《名士的反抗: 从孔融到嵇康》等。2020年以来以书法记录民生疾苦、介入现实批判,创作诸多时事对联及作品。 评议人 : 周濂 中国人民大学哲学院教授,外国哲学教研室主任,中华全国外国哲学史学会理事;中国现代外国哲学学会政治哲学专业委员会副理事长。曾任牛津大学哲学系访问学者、哈佛燕京访问学者。 著有《现代政治的正当性基础》《你永远都无法叫醒一个装睡的人》《正义的可能》《正义与幸福》《打开 :周濂的100堂西方哲学课》,主编《西方政治哲学史·第三卷》在学术期刊发表中英文论文50余篇。研究领域包括政治哲学道德哲学和语言哲学。 主持人: 马国川 新人文学者,主要关注宏观经济、当代中国改革、日本近现代史等。创办并主持知识类高端视频直播节目《马上开谈》,先后任《经济观察报》高级记者,《财经》杂志主笔。著有《我与八十年代》《重启改革议程》(与吴敬琏先生合著),《日本三部曲》《国家的抉择》等,荣获"文津图书奖",多部作品译为英文、日文、韩文在海外发行。
February 28, 2026 at 1:30 AM UTC
通过对汉未魏晋时期知识分子与权力的关系分析,讲者总结出了五种模态:建构式批判、解构式反抗、迎合权力、合作图存,以及自我内心的超越和突围。这五种模态,恰恰可以和汉未魏晋时期,形成某种巧妙对应的关系。这对当代知识群体如何进行价值判断、如何自处、如何选择提供了某种程度的借鉴。
China’s Role in the Arctic
Yuanyuan (Ren), assistant professor at the University of Dayton School of Law.
February 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
The Trump administration’s efforts to secure more control over Greenland have put China’s activities in the Arctic under a spotlight. Since 2018 when China declared itself to be a “near-Arctic state” with strategic interests in the region, it has expanded its Arctic research activities, acquired more icebreaking vessel…
China-Indonesia Relations: 2025 Year in Review and 2026 Outlook
Mr Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara & Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat (Mr. Bhima Yudhistira Adhinegara is the Executive Director of CELIOS. Bhima received British Academy Awards grants for Just Energy Transition in 2024- 2025. Previously, Bhima had a career as an economist and expert staff at Indonesia Chamber of Commerce and was a consultant at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) World Bank, Jakarta. Bhima studied for a masters in the University of Bradford, UK. His research area includes macroeconomics, energy transition, and critical minerals governance. Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat is the Director of the China-Indonesia Desk at CELIOS. Zulfikar also holds affiliated positions at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics’ IDEAS, and Busan University of Foreign Studies. His areas of expertise lie in the political economy of international cooperation, with a particular emphasis on China-Indonesia relations, China-Middle East relations, and Indonesia-Middle East relations.)
February 26, 2026 at 7:00 AM UTC
This book examines China–Indonesia relations in 2025, marking 75 years of diplomatic ties amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Cooperation across trade, investment, infrastructure, technology—including artificial intelligence (AI)—and defense expanded, even as Indonesia faced challenges in governance and strategic…
CCS Spring 2026 From Margins to Memory: A Microhistory of the Chinese Language School in Iligan City, Philippines
Speaker: Michael Anthony Ngo finished his Bachelor of Arts in History (2004) and his Master in History (2010) degree from MSU- Iligan Institute of Technology. An Assistant Professor in the Department of History of the said University and is currently writing his Dissertation for his Doctor of Philosophy in History at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in Quezon City. His research interest includes Chinese studies in the Philippines, Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, and local history with a focus on Filipino-Chinese in Mindanao. Discussants: Jely A. Galang is Professor of History at the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman. He serves as Deputy Director of the UP Third World Studies Center, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Studies Journal. He is an affiliate faculty at the UP Center for International Studies, and an affiliate researcher at the Indian Ocean World Center-McGill University. He earned his PhD Asian Studies (History) degree from Murdoch University. His teaching and research focus on Philippine history and historiography, colonialism and imperialism, and modern East Asia. His forthcoming book, Vagrants and Outcasts, to be published this year by Cornell University Press, examines the social history of Chinese laboring classes and marginalized populations in the nineteenth-century Philippines. Cynthia Ning retired as associate director of the UHM Center for Chinese Studies in 2022. She holds a PhD in Chinese Language & Literature from the University of Michigan and is the author of three sets of Chinese language textbooks (Encounters: Chinese Language & Culture; Exploring in Chinese; Communicating in Chinese) published by Yale University Press. She is currently president of the Chinese Language Education Association of Hawaii, and recently joined the Board of Directors of Munlun School Moderator: Song Jiang, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
February 25, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
How does a small community preserve its language and identity under pressure to assimilate? This webinar explores the little-known story of a Chinese language school founded in 1938 in Iligan City, Philippines. Through the lens of one institution, we’ll look at how education became a site for negotiating cultural prese…
The Guomindang Doctrine Against Capitalism and the Original Intent Behind the 1929 Company Law
Professor Billy K. L. So with Professor Sufumi So The University of Hong Kong (Billy K. L. So is Fellow and Visiting Professor at The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU. He formerly taught at National University of Singapore, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and The University of Macau. Collaborating with Sufumi So, his recent research is focused on legal and business history in comparative perspective. Their latest co-authored Chinese books are Morality, Rationality, and Legality of Modern Corporation: Tōkyō Kinkōdō and Shanghai Commercial Press (1875-1930) (2024) and Law Without Heaven: Darwinian Constitutionalism from Katō Hiroyuki and Justice Oliver Holmes to John C. H. Wu (2023). Sufumi So is Honorary Associate Professor at The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU. She formerly taught at Carnegie Mellon University and George Mason University, among others.)
February 24, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
One of the two doctrinal pillars of Sun Yat-sen’s Principal of the People’s Livelihood was to “contain the capital,” which was never clearly defined and invited conflicting readings over the years. Following the consolidation of the Nanjing regime in 1928, many new laws were enacted replacing the former ones under the…
Asian Americans in Focus: Data, Narrative, and Action
Welcoming remarks by Qin Gao, Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, and Associate Dean for Doctoral Education at the School of Social Work; Columbia University Panelists Sruthi Chandrasekaran, The Asian American Foundation Alex Chew, Amplify AAPI, NORC at the University of Chicago Xi Song, Columbia University Stacie Tao, University of Chicago Christopher Wimer, Columbia University Moderator Van Tran, City University of New York Graduate Center
February 23, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
Centering on AAI’s philosophy of Data, Narrative, and Action (DNA), this panel discussion will showcase several existing projects that analyze national and local data on Asian Americans, explore directions for future research, and discuss implications for policy and action.
China’s Narratives on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Entering the Fifth Year
Yevheniia Hobova, PhD in Chinese linguistics – Research Fellow, A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Oleksandra Stryzhak, PhD in International Relations – Junior Fellow, A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Sydorenko – Ukrainian journalist, China correspondent for Ukrinform David Bandurski – American journalist, Co-Founder and Director of the China Media Project
February 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM UTC
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, this roundtable will examine how the war has been interpreted, framed, and debated within China’s academic community, media landscape, and online sphere. The event will explore the evolution of Chinese scholarly and media narratives on the war in Ukraine…
大学沙龙248期:王钦——AI 时代的“能源底座”:中美电力系统支撑能力与战略选择
主讲人 : 王钦 香港理工大学电机及电子工程学系副教授。曾在美国的科研机构和电力公司工作十余年,曾任职于中西部电力调度中心、可再生能源国家实验室、美国电力科学研究院、通用汽车等研究领域为电力系统运行和优化、AI与能源系统、电力市场等。近年来,专注于研究如何为AI的快速发展提供电力和能源支撑。 评议人 : 吉兵 英国莱斯特大学工程学院电气工程系主任,REF2029工程学院科研评估带头人,英国皇家工程院研究员。研究聚焦高可靠、高功率密度电力电子。担任IET Power Electronics执行主编与IEEE Transactions on Powel Electronics副编辑,曾任IEEE PELS英国与爱尔兰分会主席,麻省理工学院玛丽居里访问学者。入选斯坦福“全球前2%科学家”,科研成果获2013年度纽卡斯尔大学科研创新比赛冠军日内瓦国际发明展金奖。 主持人:于莉 SynCo Global创始人兼CEO,澳洲新南威尔土大学电气博士。长期专注于澳大利亚大型新能源项目的开发与投资,主导推进的项目规模已超过5GW。在电网接入、系统设计及合规管理等领域经验丰富,致力于推动可再生能源技术的创新与项目落地兼具国际化视野和扎实的产业实践经验。
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC
在人工智能快速迭代和算力需求指数级增长的背景下,电力与能源系统正成为支撑 AI 发展的关键“底座”。美国依托高度市场化的电力体系、成熟的数据中心产业和领先的大模型与芯片生态,形成了以超大规模算力集群为特征的 AI 发展路径,但同时面临电力基础设施老化、用电增长受限和清洁能源供给不确定性等约束;中国则在新能源装机规模、电网统一调度能力和新型电力系统建设方面具有显著优势,AI 算力布局呈现出与可再生能源基地和新型负荷深度合的发展特征。本讲座以“AI 时代的能源底座:中美电力系统支撑能力与战略选择”为主题,系统比较中美两国在 AI 产业演进、电力系统结构、供需灵活性与能源转型路径上的差异,深入分析高强度算力负荷对电力系统安全性、充裕性与灵…
Book Talk: 'Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival' with Chris Horton
Chris Horton is a freelance journalist and author who has been based in Taipei, Taiwan for the past decade. He previously spent 13 years in China and two in Hong Kong. He has written extensively for The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Nikkei Asia, The Atlantic and elsewhere, covering Taiwan's national security, diplomacy, economy, culture and more. His new book, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan) examines how four centuries of serial colonization shaped the people who fought for what is now Asia's freest - and most threatened - democratic country.
February 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
In Ghost Nation: the Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival, Chris Horton compares Beijing's claim that Taiwan has been Chinese territory "since time immemorial" with Taiwan's actual history. Several different groups have controlled some or all of Taiwan over the last 400 years -- the Dutch, Spanish, Tungning, M…
CCS Spring 2026 Integrating Values and Interests in US-China Relations: Complementarity & Policy Resilience.
Pitman Potter is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. Potter’s teaching and research have focused on China law and policy on international trade and investment, business regulation, and human rights. Potter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada. He is also an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of New Westminster). Potter’s latest book, China and the Rules-Based International Order: Globalized Populism and Crisis Response, will appear in May from UBC Press. Carole J. Petersen is the Cades Foundation Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. She taught in Hong Kong for seventeen years and is a former Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a Postgraduate Diploma in the Law of the People’s Republic of China from the University of Hong Kong. Moderator: Mark Levin - Director, Pacific-Asian Legal Studies, Program Professor of Law at the William S.Richardson School of Law University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
This talk will examine the role of American values and national interests in US relations with China. This expands upon Dr. Potter’s 2025 report to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada on Integrating Values and Interests in Canada-China relations. As Dr. Potter did in that paper, he will rely on the principle of “comp…
Independent Podcasting, Feminist Awakening, and Collective Feeling in a Changing China
Speaker: Qing Wang, Co-founder and Co-host of The Weirdo Podcast (不合时宜), Fellow at Asia Society Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
Over the past decade, podcasts have emerged as an important form of alternative media, offering intimate yet public spaces for storytelling, emotional exchange, and shared reflection, particularly for young women navigating rapid social change. Qing Wang is the co-founder and co-host of The Weirdo Podcast (不合时宜), a lea…
The Pain and Pleasures of Writing the Biography of Mr Ho Amei (何崑山) (1838-1901), Pioneer Entrepreneur
Professor Elizabeth Sinn The University of Hong Kong (Elizabeth Sinn is an Honorary Professor at the School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong. She is a Hong Kong historian who sets Hong Kong in a global context. Among her works are Power and Charity: The Early History of the Tung Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, and Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong.)
February 10, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
Ho Amei is a fascinating figure. He was a pioneer in modern capitalist enterprises such as telegraphy, insurance, waterworks, and high-technology mining; he also founded the first Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. He was a fighter for justice and a champion for fair play. As a community leader in Hong Kong, amo…
Understanding Global Connectivity through Grassroots Mobility: The Reorganization of Techno-Social Networks among the Upper Yangzi Shipping Groups, 1850-1937
Professor Yiying Pan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility, infrastructure, and the environment, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China, International Journal of Asian Studies, Remapping, and Historical Inquiry.
February 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM UTC
Before the late twentieth century, the Upper Yangzi River and its tributaries had long been formidable, so navigation along these river segments hinged on various shipping groups on the ground. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves, these shipping groups had developed institutions to co…
CCS Spring 2026 Panel Discussion/interregional - China, Southeast Asia, and Extractive Industries
Panelists: Carolyn Gruber is a Fellow and Deputy Director of the Environmental Security Program at the Stimson Center. Before joining, Carolyn was a foreign affairs specialist for the US Departments of State and Commerce, focusing on international fisheries conservation and management. While with the federal government, Carolyn honed her expertise on a wide range of marine policy issues, including illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and the impacts of climate change on coastal and marine ecosystems. Carolyn holds BA degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Richmond and a Master of Environmental Management degree from Duke University. Jessica Liao is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the US Army War College. Her expertise focuses on the international relations of East Asia, with research interests in China’s economic statecraft, China–Southeast Asia relations, and the impact of China's rise on global governance. Before joining the War College, she was an associate professor of political science at North Carolina State University. She also served as the 2020-2021 Wilson China Fellow. In 2022, she served as an economic development specialist at the US Embassy in Beijing, where she focused on China’s engagement with Belt and Road Initiative countries. Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia is an assistant professor in the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. He also serves as a research fellow at the university’s Asia Research Center. He earned his PhD from the School of International Relations and the Research School of Southeast Asian Studies at Xiamen University. His research focuses on the various dimensions and levels of China's rising influence, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia. His work has been published in The Pacific Review, International Journal of China Studies, International Journal of Asian Studies, and other academic journals. Moderator: Petrice Flowers, Professor and Director for the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
February 4, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
Chinese resource extraction in Southeast Asia, an integral component of its broader Belt and Road (BRI) Strategy, is driven by the need to secure access to raw materials from oil, gas, and minerals (including rare earths) to rubber, coal, and palm oil. Such activities, which have intensified in recent decades, not only…
Taiwan’s Deeply Divided Government
Nathan Batto, an associate research fellow at the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Political Science.
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM UTC
Ever since elections in 2024 gave the presidency to one party and the legislature to its rivals, Taiwan’s political arena has been the scene of non-stop drama. When the Nationalist Party and its ally in the legislature tried to expand their power to oversee the executive branch, the Constitutional Court ruled them out…
Hong Kong Dollar: Mediating China’s Participation in Global Capitalism since the Nineteenth Century
Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) John D. Wong is Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of Hong Kong. John D. Wong’s research focuses on the flow of people, goods, capital and ideas. With a particular interest in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta/Greater Bay Area, he explores how such flows connected the region to the Chinese political center in the north as well as their maritime partners in the South China Sea and beyond. Studying the China trade in the context of early-nineteenth-century global exchange, his first monograph— Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System (Cambridge University Press, 2016; Chinese edition, HKU Press, 2025)—demonstrates how China trade partners sustained their economic exchange on a global scale long before Western imperialism ushered in the era of globalization in a Eurocentric modern world. In Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub (Harvard, 2022; Chinese edition, HKU Press, 2023), John explores the development of commercial aviation in Hong Kong as the city grew into a powerful economy after WWII. By not accepting Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global hub as preordained, this study aims to describe globalization and global networks in the making.
February 3, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
As a Western foothold at the southern tip of China, Hong Kong has played a crucial role as China’s interface with the rest of the world since the nineteenth century. The appeal of Hong Kong must be understood within a broader regional and national context. While a jurisdictional boundary separates Hong Kong from mainla…
大学沙龙247期:雷颐——伊朗危机的深层结构性原因
主讲人 : 雷颐 中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员,曾任《近代史研究》副主编。研究方向为中国近代思想史、文化史、知识分子史著有《萨特》《时空游走:历史与现实的对话》《被延误的现代化》面对现代性挑战》《李鸿章与晚清四十年》《从甲午到辛亥: 清王朝的最后时刻》等,译有《中国现代思潮中的唯科学主义》《在传统与现代性之间》《胡适与中国现代知识分子的选择》等。 评议人 : 张平 特拉维夫大学比较哲学博士,以色列特拉维夫大学东亚学系汉学与东亚学终身教授。主要研究领域为中华文明与犹太文明间的跨传统对话,包括拉比犹太教经典的中文翻译、注解和比较研究。主要著作有《阿伯特一犹太智慧书》《天下通道精义篇一犹太处世书》《密释纳·种子部》《密释纳·节期部》,以及多篇有关中犹传统间对话的论文。 评议人 : 李福泉 西北大学区域国别学院副院长,中东研究所副所长,伊朗研究中心主任,教授,博十生导师。历史学博士。主要从事中东研究,尤其聚焦于伊朗和什叶派伊斯兰教。出版专著2部,在《世界宗教研究》《国际问题研究》《国际政治研究》等期刊发表论文70多篇,主持国家社科基金项目3项、重大项目子项目3项和省部级项目4项。 主持人 : 李汉松 哈佛大学政治学博士,先后任教于柏林自由大学法学院、美利坚大学国际服务学院,兼任哈佛大学南亚研究所、国际事务研究中心研究员。
February 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM UTC
伊朗历史上的波斯帝国疆域横跨亚洲、非洲、欧洲三大洲,达到鼎盛。但在历史的风云中,伊朗又被其他民族征服。更重要的是,中世纪伊斯兰教征服了伊朗。时至今日,伊朗已然是伊斯兰最重要的“大本营”。但几百年中王权和教权,也就是世俗国王和宗教势力一直激烈斗争。上世纪六七十年代巴列维的“白色革命”最有可能实现现代化转型,然而却最终失败。白色革命为什么失败 ?对白色革命失败的分析透视,能够更深刻地理解当今伊朗的社会结构的稳定性和矛盾性,更深刻地理解这次危机产生的根源。奥威尔曾经说过,谁控制了过去谁就控制了未来。那么,谁理解了过去,谁就能更深刻地理解今天。
New Civilizationisms in Asia
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen); Prasenjit Duara (Duke); Cemil Aydin (UNC—Chapel Hill); Jie-Hyun Lim (Williams)
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM UTC
The New Civilizationisms in Asia roundtable is part of a larger international collaboration organized by Stanford University and the University of Göttingen. At Duke, the speakers will present four lectures addressing the various themes of the forthcoming multi-volume publication. In the past two decades, there has bee…
Knowledge for Lineage: Queen, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang China
Professor Sijie Hu (The University of Hong Kong) Sijie Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. (2021) in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining HKU, she was an Assistant Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, Renmin University of China. Her research lies at the intersection of economic history and demography. She is currently working on projects that aim to understand micro-demographic dynamics in traditional Chinese society using genealogies.
January 27, 2026 at 4:30 AM UTC
This paper examines the transition from limited to open-access societies, focusing on early and high-Tang China (618–906). Using a dataset of 1,200 marriages from 618 to 755, we find that Empress Wu’s rise to power in 674—the first and only female emperor in Chinese history—positively impacted upward mobility. After 67…
大学沙龙246期:代志新——中国统一大市场:过去、现在和未来
主讲人 :代志新 法国里昂大学经济学博士。中国人民大学财政金融学院教授、博士生导师,行为实验财税研究中心主任。入选国家高层次人才项目青年人才计划,专注于行为财政研究,在国内外权威期刊发表论文50余篇。 评议人:王微 中国人民大学经济学博士。国务院发展研究中心市场经济研究所原所长、二级研究员,享受国务院特殊津贴专家。研究领域为城市化与城市经济、流通与物流、消费政策、信用体系建设等。 主持人:刘培林 北京大学经济学博士。清华大学中国经济思想与实践研究院研究员。曾任国务院发展研究中心发展战略和区域经济研究部副部长,研究员;浙江大学区域协调发展研究中心首席专家、研究员,浙江大学共享与发展研究院副院长。
January 24, 2026 at 1:30 AM UTC
市场如何统直是包括发达国家在内的一个热点问题。本讲座围绕“市场何以未能统一、为何必须加快统一、未来如何高质量统一”三条主线展开。讲座首先从改革开放以来我国市场化进程与制度变迁的历史脉络出发,系统剖析市场分割与地方保护的深层生成机制,重点讨论行政分权与监管碎片化、财税体制与政绩考核所引致的激励扭曲、要素市场壁垒与规则不一致导致的制度性交易成本等关键因素,进而阐释其对资源配置效率、企业跨区域经营与公平竞争秩序的影响。其后,讲座将梳理全国统一大市场建设的政策框架、制度供给与阶段性进展,并结合当前宏观经济环境与高质量发展要求,分析统一大市场在畅通国内大循环、促进要素自由流动提升全要素生产率、增强产业链供应链韧性以及塑造国际竞争新优势方面的基…
Book Talk: 'Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang' with Nicholas de Villiers
Nicholas de Villiers
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
In Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-liang (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Nicholas de Villiers contends that we need to theorize both queer time and space to understand Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's cinematic explorations of feeling melancholy, cruisy, and sle…
Government as Venture Capitalists in AI (BCCN Online Lecture Series #6)
David Y. Yang (Harvard University)
January 22, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors’ deep knowledge of the technology, industry, and institution…
CCS Spring 2026 Wong Kim Ark in El Paso: Investigating Chinese Immigrants Who Crossed the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1892-1953
Speaker: Shouyue Zhang is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Melbourne. His dissertation examines the Chinese exclusion laws and the resilience of Chinese immigrants in twentieth-century Texas. His 2025 fieldwork in Texas was supported by the Alma Hansen Scholarship and the Arts PhD Fieldwork Grant. His article and book review are published in the New York Archives and Journal of American Ethnic History. Discussant: Jian Gao is a historian of Chinese migration to the Americas, specializing in transnational networks, identity, and emotional history. His award-winning scholarship has appeared in leading journals and earned honors from LASA, WHA, and other major associations. His forthcoming monograph, Journeys of Longing and Belonging, is under contract with UNC Press. His second book examines post-1965 U.S. immigration control. Fluent in four languages, he is a Presidential Scholar at ASU and a recipient of major national fellowships. Moderator: Shana Brown is an associate professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She specializes in the history of science and visual culture, focusing on modern China in global and local context. Her recent publications include articles on a 19th-century female Chinese painter and women in Chinese archaeology in the 20th century. Her book Pastimes was published in Chinese translation in 2024 by Zhejiang University Press.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC
Shouyue Zhang’s research examines a little-known chapter of U.S. immigration history by shifting attention from the Pacific Coast to the U.S.–Mexico border. Beginning with the startling 1901 arrest of Wong Kim Ark—despite his Supreme Court–affirmed U.S. citizenship—this talk explores how Chinese exclusion laws were enf…
True Colors of China: Yellow, Blue, and Red
Speaker: Professor Yu Xie Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Sociology Director of Center on Contemporary China Princeton University (Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Discussants: Professor Michael Zheng Song Wei Lun Professor of Economics Co-Director of CUHK-Tsinghua Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy The Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Guoqi Xu David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History Director of the Institute of Transnational History of China The University of Hong Kong Moderator: Professor Zhiwu Chen Chair and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance Director of Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Director of Centre for Quantitative History The University of Hong Kong
January 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM UTC
Contrary to perceptions of Chinese culture as static or monolithic, Professor Yu Xie of Princeton University argues that it is profoundly dynamic, multilayered, and continuously evolving. In his latest work, Professor Xie proposes that contemporary Chinese culture emerges from the synthesis of three foundational source…
Reputation Collectives: How International Industry Associations Influence China’s Safety Standards in High-Risk Technologies (BCCN Online Lecture Series #5)
Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
January 15, 2026 at 1:15 PM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a Emerging economies face significant challenges in managing safety risks from powerful technological systems. Indeed, many analysts have identified China as the most likely…
大学沙龙245期:李建忠——2026 ASI 奇点展望
主讲人:李建忠 现任奇点智能研究院院长,CSDN 高级副总裁。于2016年发起创办全球机器学习技术大会(ML-Summit),是人工智能产业领域极具影响力的高端技术研讨与交流平台。近年来主要研究以⼤模型为主的⼈⼯智能范式,提出科技创新的“范式转换立方体”系统框架。科技愿景论坛人工智能专家委员会委员,于腾冲科学家论坛联合多位专家发布《科技预见与未来愿景2049》。 主持人兼与谈人:杨静 2015年9月创办新智元,2016年3月出版专著《新智元机器+人类=超智能时代》,2016年10月联合主办世界人工智能大会,并出版《中国人工智能产业发展报告》。2017年至2019年举办AI World世界人工智能峰会,主办新智元产业技术峰会。2019年9月出版专著《智周万物:人工智能改变中国》,该著作已译为12个语种在全球印行。2020年至今,主办数场重磅AI家论坛、元宇宙新人类论坛、大模型论坛,成立业界顶级社群。
January 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM UTC
2025年,我们见证了DeepSeek开年惊雷,掀起开源大模型的巨浪。OpenAI的星际之门开启,xAI的超算中心巨像已从太空可见。英伟达成为地球市值最高的科技公司,从AGI到ASI的伟大征程狂飙飞奔。四大超级模型轮流冲击AGI天花板,从IMO到IOI,人类智能的边界被接连锤破。这不仅是智慧形态的终极飞跃,更是人类文明驶向未知宇宙的全新起点。智能爆发将以我们意想不到的速度跳出临界值,谁将第一个冲线摘得ASI圣杯?全栈之王的谷歌,还是先驱者OpenAI?人类又将在这次史无前例的智能范式大跃迁中经历哪些惊涛骇浪? 本次对谈嘉宾是新智元创始人兼CEO 杨静和奇点智能研究院院长、CSDN 高级副总裁李建忠。他们将直面终极问题:「ASI 奇点…