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 War Italy… How have these sounds—traveling via migration, media, and diplomacy—been heard, adapted, or even rejected in disparate cultural landscapes? Through seventeen case studies spanning Asia, the Americas, and Europe, the book uncovers the myriad ways sounds interpreted as “Chinese” are transformed, contested, and imbued with new meanings as they reverberate across geopolitical and cultural borders. This collection provides a novel auditory history of China’s global entanglements, offering a comparative lens to understand the dynamic role of sound in transnational exchange and the negotiation of cultural identity.

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 relationship between images and architecture in artistic worldmaking is anything but monolithic. Architecture does not merely contain or frame images, but situates and conditions their visual expressions and interpretations. Conversely, images transform the built environments that hold them, reconfiguring space into realms of vision, ritual, and belief. Harvard Visual China's 2026 Graduate Symposium presents two panels on how images and architecture in Chinese and East Asian art at large construct, sustain, and reimagine worlds. The symposium will feature a keynote speech delivered by Professor Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. This event is generously sponsored by the Department of History of Art & Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Innovation Fund at Harvard University, Harvard FAS CAMLab, and the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series.

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。

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。

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 (Taoyuandong 桃源洞), locally also referred to as Immortals’ Precinct of Peach Spring (Taoyuan Xianjing 桃源仙境). In addition to a written iteration by the medieval poet Tao Qian 陶潛, the site’s miraculous efficacy is ritually channelled into households of the region, consecrated on domestic altars, and its transcendent beings embodied by domestic spirit-mediums. Peach Spring forms an ecological complex where a vision of the landscape as sacred continues to be relevant.

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 (賀景濱), and Chi Ta-Wei (紀大偉), I analyze how intimacy and interpersonal relations are monitored, structured, and controlled through technological intervention, often in ways deeply entangled with corporate and governmental power. In some cases, technology appears to open up new forms of agency; in others, it traps subjects within increasingly complex systems of state regulation, technological surveillance, and the instability of identity. In dialogue with these earlier works, the second part of the talk turns to my own speculative fiction—Contactless Intimacy and my work-in-progress, Unquantifiable Distance—as a form of critical practice. By imagining a system in which intimacy is quantified and translated into social value, my writing explores how dominant sexual and romantic scripts are produced, naturalized, and enforced, while also asking how alternative modes of relationality might be imagined. By bringing together literary analysis, critical theory, and creative practice, this talk proposes a speculative framework for understanding intimacy as a contested, governable, and programmable domain in the Sinofuturist world. About the Speaker Hsin-Hui Lin is a science fiction writer and researcher, currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. She received her Ph.D. in Taiwanese Literature from National Chengchi University and was a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (2022–2023). Her doctoral dissertation, Porous Bodies: Rethinking Taiwanese Science Fiction through New Materialist Politics, examines how Taiwanese science fiction imagines bodily permeability, disaster, and shifting boundaries between the human, the nonhuman, and the environment through a new materialist framework. She is the author of the sci-fi novel 'Contactless Intimacy' (2023), with an Italian translation, Intimità senza contatto, published in 2025. Her debut book, 'Human Glitches' (2020), won the 2020 Taiwan Literature Award for Books, one of Taiwan’s major literary prizes. Her creative and critical work explores the blurring boundaries between humans and nonhumans in the contemporary technological era. Lin also frequently publishes reviews and essays in major media outlets, examining the intersections of literature, visual art, and technology. The ANU China Seminar Series is supported by the Australian Centre on China in the World at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

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 world, teaching foreigners about Chinese food. Women in her generation, which included both housewives and career women, turned to Fu because she taught them how to cook an astounding range of unfamiliar Chinese regional dishes, in ways their own mothers and grandmothers never could. Her cookbook also represents the transpacific journeys of thousands of migrants, as they carried her recipes in their suitcases, traveling far from home. Fu's story offers us a window onto not just food, but also family, gender roles, technology, media, foreign relations, and cultural identity. This is not a story of timeless culinary tradition, but one of modern transformation-- of self and family, of cuisine and society.

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 risks strategic self-harm—undermining innovation, raising economic costs, and weakening long-term competitiveness. The talk advances bounded securitization as a framework for managing this dilemma. Rather than rejecting security measures, it emphasizes discipline: prioritizing high-probability risks, aligning policy tools with their economic and strategic costs, and maintaining flexibility through review mechanisms. Drawing on recent U.S.–China policy dynamics, the analysis shows how securitization can generate reinforcing cycles of restriction, pushing targeted de-risking toward incremental decoupling. The key challenge is not whether to securitize, but how to do so without eroding the benefits of openness and interdependence. Effective strategy therefore requires discipline rather than maximalism in security policy. About the Speaker Xiaoyu Pu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford University Press, 2019) and has published widely in leading journals, including International Security, International Affairs, and The Chinese Journal of International Politics. He was a Fellow with the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.–China Relations and a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations. He has held visiting fellowships at the Australian National University and the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University and completed postdoctoral training at Princeton University. The ANU China Seminar Series is supported by the Australian Centre on China in the World at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation plan please contact ciw@anu.edu.au

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 panel puts the China in Africa paradigm in a comparative perspective with India, which has longstanding commercial and trade ties with East and South Africa. This online panel, co-sponsored with the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies of The New School, will assess Indian and Chinese engagements in Africa through the lens of technology transfers, skills upgrading, educational exchanges, and knowledge flows. Participants will explore patterns of expertise and technology transfer, higher education partnerships, cross-border research collaborations, and supply chains, among other forms of engagement between Chinese and Indian organizations with African counterparts Register here.