Archive 檔案Events in 2020

What began as yet another face off along the LAC 8 months ago, took an ugly turn with 20 Indian soldiers killed in action on the night of June 14-15. Beijing's frustration is increasing in its inability to manage the crisis with a series of military and diplomatic talks resulting in failures, unlike Doklam. On the othe…

The 2020 China Now Music Festival closes with a landmark performance of Beethoven’s complete Egmont, his musical setting of the 1787 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in a new production by the China NCPA Orchestra in Beijing. With narration in Mandarin by Sun Qian, and featuring soprano Song Yuanming, the concert wa…

Description: Please join us in celebrating Professor Lydia H. Liu's Translingual Practice in its 25th year on Friday, Dec. 18th, from 2:00 to 5:30PM EST, via Zoom. Speakers include: David Xu Borgonjon (Columbia University), Harlan Chambers (Columbia University), Li Chen (University of Toronto), Tamara Chin (Brown Unive…

Hosted by Asia Society of Northern California and moderated by author Sheila Melvin, this discussion with the filmmakers Jennifer Lin and Jindong Cai, plus guests Ryan Fleur, executive director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Ambassador Nicholas Platt, will look at the future of culture and diplomacy through classic…

For our December book club, we’ll be reading China’s New Youth (UK edition titled “Wish Lanterns”) in preparation for our chat with the author, Alec Ash. China’s new youth are the generation that will change China. Offspring of the one-child policy, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to transform both their…

Twelve years ago more than 40% of Yunnan’s rural population had no direct access to a paved road. Since then, massive infrastructure development and a government-led poverty eradication campaign have transformed the countryside. Yunnan also rose to be a leader in sustainable development. In this special event, we will…

Join us for a live roundtable discussion on the relationship between digital governance, civic engagement, and the public sphere. With cities under lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital governance has gained currency in addressing the public health crisis and enabling civic participation in the digital age. Lo…

David Serfass has been collecting biographical data on occupied China since he started his doctoral research on "The state of occupation" in wartime China. He is now engaged in developing an online biographical database and dictionary on this period.

Get early access to the new documentary "Beethoven in Beijing," which follows the Philadelphia Orchestra on their first historic trip to China in 1973 and chronicles the opening of China to Western classical music since the end of the Cultural Revolution. In collaboration with History Making Productions, the Wharton Sc…

This conference will be held by the Research Center for Digital Humanities of National Taiwan University on December 17-18, 2020. The targeted subjects encompass the systems and technologies of digital humanities. This conference will also release the latest technology innovation resulted from the collaborative project…

The equation between India and China is once again poised to influence the future course of Asia just as it did seven decades ago following the 1962 war between them. New frictions and differences are being brought to the fore as India and China pursue their regional interests and attempt to settle old scores. Although…

Tea connects the billions of Chinese who consume it today in much the same way as they have for centuries. In recent years, ancient ceremonial traditions have been revived by Chinese seeking deeper connections with the past. On December 15, travel live with us to Fujian, the coastal province that serves as one of China…

Celebrate Beethoven’s birthday with the illustrious Shanghai Symphony, the oldest orchestra in China, featuring a selection of recent performances of some of Beethoven’s most iconic symphonic and chamber works, specially selected for the China Now Music Festival.

We are living in a world that has been greatly influenced by digital and Internet technologies in various aspects. Reading practices and studies of reading are no exception. In the 6th session of ReadChina's online lectures, Duncan Paterson (data manager of ReadChina) will address the value of new digital approaches (a…

The recovery movement originated in the US in the late 1980s, with service users challenging the dominant psychiatric power in mental health system and advocating for seeing recovery as a self-determined journey with self-defined goals. Since then, the concepts of Recovery Approach have been mainstreamed in mental heal…

Host Jindong Cai and guests will offer a peek into the Chinese market for all things Beethoven, including a musical based on Beethoven’s life, a play describing how his music became known in China, and an ‘immersive multimedia Beethoven experience’ exhibition at the Shanghai Concert Hall.

洪武元年十二月（1369），明太祖改太史院為司天監。同時，為了提升天文觀測手段的精確度，明太祖重新確立官方天文機構中漢曆、回回曆雙軌制，即在司天監之外另置回回司天監。約在此時，明太祖任命蒙元回回司天監官員阿都刺（‘Abd Allāh）為回回司天少監。洪武三年（1370）六月，明太祖又改司天監為欽天監，下設天文科、漏刻科、《大統曆》科、《回回曆》科等四個單位，同時又改回回司天監為回回欽天監。欽天監中的《回回曆》科並不單獨編印伊斯蘭曆本，而是將推算結果供《大統曆》參用；而回回欽天監則以伊斯蘭方法就曆法中的天文常數進行觀測，製作星表或「立成表」（Zīj）和編印《回回曆》。崇禎二年（1629）五月乙卯朔日食，欽天監預報發生顯著錯誤，改曆之議…

Experience an exciting and imaginative evening of musical interpretations of Beethoven with Chinese accents, presented by world-renowned artists including bass-baritone Shenyang, pipa virtuoso Wu Man, composers Tan Dun and Yu Jingjun, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra Now, and musicians of the prestigious…

China Institute’s Renwen Society hosts Jindong Cai in a webinar discussion in Chinese of his book 'Beethoven in China: How the Great Composer Became an Icon in the People’s Republic.'

大选结束后，川普总统阵营在几个争夺州提起50余起诉讼，期望通过法院判决推翻选举结果，迫使共和党控制的州议会指定选举人。本期讲座介绍几个关键判决，分析为什么这种策略会失败；今年大选的诉讼为什么跟2000年大选布什诉戈尔案不同；川普总统阵营的律师为什么在法庭上否认舞弊案，这些诉讼存在哪些共同缺陷；州议会、州县选举官员和法院，如何按照《宪法》行使各自的职权。搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，报名参加讲座。

You are cordially invited to join us for the Contemporary China Research Cluster Public Lecture - Mind the Gap: Analytical Challenges to Studying China’s or Any Other Country’s Influence. In this lecture, Professor Chan will present cautionary remarks and illustrative examples suggesting that the determination of a cou…

The opening event of the China Now Music Festival traces the story of Beethoven’s ascent into the cultural imagination of China. Bard College President Leon Botstein shares remarks on Beethoven’s universal appeal and enduring relevance, followed by performances by Bard’s The Orchestra Now and the Shanghai Youth Philhar…

The Third Force is a political movement based in Hong Kong during the Cold War era. Formed primarily by male intellectuals who escaped to Hong Kong in the late 1940s, the alliance relied on overseas connections, using limited funds to operate publications and arrange meetings. Members shared disillusionment with both t…

In collaboration with the Harvard Yenching Institute (HYI), the ICS inaugurated the Institute of Chinese Studies-Harvard Yenching Institute (ICS-HYI) Joint Scholarship for Doctoral Research in January 2014. Two scholarships for a period of five years each, are awarded to selected candidates, enrolled in the doctoral Pr…

You are cordially invited to join us for the Contemporary China Research Cluster Public Lecture - China and the Problem of Influence in International Relations. China’s re-emergence over the last few decades meant its growing influence has been felt across many dimensions by both its regional neighbors and other states…

In recent years, coverage of the Xinjiang region in China has become increasingly prevalent in the international press. From the impact of the Belt & Road Initiative on the region to the establishment of "re-education" camps, reverberations from China's Xinjiang policies are increasingly felt in US-China Relations and…

Join SupChina for a CEO webinar featuring the Chairman and CEO of PAG Private Equity Weijian Shan. At this Webinar Shan will discuss his new book “Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank” as well as current market outlooks.

On December 10 at 5PM (PST), join the online book talk hosted collaboratively by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, and Centre for Korean Research. The event will feature the authors and contributors of a newly published book—Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State, edi…

The talk will take place via Zoom

Why do Chinese set up charitable foundations? How do Chinese foundations operate in the People's Republic of China? Which role can and do they play in the authoritarian system? What is the legal and political framework in which they operate? And how do they cope with it? Katja and Knut Benjamin have conducted extensive…

Rachel Murphy's lecture is part of the webminar series of the Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

What does a change of guard in Washington mean for the special US-Taiwan relationship? What issues are at stake and how are they likely to be impacted by a Biden administration versus a Trump administration? Join the Sigur Center for Asian Studies for a discussion with influential experts in the US and Taiwan for their…

Taking as a starting point PRC President Xi Jinping’s dictum to “Tell China’s Story Well” (2013), this lecture seeks to observe the multiple attempts to tell the “China story” since the millennial turn. At a time when both “history” and “story” are incorporated into the truth regime of the state, fiction is now, more t…

In response to a new school policy, Mongols in Inner Mongolia erupted in a social media storm, defending their mother tongue. The social media storm evolved into a student-teacher strike that rocked the region. The Inner Mongolian authorities had been trying to ease the policy in quietly, even covertly, and at first re…

Professor Howson will review what the PRC People’s Courts have become in the civil, criminal and administrative law spheres over the past 40 years along three distinct lines of inquiry – (technical) competence, (bureaucratic) autonomy, and (political) independence, and make an argument as to how this key institution ma…

As a site of reading and of its various representations, rural China has its own contexts and aspects. Nevertheless, the rural was of great significance for various reading-related campaigns and political movements of the Maoist state. In the fifth session of the ReadChina lecture series "Practices of Reading in PRC",…

Abstract: What explains China’s persistent financing of high-profile “prestige projects” in developing countries? More generally, why do governments sometimes pursue grandiose but non-essential development projects in societies with urgent basic development needs? I argue that governments of least developed countries o…

A lecture launching Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force, 5th edition, with author Robert Sutter. Dealing with assertive China was the most prominent foreign policy issue in the 2020 presidential election campaign and the debate remains acute. Advocates of hard countermeasures toward…

Hong Kong is in the midst of its most dramatic transition since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. After a year of large and sometimes violent protests, China imposed a national security law on the semi-autonomous city in late June. Under the sweeping legislation, China’s security agencies can…

On May 9, 2019, Professor Daniel H. Bays (1942-2019) passed away. The fields of modern Chinese history, Christianity in China, and the history of U.S.-China relations lost a wonderful thinker, leader, and helper. As U.S.-China relations are at their lowest point in the four decades since the establishment of diplomatic…

A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country’s domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has, argues Kent Calder…

Since 1990, China has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders’ meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of Chinese coercion are not…

Red Silk (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020) is a history of China’s Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the 1950s, the book compares two very different groups of silk workers and their experi…

Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. Born and educated in India, he received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was Professor and chairman of History at University of Chicago (1991-2008) and Raffles Professor and Director of Asia Research Institute at the…

Fiercely spicy, tingling, and aromatic, Chongqing noodles are one of the most popular street foods of China. In recent years, Chongqing “small” noodles have become incredibly popular not only in all of China but also in big cities overseas. These noodles aren’t usually fiendishly chili-hot, but local Chongqing people l…

Growing rice is very different from growing wheat. Traditional paddy rice required about twice as many labor hours as wheat, which led rice farmers to share labor. Paddy rice also relied on irrigation networks, which require farmers to coordinate their water use and flood their fields at the same time. These elements g…

Celebrating the Publication of Lothar von Falkenhausen's Collected Interviews

The Book 'Beyond Pan-Asianism: Connecting China and India, 1840s-1960s' edited by Prof. Tansen Sen and Dr. Brian Tsui, covers a tremendous breadth of figures, including novelists, soldiers & intelligence officers, by deploying published & archival materials in multiple Asian & Western languages & attempts to answer how…

This talk will examine some of the ways that the Japanese Empire curried favors to Muslims in China, and later throughout East Asia, in the lead up to and throughout World War II. Drawing on examples from my recent book, China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire: Centering Islam in World War II, the talk will present viewers…

In the history of medicine in China, the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service and medical missionaries play a pivotal role in the development of modern medicine. As well as founding hospitals and medical schools the medical customs officers' and missionaries's efforts in knowledge productio…

Speaker: Edward Cunningham, Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

Australia’s relationships with the various nations of Asia are complex—the current trade and diplomatic crisis with China shows us the speed at which gains made over years can unravel in a matter of months. This crisis emerged despite more than 30 years of initiatives designed to improve Australia’s knowledge of Asia a…

This is the second in a two-part series on the US Elections and the Future of the Trade War. In this webinar, panelists will turn their attention to the consequences and potential implications of the ongoing trade war on the workers who have been caught at its center. How might the November elections affect the future…

Yingying Zhang, like so many Chinese students before her, came to the U.S. in search of a bigger life. The 26-year-old daughter of a factory driver from southern China, Yingying moved to the Midwest for her graduate studies, dreaming of becoming a professor and providing financially for her parents back in China. Withi…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features Seton Hall University Professor, Yanzhong Huang, and his book, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State." Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases…

This talk revisits the history of Zhu Di’s usurpation in the early Ming Dynasty. Examining the personal writings of male elites and physiognomy manuals, Dr. Lu focuses on the physical construct and political image that physiognomists designed for Zhu Di, a body that manifested the “dragon form.” The lecture hopes to re…

While advertising, marketing and branding have originally been developed in the corporate world, public organizations have not been impervious to their increasingly frequent use either. The past decade in particular has seen a tremendous growth in the adoption of the use of city labels, both internationally and in Chin…

Join us for a webinar on December 1st, Tuesday, from 12-1pm Eastern as Peng and Jenny discuss their personal experiences as Chinese students in America; how they came to make Finding Yingying; the importance of telling and humanizing stories like Yingying’s in the current geopolitical moment; and the many contributions…

Using market-frictions based logic, Dr. Wu and his co-author/researcher on this project, develop an analytical model that examines how online platforms can govern opportunistic behavior of offline service providers in China, thus allowing market forces to promote the general welfare. Their work sheds new light on how p…

Different from the privatized view of reading, in the Chinese cultural field, reading through a certain medium or of a certain artistic form often binds the individual to macroscopic social programs and to the politics of the everyday. In the fourth session of the online lecture series "Practices of Reading in the Peop…

How to assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuous conflicts as witnessed in the unrest of 2019? This seminar contextualizes the inquiry through the historical vision of the One Country, Two Systems framework, the Belt and Road Initiative promoted by the current Chinese leaders…

Though inadequate, popular religion has been an outsourced space for democratic participation. In Malaysia, the street procession’s carnivalesque inversion of order allows ethnic groups to mingle and participate in each other’s rituals beyond the state’s Malay-Muslim ethnocracy. In this talk, I discuss Mahua (or Chines…

Once Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon, new academic disciplines, alphabetic languages, and En…

Facing the ascendance of digital humanities as a rapidly flourishing field, this year’s conference will continue examining the many aspects of research in digital humanities. In addition, the theme of this year’s conference will be “Smart Data ╳ Digital Humanities.” We call on scholars to pool their knowledge to explor…

直到2020年大选之前，绝大多数中国自由派一直将美国当作“民主灯塔”。川普执政期间，民粹主义和政治极化致使美国契约的裂缝进一步扩大。这里所说的“美国契约”，是指美国社会历年形成并通过宪法体现出来的政治自然法则。大选之后，美国能否修复已经破裂的社会契约？修复契约，美国需要做什么？华人又如何调整自己的心态和姿态？搜索微信公众号“大学沙龙”，报名本次讲座。

This talk traces the artistic collaboration of Hergé, the Belgian comic book artist and author of The Adventures of Tintin, with the prominent Chinese painter and sculptor Zhang Chongren 張充仁. Tchang (as he was known in French) is not only the central character in two of Hergé’s best loved albums, Le Lotus Bleu and Tint…

In China's complex and saturated media landscape, Gushi FM stands out as an unlikely success story. After starting in 2017, Gushi FM (or Story FM) is now one of China’s most popular podcasts, averaging over half a million listeners per episode. In each episode, an individual tells a personal story from their own point…

The major geopolitical contest that will shake the world over the next few decades will be the US‒China contest. The lecture will discuss the deep structural forces driving this contest, the mistakes made by both sides and potential solutions. It will also discuss the implications and options for other regions and coun…

Chinese air power has received a great deal of political attention and funding in recent years. The relative technological gap between Indian and Chinese air power has inverted from the comfortable lead India enjoyed up to the early 2000s. This interaction will explore the aviation capabilities of both nations, and add…

Throughout its existence, the People’s Republic of China has depended on Chinese Muslims to foster relationships in the Arab world. But Beijing’s strategies for engaging its Muslim population in foreign outreach have changed dramatically over time. This lecture will focus on the city of Yinchuan, the capital of China’s…

To ensure that everyone who wants to attend this talk can do so, this abstract is intentionally abstract. Rest assured that the talk itself will be clear and specific. How people use and interact with each other in urban space changes during periods of protest and during crackdowns against protesters, as we have seen i…

Shugendō 修験道, the tradition of Japanese mountain asceticism, was ubiquitous in Japanese religious life, its patrons and clientele ranging from courtiers and warriors to farmers and city dwellers. Its adherents used their powers to provide services such as healing, exorcisms, and talismans. The study of Shugendō reveals…

Politics has always had an impact on readership in a given society. In the Maoist China, the degree of political controls over the practices of reading and communication becomes particularly intense. The third session of the ReadChina Freiburg online lecture series, "Practices of Reading in the PRC", will reach this to…

This talk examines how the concept of ai (love) as an affective notion has been introduced, adapted and engineered for the building and rebuilding of a modern nation. I will look into the different adaptations and usages of ai by China’s political leaders, in order to reveal the versatile nature of love as a critical m…

After the Golden Age: Resetting UK‒China Engagement: This major report, After the Golden Age, calls for a fundamental reset in the UK’s relations with China, and sets out a conceptual framework for the British Government to develop a UK‒China Engagement Strategy. Co-authored by Sophia Gaston, Director of the British Fo…

As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. As Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in "Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise", the truth is more c…

Vanessa Frangville will give a historical overview of the context of film production in Xinjiang from the 1950s and moves to the 1990s when the film industry in China underwent major economic and structural transformations. The webinar will examine a selection of films produced between 1996 and 2020 and seek to provide…

In 2020, as COVID-19 swept the globe, award-winning documentary filmmakers Yung Chang and Hao Wu each co-directed landmark films exploring the outbreak in Wuhan, China. Backed by an A-list production team, including Oscar-winning producer Donna Gigliotti (Hidden Figures, Shakespeare in Love), and actor star Donnie Yen…

In 2020, as COVID-19 swept the globe, award-winning documentary filmmaker Hao Wu co-directed a landmark films exploring the outbreak in Wuhan, China. Co-directed by Weixi Chen and Anonymous, Hao Wu's 76 Days offers glimpses into the entire 76 day lockdown through the eyes of patients and medical workers. This event wil…

This talk focuses on the practice of robing monastics in the Vinaya revival in Song China and Kamakura Japan. The formative power of the Vinaya on the individual body and on the collective community hinges on the mediacy of the robe. By tracing the trajectory of the commentarial tradition and material culture of the Vi…

Fifth Plenum of Communist Party of China’s 19th Central Committee held from 26 to 29 October 2020 was held in the backdrop of COVID-19 pandemic, changing geo-economic and political environment and the important quinquennial meeting on China's 14th Five Year Plan 2021-25. The workshop covers Internal & External Implicat…

The East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour is an experimental and casual community-building event. It aims to provide a platform for scholars, graduate students, in particular, to share their ideas, skills, big and small projects, and learn from each other. The event will be one hour in length, 40 minutes for pr…

Contributors to an edited volume released November 2020 discuss their chapters as well as aftermath of social movements in 2014 for current events in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Co-Editors Thomas Gold (UC Berkeley) and Sebastian Veg (School of Advanced Social Sciences, Paris) engage in conversation with authors of chapters from this volume based on a conference held at Berkeley in 2018.

Please join us for a half-day conference titled Love, Lust, Caution: Centennial Celebration of the Cross-Cultural Legacies of Eileen Chang 愛與誡：張愛玲跨文化遺產百年慶典. This year marks the 100 year birthday for Eileen Chang (1920-1995), one of the most influential modern Chinese writers who passed away in Los Angeles in 1995. Lead…

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Mary Augusta Brazelton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge. Miriam Gross is an Associate Professor in the…

The mainstream position is that a combination of technology and strategy is pushing us to a world where crises in maritime Asia will be more stable, taking the form of a defensive standoff. We believe that view is overly optimistic, for it overlooks how operational culture, bureaucratic incentives, and the temptation t…

China’s rise and increased involvement in Southeast Asia have prompted a blend of anticipation through economic growth and unease among its smaller neighbors through its militarization of the South China Sea and dam building on the Mekong River. Murray Hiebert, a senior associate of the Southeast Asia Program at the Ce…

This talk tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan (1950s–1970s), South Korea (1950s–1970s), and China (1980s–2000s), Kristen E. Looney shows that…

2020 has been an especially challenging year for healthcare professionals as well as educators who have worked hand-in-hand across US and China in the past. In this discussion, we bring together practitioners, administrators, and others involved in the field of nursing to discuss experiences relevant to Chinese and Ame…

2020 has been an especially challenging year for healthcare professionals as well as educators who have worked hand-in-hand across US and China in the past. In this discussion, we bring together practitioners, administrators, and others involved in the field of nursing to discuss experiences relevant to Chinese and Ame…

Molihua is a Chinese folksong known throughout China and in the world. Why does a humble regional folksong attain such global notoriety? In this talk, I discuss several important moments of this folksong’s existence. I describe the different ways that Molihu has been received, recontextualized, resignfied, and capitali…

Presenters: Toshihiro Nakayama, Shin-wha Lee, Wu Xinbo; Discussant: Ezra Vogel; Moderator: Christina Davis

On June 30, Beijing dealt a crushing blow to Hong Kong's freedom with the imposition of a draconian national security law that effectively bans dissent. Many democratic politicians and critics have been arrested. Elections have been postponed, and judicial and media independence are under assault. Yet the spirit of pro…

Join the ICI for a two part event examining how the U.S. and China can join forces to face universal problems that affect global stability and endanger the world’s most vulnerable people. The first panel from 7:00-8:00pm, on Health and Climate in China, is sponsored by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Fo…

What does the U.S. election mean for the “most consequential relationship” in the world–and what does that relationship mean for Canada? Join us for a discussion with Christopher Bishop, CIPS Research Associate and CFR Fellow.

Since the beginning of the reform era in 1978, the decreasing importance of ideology and the alternative career options provided by a liberalized employment market have made the Chinese Party-State’s ability to attract recruits and maintain their commitment all the more puzzling. If ideology and material gain cannot fu…

East Asian social welfare systems have been traditionally described as productivist regimes in which most social investments focus on elements of welfare that can induce economic growth. Extant East Asian welfare comparative research often focuses on a limited set of social policies and seldom captures the bundle of we…

Extensive engagement between China and African countries has produced vast exchanges in goods and personnel over the decades. In 2012, it was estimated that more than 100,000 Africans lived in the southern city of Guangzhou, China. Nevertheless, Black communities in China have long reported inconsistent immigration law…

Reestablishment of Quad may be one of most important developments in regional security for several decades. This Webinar seeks to answer several questions which remain about Quad, such as whether there is a clear understanding of objectives, areas for cooperation, division of responsibilities & regional & global issues

How should we understand the recent rapid spread of eco‐urbanism around the world and its move into the mainstream? This understanding has become increasingly dominated by narratives of the urban sustainability fix, which stresses the logic of capital accumulation. Within the broader structural processes of ecological…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features University of Michigan Professor Martin Powers, and his book, "China and England: the Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image." Professor Powers examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial C…

Diverging from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the quest for a Chinese cultural identity became central to debates over political and moral values. This century-long pattern can help to shed light on where China’s intellectual and pol…

The evolution—and survival—of documentary photography in China has been contingent and vulnerable, even as it has offered powerful and urgent commentary on contemporary issues. Photographers face high risks as they navigate politically treacherous waters. How have the lines between social and political issues been affe…

Chinese pressure on Taiwan during these unprecedented pandemic times has been ratcheting up, not down. This is leading to more cross-Strait tension than ever, raising concerns about Taiwan’s ability to defend itself. Against the unsettled backdrop of COVID-19, panelists will discuss cross-Strait military balance, the i…

Textuality and materiality are two key properties of reading practices that are often studied separately. The second session of the online lecture series "Practices of Reading in the PRC", however, will try to engage both into discussion through back-to-back talks. In the first talk, Lena Henningsen will share her thou…

During the early stages of China’s Covid-19 outbreak — which happened to coincide with the nation’s Spring Festival celebrations — severe restrictions on nationwide travel were enacted, leaving millions numbers of workers stuck in their hometowns and unable to return to their workplaces. Many workers faced an unexpecte…

2020 has been a challenging year for economic policymakers all over the world. China is faced with managing the ongoing structural transformation of the economy, the fallout from the US-China Trade War and the global economic slowdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us for three talks on how Chinese planners…

This talk focuses on envoy poetry from early modern East Asia, in particular on Collections of Magnificent Flowers (Hwanghwajip), a large corpus of officially compiled poetry anthologies from the missions the Ming court sent to Chosŏn Korea between 1450 and 1633; and several 18th-century poetry collections from Korea’s…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features California College of the Arts Professor, Mia Yinxing Liu, and her book, "Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era," Since its birth, Chinese cinema has been exploring the ways to engage with China’s art tradition…

Is China or the U.S. ahead in artificial intelligence? What is the best way to counter security threats in 5G technology? How do we best maintain American leadership positions in fundamental research and biotechnology? These and other questions about a new strategy for U.S.-China competition in science and technology w…

目前全世界大约有4-5万国际NGOs，其他各类NGOs则有上千万个。美国有超过150万个的NGOs，经费超过百亿美元。毋庸置疑，NGOs已经成为现代国家不可或缺的一股社会力量，能否发挥NGOs的作用是检验现代国家能否实现良性治理（good governance）的一个重要标志。搜索微信公众号“大学沙龙”，报名讲座。

The history of treatments for diseases by Chinese "Traditional Chinese medicine" (TCM) drugs is very long. Compared with Euro-centred "western" biomedical drugs, the multiple chemical components of TCM drugs are complex; and multiple targets just as molecular mechanisms are not clear. The drugs’ pharmaceutical actions…

Climate change is a global crisis; China’s leaders also see it as an opportunity. There’s a new Arctic trade route, new access to rare earths in once-frozen ground, and perhaps a chance to get a toehold in Greenland, as it pushes for full independence from Denmark. Ironically, other aspects of China’s New Silk Road – a…

What access difficulties does the pandemic present for fields dependent on site-based research (such as archeology, anthropology, art history, history, sociology, and more?) Are access difficulties specific to Asian studies that predated the pandemic being exacerbated by present conditions? What are strategies for rede…

Professor Strauss' State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance is a comparative study of regime consolidation in the ‘revolutionary’ People’s Republic of China and the ‘conservative’ Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the C…

The cross-border flow of people for educational exchange in Western democracies is seen as a way to transfer democratic values to non-democratic regions of the world. What happens when students studying in the West encounter racism? Based on an experiment among hundreds of Chinese first-year undergraduates in the Unite…

This workshop will introduce CHMap, an open-access web GIS platform developed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to researchers in Chinese and East Asian history and digital humanities. CHMap provides large-scale, geo-referenced land survey maps of China produc…

The total amount of data created by 2020, if stored in a stack of single-layer Blu-ray discs, would reach seven times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. In 2019 alone, content creators uploaded 30,000 years of video to YouTube, and Naver’s flagship data center, Kak, handles more information than ten thousand…

The Global White Snake (University of Michigan Press, 2021) foregrounds the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive, multidirectional travels throughout East Asia, as well as in Southeast Asia and North America, from the late nineteenth century to the present, in print, on stage, in cinema and in digital media.…

November 12th, 17:00 Pacific Time / 20:00 Eastern Time November 13th, 9:00am China Standard Time For our November book club, we'll be reading Beethoven in China in the lead-up to our chat with the authors, Jindong Cai and Sheila Melvin. -- At the turn of the twentieth century, students returning from abroad brought Bee…

This is the first in a two-part series on the US Elections and the Future of the Trade War. In this webinar, panelists will discuss how the outcome of the November elections will either preserve or adjust American policies and attitudes toward the US-China trade war. With China a central focus of both candidates' forei…

How does an authoritarian donor's domestic political economy shape its aid practices? We probe into the case of China, the largest authoritarian donor in the world, and contend that the regime survival imperative drives China's aid policies to prioritize commercial interests and sustain the state capitalism model. By l…

Even as the COVID 19 pandemic continues to be marked by ebbs and flows, a handful of countries in Asia have had relatively sustained success in curtailing morbidity and mortality due to the virus. No single reason – such as regime type, surveillance technology, or experience with past epidemics - seems to explain these…

In the symposium, interdisciplinary conversations among people with diverse experiences and backgrounds will provide opportunities to discover solutions to old and new problems related to disability. Participants come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including the social sciences, the humanities, and interdiscipli…

Organized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine, and School of Economics and Management), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund.

Picturing West Lake explores how a pictorial tradition in the representation of an iconic place was emplaced, fashioned, refashioned, transmuted and transmitted over time to convey cultural value, historical memory, political ideology, and artistic expression.

By the time this online conference happens, one week will have passed since the election and the fate of the world’s next 4 years will have been sealed. What will the results mean for China? What will they mean for the U.S.? This year’s NEXTChina will gather together some of the world’s most leading experts on all thin…

There is an increasing divergence between the political, economic and values systems of China and democratic countries. The Chinese Communist Party’s increasingly assertive and restrictive stance risks reducing contacts between academics, think tanks, government officials and even business. This is not healthy for mutu…

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Event Description: This is the final talk in our three-part series, COVID and Constitutions, which explores how the current pandemic challenges national and international legal orderings. This week, Professors Chuan-feng Wu, Wen-Tsong Chiou, and Trang Nguyen talk about why Taiwan and Vietnam have succeeded in containin…

The Chinese government has stated its intention to take the lead on climate change, and “Ecological Civilisation” has become an important slogan for Chinese President Xi Jinping. China has demonstrated a remarkable energy transformation in its domestic market. But Chinese firms, private and state-owned alike, are findi…

China’s emergence as the world’s second economy highlights the importance of Shen Kong borderlands—those places and neighborhoods in Shenzhen where value has been produced as people and objects come into contact with each other via connections to Hong Kong. This account rests on two basic contentions about Shenzhen as…

Some 50 years after its conclusion, many aspects of China’s Cultural Revolution remain obscure, despite the fact that it ranked among the largest political upheavals of the 20th century. Perhaps the most puzzling is the two years of armed warfare between rebel factions that spread across China after a wave of rebel pow…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features University of Chicago Professor, Judith Farquhar, and her book, "A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine," which offers a philosophical introduction to Chinese traditional medicine. Reflection on the things recognize…

In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Fron…

Reproduction links the personal and the political. Through policies that promote or limit births, the state attempts to regulate individuals’ reproductive behavior. At the same time, individuals make reproductive decisions guided by their own fertility intentions and the meaning they attach to children and parenthood.…

Research into literary and intellectual life often focuses on analyses of texts and their production. The reader, practices of reading and the meanings and interpretations that (ordinary) readers arrive at very often are missing from the picture. The READCHINA virtual lecture series aims at filling this gap in research…

This is the first session of the online lecture series "Practices of Reading in the People's Republic of China." It includes two talks, both concern the roles and situations of specific reader-groups that are targeted by early PRC's official publications. The first talk, given by Robert Culp, focuses on the young reade…

Moderator: Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Host and Commentator: Winnie Yip, Professo…

This webinar considers the role of surveillance in contemporary Chinese society, how it structures and is structured by the spatial relations and examines various technologies of surveillance and the practices derived from surveillance.

We commonly speak of the Buddha’s “discourses” – sutta, sūtra – knowing that they were not just spoken by him (or “him”) in this way, but nevertheless taking these texts as a clear category of authorized Buddhist speech, which scholars then ask to what degree they return to the Buddha himself; even if they are not hist…

美国的外交政策不仅关系到美国人民的福祉，更关系到世界的和平与稳定。而外交政策是否明智和成功在很大程度上取决于外交政策制定的方式是否理性和民主。 2017年以来美国外交政策出现的混乱、无序和不可预测就和美国领导人独特的外交决策方式有很大关系。本讲座将结合当前美国外交实践，尤其是美国对华政策，探讨美国外交决策的不同理论和模式，模式的应用，以及参与和影响美国外交制定的主要机构和行为者。搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，报名讲座。

The Ming-dynasty vernacular novel “Outlaws of the Marsh” (Chinese: Shuihuzhuan; Japanese: Suikoden) famously tells the tale of 108 heroes who band together to fight official corruption from their hide-out in the marshes of Mount Liang. In the classic, 16th-century novel these characters are firmly embedded in a narrati…

Yifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. In the 2020-2021 academic year, he is also Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. His research concerns both the macro-level implications of Chinese envi…

How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief meeting—come to see one another as potential marriage partners? Motivated by this question, Marriage and Marriageability draws upon multi-sited ethnography in Japan and northe…

張翎：我的文學旅程 與白睿文對談 憑著《金山》、《餘震》、《勞燕》和最新出版的《一路惶恐》，張翎早已被公認為當代華文文壇最重要的作者之一。這次對談活動將圍繞著張翎老師的創作旅程和她的幾部代表作，從寫作的技巧到電影改編。歡迎各位學者和文學愛好者來參加這次網上文學沙龍。 活動時間：2020年11月5日 傍晚5:00（美國西岸時間Pacific Time） 張翎、浙江溫州人，現居加拿大多倫多市，曾為北美註冊聽力康復師。 九十年代中後期開始在海外寫作發表，代表作有《勞燕》、《餘震》、《金山》等。小說曾獲得包括華語傳媒年度小說家獎，新浪年度十大好書，華僑華人文學獎評委會大獎，臺灣「時報開卷好書獎」，香港《紅樓夢》世界華文長篇小說專家推薦獎等兩…

In Pirates and Publishers (Princeton University Press, 2019), Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes. Wang draws on a vast range of previously underutilized archival sources to show how copyright wa…

What can we learn from China’s experience in managing maternal and child care during the COVID-19 pandemic? Join us for a discussion of recent experience, global lessons, and potential areas for China-U.S. collaboration.

This talk examining China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal shows how BRI programs across the trans-Himalaya region reflect a new phase of Sino-Nepali geopolitics which I conceptualize as ‘infrastructural relations.’ While these infrastructural relations between Beijing and Kathmandu are routinely framed at geo…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features Johns Hopkins University Professor, Joel Andreas, and his book, "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China," which recounts the tumultuous events that have shaped and reshaped authority relations in Chinese fact…

From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National Security Council. In that capacity, he was the principal advisor to President Obama on Asia. Bader served as a Foreign Service officer in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwa…

In medieval China, a seemingly misogynous but enduring and widespread belief held that all women were condemned to a special hell after death because their menses and blood from childbirth polluted all entities upon contact. Despite their offense being biological and involuntary, women faced the inescapable punishment…

This talk will explore the extent of - and reasons behind - the shift in perceptions of China among EU policymakers, the key challenges in the EU-China relationship at present, and the struggle within the EU to forge a coherent strategy in the face of growing US-China rivalry.

About the Event: This is the second talk in our three-part series, COVID and Constitutions, which explores how the current pandemic challenges national and international legal orderings. This week, Professors Eric Feldman and Haksoo Ko talk about the stresses that COVID has posed to the constitutions and legal systems…

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or “stability”? This book project shows how China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression.…

During the eleventh century, literati tried for the first time to capture the living urban landscape in writing. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. On the written page, they could set themselves apart—as individ…

Nation is not natural. Nor is nature, as Timothy Morton (Ecology without Nature, 2009) and many others remind us. In this paper, I investigate the complex relationship between nation and nature featured in cinematic representations in socialist and postsocialist China. I am particularly interested in the role that ethn…

David Tobin will be introducing and discussing his new book, Securing China's Northwest Frontier: Identity and Insecurity in Xinjiang

As the U.S. and China square off and move toward a new and decidedly more confrontational relationship, public diplomacy and the "soft power" of cultural influence have gotten a makeover. The stereotypical Chinese foreign affairs official — faceless, formal and utterly predictable — is being replaced by the "wolf-warri…

The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands, and their active recruitment of non-“H…

哈佛大学访问学者、复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院包刚升老师将一一解读：谁将赢得2020美国总统大选？决定大选结果的制度规则是怎样的？民主党与共和党有着怎样的政策分歧？这些政策分歧的背后，有着怎样的政治格局与社会变迁？美国众多民调机构是否会再次上演一场选举预测的乌龙事件？特朗普与拜登风格迥异的个人因素又将如何影响选民投票？我们究竟应该如何正确研判选情？搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号报名讲座。

Chinese characters are a national treasure. It is therefore inconceivable that, a mere century ago, the Chinese faith in its own script wavered, crumbled, and imploded, launching a script revolution that aimed to eliminate Chinese characters and implement a Chinese alphabet. This book talk takes seriously the series of…

Following introductory remarks from Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell will give a policy address on the PRC's malign influence activities and how the US government is countering them. He will focus in particular on how the US gov…

The Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together twenty, mostly “next generation” thinkers--along with several eminent senior scholars and practitioners who will serve as advisers--to offer assessments and make recommendations on key issues in several a…

COVID-19 has caused catastrophic economic, social and psychological costs that have far-reaching implications on human welfare. This session examines the effects of COVID-19 on the economy of China, the first country hit by COVID-19 and the first major economy that is gradually re-opening. This discussion will referenc…

Launched in October 2018, the Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform (https://idh.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/member/) is an one-stop platform of source materials, digital tools, and collaboration that enables big data analysis for innovative research. Combining open access and crowd collaboration, it enables sea…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 6 takes place on Thursday, October 29, 4-5:30pm PDT and focuses on China’s Rise And Prospects For Security And Stability In The Indo-Pacific Region. CHAIR: H.R. McMaster (Hoover Institution) DISCUSSANT: Larry Diamond (Hoover Institution) Michael Ausli…

Join the University of Chicago's Center for East Asian Studies as we host the first CEAS Lecture Series of the 2020-21 academic year featuring Pulitzer- Prize Winning Author, Ian Johnson, in a virtual talk entitled, "How Chinese Intellectuals Are Trying To Fill In Blank Spaces in Contemporary Chinese History.” Since ta…

In the summer of 2020, while stories of COVID dominated the world’s attention, the Himalayan region flared up. Clashes between India and China and a spat between India and Nepal were more than just disputes over territory. They reflected growing anxiety over water. Glaciers have been melting at record speed, new lakes…

Nirupama Rao, India's former Ambassador to China and the U.S. and Pacific Leadership Fellow at the Center for Global Transformation at GPS, addresses whether the recent India-China crisis at the Himalayan border signals the end of India's “strategic autonomy” at a challenging time for the Indian economy amid a pandemic…

疫情反复爆发，线下复课遥遥无期;中美关系紧张，政治环境日益复杂;反华情绪持续上升，特朗普屡次对留学生下手广大中国学子的留学之路为何如此坎坷？在未知的政治和经济环境中，我们该如何前行？ 为了更好的回答这些问题，我们的讲座邀请了知名社会学学者教、高等教育专家、中美关系教授一同讨论近年来中国留学生在美国面临的挑战和机遇、学业和就业的现状和前景，以及后疫情时代留学趋势的演变和革新。 As if the waves of coronavirus pandemic was not enough for ruining campus life, Chinese International students are facing increasin…

"Stranger in the Shogun’s City" is a book about the adventures about a Buddhist priest’s daughter, Tsuneno, who ran away from her village in Echigo to make a life for herself in the city of Edo (now Tokyo) in the last decades of the Tokugawa period. This talk is an introduction to the book, but it is primarily about th…

This talk analyzes visual interventions on danwei walls—once dominating the socialist Chinese city but today mere traces of previous social and spatial forms. The talk will consider these walls as medium of expression, arguing that in the fast changing urban landscape, danwei walls—or what remains of them—have become s…

Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is transforming its wealth and economic power into potent tools of global political influence. But its foreign policy initiatives, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, are shaped and redefined as they confront the ground realities of local and regional poli…

What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities, revived across the cinemas, new media, hospitality venues, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. Examining the doubling…

Event Description: This is the first talk in our three-part series, COVID and Constitutions, which explores how the current pandemic challenges national and international legal orderings. This week, Professor Alvarez argues that COVID-19 has both validated the premises of the World Health Organization’s constitution an…

At the beginning of the 1980s, the prospects for a democratic transition in South Africa seemed remote. Nelson Mandela was in prison and the Apartheid state was a sophisticated authoritarian regime, combining limited reforms with an increasingly militarised security state. However, over the course of the decade, a powe…

The talk will trace the activities of Soviet planners in Beijing and Shanghai and the debates in the 1950s between Soviet and Chinese planners over the two cities’ spatial strategies. After the rupture in the Sino-Soviet relationship, there were intentional deviations from the Soviet planning model in both cities towar…

Liu Xiang baojuan was perhaps the most widely reprinted precious scroll of the late Qing. In this talk, I propose a critical reassessment of this understudied text by focusing on features of its narrative style and structure that enhanced both its promotion of lay Buddhist practices and its entertainment value. Between…

Examining a wide range of cultural products and genres from the late nineteenth century to the present, this talk traces the evolution of the vernacular myths and popular fantasies about Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799). As China’s cultural economy and political climate transforms overtime, new stories and myths about Qian…

The James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art is consisted of Chinese ceramics, bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works donated by his family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art, James Marshall Plumer (1899 – 1960).…

In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of Chinese city residents, including their relationship to work, eating, care of the self, and of the family. It was especially aimed at completely altering the conditions of women (urban “housewive…

2020 has given Taiwan unexpected opportunities for economic expansion and trade relations. A US-Taiwan Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is gaining more momentum than ever. At the same time, the pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of global supply chains concentrated in China, which is expediting manufacturing migration, r…

Where are venture capitalists investing their money in this time of geopolitical uncertainty? How are VCs navigating unprecedented U.S.-China tensions? And is there still room for investors to do well and do good, as the political and social fabric continues to deteriorate? Join Christopher Marquis, Cornell professor a…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 5 takes place on Monday, October 26, 4-5:30pm PDT and focuses on Democracy, Good Governance And Pluralism. CHAIR: Lanhee Chen (Hoover Institution) DISCUSSANT: Larry Diamond (Hoover Institution) • The Indo-Pacific Transparency Initiative meets the Belt…

This talk analyzes trends in Chinese views of U.S.-China interdependence from Xi Jinping’s rise to the COVID-19 pandemic. As U.S.-China relations have sharply deteriorated, the prospect of “decoupling” is looming larger for leaders in both Beijing and Washington. But it remains unclear how that process will play out, a…

2020总统大选，被《外交政策》认为是“美国历史上最重要的选举”(ForeignPolicy, 09.25.2020)，在距这场举世瞩目的选举投票日十天之际，黄教授将回顾特朗普政府的这四年，阐释本次总统大选利害攸关的重大意义。搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，报名本次讲座。

Neon signs are (almost) everywhere in Hong Kong. They are iconic not only for what they stand for in their immediate contexts but also for their association with a certain way of life in Hong Kong. But this webinar is not an exercise of nostalgia. It offers an introduction to this integral part of the visual culture of…

Abstract: The concept of ‘infrastructure space’ was proposed by Keller Easterling in her 2014 book Extrastatecraft to identify the spaces where de facto forms of infrastructural governance form before they can be officially legislated by the states that house them. While China seemingly offers a large array of such spa…

Abstract: The concept of ‘infrastructure space’ was proposed by Keller Easterling in her 2014 book Extrastatecraft to identify the spaces where de facto forms of infrastructural governance form before they can be officially legislated by the states that house them. While China seemingly offers a large array of such spa…

When China was convulsed by ethnic civil wars in the mid-19th century, the southwest was no exception: both the Panthay Rebellion in Yunnan (1856-73) and the Guizhou Rebellion of 1854-73 strained Qing resources to the limit, and ended with massacres that seemed likely to produce at best a rather sullen peace. A decade…

The Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together twenty, mostly “next generation” thinkers--along with several eminent senior scholars and practitioners who will serve as advisers--to offer assessments and make recommendations on key issues in several a…

How does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions? The Chinese leadership has been at once a revisionist, defender, reformer, and free-rider in the international system—insisting rigidly on issues that are central to its…

What are resources for graduate students emerging into a collapsed academic job market? What kinds of skills and experiences should scholars in global Asian studies and other fields reliant on heretofore comparatively robust academic hiring adopt from extant programs and peers in other fields? What are the differences…

Professor Hui will narrate Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom and democracy through two protest slogans: from “Today’s Tiananmen, Tomorrow’s Hong Kong” in 1989 to “Today’s Tibet/Xinjiang, Tomorrow’s Hong Kong” in 2020. For three decades, Hong Kong people have struggled for democracy so as to preserve their preexisting fr…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 4 takes place on Thursday, October 22, 4-5:30pm PDT and focuses on PRC Influence And Interference. CHAIR: Glenn Tiffert (Hoover Institution) DISCUSSANT: John Pomfret (Washington Post contributor) • Identifying United Front platforms in the Indo-Pacifi…

This online workshop will explore objects of historical enquiry, landscapes and the environment through the lens of one particular eighteenth-century imperial estate, focusing on digital mapping as a medium for engaging disparate sources in reconstructing design and use of the site. Seeking to extend the idea of object…

India and China successfully managed their relationship for almost forty years. Recently, however, a narrative of India and China as destined for conflict has taken hold in public discourse in both countries. This lecture, with Ambassador Shivshankar MENON, will examine whether this is so, and the role of changing Asia…

Webinar: Cécile Armand is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ENP-China Project (ERC Advanced grant). She received her Ph.D. in 2017 at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and was affiliated with the DH-Asia Program at Stanford University (2017-18). She studied the history of advertising in Shanghai in the first half of…

Xiong Shili 熊十力 (1885-1968) was one of the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century, and a founding figure of the modern New Confucian school of philosophy. In this seminar, I will discuss how cultural nationalism was reflected in, and affected the direction of, Xiong’s thought. I will, first, intro…

This talk imagines a dialogue between Lu Xun and Eileen Chang, usually believed to belong to diametrically opposing camps, political vs. apolitical, left vs. right, feminist vs. feminine. I argue that the concerns of Lu Xun and Eileen Chang converge more often than not. The points of their divergence provide us a windo…

As the world’s dominant powers, the U.S. and China have a tremendous influence and impact on a global response for climate change. In this discussion we will hear from Barbara Finamore, Senior Strategic Director for Asia at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Fritz Mayer, Dean of the Josef Korbel School of Internati…

In this moderated evening talk, Dr. Park presents findings from her latest publication with Eunbin Chung (Univ of Utah) in the special issue on ‘Pandemics, COVID-19, Sustainability and Development’ in the journal World Development. They present a theoretical framework of policy implementation that combines collaboratio…

《从区域规划到地方行动：中国长三角地区的生态环境挑战与应对》 在全球化深入推进的背景之下，中国东部城市群快速的工业化和城镇化进程导致生态环境质量不断下降，人地矛盾突。地方政府的经济发展优先政策，以及区域和地方环境价值的丧失，都威胁着人们的生活质量。为此，需要使不同层次规划之间、规划与实施之间实现成功整合，引导所有规划与管理参与者“同舟共济”，从而实现可持续、有效的发展，以应对中国区域规划面临的环境保护与区域协调的巨大挑战。 本报告将介绍三个不同层级的地区规划及其上下结合的路径：代表跨省政府的长三角地区的YRD区域规划、代表地方政府的句容县发展规划和代表乡村社区的陈庄自然村发展规划。通过对这三层级的规划及计划行动的调查和分析，本报告将…

Join us as Stephen Whiteman, senior lecturer in the Art and Architecture of China at The Courtauld Institute of Art, gives a virtual talk on the combination of formal and comparative analysis and digital tools to explore the mathematical and technical means by which perspective was adapted and incorporated outside Euro…

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourtee…

Pao-chen Tang, Lecturer of Chinese Cultural Studies will be discussing Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1981 film, Cheerful Wind (風兒踢踏踩). Because of their seeming disjuncture from Hou’s privileged aesthetic on both thematic and stylistic fronts, Hou’s films before the New Cinema period, including Cute Girl (1980), Cheerful Wind (1981…

The interactive relations between Daoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine can be traced back to the Han dynasty, where Daoist organizations were initially found. There is an essential sequence that lies behind the studies on the relationship between the two: Traditional Chinese Medicine is always comprehended as profes…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 3 will take place on Monday, October 19, 4-5:30pm PDT and focuses on Economic Interdependence: Dangers And Opportunities Ahead. CHAIR: David Lampton (Johns Hopkins-SAIS) DISCUSSANT: Thomas Fingar (Stanford University) • Economic coercion as a tool of…

What do we mean when we talk about Chinese food? Is there such a thing as an "authentic" Chinese cuisine? And how do cultural conceptions of what constitutes "good" Chinese food diverge in different times and places? This webinar will feature three culinary experts - historians, scholars, and chefs - to discuss how Chi…

Human rights lawyer Kevin Boyle was a leader of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. Former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy discusses his new book, Are You With Me? Kevin Boyle and the Rise of the Human Rights Movement, and the lessons of Boyle’s life and work for protection of human rights around the world tod…

With the re-opening of universities, rehabilitation of intellectuals and educated cadres, and a state-led policy shift from class politics towards modernization, the late 1970s and 1980s has been remembered as a time when the long-held distrust in intellectuals since 1949 gave way to a society-wide reverence for scienc…

Discussions on the future of work emphasize the negative effects of labor-replacing technology on employment and wages. However, original surveys and field research show that Chinese manufacturing workers consider themselves beneficiaries of technological adoption. This paper presents quantitative and qualitative evide…

The Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together twenty, mostly “next generation” thinkers--along with several eminent senior scholars and practitioners who will serve as advisers--to offer assessments and make recommendations on key issues in several a…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 2 will take place on Thursday, October 15, 4-5:30pm PDT and focuses on Sharp Power, Natural Resources And Sustainable Development. CHAIR: Minxin Pei (Claremont-McKenna College) DISCUSSANT: Elizabeth Economy (Hoover Institution) • The intensifying comp…

This presentation explores the link between the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to globalize Maoism and the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by intellectuals who became Maoists in Cambodia. It draws from Edward Said’s concept of “Traveling Theory,” which identifies conditions of production, transmission, and…

For our October book club, join us in reading the latest book by finance mogul Ken Wilcox, Leading Through Culture. This influential book looks at how real leaders can create cultures that motivate people to achieve great things. Wilcox offers insights from his experience as CEO of Silicon Valley Bank and co-founder of…

Yale historian Odd Arne Westad presents a broad history of China in the 1970s from his forthcoming book (co-authored with Chen Jian) and reflects on the legacies of the reform era, and the impact on U.S.-China relations today. Moderated by UC San Diego professors of history Robert Edelman and Karl Gerth.

Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar. Registration required.

Please join us for a lecture with: Pat Giersch, Professor of History, Wellesley College Moderated by: Elizabeth Reynolds, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, History Department, Washington University in St. Louis Tenacious patterns of inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China. Such inequality is…

Why would an authoritarian regime expand social welfare provision in the absence of democratization? Yet China, the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian state, has expanded its social health insurance system at an unprecedented rate, increasing enrollment from 20 percent of its population in 2000 to 95 perce…

Can a liberal commons emerge in an authoritarian regime? Why have 94% of residential neighborhoods in Shanghai established homeowners’ associations but only 41% in Shenzhen and 12% in Beijing? Based on an in-depth investigation of the ongoing self-governance movement of hundreds of millions of homeowners in urban China…

Part of a symposium on Global, Transcultural, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Justice

"Mobilizing for Development" tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia's political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison of Taiwan, South Korea, and China, Kristen E. Looney shows that different types of deve…

Civic solidarity is an underexplored concept in sociology and political science. This talk unpacks its theoretical dimensions—what civic solidarity is, how it is formed, and what the social and political implications are. Through this lens, Dr. Liu examines a puzzling phenomenon in contemporary rural China: Why are som…

What can textual combinations, format, and size tell us about the worldviews of the donors, scribes, and readers of medieval Chinese Buddhist manuscripts? How can material sources inform us about the ways adherents both perceived and actively shaped their traditions? In this talk, I try to answer these questions throug…

There has been remarkable progress in global poverty reduction. Since 1990, a quarter of the world’s population has risen out of extreme poverty. In 2015, 10 percent of the world’s population lived on less than $1.90 a day, down from nearly 36 percent in 1990. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impa…

Please join this powerful group of business experts, government officials, and thought leaders, who will come together to provide needed context and the pragmatic thinking required to re-start the US-China dialogue. At a time of heightened US-China tension and talk of a decoupled world, our speakers will offer business…

Will future historians look back at 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic as the start of a new Cold War? Professor Gries addressed this question in a webinar last May, and will revisit it in this October talk, more than nine months after COVID-19 first emerged in China. Since May, US-China relations have further deteriorated…

Join the 2020 Conference on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Panel 1 will take place on Monday, October 12 from 4:00pm-5:30pm PDT and focuses on Security and Defense Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific. CHAIR: James Ellis (Hoover Institution) DISCUSSANT: Joseph Felter (Hoover Institution), Che-chuan Lee (INDSR) • The cha…

Investing in host countries without independent courts, multinational corporations (MNCs) face two types of hazards, the risks of opportunistic expropriation by the government (political hazards) and the threat of contract breach by their domestic partners (contractual hazards). Existing literature focuses on how bilat…

Abstract: Investing in host countries without independent courts, multinational corporations (MNCs) face two types of hazards, the risks of opportunistic expropriation by the government (political hazards) and the threat of contract breach by their domestic partners (contractual hazards). Existing literature focuses on…

Being on the faculty for more than 25 years, Dr. Fenyong Liu is currently Professor of Infectious Diseases in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. For over 30 years, Dr. Liu has been collaborating with scientists around the world to study various human viruses and combat the infections associated with these viru…

A large literature in economics has emphasized the importance of rule of law and property rights for economic development. Yet, a comparative analysis of the historical trajectories of medieval Europe and imperial China raises puzzles that cannot be readily solved by the existing framework. Why was Europe, with stronge…

The Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together twenty, mostly “next generation” thinkers--along with several eminent senior scholars and practitioners who will serve as advisers--to offer assessments and make recommendations on key issues in several a…

Join the Belfer Center's Economic Diplomacy Initiative for a conversation with Yan Xuetong, Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, on the evolution of U.S.-China digital and technological competition. The year 2019 saw the curtain rise on a U.S.–China bipola…

Check out @UBC Asian Studies’s next "Asian Language Talk" collaborated with @ UBC Chinese Language Program for Thursday, October 8th at 7PM, with a focus on MANDARIN CHINESE this time! Find out about exciting ways to learn Chinese such as: - The "Chinese Bridge" Mandarin Speech Contest - GoGlobal Program Learning in a…

The instrumental observation of earthquakes in Japan began only after the end of the nineteenth century, hence transcribing the pre-modern earthquake records is crucial for the earthquake prediction and disaster prevention. The Historical Earthquake Study Group (HESG) at Kyoto University, of which Dr. Hashimoto is a me…

The theme of BUCSA for 2020-21 is DIGITAL ASIA, and we open our year with a roundtable of BU experts on a hot topic, the planned banning of Chinese apps Tik Tok and Wechat in the United States, and what will be the impact on users in the USA and China (including many students, faculty, staff and their families at BU an…

The stereotype of the Chinese Internet is that it functions as a "Great Firewall," intended to keep unauthorized information out. This one-sided view of information suppression overlooks the creative and dynamic ways that Chinese netizens navigate online platforms. In this webinar, two specialists will explore how neti…

Relations between the United States and China are souring dramatically in what is rapidly becoming a Cold War setting. This is having significant impact on multiple sectors including universities that over four decades have built a web of linkages largely regarded as of mutual advantage. In particular, faculty in STEM…

With expanded fiscal capacity and rising concerns over economic inequality, the Chinese government in the last decade and a half has vastly rebuilt and expanded its social welfare regime. Using the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology and both micro-level survey data and macro-level government statistics, this…

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Representative Bi-khim Hsiao assumed her position as Taiwan’s Representative to the United States in July 2020, after serving as a Senior Adviser to the President at the National Security Council of Taiwan. Representative Hsiao previously served four terms in the Taiwan Legislature, representing overseas citizens for t…

The Cultural Revolution is the dividing line in modern Chinese history and separates its century of revolutions, when China was known for mass mobilization to generate social change, and the Reform Era, which is deeply depoliticized and economically driven. This talk delves into the interplay of socialist politics and…

Please join the NYU U.S.-Asia Law Institute as it celebrates its founder and director emeritus, Professor Jerome A. Cohen, and his unique contributions to U.S.-Asia mutual understanding and cooperation in the field of law. This year has marked Jerry Cohen’s 90th birthday and his official retirement from teaching at NYU…

“Oriental sensitivity” is a term introduced in "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization", where it marks attention to the shifting demographics of Martinique and the activities of a tai chi club on the island. This concept, deployed with intentional irony in a monograph about what one mig…

Abstract: The talk introduces the origin and implementation of China’s national strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative. It explains that domestic politics has been a significant motivation for China’s overseas economic activities, revealing how China has risen from a middle power in 1998 to a superpower in the…

Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and…

The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with…

Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and…

The Penn Center for the Study of Contemporary China’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations brings together twenty, mostly “next generation” thinkers--along with several eminent senior scholars and practitioners who will serve as advisers--to offer assessments and make recommendations on key issues in several a…

Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and…

This is a joint event between the Washington State China Relations Council and the US Heartland China Association. Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), inaugurated in 2013, has become a signature foreign policy framework of the Xi Jinping era. China has pledged $1 trillion dollars for infrastructure projects in the Asia-Pac…

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On September 30, SupChina is hosting a CEO Webinar and live China Corner Office Podcast on U.S.-China trade tensions and technology distrust, featuring the author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China and Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide James McGregor.

Please join us for an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eileen Chang! September 30, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing 張愛玲, 1920-1995), one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. In celebration, the Modern Chinese Cultural Studies YouTube…

Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series. Presented via Zoom Webinar. Registration Required.

How does gender-based discrimination play out in the workplace? What are the overt and covert forms of gender discrimination existing in the Chinese and Western societies? What have been done and what more need to be done to address this profound inequality that has held generations of women back in gaining independenc…

The talk will be based on Ananth Krishnan's new book "The China Challenge".

ABSTRACT: This talk challenges the popular imagery of CIs as controversial and ideological by illuminating their practical offerings in developing contexts. Specifically, through the case study of Ethiopia, the presentation demonstrates that China’s fusion of practical or tangible benefits with language and cultural pr…

In 1958, the Matsuyama Ballet of Japan toured the first ever ballet adaptation of the classic Chinese land reform opera "The White-Haired Girl" in China. Examining Chinese-language sources such as newspaper and magazine reviews and rare original programs held in the University of Michigan Asia Library's Chinese Dance C…

Guojun Wang discusses his recent book Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama (Columbia UP, 2020). After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China’s new rulers permitted the use of traditional Chinese attire in performances, makin…

Dr. Jack Leong, the founding (and departing) director of the world-acclaimed Richard Charles Lee Canada–Hong Kong Library, will be joined by Prof. Diana Lary and Eleanor Yuen, both of the University of British Columbia, to reflect on his thirteen some years’ journey in building the largest research collection for Hong…

This is a year long lecture series, taking place each month on Zoom. There are 11 speakers, each paired with 2 commentators. The topics include Japanese village ostracism, Qing fiscal institutions, adultery law in early modern Korea, Chinese Courts, legal regulation of inequality in modern Chinese history, and many oth…

With aging populations and dwindling birth rates in many developed countries. healthy aging and end of life care are becoming an increasing challenge. A multidisciplinary approach by scholars from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China, Mongolia, and the U.S. addresses these issues and discuss leading aging policy developme…

Long after decades of being hidden from sight, Su Shi’s (1037–1101) attributed painting Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo burst into the public eye last year amid a torrent of renewed scrutiny. Peter Sturman considers the broader issue of inscriptional practices among the Song literati as modern-day scholars attempt to resolv…

Speaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series. This presentation will be delivered via Zoom Webinar. Registration required.

You are cordially invited to a special event marking the launch of the Hoover Institution's new project on China's Global Sharp Power. Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice and Lord Chris Patten will engage in a wide-ranging discussion about China's deepening authoritarianism, its escalating assault on Hong Kong…

Early this year, one of the State Department’s top Asia experts was assigned to a new role: countering Chinese influence at the United Nations. For several years, critics of China in the West have noted its rising influence in multilateral organizations ranging from obscure specialized agencies that set technical stand…

The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, was special in many ways. It not only divided the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and sedentary people mingled, where the imperial interests of Russia and later the Soviet Union cl…

The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, was special in many ways. It not only divided the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and sedentary people mingled, where the imperial interests of Russia and later the Soviet Union cl…

This study examines the transformation of reverse glass painting from an art of virtuosity to a vernacular form of art from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century during Sino-European encounter. The vernacularization of reverse glass painting, Dr. Liu shall argue, reflected a consumption-driven reinventi…

China’s relationship with the United Nations has deepened since the end of the Cold War, exemplified by the country’s increased involvement in, and support for, UN initiatives and peacekeeping efforts. China is the second largest contributor to the United Nations budget and currently heads up four of the fifteen UN spe…

As the Indo-Pacific emerges as the world’s most strategically consequential region and competition with China intensifies, the United States must adapt its approach if it seeks to preserve its power and sustain regional stability and prosperity. Yet as China grows more powerful and aggressive and the United States appe…

Academics and pundits alike have characterized the current state of US-China relations as a "Cold War 2.0." Is this an accurate analogy to use? Join the Long US-China Institute for a discussion with three experts on international relations and Cold War studies to rethink whether the Cold War is an appropriate model for…

Some prominent members of the Trump administration seek to decouple the U.S. and Chinese economies with the stated goals of ending U.S. dependence on cheap Chinese manufacturing, bringing factory jobs home, and reducing theft of American IP. Are they closer to their goal after two years of punitive tariffs, successive…

In this talk, I examine the history of Chang’an, the capital of the Tang (618–907) dynasty, after its fall. My story begins with the forced evacuation of the imperial court from Chang’an in 904, and ends with the construction of the new Ming-era city and the renaming of the city as “Xi’an” in the late 14th century. Usi…

The 1933 Chinese Art Exhibition in Paris played a crucial role in establishing the category of “modern Chinese painting” in Europe. Opened at the Musée Jeu de Paume in May 1933, the Exposition de la Peinture Chinoise was the first large-scale exhibition of Chinese art in France. It attracted unprecedented numbers of vi…

Asia in the 19th - 20th c. Global Economy of Capitalism: Andrew Liu on his recently published "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" with comments by R. Bin Wong on the book's place in the historiography of the modern global economy's origins and development