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A century ago, activists with ties to various parts of Asia embraced and then discarded different ideologies and found varying ways to connect with one another, sometimes in exile. What linked them were some shared grievances, such as a dislike with the way their community was being bullied or controlled by people in a…

China’s overseas development program has fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars and journalists due to its growing scale but lack of transparency. Banking on Beijing, Austin Strange's newest book, unpacks the evolving aims and impacts of China's global development finance. It demonstrates that China almost exc…

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Using archival records generated by Frank Canaday, a marketing agent working for British American Tobacco (BAT) in China at the time, my presentation will explore the business and broader socio-economic aspects of wholesale distribution and consumer-oriented marketing of cigarettes in the countryside. Whereas we know q…

Jessica Teets from Middlebury College will discuss how Chinese NGOs are pursuing new, more entrepreneurial organizational forms in response to new challenges in registration and funding.

On the evening of November 18th, 2017, a blaze broke out in the basement of a two-storey building in Xinjian urban village, located just outside Beijing’s Sixth Ring Road. At least 19 people, including 8 children, died in the flames. Yet in the days that followed locals had no chance to mourn. Before the gutted buildin…

Li is the author or the editor of numerous books, including “China’s Leaders: The New Generation” (2001), “Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: The Sino-U.S. Educational Exchange 1978-2003” (2005), “China’s Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy” (2008), “China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Tran…

In her work, Kansas-based Chinese artist Hong Chun Zhang reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair. In conversation with The Wave, Harvard’s Asian literary and arts magazine, Zhang will explore how her identity, the environment, and the dual pandemics are woven into her recent work.

This talk discusses visual representations of vineyard gardens in 6th-century China. By focusing on the sarcophagus of Shi Jun or Wirkak (494-579 CE), a Sogdian immigrant from Central Asia, it explores a range of issues related to viticulture and wine making on the Silk Road, including the spread and transformation of…

As we pass the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 2758 which seated the People’s Republic of China at the UN, what are Taiwan’s prospects for gaining greater international space? How has the constrained diplomatic environment for Taiwan evolved most recently and how does the global and regional landscape loo…

The postwar period saw China debate many issues that still have immense importance for understanding the China of today. Those years contain the period of the Chinese civil war of 1946-50, but also much more than that. China moved into a new phase of internationalization, and became embroiled in some of the biggest glo…

Drawing on his book “Necessary Fictions”, John Yasuda provides an alternative lens to consider the consequences of financial liberalization in East Asia by shifting our focus from how regulation changes under liberalization to who the state envisions it regulates. In contrast to the Anglosphere, where a hypothetical “r…

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Editors Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Timothy Jachna and chapter authors Brian McGrath, Mark Frazier, Juan Du, Mary O'Donnell and Paul Chu will discuss ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world’s most populous urban megaregion—the Greater Bay Area of southeas…

In the study of China’s foreign affairs, historians like to suggest that the past is always present. A ‘Century of Humiliation’ in the nineteenth century or fighting the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s are often referenced. Yet another historic development, namely China’s development of nuclear weapons in the 1950s and…

The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Center for Chinese Studies presents an Administrative Voice event, featuring Michael Bruno, the Provost at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he was previously Vice Chancellor for Research. For decades, scientific exchange has been an effective vehicle for sustained interaction…

This book explores how China’s state-led capitalism affects national level governance. China, as the world’s largest saver, has more than doubled its overseas banking presence since the 2008 global financial crisis. Compared to the West’s private-sector capital, China’s overseas financing is a distinct form of patient…

Xuefei Ren is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective.She is the author of three award-winning books: Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution (Princeton University P…

In this talk, I will discuss how a techno-developmental state has emerged and consolidated in China since the mid-2000s. I will also examine the ideological foundation and material manifestation of such a state, as well as the social consequences of the rising techno-developmentalism.

Unlike his two immediate predecessors Xi Jinping has made it clear he takes Marxism seriously. By ushering in Xi Jinping Thought on Chinese socialism for a new era, Xi has signalled that China under his leadership will be made great again. This is to be achieved by revitalising the Communist Party so that it will give…

China’s accession to the WTO two decades ago was hailed in many Western circles as a significant achievement for international law and the rule of law. China reformed many of its laws and practices, encouraged its lawyers and academics to develop expertise in the WTO regime, and became an experienced user of WTO disput…

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of China’s most discussed foreign policy initiatives. What is the BRI? How does it influence other countries? In this webinar, Eyck Freymann will give a presentation of his new book on the topic and answer questions from the audience, in discussion with Özge Söylemez.

Lithuania’s recent decision to accept a Taiwan Representative Office has created outsized reverberations across Europe, Asia, and the world. With the decision to utilize the name “Taiwan,” Lithuania has drawn the ire of the People’s Republic of China and thrust Taiwan into the center of European Union politics. Why did…

Joan Judge is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015), The…

If we define ‘middle class’ with reference to incomes and living standards in developed western countries, how large is China’s middle class? Dr. Sicular’s estimates using this definition show the dramatic emergence of China’s middle class, which rose from only 2% of the population in 2007 to 25% in 2018, and which hol…

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What is the role of Australian media, especially news media, in shaping a sense of who we are as a nation, amidst talk of a Cold War with China? How do these media produce public knowledge about a country that is increasingly imagined as its strategic enemy? This talk addresses these questions through the politics of v…

This talk focuses on an operational aspect of military campaigns in early imperial China. It discusses the practices of paying bounty that bestowed upon those who killed or captured the enemy in a military operation with monetary reward. Being a part of the military reward system, military bounty (shangge 賞格) has been…

From her office at the National Committee for United States-China Relations, Jan Berris has overseen the US-China relationship, from the earliest visit of China's ping-pong team in 1972 to the congratulatory letters that both Joe Biden and Xi Jinping sent to NCUSCR's anniversary gala this year. She will talk about the…

The relationship between the Mongol Yuan dynasty and the Kingdom of Annam (northern Vietnam) in the 13th and 14th centuries was previously believed to have been defined by the tributary system of foreign relations inherited from preceding Chinese dynasties. While scholars are aware of the necessity to incorporate histo…

In times of conflicts, the media always plays the crucial role of shaping the public opinion. Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been many accusations of the PRC media of one-sided coverage of the war, using the situation in their own interests. Considering the sizable readership of Sinophon…

Final workshop for the series on Gender Identities in Early and Premodern Text Cultures. As is often recognised, the dominant voices in the premodern world have been men's voices. Yet textual sources––from the literary to the administrative––are critical to recovering the heterogeneity that in many cases characterised…

The nature of Chinese lending in risky countries remains poorly understood. Drawing on data on Chinese loans, creditors and contractors, and case studies of Chinese lending in Zambia, Kenya, Montenegro and Sri Lanka, this talk illustrates three areas in which misunderstandings create challenges. We question the evidenc…

Corruption is rampant in many authoritarian regimes, leading to the widespread perception that autocrats have little incentive or ability to curb government wrongdoing. Yet meaningful anti-corruption efforts by nondemocratic governments are more common and more often successful than is widely assumed. In this talk, Car…

This year the focus of the virtual conference will be “Infrastructures” in the context of digital humanities in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research and data are organized, stored and shared; what are the considerations behind starting and coordinat…

长期以来，政治现代化理论是学术界理解发展中世界政治发展的重要视角。然而，在如今的发展中世界，政治发展现实与政治现代化理论之间存在着巨大的鸿沟。20世纪中叶以来的主流政治现代化理论已经不能有效解释发展中世界政治发展的诸多重大问题。包刚升教授认为，政治现代化存在着一个“铁三角”，即国家构建、经济增长与民主建设的组合。三者的各自表现、互相作用与发展次序，才是理解政治现代化的核心。他的这场学术讲座将从理论和经验两个层次对此进行解读，试图为我们重新理解政治现代化提供一个新的分析框架。搜素“大学沙龙”YouTube 频道收看讲座。

China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet rising economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble.…

Stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs), as a newly emergent gendered identity, have recently featured in several TV family dramas in China. While much has been written about the discourses of familial relations in televisual culture since the late 1990s, no research has been done on the representation of this particularly gender…

In the Qing dynasty, pewter was widely used to produce articles of everyday use. Pewter artisans in Chaozhou achieved great success in both domestic and international markets. Their products reached the Forbidden City and the Southeast Asian market. In the nineteenth century, they expanded their shops to Canton, Swatow…

In the 1980s intellectuals sought democratization in China by trying to influence the highest levels of government, but in the end the 1989 massacre practically closed that door. About a decade later, from the early 2000s until 2008, an effort with similar goals, and some of the same leaders, grew from the opposite end…

There are many different perspectives on the BRI – from the financing that underpins it to the effects on Global South actors engaging with it. This seminar will explore beneath the surface rhetoric to examine the complexities of the changing BRI framework.

There are many different perspectives on the BRI – from the financing that underpins it to the effects on Global South actors engaging with it. This seminar will explore beneath the surface rhetoric to examine the complexities of the changing BRI framework.

North Korea, has become a major issue of concern due to its geo-strategic importance, its possession of nuclear weapons and threats for regional security, and humanitarian and HR issues. The country is dealing with a long-term structural crisis of its inefficient state-socialist economy, mid-term effects of economic sa…

China’s ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats have attracted attention around the world in recent years, smashing the formerly popular image of Chinese diplomats as bland, polite and conservative. Under Xi Jinping, China’s diplomatic style appears to have transformed into one that is assertive and sometimes combative. Many analysts…

Please register in advance using the link provided and follow to Eventbrite. The Wa have an unusual history. It's the story of a people of approximately one million, trying to maintain themselves while navigating a neighborhood of big, powerful, pushy states and empires, in the borderlands between China and Burma. Unti…

Hollywood dominated Chinese film market during China’s Republic era, triggering a mixture of fascination and resistance. The Communist victory in 1949 and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 led to an official ban on Hollywood imports by the PRC government in 1950. China’s film market reopened to Hollywood in 1994 a…

In this talk Dr. Miller discusses the logic of state-repression on social media in China and present research in progress on how Chinese citizens experience and respond to repression online. Drawing on online experiments and government documents, he identifies several distinct repressive strategies in the online public…

Please join the Manchester China Institute for a book launch of Peter Martin’s China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. In the book, Martin charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished Communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front lines – China’…

Much work has examined the phenomenon of dispute escalation, whereby the concrete measures state actors take edge them closer to war. Less attention has been devoted to the ways in which state actors’ perceptions of what is at stake in a dispute can also change, with important consequences for the likelihood of conflic…

This public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism, misogyny, and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community from the perspective of Harvard alumni. The panel will share insights on their own experiences while here at Harvard, in the professional world, and relate what has changed…

This talk examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (Learn German in My Kitchen), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong’s performance Non-Taster, and London-based writer David K…

Friedrich A. von Hayek zitiert in seinem Text „The Principles of a Liberal Social Order“ Teile des Kapitels 57 aus dem daoistischen Klassiker Laozi. Dass dieses Zitat in einem vor allem dem Begriff der „spontanen Ordnung“ gewidmeten Text auftaucht, eröffnet Fragen hinsichtlich des Verhältnisses von Liberalismus und Dao…

Nachdem die Sinologie über viele Jahre als „kleines Fach“ weitgehend ein Nischendasein fristete, hat der wirtschaftliche und machtpolitische Aufschwung der Volksrepublik China nicht nur ein verstärktes öffentliches Interesse an chinaspezifischen Themen nach sich gezogen, sondern auch zu politischen Forderungen nach „me…

Over the past decade, the influence of Chinese actors in global technical standard-setting has grown substantially. In parallel to a thorough reform of the domestic standard-setting system, the central government set the goal of becoming a ‘world standards power’ by working through bodies such as the International Orga…

After almost half a century of being on the front line of the global Cold War and the unfinished Chinese Civil War, in the early twenty-first century the people of the offshore islands of Quemoy/Kinmen and Matsu now find themselves on a different kind of front line: the front line of evolving Cross-Straits relations. A…

Since the mid-1980s, hundreds of sociologists and anthropologists have trooped into autonomous areas to study their social and economic development, cultural protection, and adaptation to national politics. This presentation will summarize some of the findings and discuss the dominant paradigms in conducting relevant s…

This webinar will investigate China’s bilateral investment treaties (BITs) regime through various approaches, including textual analysis, case study, comparative study and empirical study. The general consensus is that the evolution of China’s BIT regime has its underlying logic, which follows an investment liberalizat…

For our November book club, we’re be reading “Travels Through Dali: with a leg of ham” in preparation for our chat with the author, WildChina founder, Mei Zhang. Yunnan, at the southernmost tip of China, is a cradle of cultural and culinary diversity. Many people know it as the origin of Shangri-La, but it is also home…

With a doctorate in economics, Geoff Raby has lived in China for 18 years, and served as Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011. In his latest book China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order, Dr. Raby provides hard-hitting analysis on the rise of China and sharp proposals for resto…

Maritime disputes in the South China Sea and the ongoing risk of conflict in the Taiwan Strait are major fault lines for regional stability in Asia. Cross-strait relations are at a standstill amid questions on the Biden administration’s commitments to Taipei, debates over “strategic ambiguity”, recent arms sales, and t…

Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (CCVG Data) is an ongoing project to create an open-access online dataset of statistics extracted from Chinese village gazetteers (村志). So far, about 307,760 value data from 1,500 villages were extracted and opened for access and download. This unique initiative has produced…

This talk revisits the institutional and intellectual history of foreign literature studies in Taiwan through the lenses of colonial modernity and traveling theory. It contends that the discipline of foreign literature studies is fundamentally a project of re-articulation—not only to introduce the Western canon in loca…

Rural-to-urban migrants have largely been portrayed as future-oriented, striving subjects, living “in suspension” and enduring precarious conditions for the sake of desired futures. This talk works from the premise that such depictions tend to naturalize purposefulness as a constant mode of being requiring no efforts t…

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the interactions between climate change and global health, and revealed the dangers of ‘siloization’ of these issues into different conceptual frameworks and governance regimes. The panel will explore how the understanding of environment and public health can be bridg…

Since the first case was identified in Wuhan, COVID-19 has been spreading rapidly across the world, causing an unprecedented public health crisis in human history. In the global fight against COVID-19, various public health measures have been implemented, affecting billions of people’s day-to-day lives. Yet the feasibi…

Following China’s recent barrage of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, experts and officials on both sides of the Pacific are analyzing the risk of military conflict and options for keeping peace in the Taiwan Strait at a time of significant pressure on US-China relations. A virtual panel of prac…

How do lawyers maintain the Olympic dream of international cooperation governed by mutually accepted rules? The recently concluded 2020 Tokyo Olympics provides an opportunity to explore select issues facing lawyers charged with hosting the games during the COVID-19 crisis or managing a national delegation of athletes.…

Join us on Wednesday, November 17th, from 5:00-6:30 PM (EST), 2:00 – 4:30 PM (PT), for the third part of our China Methodology Workshop Series, Relearning the Lost Arts of China Scholarship, featuring Dr. Thomas Fingar, Shorenstein APARC Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford Unive…

The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Center for Chinese Studies presents a Faculty Roundtable to examine India and China’s policies toward one another and the sources of potential instability and conflict. This webinar features Assistant Professor Andrea Malji of Political Science, International Studies, and Diplomacy an…

This discussion will investigate the current landscape of U.S.-China relations to shed light both on the relationship itself and how this most pivotal relationship affects the two giants’ other bilateral and multilateral moves in the region. Speakers will also consider how regional powers hedge or align their policies…

It is well-known that in the 1980s literary journals served as main venues for the emergence of new authors. Other media, however, continued to contribute to the popularization of literature beyond the written page. This lecture will look at how the radio helped expand the audience of fiction, with a focus on the broad…

On Wednesday November 17, 2021, from 10AM to 12:00PM (PST), join the online symposium event hosted by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research. Our first guest for this symposium will be Dr. Timothy Brook, the author of Great State: China and the World (2020). Please see below a title and an abstract of the lecture that Dr. B…

Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University. He received his BS from the University of California, Be…

The presentation focuses on Zhao Ziyang’s rise through the echelons of the party state and his surprising metamorphosis from a trusted loyal party official into a unflinching reformer bent on changing the political arch of the PRC. The story of Zhao Ziyang will take us on a journey through the ups and downs of the worl…

Even as comments on China’s response to the unprecedent global public health challenge are mixed, the country’s local opinion polls so far (setting the possible preference falsification aside) suggest a positive view in general. State media is thought to have played a critical role in shaping the public’s understanding…

Energy investment is crucial to accelerating a global sustainable energy transition. Nevertheless, not all investments are successful. From her research of Chinese overseas investments in the power sector over the past two decades, Yangsiyu Lu identifies rates of power plant suspensions and where suspension rates are h…

The post-1949 establishment of large open-access public squares for state-sponsored mass rallies fundamentally changed Chinese cities. Not only have these signature elements of China’s revolutionary urban landscape persisted despite the increasing land value of their central city locations, but new squares have prolife…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features scholar and author, David J. Mozina, who will be speaking on his book, "Knotting the Banner: Ritual and Relationship in Daoist Practice." Weaving together ethnography, textual analysis, photography, and film, this lecture invites you into…

Given recent news that China's birthrate has hit a historic low, the Chinese Communist Party has redoubled its efforts to encourage families to have more children. Urban, well-educated women have been pushing back against these demands. In this webinar, we'll hear from a historian and a demographer on why this populati…

Cameras and visual technologies accompanied American missionaries as they undertook cultural, political, and religious projects in Republican China through the first years of the People’s Republic. These evolving visual practices and products, however, ultimately escaped their missionary mold and entered global imagina…

The UK’s Integrated Review published earlier this year called for deepening trade and attracting more investment from China. And called China the biggest state-based threat to the UK’s economic security. HM Trade Commissioner to China and Hong Kong, John Edwards, will set out why that is not a contradiction but a refle…

The UK’s Integrated Review published earlier this year called for deepening trade and attracting more investment from China. And called China the biggest state-based threat to the UK’s economic security. HM Trade Commissioner to China and Hong Kong, John Edwards, will set out why that is not a contradiction but a refle…

For different reasons, both scholars and Chinese state authorities have been attracted to the idea of a uniquely Chinese Islam, said to be forged in relative isolation and characterized by a Confucianization of Islamic teachings. The Chinese state has recently enshrined this type of Islam as the only acceptable form, r…

In this seminar, we seek to examine China’s environmental challenges from new perspectives. Alicia Ng will delve into China’s soil pollution regulations and circular economy efforts through the bioremediation of electronic waste pollution. Eero Suoranta will explore how Han Song’s short story Submarines (2014) uses sci…

One year after Biden’s election, cross strait and US-China relations seem more unstable than during the Trump administration. If the status quo is desirable, what can the U.S. and Taiwan do to maintain the status quo? This hybrid webinar brings together US and Taiwan scholars, in addition to Taiwanese policymakers, to…

How could intangible, tacit intellectual labor be legible, acknowledged, and compensated? The relationship between authorship and authorial property was hotly debated in late imperial China when a flurry of fakes, forgeries, and counterfeits abounded in the commercial book market. My talk will use examples from Yu Xian…

Evan S. Medeiros is a professor and Penner family chair in Asia studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has published several books and articles on East Asia, U.S.-China relations, and China’s foreign and national security policies. He regularly provides advice and commentary to global cor…

The notion of “authoritarian resilience”, designed to explain how, by institutionalizing and professionalizing political control, the CCP seems to have nullified the expectation that civil society will rise to democratize the regime, reflects a libertarian anxiety about any alternative cosmology. The talk attempts to p…

In “Social Media in the India-China Conflict”, Ananth Krishnan analyses the role of social media in the 2020 border conflict between India and China, and how it has changed the information landscape. Dr. Lance Gore in his paper, “Socialism without Social Development in China: The Consequences at Home and Abroad” argues…

In “Confucianism in Application: Retracing the Evolution of Confucian Ideals and Its Practical Implementation in Contemporary Chinese Society”, Subham Dutrai argues that Confucianism has transcended its status of being just a political system of philosophy, and has permeated deep into mainland China’s national characte…

In “Evolution on Queenship as an Institution in Imperial China”, Divya Pokhriyal studies the institution of Queenship in China & the relationship between gender & power in Chinese history. In “Native Administration in Early Colonial Hong Kong: Appointing Native Chinese Peace Officers”, Diki Sherpa assesses the aim and…

私德是中国传统文化的核心内容，自梁启超在《新民说》中做过专章论述之后，少有人做过专门阐释。 私德，顾名思义就是私人生活中的道德规范。长期以来，中国人选择了私德作为主导的价值形态和行为方式。私德具有两面性，其一，强调个人修为以及亲缘和谐；其二，如果延伸到公共领域，将导致私德公用。 传统私德文化催生了“家国一体”、“家长制”、“德主刑辅”、“内儒外法”、“明哲保身”、“私我主义”等独特的价值观念体系，形成了中国社会的一种＂中空结构＂。本讲座将对传统文化进行反思，探索文明传承与交流，就传统性如何涅槃而生现代性提出建议。 搜索“大学沙龙"YouTube频道，收看讲座。

A bilingual workshop sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and Hou Family Foundation.

On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. He redefined the relationship between CCP ideologues and creative producers, which had become increasingly politicized during the first thirty years of Communist rule. He also set the template for later “important s…

In “Immobilizing Capabilities”, Dr. Biao Xiang assesses as to what would happen if mobility restrictions are imposed in a society that lacked capabilities to sustain immobility(delivery of essential goods and services whenever needed)? How do we measure for those capabilities? In “Tracking the Effects of COVID-19 on Ru…

Changes in CCP dominance that are currently taking place are a fundamentally new ambition. The power of the central leadership & especially of Xi Jinping himself is felt much more directly & uniformly all across the country with the Party assuming direct responsibility for governance. The Party is imposing itself onto…

This talk examines the controversial nickname of Taiwan as a ghost island and further explores its growing impact on contemporary literary and artistic creation in the local community.

In her paper, “Imagining the Digital Public Sphere in Xi’s China: Looking at the #Metoo Movement Through the Eyes of Castells and Habermas”, Ms. Pratiksha Tiwari analyses the intersections of China’s bustling online spaces with people’s socioeconomic lives to examine the kind of identities, coalitions, and conflicts wh…

In “Turning the Gaze: Understanding the deployment of the ‘Debt trap’ narrative in Western Media”, Ms Sunaina Bose uses the case of Zambia’s national power &utility company - Zesco, to understand how the narrative around Chinese debt has been deployed in popular media. In “The Dualistic Trends of Sinophobia and Sinophi…

The panelists will be covering four papers on “China’s Approach to South Asia: Characteristics and Lessons”, “Charm Offensive: Shaping Chinese Perceptions in Nepal”, "China's Buddhist Influence in Sri Lanka" and “Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis and China’s Growing Clout in Bangladesh”

In “China’s Approach to South Asia: Characteristics and Lessons” Antara Ghosal Singh aims to fill the knowledge gap on how China approaches South Asia, including how China looks at the role of India in the region. In “Charm Offensive: Shaping Chinese Perceptions in Nepal”, Amish Raj Mulmi provides a qualitative analysi…

This paper examines the introduction of ‘scientific’ management in Republican Shanghai through its first translators, the academic Yang Xingfo and the industrialist Mu Xiangyue. Both were American-returned students who embraced the ideas of Frederick Winslow Taylor as potential solutions to China’s ills. Like many Repu…

From the perspective of comparative institutional analysis, Zhou examines the historical origins of Chinese bureaucracy and state building in China. Zhou argues that Chinese bureaucracy took shape in response to two forces: the power of the absolute state and the differential mode of association in Confucian culture. A…

This talk addresses 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, Looney shows that different types of development outcomes were realiz…

The panelists will present papers on "Intricacies of Religious Identity in China in the Xi Era”, “Pravasi Bharatiya and Huáqiáo-Huárén: Explaining the Similarities and Differences of Two Diasporas”(of India and China), “Democratic Transition, New Taiwanese Identity and Queer Rights Movement in Taiwan: Assessing the Lin…

The panelists will present papers on "Transforming Familialism: Changing Care Regimes and Gender Roles in 21st Century East Asia”, “Child Marriage: Reflections on India and China”, “The Resistance to State-Controlled Reproduction: Varieties of Media Responses to China's Two-Child Policy” and “Family as the Core: The Ch…

In the last decade, China’s Foreign Policy has alienated or worsened relations with most of her neighbours, the exceptions being Pakistan, Cambodia and possibly Russia. Embarking on a nuclear arms race, “wolf warrior” diplomacy and pressing territorial disputes hardly seem likely to serve China in her rivalry with the…

Based on his recent Oxford University Press book Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy, Dr. Andrea Ghiselli will discuss the role of the actors that contributed to the emergence and evolution of China's approach to the protection of its interests overseas. He will show how the securit…

This webinar will discuss Zhou Enlai, the first Premier of modern China, and how to connect his extraordinary life story with our challenging times. What lessons can be learned from this student and leader of the Chinese Revolution that will help us to understand the China of 2021?

Drawing on his book of the same title, Rana Mitter examines the ways in which public narratives of World War II enhance contemporary Chinese nationalism and contribute to its newfound confidence abroad. Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they cel…

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On Wednesday November 10, 2021, from 10AM to 11AM (PST), join our event on Double 11 hosted by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research. The event will feature Dr. Bingchun Meng from the London School of Economics and Dr. Amy Hanser from UBC’s Department of Sociology as a discussant. This event will be moderated by Dr. Julia…

Naima Green-Riley is a Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow at Department of Government. She is also a Former Consular Officer at US. Consulate General in Guangzhou. Please register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eLCvJ6-0Rr2lNz68lP6IhQ.

The 1980s were a tumultuous time of transition and upheaval for individuals and society. The Maoist blueprint of economic development was being steadily discarded, but intimate and family relationships constructed during the first decades after 1949 still shaped what men and women understood as possible for themselves…

Join Wayfaring exhibition co-curators, Dr Shuxia Chen and Dr Olivier Krischer, for a short curatorial talk and Q&A about photography and visual cultures in 1970s-80s Taiwan.

This interdisciplinary study addresses a problem at the intersection of the scholarly fields of heritage studies and migration history: How to recognise and manage the heritage of a shared past beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? Under the umbrella of the China–Australia Heritage Corridor project, Chris’s doctor…

Far from a monolithic population, the contemporary People’s Republic of China is host to a vast array of ethnic and linguistic minority cultures. Minority groups are found in China’s borderlands and recognized autonomous ethnic regions, but also in the factories, fields, mines, and other workplaces that symbolize China…

Please join us for a panel to discuss technology, public health, and Taiwan. As an unprepared world reeled under the onslaught of the pandemic, Taiwan stood out for its early success in managing the spread of the virus. Taiwan continues to outperform other states in handling Covid-19, and a big reason is the way in whi…

Drawing on surveys, interviews and document searches, and employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, Dr. Zweig shows that a key to understanding the process of reverse migration of talent back to China is to focus on what is called "a theory of shortage." As several returned scientists remarked almost 20 year…

To mark the publication of their selected research results, Annette Zimmer and Katja Levy present an exciting German-Chinese research project on NGOs who, in cooperation with the government, provide services for migrants in the two countries. Taking a public policy perspective, the three project teams explored how loca…

Campaign-style enforcement is often touted in China as a uniquely effective mechanism to ensure local implementation of national policies. Typically seen in regulatory policies but later extended to social policies, campaign-style enforcement features strong political mandates with numeric targets, massive mobilization…

​The talk will give a critical assessment of China’s Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Under the Made-in-China 2025 program digitalization of manufacturing initially followed Germany’s “Industry 4.0” as a strategic model. However, in China and globally, many of the promises have not been met and digitalization of p…

On October 21st, the European Parliament approved with a large majority a non-binding resolution, urging a new investment deal between the EU and Taiwan including “essential cooperation on critical supplies like semiconductors” and demanding that the bloc’s trade office in Taipei be officially upgraded as the “European…

Conceptualizing China’s increasingly active development outreach through the Belt and Road Initiative as the internationalization of China’s “developmental statecraft,” I argue that the central goal of this process is to induce alignment of state-directed development agendas in the partnering countries with China’s own…

In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity. This talk explores the effects of C…

China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet rising economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble.…

“Song of the Reed” is a song of healing for the Taiwanese women who survived sexual slavery under the Japanese in World War II. This film documents how four Taiwanese ladies, all from different communities – Wu Hsiu-Mei, Chen Tao, Lin Shen Chung and Chen Lian-Hua – overcame grave physical and mental trauma and grew in…

In his recent book, The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, the author focuses on six case studies of India-China negotiations that span the entire period from 1949 to 2019 and draws certain conclusions about the methods that China adopts and tools that China uses in the negotiation process with India. The…

Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a “temporalities of migrati…

Recent work on the Documents classic has led Professor Nylan to return to her initial interests in Chinese history and what propelled her to be a Han historian, and specifically what institutions (domestic and official) are needed for human beings to flourish and for the court to claim legitimacy for most of its subjec…

Recent work on the Documents classic has led Professor Nylan to return to her initial interests in Chinese history and what propelled her to be a Han historian, and specifically what institutions (domestic and official) are needed for human beings to flourish and for the court to claim legitimacy for most of its subjec…

This panel is co-sponsored by the Harvard Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. It is a part of the “mediAsia: topics in media and area studies” event series.

Hà Tiên was more than a mere trading port during the eighteenth century. After the death of Mo Jiu, his son and successor Mo Tianci (Mạc Thiên Tứ) made use of his connections and capital earned from overseas trade to forge a horizontally integrated, transnational civic sphere that stretched from Jiangnan to Canton and…

Whereas the contemporary era in China is often depicted in terms of rampant, ideologically vacuous commodification, the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) is typically cast as a time of ubiquitous politics and scarce goods. Indeed, the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void,…

The People's Republic of China has significantly expanded its presence on global social media platforms over the past few years. China's premier social media outlet, CGTN, has hundreds of millions of followers on global social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. However, we have limited systematic understandi…

With the beginning of the Reform and Opening Period, at the end of 1978, the different food sectors began to be revived, foremost among, them the food industry which had been developing very slowly after 1949. While in fact, the awareness of the importance of the food industry for a developed society had only gradually…

In 1981, Furniture and Life magazine (Jiaju yu shenghuo) was first published in the city of Xi’an. Within a few years, the magazine became one of China’s most popular design and home-making publications, well-known for its DIY guides, advice columns, home stories, and close engagement with readers. Each issue discussed…

No one can quite agree on how best to describe the relationship between the world’s two superpowers, the US and China. Where some see a competition, others see a renewed form of Cold War. At stake may be the future of important struts of the current multilateral system, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). This…

By analyzing millions of social media posts from Sina Weibo made between Dec 2019 and Feb 2020, we describe the contours of public, online discussions pertaining to COVID-19 in China. We find that discussions of COVID-19 became widespread on 20 Jan 2020, consisting primarily of personal reflections, opinions, updates,…

Elizabeth Economy’s new book, The World According to China, is released at the end of October 2021 and tackles the question of how China plans to reshape the geopolitical landscape in new ways. With Xi Jinping’s vision of Chinese centrality on the global stage, what does China’s arrival as a superpower mean for the res…

In the context of fast-moving developments in the Financial Technology (fintech) sector, the event will discuss (a) the heady innovation in the fintech space in China and Asia, (b) the motivating factors behind the regulatory storm unleashed by the Chinese Communist Party on its home-grown Big Tech pioneers, (c) the in…

The speakers will provide insights intro the key variables that will shape China's emerging technological trajectory.

By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in…

Alice Yao is an anthropological archaeologist who received her PhD from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan in 2008. An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, she is the author of "The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China: An Archaeological History from…

This online talk has a twofold purpose. First, it will provide an overall introduction to the Chinese items of the John Rylands Library (JRL) and the Manchester Digital Collections (MDC). It marks the launch of the exhibition “Qing: China’s Multilingual Empire” at the JRL (curated by Johannes Lotze and Julianne Simpson…

This talk investigates how utopian imaginations shape the projects of "spiritual nationalism" in the growing New Age / holistic spirituality networks in China. It focuses on the Oneness (合一) movement, the most popular Indian guru worship milieu in the People’s Republic today. The talk traces the steps of mainland Chine…

This panel discussion will focus on guidance and advice for late-stage graduate students who are experiencing challenges accessing archives, conducting interviews, or who otherwise face the types of barriers faced when conducting research in China but are now intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic.

China’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong, Pakistan, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. Spanning the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, this cable will connect the three most populous continents of Asia,…

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 Chinese Communist Party hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named…

The title of my book, The Stone and the Wireless, refers to two figures that bookend particular communicative imaginations of the late Qing in my study, but it is the properly intermediary chapter, one that both connects and divides the first and second halves of the book, which fully bears the weight of mediation that…

Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on civil society groups pushing for reform. Manfred Elfstrom uses extensive fieldwork and statistical analysis to examine both the causes and co…

In 2014, Xi Jinping declared that China should become a ‘cyber power’ (wangluo qiangguo). On the basis of this strategy, China has sought to not only build its hard technological capabilities, but also integrate digital technologies with economic and social processes. In particular, it is developing new tools to enhanc…

“Writing • Mothers” (WM) is an ongoing collaborative writing project initiated by Jing Y. in July 2017 and later joined by different publishers and curators. Focusing on writing as a driver for the meeting of minds and lives, understanding situations, and responsible action, the project seeks to discover narrative-base…

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business are pleased to announce the Thirteenth Annual N.T Wang Distinguished Lecture “The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy” featuring Nancy Qian, James J. O’Connor Professor of Kellogg MEDS and Dept. of Economics…

How can a dictatorship cope with historical injustices committed in its own name? The CCP presented its answers to a domestic and international audience over the course of 1981, as it first sentenced a small number defined as perpetrators through legal means and then provided a standard narrative of how to evaluate the…

The 1981 Resolution on the Cultural Revolution and the rehabilitation process of CCP leaders sanctioned during that decade have encouraged broader appeals for the revision or rehabilitation of former political verdicts. Such appeals are embedded in a wider process of re-interpretation of past actions and interactions i…

In this lecture, Professor Chang will talk about the use of interdisciplinary source materials to write a book that will weave together the personal histories of more than 3,000 Chinese interpreters for the American and British allied forces during World War II with the larger military, political, diplomatic, and socia…

Guest speaker Jonathan Odom will join NYU Law School Adjunct Professor Peter Dutton to discuss the fast-moving events in the South China Sea and maritime East Asia. They will discuss the conflicting claims to water space, resources, and islands and ask whether international law can be invoked to reduce tensions. Why do…

The rapid Chinese urbanisation process has been admired, much studied but perhaps still less understood than one would like. Of particular interest in this process has been the phenomenon often described as financialization and the nexus of land, urban finance and governance and the real estate industry, which by some…

Bill is a Harvard-trained economist and Asia specialist and has worked at the most senior level of government in Mongolia on comprehensive fiscal reform and restructuring insolvent bank and power sectors, and at grass roots level in rural China on increasing poor women’s uptake of maternal health services.

China studies and urban theory have something curiously in common. The scholarship on the reform era rarely examines the administrative reforms that changed city space. Urban theory conceptualizes economic agglomeration and population urbanization but not state administration. What have these research fields missed in…

Since Lien-sheng Yang published his seminal work “Female Rulers in China,” much research has been done on dowagers and empresses of imperial dynasties who held political power in place of their sons or husbands. In the south and southwest, however, women rulers have been systematical instead of exceptional. Known as nu…

In September 2020, President Xi Jinping declared that China would achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. This climate pledge is widely considered the most ambitious of all made to date, especially since the world’s largest carbon-emitting nation is still at a developing stage and has not yet achieved its emissions peak. Wi…

As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her second…

By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Professor Lander’s forthcoming book "The King’s Harvest" uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China.…

The international security order in Asia has undergone profound transformation in recent decades. Increasing nationalism throughout the region, the rise of China as a great power, and military rivalries have complicated transnational attempts to confront critical global challenges such as climate change and pandemics.…

Abstract: Why do Chinese-funded and constructed projects that are similar in nature develop into starkly different trajectories in different African states? This question sheds light on the varying state capacity of developing countries. Divergent from existing structural explanations that stress the external agency an…

All textual traditions are based on their own particular sets of assumptions and preoccupations. This was the case of the Chinese classical tradition as well, which having taken full shape under the Han empire, continued to be used as the only available language of written record by the very different regimes that cont…

The recitation of the name of a buddha (nenbutsu) is often associated with deathbed practices and traditions commonly grouped under the rubric Pure Land Buddhism. In this talk, Professor Aaron Proffitt will consider this widely popular practice as understood by practitioners of mantra, focusing in particular upon the w…

改革开放四十多年，中国的经济社会发展举世瞩目。如何认识这些巨变背后的推动力、运行逻辑和制度基础？如何评价中国式发展的绩效、成果和潜力？本讲座通过对”中国式治理“这一概念的定义和阐述，分析中国国家治理所运行的一套思想、制度、常模、做法、话语与文化。通过透视中国式治理的主题、任务和目的，解析中国共产党的治理角色，讨论以政府为核心主体的国家治理的特点、挑战和应对方式，探索中国式治理的创新空间与发展方向。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收听讲座。

Existing studies on China’s relations with Southeast Asia tend to focus on China’s power dynamics with regional states, and how such power has been used to achieve influence in the region. Focusing on intentionality, influence is thus defined as how China uses its power to coerce, induce and persuade others to behave i…

With increasingly visible online discussions of feminism globally, China seems to usher in a period of avowing feminism. This paper discusses the preliminary findings of a qualitative doctoral study of young Chinese women’s attitudes towards feminism which found a more complicated picture. Based on forty online intervi…

This event will only be published with the presenters approval upon arrival. The talk will be hybrid and a link will be sent on the day of the event following registration via EventBrite. The history of modern China is conventionally told according to a three-part structure: Republic, Maoist period, and Reform. Many of…

Peter Martin joins us to discuss his recent book, China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. Chinese diplomacy in the past several years has become more assertive and its diplomats have used sharper language, earning them the title "wolf warriors." The book traces the roots of China's approach to dipl…

For the first two decades of the reform era, China’s financial system was essentially closed to non-state firms. In the early years of the 2000s, however, and accelerating after the global financial crisis, China’s banking system and debt and equity markets opened significantly to the private sector. Non-state firms bo…

As goldminers, plantation laborers, market gardeners and merchants, the Cantonese migrants contributed to the great acceleration of social-ecological change in nineteenth century Australasia. As a consequence, the Pearl River Delta was dragged into a new Pacific Eco-system created by the British empire. However, it als…

Beijing's crackdown in Hong Kong in the name of national security has drawn condemnation and sanctions from around the world, including from the US government. But instead of helping to preserve Hong Kong’s freedoms, these measures may have unintentionally helped to accelerate Hong Kong's economic and political integra…

Since Is Taiwan Chinese? came out in 2004, there have been many changes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in academia. Professor Brown will revisit the main points of her book, discuss the contexts of the book’s creation, and assess which conclusions still hold and which conclusions need what kind of revision.

This paper uses a case study of a “Zero Pollution Village” initiative in rural Zhejiang to illustrate how the Chinese state achieves its goals at different scales by harnessing the differentiation of space and political leadership in ways consistent with the principles of uneven and combined development (UCD). The oste…

The structural transformation of China over the past several decades has given rise to a fundamental tension between the pursuit of social stability and authoritarian resilience. On the one hand, repressive strategies enable the party-state to maintain its monopoly of political power (authoritarianism). On the other ha…

In a chapter for a World Bank September 2021 publication, Justin Lin and Yan Wang argue African countries should adopt development strategies around their comparative advantages and have credible and capable governments to oversee these strategies to achieve dynamic growth and economic transformation. Lin and Wang's em…

The Tawang region in Arunachal Pradesh has traditionally been known to draw its linkages from Tibet. Its ethnicity and religious practices are derived directly from Tibet. And until 1951, even the administration of the area was done through the ecclesiastical dispensation headed by the Dalai Lama who ruled Tibet. This…

During the 1961-1965 period, a cholera pandemic ravaged the southeastern coastal areas of Mao’s China which was already suffering from lingering starvation, class struggles, political campaigns and geopolitical challenges of the Cold War. Based on rare archival documents and in-depth interviews with the ever-dwindling…

The International Writing Program (IWP), co-founded by American poet Paul Engle and his wife, Sinophone novelist Hua-ling Nieh Engle at the University of Iowa, invited 57 writers from mainland China, 64 from Taiwan and 29 from Hong Kong from 1979 to 2019. Bringing literary representations of the residency by Chinese wr…

In the early days of the People's Republic, diplomats were highly-disciplined, committed communists who feared revealing any weakness to the threatening capitalist world. Remarkably, the model that revolutionary leader Zhou Enlai established continues to this day despite the massive changes the country has undergone in…

The talk will begin with an overview of some of the key points of his book, "Exhibiting the Past", with attention to museum types and their particular political functions in the context of a postsocialist single-party state. The discussion will then shift to post-martial law Taiwan, the focus of his new book, and will…

How do private individuals secure social cooperation in China’s illegal markets? This book project examines, both theoretically and empirically, the formation of various categories of extralegal governance institution and the ways in which private individuals, companies, and organizations utilize them to facilitate soc…

A series of Twitter debuts by Chinese ambassadors since 2019 reflects a concerted, deliberate effort to shape global and domestic narratives about China and COVID-19. This paper presents the first systematic study of China’s Twitter diplomacy using quantitative and qualitative analysis of more than 32,000 Chinese ambas…

金门，位于台湾海峡之西、厦门以东，地理形势“固若金汤，雄镇海门”，14 世纪后半以降即为海防战略要地。17 世纪中叶起，岛民东渡澎湖群岛及台湾的安平、鹿港等地，成为台湾早期住民的一支。19 世纪中叶起，金门成为闽南重要侨乡之一，青壮人口陆续远渡南洋各埠、日本长崎与神户等地谋生。侨汇经济对地域社会产生相当大的影响。1949 至1992 年间，成为国共对峙、世界冷战的前线基地，社会与空间被高度地军事化。 2001 年迄今，俗称“小三通”的金厦、金泉定期船班开通，金门成为交通新节点及台海两岸交流的平台。金门戏剧性的历史变迁该如何发问？又该如何理解金门与世界的关系？本讲座以金门为焦点，说明自 19 世纪后期以来迄今这个地域社会的特殊历程，提…

Join us for a talk on how modern China's five paramount leaders have shaped the country. David Shambaugh will be discussing his new book China's Leaders: From Mao to Now, the event will be moderated by the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs, Alyssa Ayres. The event will be held virtually, with a lectur…

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center; Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for African Studies and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

The speaker, who has been covering the Chinese diaspora in the US for more than two decades and is the author of the New York Times’ recently launched weekly newsletter “Overseas Chinese Journal,” will discuss the struggles of Chinese living in the US in today’s heated political climate, the pain of connecting to both…

In the Qing period (1644–1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This stud…

What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world's most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues "ecological civilization"? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led environmentalism which concentrates decisive political, eco…

This talk draws from ongoing research on parallels and points of intersection between Chinese and Arabic literatures from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Professor Hill takes up a portion of the writings and translations of a group of Muslim intellectuals from the Republic of China who studied at A…

The current wave of anti-Asian racism did not arise from a deliberate attack on the United States. Its causes have been much more indirect in nature. As such, those who inflame anti-Asian sentiment can do so in the name of “being accurate” on the supposed Chinese manufacturing of the COVID-19 virus, as President Donald…

The Ukrainian Association of Sinologists and the A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are pleased to announce an inter-disciplinary conference “Sinophone Narratives on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine” that will take place on 14 October 2022. The conference will be con…

This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The Yellow River explains how environmentally transformative human activity has shaped the whole watershed and constituted the relationship between people and the river since Neolithic times. Th…

By the end of the Korean War, only 88 out of more than 150,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of their divided countries; instead, they sought asylum in neutral nations. Using oral history interviews and archival documents from the United States, Taiwan, and India, thi…

By the end of the Korean War, only 88 out of more than 150,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war (POWs) refused to return to either side of their divided countries; instead, they sought asylum in neutral nations. Using oral history interviews and archival documents from the United States, Taiwan, and India, thi…

In 2016 China passed a law tightly restricting the activities of non-profit organizations from “overseas” jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. NGOs, foundations, think tanks, and many universities, museums, and even industry associations suddenly faced a new regime of reporting obligations and surveil…

In its Thirteenth Five Year Plan in 2016, the government of Shenzhen announced that establishing housing for ‘talent workers’ will be a priority for public housing in the future. In pursuance of this, in August 2018, the Shenzhen Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau announced that by 2035, at least 1 million housi…

Since China opened to the world, the US and China have developed an extraordinary scientific partnership, which helped China rise to the forefront of global science, expanded America's contribution to science, and has advanced knowledge in key areas of human well-being. Current political concerns endanger the collabora…

Fifth Meeting: Peter Lavelle, "The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth Century China" (Columbia UP 2020). Every year lots of great books about China get published, books that deserve to be widely read and discussed. Book reviews are helpful, but take months or even years to…

Literature on scientific controversies has inadequately attended to the impact of globalization and, more specifically, the emergence of China as a leader in scientific research. To bridge this gap in the literature, Professor Lei develops a theoretical framework to analyze global scientific controversies surrounding r…

At a time when many in the West are convinced that China has perfected the art of dictatorship, a growing number of writers, artists, bloggers, and filmmakers are challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sensitive turf: its control of history. These grassroots historians are using digital technologies to doc…

At a time when many in the West are convinced that China has perfected the art of dictatorship, a growing number of writers, artists, bloggers, and filmmakers are challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sensitive turf: its control of history. These grassroots historians are using digital technologies to doc…

Drawing on geographical and ethnological fieldwork with Indigenous Peoples, Assistant Professor Yi-shiuan Yayut Chen (National Chengchi University) will discuss some key challenges of Indigenous Peoples’ land rights in contemporary Taiwan and offer relevant policy recommendation. Emeritus Professor Richie Howitt (Macqu…

In this talk, award-winning travel writer Colin Thubron will introduce and discuss his most recent book "The Amur River: Between Russia and China". At the age of 80, Thubron undertook a journey like none other: a 3000-mile trek tracing the enigmatic waterway of the Amur River—the tenth longest river in the world—that w…

China's rise and stepped-up involvement in Southeast Asia have prompted a blend of anticipation and unease among its smaller neighbors. The stunning growth of China has yanked up the region's economies, but its militarization of the South China Sea and dam building on the Mekong River has nations wary about Beijing's o…

Dr. Gu’s research focuses on arbitration, dispute resolution, private international law and cross-border legal issues. For information about the book please see https://www.routledge.com/Dispute-Resolution-in-China-Litigation-Arbitration-Mediation-and-their/Gu/p/book/9781138823594.

This paper focuses on the wide popularity of the meme and buzzword jiucai, garlic chives, on China’s internet to investigate the cultural and political subjectivity of the ordinary Chinese citizens in a time of fierce competition simply to survive, largely known as neijuan, involution. Through this investigation of the…

China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet current economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble…

In honor of its release, contributors Mary Bullock, Thomas Fingar, and David M. Lampton will join editor Anne Thurston for a panel discussion of their volume Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations (Columbia University Press, 2021). Recent years have seen the U.S.-China relationship rapidly deteriorate.…

Party General Secretary and President of China, Xi Jinping, has a dream to “rejuvenate” (fuxing) China. His goal is for China to become a strong and wealthy country (fuqiang guo) by 2049, the centenary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. And the past few months, Xi Jinping has not only beat the drum of i…

The relationship among Chinese police, prosecutors, and judges during a criminal prosecution has long been described thus: the police prepare the meal, the prosecutors cook the meal, and the court consumes the meal. In real life, the “meal” that is being prepared is a detailed evidence dossier that is assembled by poli…

Jeffrey Lehman is the Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai, where he oversees all academic and administrative operations. Lehman is an internationally acclaimed leader in higher education, having served as dean of the University of Michigan Law School, the 11th president of Cornell University, and the founding dean of the P…

The Brahmaputra runs between China, India, Bhutan, and Bangladesh & is managed differently in different countries. While dam-building & water diversion threatens regional stability, there is no sign of an effective bilateral or multilateral water management accord in the Brahmaputra basin. Countries sharing a river nee…

‘Common prosperity’ is an important goal for the future development of the Chinese economy. This is a response to several decades of increasing inequality during the reform era. Which groups of the Chinese population have so far missed out on the advantages of rapid economic growth? What is their situation?

In 1973, four cows and one bull were shipped to the Guangming Farm, an agricultural production base for China to supply fresh produce to British Hong Kong. The cattle’s human caretakers included Malayan, Indonesian and Vietnamese Chinese expelled from Southeast Asia due to local ethno-nationalist policies. In the late…

Should China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope…

The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Endless Surplus in Early Modern China ~ This talk takes the titular object of the play Jubaopen 聚寶盆 (Cornucopia), attributed to the Suzhou playwright Zhu Suchen 朱素臣 (ca. 1620–after 1701), as the point of departure for an exploration of the productive possibilities of early modern drama.

How should we China scholars respond to the rapidly changing relations between China and the West? What counts as effective knowledge? In the West, public awareness of China is high and rising, perception about China is divided and even polarized, but knowledge about China is limited. How should we understand these cha…

How can the U.S. best manage its relationship with China? The country is at once a sharp competitor to the U.S., a formidable challenger to U.S.’ regional and global leadership, and an important potential partner on a range of transnational challenges. Will it be possible for the United States to cooperate, compete, an…

In this talk, I will analyze the Empress Dowager’s program of state Buddhism and argue that like her famous contemporary in the South, Emperor Wu 武 (r. 502–549) of the Liang 梁 (502–557), she, too, positioned herself as a universal Buddhist monarch in medieval China. In so doing, I engage the question of how our underst…

Located at the crossroads of Central, East, and South Asia, the watershed that divides the Karakoram and Pamir mountains today also serves a geopolitical function in marking the territorial boundary between China and Pakistan. Situating myself on the ‘Karakoram side’, in this talk, I describe how, beginning in the twen…

In this workshop, six scholars in the fields of migration, aging, and Chinese studies grapple with the new frontier of studies on migration and life transition by focusing on two recent ethnographies about transnational aging in the Chinese diaspora. One highlights Chinese immigrants who relocate to the US at a later l…

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies will host Dr. Shelley Rigger to launch her new book, The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise as the sixth edition of the 2021 New Books in Asian Studies series. This event will also feature Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and Internationa…

The withdrawal of U.S. forces and the speedy collapse of the Afghan government are creating a new security situation and transforming the geopolitical setting of Central Asia. Fears and concerns in the region are on the rise. What will Russia, the traditional security provider, and China, the emerging provider, do? How…

This talk will introduce my current research project that uses malaria as a case study to explore the making of tropical medicine in the first half of twentieth-century China. The project argues that tropical medicine’s emergence as a distinct discipline in China resulted from complicated interrelations of different gr…

How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression (Oxford University Press, 2022), Lynette H. Ong examines how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors, from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers, to coerce and mobilize the masses for…

There is an intense debate among experts over the likelihood of a near-term Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Senior US military officers have warned that a PRC military action could take place in the next six years. Such dire predictions are largely based on estimates of PLA capabilities. But even if China can seize and con…

Beijing’s “One-China Principle” is the bedrock of its policy toward Taiwan. A majority of Taiwanese, however, disagree with any “one China” concept that implies Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China. Regardless of legal status, most people in Taiwan want to remain a self-governing liberal democracy. Our spea…

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is likely to play a major role in the geopolitics of the South-Central Asian region. US withdrawal from Afghanistan, SCO’s focus on post-American Afghanistan, and the growing proximity among China, Russia and Pakistan will make SCO a potent vehicle of regional geopolitics. In…

The CSC International Research Webinar Series. This talk will introduce the collection of ‘Red relics’, which are objects relating to CCP history. They include Mao badges, posters, stamps, as well as military artifacts from the revolutionary period and objects from everyday life that shared a ‘Red’ aesthetic from after…

This talk analyzes the characteristics and mechanisms of Shanghai's New Relocation Policy (拆迁新政), proposing the concept of the “financialization of relocation and resettlement” to explain the transforming modes of Shanghai’s gentrification, suburbanization, and relocation governance after 2010. Shanghai’s New Relocatio…

Since the early 20th century attitudes toward modernization have increasingly centered on spatial hierarchies manifested not only in the built environment, but also through China's arts and culture such as through the growing nationalist interest in its ancient sculptural sites. Through tracing the new emphasis on the…

From the last Chinese empire to the current People’s Republic, generations of politicians and intellectuals have sought advanced science and technology to build a strong China. They pondered the relationship between East and West, tradition and modernity, national allegiance and cosmopolitan ideals. Their efforts have…

The recent upsurge in anti-Asian violence and bigotry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has attracted renewed attention on a long-standing problem. Northeastern University's inaugural series "Asia America and the World" invites a diverse slate of scholars from different disciplines—history, sociology, political scie…

This seminar is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

This lecture provides an update on local finance through three decades of reform including those implemented since 2013, when a comprehensive package was announced, with promise of a realignment of central-local revenues and expenditures by 2020. The findings are that local fiscal status has deteriorated since 2015 due…

What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. In Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China's…

For our September book club, we’re reading House of Kwa in preparation for our chat with the author, Mimi Kwa. It’s an epic story spanning four generations of Mimi’s Chinese family, from the imperial compound in Beijing, along silk and opium routes to southern China, across to Hong Kong and finally to Perth. Join us fo…

Until the 1980s, water featured relatively little in discussions of India’s relations with China. This talk delves into the history of that transformative decade of the 1980s, when first China and then India developed ambitious plans to dam the upper reaches of the Himalayan rivers, giving rise to new fears of future w…

Over the last decade, there have been a proliferating number of Mandarin-language Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in Zambia. These congregations are almost exclusively composed of local Zambians who have learned Mandarin as a second language, and count few to no ethnic Chinese congregants among their number. Neverthe…

Environmental governance in China is highly dependent on government actors and actions. But after decades of prioritizing rapid economic development over environmental conservation, the state-centered approach has shown signs of fatigue. Economic growth is self-limited if the environment collapses. In 2015, the governm…

China sees an opportunity in Afghanistan and is tempted by the space vacated by US and the Taliban takeover, with whom it has cultivated relations over years, to step into Afghanistan economically and strategically. At the same time, in the short term, it is anxious to crush any trouble from the ETIM in Af-Pak. It has…

In authoritarian countries where formal channels of addressing grievances and resolving conflicts are unavailable, citizens often choose to bargain with the state whenever they can. The frantic speed of urban demolition and reconstruction that comes with rapid urbanization in China has heightened the tension between th…

Dr. Hou, and her research collaborators, Xinrui Feng and Mingxi Liu, present one of the first studies of the political behavior of female members of China's national legislature - the National People's Congress (NPC). Female legislators have consistently held about 20% of seats in the NPC in the past two decades becaus…

Professor Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules…

如何理解计划经济的前苏联与中国模式？ 如何在与前苏联、东亚发展型经济体比较的基础上理解中国过去40年转型发展不同阶段的经济增长及其他丰富动态？报告将基于对现有主要文献的反思，从关键历史节点的视角提出一个初步的系统性分析框架，阐释中国转型发展背后的政治经济学逻辑。

We are pleased to spread the word that the BU Library has subscribed to a comprehensive new digital database called Adam Matthew Explorer https://www.amdigital.co.uk/ (a subsidiary of SAGE publishing)! Spanning more than 120 thematic collections, this resource includes several million pages of full-text documents, maps…

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. Isabella Weber’s new book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path.

Is Hainan the next Singapore? Or a newer and bigger one? Questions like these have been bubbling up ever since Hainan Province, China’s only tropical island, became China’s largest Free Trade Zone. Often referred to as the “Hawaii of the Orient”, Hainan is not only the world’s most dynamic tourism destination with a pr…

China’s growing importance in global commerce is focusing increased attention on how it resolves civil and commercial disputes. As China promotes its Belt and Road Initiative, it also is promoting its domestic courts, arbitration institutions, and mediation services to resolve disputes with foreign parties. Hong Kong U…

The reform of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the 1990s was politically unpleasant and socially threatening. There were mass closures of firms, tens of millions of lay-offs, and stock market listings for many of the biggest state firms, which made them run like private companies. Today, SOEs produce one-third…

在历史维度上，我国城市空间秩序机制发生着从附随规制到普遍规制的结构变革，城市规划权的配置与控制则从政治主导与群众参与逐渐过渡为经济主导和法律治理。在城市规划的合法性控制和正当性证成机制上，逐渐发展出城乡规划委员会制度中的合作决策与权力分享、城乡督察制度中的合作型权力监督。城市规划许可的行政诉讼制度，将城市规划实施的合法性纳入司法审查范围，促进了多元利益全面衡量和正当分配机制的逐步形成。中国城市规划法治构造，权力支配、法律治理与多元参与交织，需要实现规范权力和保障权利的平衡与超越。

In this lecture based on her forthcoming book, Secretary Rao will trace how the origins of the dispute between India and China form part of a living history that shapes their fractious relationship today. Understanding this complex panorama yields lessons for all of us who seek a wider perspective on China and its prof…

Transnational migration brings about far-reaching transformations in people’s subjectivities, including those that relate to racial and ethnic identity. Since governments classify populations into racially and ethnically defined groups, people who arrive in a new country become placed into pre-existing identity categor…

Taiwan is a leader in considering how technology can promote democratic principles, a question that democracies around the world are currently grappling with. The pandemic has only intensified the digitization of Taiwan's democracy. How is Taiwan experimenting with innovative digital oversight mechanisms? What does its…

China’s economic reforms have caused rapid growth for a period of forty years. The Chinese Communist Party’s gradualist approach to reform was not inevitable. What were the alternative routes and why were they abandoned? What new obstacles for further Chinese economic development may change the CCP's future course? In…

Since Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the CCP in 2012, much attention has been paid to his steady accumulation of power. A parallel trend has received much less attention: the revival and strengthening of the CCP’s Leninist traditions. This Leninist revival is manifest in several ways, including the creation of…

Chinese firms like Haier are reinventing and innovating their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies. This presentation by Dr. William Fischer (Senio…

当今世界，发展步伐不一。除了有欧美等老牌发达国家，还有二战后跃身发达国家俱乐部的日本，跻身亚洲四小龙的韩国、中国台湾地区、中国香港地区和新加坡。中国在新兴经济体中独占鳌头，发展速度令人刮目相看。但与其相对应的，被称作“帝国坟场”的阿富汗却长期战事纷繁、经济萧条、政治动荡、外交枯寂，遑论经济发展。与阿富汗比较类似的地方，还有东南亚的金三角，虽美其名曰金三角，但其实乌烟瘴气，武装冲突频繁，百姓依靠毒枭生活，未来之路迷茫。为什么有些地区发展得好，有些地区发展得不好？学界有很多解释。本讲座将从秩序维度解释、判断和诊断，并从秩序维度来提出发展的建议。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube账号，收听讲座。

In conversation with Ying Zhang (Ohio State University), Emily Mokros will discuss her recent book, The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China: State News and Political Authority (University of Washington Press, 2021). In this book, Mokros presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the corne…

In another CHERN research and communication skills workshop, entitled Influencing policymakers – making your China research count, participants will learn how to communicate academic research to a policy-oriented audience – a much-needed skill in today’s world. The workshop is held by Charles Parton, Senior Associate F…

For our August book club, we’re reading Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China in preparation for our chat with the author, and Black Sesame Kitchen founder, Jen Lin-Liu. “As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for China’s exploding food scene.…

China and the U.S. have been deeply engaged with each other in many dimensions over the past two decades, but the recent de-integration between these two countries poses a real threat to the global economy. This talk will focus on the financial side of the decoupling, covering both the macro and micro aspects, as well…

At its largest extent, the territory of the early Tang empire (618-755) spanned from the Korean peninsula to present-day Afghanistan. It governed a large multi-ethnic population, and it attracted into its borders many foreign merchants, Buddhist monks, and immigrants. Even its royal house was of ethnically mixed descen…

As the Indo-Pacific construct evolves, it is important to look at how this set of relations and its future hold relevance for like-minded countries in the region and what these countries could do to minimise the threat emanating from rising China-Taiwan tensions. Whether Cross-Strait relations improve in future depends…

“在20世纪70年代特别是90年代以来的社会经济／社会体制变动中，中国发生了诸如价值规范大转折，数百万职工下岗，数亿农民流动，土地／城市大开发，社会急剧分化⋯⋯这样的一系列社会剧变，可是，总体而言，社会群体之间并没有发生激烈的冲突，城市也没有出现大规模的骚乱，人们的生活秩序看似也没有崩溃⋯⋯所有这些，究竟是如何可能的？” 本书对上世纪70年代末以来中国社会急剧变迁过程中的“政治—社会稳定”现象作出解释。有别于一般宏观经济学或国家体制研究的分析路径，这项研究致力于“重新发现社会”——从社会中心论出发，通过田野实证调查、制度分析和历史社会学等方法，在社会生活的细微之处发现隐而未现的社会体制；同时将现实置于长历史时段之中，洞察转型社会中混…

人的秉性里有三个层面：心性、智性和灵性。在古代文化中，对此三种秉性并没有做出严格的区分。但是随着时间的推移，这三种秉性中逐渐发展出了三种规范系统，即道德、法律与宗教。而对这三种规范系统的不同程度的侧重则导致了三种不同的文明秩序。就心性而论，心是爱的符号，也曾被看成是思想的源泉，灵魂的居所；但在有些文化中，心乃是情感、关系和道德的根源；而对它的侧重则导致了道德文明秩序的形成和发展。道德文明秩序有其突出特点，但也有不可忽视的缺陷。本次讲座拟以古代中国的道德文明秩序为例，对此现象略作探讨。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Join us as we meet WildChina guide, Flo Ma, at one of Shanghai‘s newest art museums, UCCA Edge. After getting oriented on where we are in the city, we’ll then head inside with an exclusive tour of the exhibition “Liu Xiaodong: Your Friends” led by UCCA curator Yan Fang.

The pandemic has accelerated prevailing trends and triggered new ones in China. Erosion of Deng-Era institutions has led to centralization of power and coloured China’s response to the pandemic. An emphasis on ‘dual circulation’ and boosting domestic consumption to reduce reliance on exports will impact China’s positio…

Hybrid Modernity navigates away from the dichotomous western binary discourse of comparing China to the western world and recognizes China as a long-standing world civilization with its own unique societal and continuous evolution. Dr. Padua’s talk will touch on: modernization and nation-building; historical notions of…

重建（1863-1877）结束之后，南部黑人逐步丧失了平等的公民地位和权利。他们的选举权被剥夺，经济上处于最底层，在公民和公共生活中受制于州政府强加的种族隔离法，成为了名副其实的二等公民。面对严峻和恶劣的政治环境，非裔美国人是如何保持重获权利的信念的？他们如何积蓄和培养反种族歧视的力量？20世纪早期的国内和国际形势如何改变了美国的权力结构，为民权运动的到来准备了条件？民权运动中，不同背景和层面的积极分子利用了什么政治和法律资源，并采取了哪些斗争的策略？民权运动的立法如何扩展了重建时代的宪政原则，又如何影响了当今美国公民权利的享有？第二次讲座将叙述20世纪50、60年代民权运动的发生、进程与结果，兼论亚裔美国人与民权运动的关系，并讨论…

Early overseas Chinese communities and their legacies are often disconnected from and overshadowed by grand historiographic narratives that attempt to legitimise China’s footprint in the world today. Drawing on the strength of a museological project commissioned by the Foshan municipal government, Guangdong, on the Can…

This talk tells a backstory of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) by tracing the voyages of three Chinese ships managed by the China Ocean Shipping Bureau—both as mobile vessels at sea and as permanent presence on land. People’s Republic of China (PRC) ships functioned as a distinctive type of state space in internatio…

The clandestine grouping of a dozen young Chinese intellectuals this month a century ago in Shanghai has magnified into an event of world historical significance. Scholars have debated the century-long journey of CPC. Marxist debates have critically looked at the CPC journey through the ideological lens, & highlighted…

Fourth Meeting: Xiaowei Wang, "Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside" (October 13, 2020). 256 pages. Every year lots of great books about China get published, books that deserve to be widely read and discussed. Book reviews are helpful, but take months or even years to come out. To m…

Urbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. The book explores how China and India govern their cities and how their different styles of governance produce inequality and exclusion. Drawing upon historical-comparative analyses and extensive fieldwork (in Beijing, Gua…

本次讲座是基于 2003 年至 2016 年期间进行的一系列调查。调查询问公民对地方政府绩效的满意度水平，侧重于政府在提供公共产品和服务方面的表现。 调查提出了三组问题。 第一组问题涵盖了对不同级别政府的满意度。 调查结果显示公民对政府的满意度随政府级别降低而降低。 第二组问题询问受访者如何看待地方政府官员，他们是更倾向于为上级服务还是更注重满足当地公民的利益需求。 随着时间的推移，受访者在这个问题上的看法有所改善。 第三组问题针对特定的公共服务和公共产品，目的是了解哪些公共服务和公共产品公民最为认可，哪些他们认为对政府工作而言最不重要。公民尤其关注改革带来的新挑战。关注大学沙龙YouTube账号收看讲座。

China’s growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. Most of China’s workers (~70%) come from rural villages and have never been to high school. While this national growth strategy has been effective for three decades, the unskilled wage rate that has been rising for more than a decade, inducing companies inside China…

For WildChina's July book club, we’re reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan in preparation for our chat with the author, Lisa See. "A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives. This absorbin…

With rise in China's economic muscle and global footprint, China's foreign policy outreach has expanded while its soft power has been declining. Despite being a 'rising' power, there has been a visible global pushback and backlash to both China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as well as its "wolf warrior" diplomacy. C…

Economic transformation in both the U.S. and China has created winners and losers in its respective society. While some regions are thriving, others have struggled. In this joint event organized by LRCCS, USHCA, and Taubman, we have invited the leading experts on shrinking cities to explore the lessons learned from the…

Economic transformation in both the U.S. and China has created winners and losers in its respective society. While some regions are thriving, others have struggled. In this joint event organized by LRCCS, USHCA, and Taubman, we have invited the leading experts on shrinking cities to explore the lessons learned from the…

2021年6月17日，美国总统拜登签署了国会两院通过的《6月19日独立日法》(Juneteenth National Independence Day Act)，将6月19日定为最新的美国联邦假日，以纪念美国内战（1861-1865）中奴隶制的终结、最后一批奴隶获得解放的日子。奴隶制如何引爆了美国内战？谁在内战中解放了奴隶？获得解放的奴隶为何在（第一次）重建（1863-1877）结束之后丧失了平等的公民地位和权利？他们又如何重新获得平等的公民地位和权利？20世纪50、60年代的民权运动为何被称为是“第二次重建”？本讲座将围绕上述问题展开叙述，勾画黑白美国人在19-20世纪为废除奴隶制和种族歧视而进行的艰苦卓绝的漫长斗争经历，比较两次…

Business success depends on numerous factors, and those factors can change when interacting with foreign markets. When looking to begin business or expand your current business in China, traditional methods used in the U.S. may not be well-suited to Chinese markets. So, what are the basics of successful business in and…

Filial devotion has been considered a virtue unique to Chinese culture in pre-modern China and was translated into various cultural and even political practices. In early China, parents were glorified for giving birth and raising children. Children were expected to take good care of their parents and bring honour to th…

This presentation examines the 1976 film Juelie 决裂 (“Breaking with Old Ideas”), a feature film depicting a fictional account of the founding of the Jiangxi Communist Labor University (江西共产主义劳动大学, or “Gongda” for short.) Like workers’ universities, Gongda gained prominence during the Cultural Revolution for its experime…

China is home to the largest number of wild snow leopards in the world with the current population estimated to be between 2,000-2,500. Organizations like Snow Leopard Trust and Shan Shui Conservation Center are leading the efforts in pushing conservation forward, including a national park system in the Tibetan Plateau…

The past two decades have seen an epochal shift in Chinese urbanization, with new development programs that aim for the near-total urbanization of the nation’s territory and population. These policies are fundamentally changing the nature of rural life and the Chinese social contract. China’s villages, messy and imperf…

Moderne philologische Beschäftigung mit dem ›Buch der Wandlungen‹ rechnet mit zwei Herausforderungen grundsätzlicher Art. Die eine besteht in der Bestimmung des Textobjekts überhaupt. Denn es ist noch nicht erklärt, welche „Schichten“ des kanonischen Korpus, bestehend nämlich aus den Hexagrammen und Sprüchen sowie dem…

去年八月初，前总统特朗普颁布行政令在美国全面封杀微信。五位在美华人律师挺身而出，发起了起诉美国总统的案件。维权的过程一波三折，从最开始的无人问津，到后来获得美国主流社会的广泛支持，历经多场法庭恶战，场场获胜，新总统于上个月收回成命，司法部主动撤案指日可待。这是在美华人获得的一次历史性胜利，但在中美关系持续紧张的大背景之下，在美华人应该如何应对？美国言论自由的法律为什么能保护草根微信用户，而不能保护特朗普自己？两位牵头发起微信维权案件的律师将分享他们的心得与见解。请搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube账号，观看讲座。

In China in 1971, the shocking flight and death of Lin Biao—Mao's designated successor—after an alleged assassination plot against Mao undermined confidence in the Cultural Revolution, and signalled that this exhausting, destructive campaign might eventually come to an end. Beyond China's borders, however, Mao's most r…

As the COVID-19 Pandemic rages worldwide, the debate surrounding the virus's origin has gained steady credence. The various gaps in information regarding the origin and spread of the virus have led to an image problem for China. While news reportage from China creates a simulacrum of a responsible and cooperative 'self…

This seminar intends to examine different narratives (including archival materials, travelogues, journals and newspapers) related to connections across Asia from the 19th and 20th Centuries. These narratives impart numerous perspectives on the notion of connections, journey and migration as ideological and intellectual…

This talk begins by unraveling how many ordinary Chinese learned about the death and betrayal of Mao’s “closest comrade-in-arms” Lin Biao on September 13, 1971—by listening to enemy radio—and tracing the incident’s reverberations on the Chinese information ecosystem. I will then give a broader overview of the socialist…

This talk explores the political and social transformations of the early years under Communism through a focus on sound, hearing, and voice. Taking the Hundred Flowers and Rectification campaigns as central focus, I ask how these movements and their effect on the social might appear if we set aside (temporarily) politi…

In January 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak in China was viewed as a black swan event, threatening the Communist Party's rule. Two months later, however, China appeared to have controlled the virus, while the rest of the world struggled to respond. As country after country imposed lockdowns of varying strictness and the hum…

European Imperialism during the long 19th century was characterized by increasing connectivity and mobility across Asia due to infrastructure grid of steamships and trains, telegraph lines and printing press. Symbolized by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, this era of connectivity linking the Indian Ocean to the M…

As democratic forces continue to face serious setbacks in Hong Kong and Myanmar, we look at these two protest movements and the new mechanisms of protest and mobilization against a previously successful movement in Taiwan. What lessons can be drawn from Taiwan’s transformation to an uninterrupted and unfettered democra…

近年来一种流行观点认为，中美俄大三角关系仍然是牵动全球战略格局走向的最具决定性的因素。这一说法不无道理，但当今世界同冷战时期相比有很大不同，利益布局高度复杂化、多元化，已经没有一种双边的或者三角的战略关系能够做到真正意义上的“覆盖全球”，而每组双边或三角关系也不再是单纯的结盟、竞争、合作、对抗关系。面对国际体系转移的不确定性，多组三边关系共同形成一个复杂的关系网络，塑造着全球权力格局。整体而言，我们对中俄美三边关系需要实事求是地予以评估，既不能过高也不能过于贬低当前中俄美三边互动的战略价值。

For our June book club, we’re reading Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Culture and chatting with the author, Ming River Baijiu founder, Derek Sandhaus. China is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor. In turn, alcohol infuses all aspects of China’s culture, from religion and…

In the eighteenth century, enlightenment ideas were not only spread globally by European missionaries, naturalists, and orientalists within a putative “Republic of Letters”, but also generated locally amid everyday cross-cultural interactions in colonial rural communities peripheral to any mainstream intellectual netwo…

This paper considers debates and practices related to class status in the aftermath of the Great Leap Forward. Against interpretations of the class status system as a manifestation of "high modernist" ideology, it argues that class status gained importance after the Leap not as a form of regulation but through the effo…

How much difference does the year make in characterizations of the Chinese Communist Party? What if this lecture series had checked in on the CCP at the end of each decade rather than the beginning? This talk examines 1961, when the CCP began to reverse the policies of the Great Leap Forward, and contrasts that year wi…

As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged India, the importance of availability, accessibility and distribution of the vaccine gained visibility. The major producers of the Covid-19 vaccine are India, China, United States, UK and Russia. Except the United States all other major producers have exported vaccine…

This event seeks to develop new and innovative ideas to help China develop a health and eldercare system to meet the needs of its ageing population in light of demographic shifts. Over multiple sessions, we will assemble an interdisciplinary group of experts to share their ideas, research and practical experience that…

This event seeks to develop new and innovative ideas to help China develop a health and eldercare system to meet the needs of its ageing population in light of demographic shifts. Over multiple sessions, we will assemble an interdisciplinary group of experts to share their ideas, research and practical experience that…

数字技术的发展，创造出陆海空天之外的第五空间即“赛博空间”。法律起源于大地，但每一次空间革命，都意味着新的法律秩序的创生。地理大发现催生了海洋法及海洋秩序，空天技术催生了空天法及太空秩序，数字技术必将催生出新的法律体系及秩序，并且随着数字技术对现实世界的深度介入，新的数字法律秩序必将重塑旧的法律体系。透过有关数据主权的争论，我们可以管窥新法律秩序的雏形及其革命性意义。

Theoretical debates over international legal regimes, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), have tended to revolve around the constraints international law may or may not place on confrontational state behaviour, leaving its constitutive aspects underexplored. This talk offers a counteri…

Factories made China’s twentieth-century special. From Self-Strengthening arsenals and shipyards to communist ordnance workshops in the guerilla bases, from the Nationalist government’s ironworks to Soviet-aided power plants, from Third Front military-industrial complexes to mega company-towns in Guangdong, factories w…

On Thursday, June 17, 2021 at 6PM EDT, established professor and decorated author, Wenxian Zhang will discuss his book "China Through American Eyes" with guest interviewer Dr. Xin Huang from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

In December 1960, the 29-year-old Beijing University student Lin Zhao was arrested in Shanghai, accused of having complotted against the state. The young woman will spend the last 8 years of her life in jail, but will never recognize the charges against her: for her, it was normal and necessary to criticize Mao and the…

Examining half a century of his personal history in ten-years-steps, this lecture begins to trace the year 1911 when Ouyang returned from Japan to embark on his professional career; the year 1921, at the end of his experiments with establishing Nantong Acting School, where he combined Western arts with traditional xiqu…

In the EADS June workshop, Dr. Brent Ho, one of the developers behind the DH services of the CrossAsia platform, will briefly talk about the ITR infrastructure and will demonstrate how to use the ITR services to bring new insights and perspectives to your research. East Asian researchers and librarians are welcomed to…

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The cooperation mechanism between China and Central, Eastern and Southern European countries (the so-called 17+1 format) has been labeled as China’s “Trojan horse” in Europe, as various countries within the platform on various occasions undermined the joint EU stance on China. While the EU is concerned about any potent…

1951 was a time of both high optimism and great promise for China's socialist modern. The country was finally at peace, the leadership was united, and "the people" were being inculcated into the vocabularies, norms and practices of the revolution. Linking 1951 backward to the civil war years and forward to the later Ma…

By 1951, XM had been a CCP member for thirteen years—eight years underground in southwest China during the war, and five years in the United States. He had hidden a Party transceiver under his bed in his father's Guilin house, sold a stash of smuggled goods to finance travel out of the Guomindang area for left-leaning…

Last lecture in the departmental series of the Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This seminar explores the dynamics of Japan-S. Korean relations regarding the N. Korean nuclear threat. In particular, it explores how security cooperation between Japan & S. Korea differed following the 3rd & 4th (as well as 5th & 6th) N. Korean nuclear tests. In contrast to existing explanations, this lecture focuses…

Third Meeting: Charles Sanft, "Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times" (May 1, 2019). 276 pages (167 excluding notes). Every year lots of great books about China get published, books that deserve to be widely read and discussed. Book reviews are helpful, but take months or ev…

We’re very excited to partner with Roots & Shoots once again to host our second Women’s Empowerment Panel with opening remarks from Dr. Jane Goodall. For this chapter, we are focusing on Dr. Jane Goodall’s career, and we hope the topics arising from it will inspire young Chinese people–especially young women in STEAM t…

A common assertion is that Beijing undertakes deliberate, costly, and publicly visible efforts to punish actors that challenge or undermine its interests and policies with the intent of discouraging others from doing the same, to ‘kill chickens to scare monkeys’. Much of the scholarly and policy attention relating to t…

Join us as we head in to the second episode of our new series, WildChina On The Ground. We’re missing in-person travel, so we’re aiming for the next best thing – virtual travel. Each month we’ll be heading live to a different part of China to bring our favorite experiences to you, wherever in the world you may be. At W…

The 1950s represent a watershed in the relation to death in Shanghai—the end of death, so to speak. Over a decade, the CCP both addressed the root causes of massive deaths in the city and unrelentlessly suppressed and erased the social infrastructures all the institutions that had supported the rich range of funeral pr…

Based on files compiled in 1957-1958 by the Shanghai Political School for Commercial-Industrial circles, this talk presents about fifteen small traders-artisans of noodles and soy sauces, their living conditions and their attitudes vis-à-vis the governance of the state-party and its ideological basis. By analyzing the…

In 1949, one of the biggest challenges facing PRC leaders was how much they did not know. Making It Count is the history of efforts to resolve this "crisis in counting." Drawing on a wealth of sources culled from China, India and US, Arunabh Ghosh explores the choices made by Chinese leaders, statisticians & academics…

This lecture intends to depict the antagonistic look of the literati upon the civil service examination system through xiaoshuo and biji narratives of the Qing period. The analysis relies on tales of dream predictions that portend success or failure at the examinations, and shows that such tales mirrored the way the li…

致歉！讲座取消，将改期进行。近40年来中国的群体性抗争的发展经历了四个阶段。第一阶段在1976年至1989年之间，其特征是大规模的以国家为对象的抗争为主导。第二阶段大致在1992至2002年之间。这一阶段的抗争活动规模往往不大，并且由地方性的、经济利益导向的抗争所主导。第三阶段大致在2002至2012年之间。此间，抗争者有了一定的权力意识，抗争活动越来越活跃，并产生了一定程度的民粹主义倾向。第四阶段大致在2012-2021年之间。此间抗争数量大大减少，抗争空间也在缩小，同时许多抗争活动在朝着公益组织方向发展。本报告对中国抗争的发展模式、抗争活动对经济发展和政治稳定的贡献，以及抗争活动在中国的未来做了解释和分析。

Book Description: Examining the Green Party Taiwan (GPT) since its establishment through the aftermath of the most recent national elections in January 2020, this book focuses on Taiwan’s most important movement party over the last two and a half decades. Despite its limited electoral impact, its leaders have played a…

In this talk, EURICS fellow Federico Brusadelli, will look at the development of Chinese federalism using the methodology of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) in order to trace and understand its multi-layered translations (both as a linguistic translation from abroad and as a theoretical translation from the tra…

Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 and died in 2017 while serving an eleven-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power,” may be China’s most important political thinker of the last half century. In conversation with host Jeremy Brown (SFU History), Perry Link (University of California,…

Join us as we learn about the history of the National Geographic Society in China from China Country Director, Jim Harkness. National Geographic Society started supporting explorers in China in the early 20th century, and the stories and photographs they brought back live on as a window to the past. Mr. Harkness will b…

Are you interested in doing business in China but don’t know where to start? Do you want to know what it takes to build a business in China and make it successful? Three American entrepreneurs will share their experiences, insights, and tips from their success in China in this special event hosted by USHCA on May 27th.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, the late 1970s and early ‘80s saw a Chinese obsession with Indian films. Members of the generation that came of age in this time have such fond memories of the foreign and exotic Hindi films that many Indian visitors to China are still serenaded with songs from the handful of f…

This lecture addresses three incidents in 1951 that cast a lasting impact on the cultural politics of the PRC. In May 1951, the movie The Biography of Wu Xun (1950) was singled out by Chairman Mao as a “poisonous weed” nurtured by feudalist ideology. In June, the novella Between Husband and Wife (1951) by Xiao Yemu cam…

In celebration of the publication of Visualizing Dunhuang, please join the Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University for a panel discussion of the Buddhist cave sites at Dunhuang and the Lo Archive of 1940s photographs. Dora Ching, Cary Liu, Annette Juliano, and Lori Wong will share some of the stories beh…

In September 1951, the People’s Daily announced that the songs “Singing for the Motherland” and “The Hearts of the People all over the World united” should be sung nationwide to celebrate National Day. The broadcasting stations were advised to teach the songs, supported by Shanghai’s recording industry. This presentati…

This research project was designed at the Institute of Chinese Studies in 2019, to understand Chinese economic engagement in Zambia, especially to examine the nuances of cooperation in the Zambian agricultural sector. A collaborative effort, this study brings to the fore voices of Indian, Zambian and Chinese scholars a…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series. How did Kurosawa influence George Lucas' Star Wars? Why do critics repeatedly use the adjective Shakespearean to describe Gong Joon-ho's film Parasite (2019)? How do East Asian cinema and theater portray vocal disability and transgender figures? Shakespeare a…

Is there an appetite for democracy in China? Is the regime’s monopoly on political power invincible? Can and should outsiders help Chinese reformers achieve democracy? If so, how? Is regime change possible, anytime soon? Will it lead to democracy or chaos?

本次讲座将聚焦诗剧《浮士德》与三部据之改编的歌剧进行对应解读，分析戏剧文本与歌剧文本之间的转换关系及剧情取舍，探讨两种体裁不同的创作指向和受众诉求，并分享为戏剧原作大大加分的精彩音乐片段。搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，报名参加线上讲座。

China sometimes seems to send contradictory and confusing signals in foreign policy. While China is often eager to promote its soft power, why do some Chinese officials spread messages that hurt rather than promote China’s international image? Why would the Chinese diplomatic narrative become more assertive in recent y…

The downturn in U.S.-China relations has strained once robust educational and research ties. China has restricted opportunities for contact between American and Chinese scholars and students, while in the United States, concerns about national security, intellectual property loss, Chinese competitiveness, and “pro-Chin…

We are pleased to announce our upcoming ENP-China Webinar. Dr. Guo Weiting will present his new work on the Zhang Gang diary, a most fascinating document by a Wenzhou local elite who kept a record of his life for more than 60 years. Dr. Guo is implementing a new approach based on a combination of digital methodologies.

Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao (Routledge, 2020) examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late im…

Given the recent developments around climate change collaboration between the U.S. and China, we will gather top experts from both countries to explore - what next? Can the U.S. and China collaborate?

How did Hollywood cinema influence Chinese films between the 1920s and the 1940s? This talk shows how we can trace influence at the level of text, identifying specific motifs and scenarios shared by Hollywood films and Chinese films such as Laborer’s Love (1921), Goddess (1934), Sports Queen (1934), The Great Road (193…

For our May book club, we’ll be reading one of China’s four great literary classics, Monkey King: Journey to the West, with Julia Lovell. “A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses…

Since 2019, when the European Union adopted a three-sided approach to China defining the country simultaneously as a partner, competitor and systemic rival the public debate has often identified global crises such as climate policy and the containment of the coronavirus pandemic as areas of cooperation. In her lecture,…

This is the fourth of four China Centre Conversations. Each conversation will feature three world-renowned experts offering their views on a select question, moderated by a faculty member of the University of Oxford China Centre. Our goal is to foster conversation and debate that will be of interest to specialists whil…

About the talk: Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, a setback for globalization, and the New Cold War, China has responded by implementing the policy of dual circulation (domestic and international). While trying to counter the crises by maintaining investment-led growth, China has to deal with an over-expansion of credi…

In the backdrop of disruptions to international supply chains and national economies from the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan’s economic growth and success stand in stark contrast. As Taiwan’s economy thrives, led by its superlative response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the success of firms like TSMC, how does Taiwan’s invol…

U.S.-China economic relations have grown increasingly fraught and competitive. Even amidst intensifying tensions, however, our two major economies remain intertwined. While keeping alert to national security concerns, the economic strength of the United States will depend on brokering a productive competition with Chin…

Abstract: Domestic governance is a vast subject. This seminar takes up four elements, novel to China - A) County Level Administration including finances, role and functions of different institutions and the Party leadership B) Transformation of cadres & their domestic Role and its impact on China's domestic governance…

Immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People’s Republic’s adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This talk…

Censorship is often imagined as a bureaucratic process in which a government deletes or suppresses an artwork. This lecture will examine an extended concept of literary stricture -- the creation and maintenance of the constraints that limit literature -- as it carefully reads Yu Jian's epic 1994 poem "File Zero." "File…

Peng Shaosheng (1740–96; dharma name Jiqing) is best-known for his hagiographical collections of male and female Buddhist lay devotees, and also occupies an important place in Qing intellectual history due to his role in the defense of Song Learning against Evidential Studies. In this lecture Dr. Burton-Rose focuses on…

Join us for virtual sessions over the course of three days that will consider the structure, reach, and impact of China’s Belt & Road Initiative and its implications for commercial relations, dispute resolution, and the future of legal developments in Asia more generally. Three panels will focus on fundamental issues o…

This is the third of four China Centre Conversations. Each conversation will feature three world-renowned experts offering their views on a select question, moderated by a faculty member of the University of Oxford China Centre. Our goal is to foster conversation and debate that will be of interest to specialists while…

In this discussion-focused event, the MCI has invited speakers Dr Xiaodong Lin (University of York) and Dr Magdalena Wong (Independent scholar), as well as discussant Dr Derek Hird (Lancaster University) to talk about evolving Chinese masculinities. The speakers will first share opening statements and thoughts on conte…

Mecca is often viewed through the angles of the pilgrimage, empires, Saudi foreign policy, and a source of religious movements elsewhere. While building on such transnational angles, this talk proposes to view Mecca as a convergence point and an intermediary site that has hosted and re-directed mobilities of diaspora p…

主讲人想讨论：1.人文学术如何在充分了解现代科学性质、方法的基础上反思、批判它们，提升全社会对科技创新风险的感知能力？2.可否在科学传播系统中引入超国家结构，倡导新型学术良知？3.从伦理上抬高科技职业准入门槛，推行职业宣誓制度（类似希波克拉底宣言）和国际立法。4.通过全球合作，提高透明度，公示介入先进武器及其他高风险项目研发者的名单。难点是，能否清晰划界，谁来划界？现在难做，何时能做？5.可否通过复兴平行于自然科学的、古老的博物之学（natural history）而推动相关难题的部分解决？搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，报名参加讲座。

The relationships between China and Southeast Asia are complicated and multifaceted. In this debate, Harryanto Aryodiguno, Zhaohui Wang, and Chester Yacub will examine China-Southeast Asia Relations from three different theoretical perspectives.

The International Center for Korean Studies of the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University is hosting a special lecture series, which introduces recent publications in Korean Studies to facilitate the exchange of views and information among scholars. We will hold the second of this booktalk…

This is the second of four China Centre Conversations. Each conversation will feature three world-renowned experts offering their views on a select question, moderated by a faculty member of the University of Oxford China Centre. Our goal is to foster conversation and debate that will be of interest to specialists whil…

German universities defined academic excellence in the 19th century. American universities came to set global standards in the 20th century. What, then, are the prospects for China to lead the world of universities in the 21st century? This talk, based on Professor Kirby’s forthcoming book, The World of Universities, w…

Three worlds met in northern Shaanxi province centered in the county town of Yan’an: the world of Shaanbei local elites fighting for a new order, the world of the Leninist elite of the Party engaged in national power competition, and the world of the cultural elite among metropolitan intellectuals dedicated to a new cu…

This talk considers the debate on the national form and world literature in Yan’an. With the national defense literature shifting to Lu Xun’s idea of a mass literature of revolutionary war, the national form was updated and wedded to Western progressive culture. Rather than primarily nationalistic, the focus was on the…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series. This book focuses on the power of material things to enable women to access religious experience and transcendence. In particular, she examines how secular Buddhist women expressed mimetic devotion and pursued religious salvation through creative depictions o…

More Than Sharp Power: How the CCP Penetrates Taiwan and Hong Kong Called “canaries in the coal mine,” Hong Kong and Taiwan have been at the forefront of the CCP's sharp power play. But Beijing’s influence operations within and toward both territories also go beyond sharp power as the term is commonly understood. This…

This round table will explore the role of technical standardization in China’s national industrial strategy and discuss efforts to deepen international cooperation on standards development at the bilateral and multilateral levels.

The Ma Family Muslim leaders who dominated northwestern Chinese politics through the early Republican era have unenviable reputations: classed as 'warlords', they are most often described as conservative strongmen, opposed to all things modern and determined to hold onto power for them and theirs at all costs. This pap…

In this talk, James Reilly will discuss his new book on China’s economic statecraft. Drawing on extensive field research, Orchestration traces the origins, operations and effectiveness of Beijing’s economic statecraft across Asia and Europe. China’s unique experience as a planned economy, and then a developmental state…

Part of The Body in the East Asian Imaginaire Series. This lecture considers the evolution of the speaker’s research over the last 15 years in which the treatment of castration as a historical problem holds promise for bridging disparate scholarly fields and paradigms. In particular, by tracing the shift in intellectua…

The Biden administration is well on its way to making a mark in Asia with a more wide-ranging and active foreign policy agenda and engagement than most observers expected. What have we learned in the first 100 days about how the Biden team views Taiwan strategically and economically? What are the prospects of cooperati…

When modernism was considered a Western artistic movement, non-Western modernisms were considered derivative or belated. When modernism was considered a global movement, non-Western modernisms acquire meaning only through their relationship, whether historical or discursive, with Western modernism. Whether we take the…

For our April book club, we read Land Of Big Numbers in preparation for our chat with the author, Te-Ping Chen. “Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still be…

According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, heritage means features belonging to the culture of a particular society, such as traditions, languages, or buildings, that were created in the past and still have historical importance. Through a virtual panel conversation, we would like to explore the significance of Asi…

What’s Next for U.S.-Taiwan Economic Relations? Innovation has been a source of comparative advantage for Taiwan—and an important basis for American firms, investors, and government to support Taiwan’s development while expanding mutually beneficial linkages. Yet Taiwan’s innovation advantage is eroding in the face of…

Emily Wilcox discusses her book, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy." As the first English-language history of dance in the People’s Republic of China, Revolutionary Bodies examines previously unexamined dance films, a wide range of Chinese-language published and archival materials, and ethno…

Join us for a virtual book launch of “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives,” edited by Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Hans van de Ven. The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives uses ten engaging personal histories to introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerfu…

This is the first of four China Centre Conversations. Each conversation will feature three world-renowned experts offering their views on a select question, moderated by a faculty member of the University of Oxford China Centre. Our goal is to foster conversation and debate that will be of interest to specialists while…

Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this with surprising resp…

Please join the students of 21M.848 (Performance Studies: Advanced Theories of Sport) for two panels of their individual presentations and group Q&A, along with our special guest Dr. Susan Brownell, who will deliver a talk about the connections between the Olympics, NGOs, and human rights.

Corrupt countries are usually poor, yet China is an exception. President Xi Jinping acknowledges that corruption in the country has reached crisis proportions. If this is true, why has China nevertheless sustained 40 years of economic growth and deep transformation? In this talk, Professor Yuen Yuen Ang will analyze ho…

In recent years, opinion in Washington has hardened on the question of whether China poses a threat to the US-dominated liberal international order. US policymakers increasingly interpret Chinese economic statecraft as an attack on the ideals of a neutral market framework and a “level playing field” in economic competi…

China both sends and hosts high numbers of international students. Is education a means to become cosmopolitan? How is China's place in the global educational landscape changing after Covid?

In the first half of 1940s, there emerged a new way of life within the Communist community in China. Young party members were encouraged to live as cogs in the machine of the Yan'an Rectification Movement. This paper attempts to illustrate some changes which occurred in the inner psychological world of young female Com…

Meteorology emerged as an important science in late-nineteenth century colonial Hong Kong that deepened imperial knowledge concerning the environmental forces affecting the colony’s economic, political, and social affairs and the region at large. This talk traces the historical study of Hong Kong’s climate through the…

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series. Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives on Buddhism and…

How do aesthetics influence urbanism and consumption in Chinese cities? And how should we understand what has been called the 'internet celebrity city' (wanghong chengshi) and 'internet celebrity' aesthetics in contemporary urbanism? To consider these issues, Dr Amy Yueming Zhang will discuss how an aesthetic of arts d…

The talk focuses on the life and thought of Hadi al-‘Alawi (1932-1998), an unorthodox yet still well-known Iraqi intellectual who gained considerable acclaim since the 1960s as a subversive scholar of the Arab classical tradition. For much of his life, al-‘Alawi was engaged with the creative integration of this traditi…

Part of The Body in the East Asian Imaginaire Series. Following the introduction of astrology from foreign sources into China during the Tang Dynasty, there emerged a new way of thinking about the body in relation to the stars. Organs, limbs, illnesses and physical processes were associated with the movements of the pl…

Massive rural-urban migration and growing collective resistance are two profound transformations in China. How are these two phenomena connected? Drawing on several data sources, the speaker studies the countervailing effects of migration on collective action in rural China. She finds that migration acts as a vehicle o…

Summer is coming, but field research in East Asia still seems to be quite impossible. How to spend the summer doing research efficiently? How do you utilize the databases in your fields? Do you have use cases or approaches to share? Please join the East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour to share your experience…

近期在美国发生的多起针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪和攻击事件掀起了强烈的社会反响，广泛地唤醒亚裔群体以更明确的意识和更坚决的行为来维护尊严和权利。什么是仇恨犯罪？仇恨犯罪与其它伤害犯罪不同在哪里？针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪与涉及非裔、拉美裔等受害人的仇恨犯罪相比，有哪些相同与不同之处？是什么原因造成针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪逐年上升？回顾历史与展望将来，亚裔应该如何更有力地发声？怎样提高在美国社会的影响力？张焰教授和张乐宁教授在美国长期从事刑事司法学和犯罪学研究，他们以美国联邦调查局（FBI）23年的仇恨犯罪数据为基础，抽丝剥茧地深入和细致地开展量化司法研究，填补了针对亚裔的仇恨犯罪这个领域的研究空白。本次讲座二位教授将以数据分析为基础，对以上问题加以剖析和解…

At WildChina, we believe in showing the real China, so for our first episode we’ll be heading away of the main tourist sites and highlighting local life in Beijing. We’ll be following WildChina guide, Fred He, as he embarks on his morning commute to our Beijing office, equipped (as is normal in China) with only his pho…

The inaugural USHCA author event will feature the award-winning journalist Dexter Roberts, who will discuss his new book "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World" with guest moderator Professor Zhiguo He from the University of Chicago.

Description: Lawrence C. Reardon meticulously traces the evolution of the coastal development strategy, starting with special economic zones in 1979 and evolving into the fourteen open coastal cities, the Hainan SEZ, and eventual accession to the global trade regime in 2001. Reardon details how Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Z…

Will the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reshape the global economy and world order in the coming post-COVID-19 world? Since the launch of the BRI in 2013, then known as the One Belt and One Road, debates have centered around the question of whether the BRI is challenging or complementing the existing global economic or…

Jewher Ilham is an author and an Uyghur advocate fighting for her detained father, the prominent Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, and more broadly on the academic freedom situation in China. Please register for the Zoom Webinar by using the following link https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VEWBuodxSeSYSs0m6az7OQ

Discussants: Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democrat…

The panel will explore how Africa has become both frontier and partner for India and China in realms of trade, infrastructure, finance, technology, and most recently COVID diplomacy, creating new hierarchies and imperatives for transnational politics in the South.

At a time when many are fixated on US-China strategic competition, how will China’s relations with the rest of the world shape its future power? From its Belt and Road Initiative linking Asia and Europe, to its “Made in China 2025” strategy to dominate high-tech industries, to its significant economic reach into Africa…

When Chinese couples divorce, why do women frequently lose the house and child custody? Why do judges often ignore women’s stories of domestic violence or other wrongs that have driven them to seek divorce? In his new book Divorce in China, Hong Kong University Law Professor He Xin says the answer lies in the intense p…

LIVING THE SOCIALIST MODERN: The Chinese Communist Party at 100—Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives [Session 3] This paper examines the Wuhan popular front government during the Second World War. It will place it in the context of the Comintern's strategy to support popular governments around the world as well as…

The Biden Administration has continued the Trump Administration's declaratory policy identifying China as a "strategic competitor." It has retained Trump's tariffs, the "Quad," and other policies. Yet Biden's China policy differs in five important ways. First, it is coordinated within the administration. Second, it see…

Moderator: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series

This lecture on proselytizing to/from Southeast Asia is a critical reflection on a major shift in the world’s religious balance, with geopolitical, sociological and economic implications. Our mapping of religious mutations and issues in Southeast Asia requires an appropriate and dynamic definition of this space, which…

In 1964, in response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party directed resources away from existing cities towards the construction of a massive military industrial complex hidden in the mountains of inland China. This covert military-industrial complex received more gover…

A large amount of ink has been spilled in the last few years--and even more so since COVID-19--in the U.S. regarding American perceptions of the P.R.C. Relatively little, however, has been conveyed regarding how China might view the U.S. today. In this talk, we bring together two eminent professors, Professor Jia Qingg…

After working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968-78, Wang Jisi entered Peking University and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91), and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Socia…

Since 2012, China has experienced an official revival of Maoist culture and politics, as part of a generalized invigoration of ideology under Xi Jinping. Despite the huge human cost of Mao’s rule, on 1 October 2019 (the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China) the Chinese Communist Party cele…

The MIT China Seminar is co-organized by Professor Yasheng Huang of the Sloan School and Professor Siqi Zheng of the School of Architecture and Planning. It is a periodical gathering of scholars from a variety of disciplines interested in (mainly contemporary) China research. The seminar is made possible by the support…

Sites of Memory in Asia: Remembrance and Redemption. Tian’anmen Square, located in the city center of Beijing, is one of the biggest public spaces in the world and the most significant in China. The square went through a radical transformation between 1958 and 1959. The square renovation project, along with Beijing’s '…

十四届五中全会明确的“高质量双循环新发展格局”下，围绕人民币国际化的历程、阶段性和下一步前景展望，分析中国金融对外开放、资本项目可兑换以及货币政策框架转型的战略选择。搜索“大学沙龙”微信公众号，参加本次讲座。

Late Ming and early Qing authors, in addition to writing on paper with a brush and ink, engraved their words onto a range of decorative objects, from vessels and weapons to musical instruments and desktop tools. Working with a selection of artifacts from the seventeenth century, the talk considers how inscription (ming…

Kazunori Mizushima’s presentation, From Neo-Tokyo to Neo-China and Beyond: For the Navigation of Futures in East Asian Media Ecologies, discusses (1) the linkage between Tokyo 2020, AKIRA, and Neo-Tokyo, (2) the transition of the future from Neo-Tokyo to Neo-China, (3) the intricate relationship between right/left acce…

Commentators: Wai-Yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Ellen Widmer, Professor of East Asian Studies, Wellesley College Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's West. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography and recent political developments. Corporate Conquests challenges conventional understandings by tracing the production of inequality to the very begin…

Please join us for a workshop on Chinese science fiction with writers Han Song, Egoyan Zheng, Regina Kanyu Wang, and Chen Qiufan. Five young scholars will present their latest research. The event is co-hosted by David Der-wei Wang and Mingwei Song.

This symposium is organized by China Society, a student organization at the Harvard Kennedy School.

​This panel will discuss China’s rise within the current economic governance system that was shaped by US and other western countries after World War II, and the implications for the changing global economic dynamics.

Part of the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event features Professor Peggy Wang's recent publication. During the 1980s and 1990s, a group of Chinese artists (Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Peili, and Lin Tianmiao) ascended to new heights of international renown. Professor Wang of…

The United States and China jointly account for 40 percent of global greenhouse emissions, so avoiding the worst consequences of climate change will require collective action by the two countries. In the first program in a series on climate change and the environment, and coinciding with President Biden’s Leaders Summi…

In the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s relations with Western countries have encountered big difficulties. Whether China accepts this willingly or not, the external conditions needed to maintain China’s past economic growth model are now absent. The “Rural Revitalization” st…

For years, US media outlets have portrayed the environment in China as an unmitigated disaster: floods caused by clear cutting forests, soil contaminated by heavy metals, a shrinking water table, and urban air pollution so dangerous that it poses severe health risks. Less attention has been given to efforts undertaken…

Abstract: Having briefly sketched the long history of millet in China, and some of its milestones as food and crop, I compare the on-going choices and strategies of two communities, Wangjinzhuang and Qinzhou, in constructing their brand as traditional millet producers – the former emphasising the system of production (…

How does autocratic lobbying affect political outcomes and media coverage in democracies? This talk focuses on a dataset drawn from the public records of the US Foreign Agents Registration Act. It includes over 10,000 lobbying activities undertaken by the Chinese government between 2005 and 2019. The evidence suggests…