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"China's global leadership after 2022: opportunities and constraints"

Kerry Brown , Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics, CSIS | Center for Strategic & International Studies Dmytro Yefremov, Ph.D. in Economics, Assistant Professor at the Chair of International Relations of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, the Board member of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists Liu Yawei, Ph.D, Director of the China Program at The Carter Center Qinduo Xu, Political analyst, researcher on Chinese Foreign Policy at Pangoal Institution, Beijing

December 20, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

Dear colleagues, Welcome to register for the international roundtable “China's Global Leadership after 2022: opportunities and constraints”. The event will take place on December 20th at 3-5 p.m. (Kyiv time) on the Ukrainian platform for Contemporary China (online). Please visit the following website to sign up https:/…

大学沙龙第173期:数字时代的法律程序公正

主讲人: 季卫东 上海交通大学文科资深教授、上海交通大学中国法与社会研究院院长、CCF计算法学分会会长、国际学术期刊Asian Journal of Law and Society 主编。主要研究领域为法社会学、比较法学以及数字法学。 评议人: 沈岿 北京大学法学院教授、学术委员会委员、北京大学人权与人道法研究中心主任、宪法与行政法研究中心研究员。北京大学博士。主要研究领域为行政法、宪法、软法、国家赔偿、风险治理、食品安全、人权。 评议人: 张峥 亚马逊云科技上海人工智能研究院院长、资深首席科学家。曾任上海纽约大学计算机全球特聘教授,纽约大学兼职教授,微软亚洲研究院首席研究员和副院长。参与创立MXNet、DGL等知名人工智能开源平台。 主持人: 沈远远 哈佛大学费正清中心Associate in Research, 波士顿学院Adjunct,浙江大学光华法学院特聘教授。威斯康星大学博士(SJD)。主要研究领域为国际经济贸易法,法社会学,消费者权益,食品安全监管等。

December 18, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

风险防控、危机管理、算法助推、自动决策等新常态导致自由与安全的张力增强,也使行政裁量权进一步膨胀;为了保护公民基本权利,有必要在坚守正义底线的同时,探索程序性正当过程的多元化表现形态。在这里,要实现风险分配的社会正义,除了健全依法行政的“保障权利程序”之外,也要加强学习型政府的“反映民意程序”;还应特别重视“技术性正当过程”概念以及网络中立、人工沟通、平台透明等具体构成因素。在数字全覆盖的时代,程序正义发挥重要作用的典型场景是数据权利保护,特别是大数据流程的正当化处理。从上述角度重新审视行政程序法的制定,可以发现有效制约裁量权的方式除重构司法审查之外,还必须进一步加强风险沟通以及网络调整,借助反映民意的制度以及维护权利的实践来形成某…

The 123 Incident: Macau, the Cultural Revolution, and the 1960s World

Dr. Cathryn H. Clayton (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

December 15, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

Macau's 123 Incident in 1966 – 67 is best known as a side-show to the Cultural Revolution, a piece of local history whose main significance is as a precursor to the far more violent Hong Kong "disturbances" six months later. In this paper, I argue that a bigger story is needed. Based on decades of oral history and arch…

Wednesday Seminar| Foreign and Economic Strategies of a Globalizing China and India-China Relations during the period of Jiang Zemin| 14th December 2022 @ 3P.M. IST| Zoom Webinar

Ashok K. Kantha, Former Ambassador of India to China. Honourary Fellow & Former Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. Santosh Pai, Honourary Fellow & Treasurer, Institute of Chinese Studies; Partner, Link Legal, New Delhi. Chaired by Prof. Alka Acharya, Honourary Director, Institute of Chinese Studies; Professor, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

December 13, 2022 at 6:54 PM UTC

It was a productive period for China under the leadership of Jiang Zemin (1989-2002) when the country came out of its relative isolation after the Tiananmen protests and crackdown, mended relations with the US-led West, developed its linkages with the rest of the world, integrated with the global economy, joined the Wo…

COVID-19 and Sovereign Debt: The Case of the Southern African Development Community

Daniel Bradlow, SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria Magalie Masamba, Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Cecilia Springer (Moderator), Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

December 13, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

The COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the public finances of African countries. It also led to rising debt levels in many African countries and has increased concerns about their ability to make their scheduled sovereign debt payments over the next few years. This looming debt crisis raises questions about how these…

China's Heritage through History: The Orchid Pavilion Gathering and Calligraphy

Yujie Zhu

December 9, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

The art of collecting, reproducing, and reinterpreting the past has been an enduring force shaping cultural identity and political legitimacy in China. But who have been the key players in these ongoing processes of reconfigured pasts? What methods have they employed? And how have these practices shaped society at larg…

Asia in Action: Migrant Worker Rights in Singapore: Advocacy, Legal Frameworks and Prospects for Change

Debbie Fordyce, President of Transient Workers Council Too, and Laavanya Kathiravelu, Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University

December 8, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Debbie Fordyce, President of Transient Workers Council Too, and Laavanya Kathiravelu, Associate professor at Nanyang Technological University, will discuss their advocacy and research on migrant worker issues in Singapore. Covid 19 highlighted some of the structural problems faced by the large population of migrant wor…

Wednesday Seminar| Politics and Policies of State-Owned Enterprises in the Jiang Zemin Era| 7th December 2022 @ 3P.M. IST| Zoom Webinar

Dr. Priyanka Pandit is an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR. Her research interest includes international and comparative political economy with an emphasis on China and the developing world, as well as international negotiations and global economic governance. She was formerly an Ashok-Harvard Yenching Post-doctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies. She holds an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, and Masters in East Asian Studies from the University of Delhi. She was formerly Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs(ICWA), New Delhi, and a visiting Fellow at the Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies, Beijing. Before joining ICWA, she taught at the Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, where she also pursued an intensive year-long course in Mandarin. She is currently completing her book project on China's negotiating strategies at the World Trade organization. The webinar will be chaired by Prof. Alka Acharya, who is the Honourary Director of the ICS and Professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to Masters and M.Phil. students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. She is the joint editor of the book Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 Years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She has authored a book China and India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008 and 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). She was nominated by the Indian Government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms 2006-2008 and 2001-2012

December 7, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

The Chinese government's commitment to the market versus the state has fluctuated over the course of the reform period, which in turn has affected the reform of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). While Deng's era marked a political breakthrough for China's adoption of an incremental path to liberalization, President J…

Gender Discourse on Chinese Social Media: From PUA Tutorial to Douban Feminism

Dr Bingchun Meng - London School of Economics

December 6, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

Dr Bingchun Meng has written extensively about Chinese social media and its subjects. She provides a profound analysis of topics such as knowledge production, gender research and power structure, social science studies standpoints and academic awareness in different social contexts in China and the West. Her recent pub…

Open Forum—Silencing Freedom: From Protests to Suppression in Hong Kong

Yao-Tai Li, University of New South Wales, Australia. Louisa Lim, University of Melbourne Joseph Yu-shek Cheng, Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm & City University of Hong Kong

December 6, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

Hong Kong: Interrupted Revolutionary Social Movements Open Forum This is a hybrid event (in-person and online). Light refreshments (in-person only) at 4:00pm for a 4:30pm start. This open forum will be moderated by Kevin Carrico. Papers Yao-Tai Li: “Contentious Repertoires: Examining Lennon Walls in Hong Kong’s Social…

Negotiating Chinese Christianity: South China Anglicans, 1849-1951

Dr. Tim Yung (Department of History, HKU)

December 6, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

What did it mean to be a Chinese Christian in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? An illiterate old woman in Kowloon toiling to recite the Lord’s Prayer? Graduates from Hong Kong mission schools using Christianity as a vehicle for modernization and ‘saving the nation’? Chinese bishops renouncing foreign missions as…

大学沙龙第172期 温故知新:中美关系100年

主讲人: 牛军 上海外国语大学上海区域国别研究院特聘教授、北京大学国际关系学院教授(荣退)。中国人民大学博士。中美关系史研究会秘书长。曾任哈佛大学访问学者。长期研究中国对外关系史、中美关系和国际冷战史;出版中、英、日等文字专著多部, 《从延安走向世界:中国共产党对外关系的起源》获“第七届中国图书奖”,《冷战与新中国外交的缘起》获选2011年《国家哲学社会科学成果文库》,近期力作《冷战时代的中国战略决策》由世界知识出版社2019年出版。 主讲人: 贾庆国 北京大学国际关系学院教授、原院长,美国康奈尔大学博士。北京大学全球治理研究中心主任。教育部中外人文交流基地主任。第13届全国政协常委、外事委员会委员,民盟中央教育委员会主任。中华美国学会副会长、中国国际关系学会副会长。主要研究方向包括国际政治、中美关系、中国外交和台海两岸关系。已出版专著1部、合著2部、主编10部,并在国内外知名学术刊物和学术论文集上发表中英文学术论文130余篇。 主持人: 刘亚伟 美国卡特中心中国事务高级顾问,中美印象网站主编,美国外交学会会员,亚特兰大中国研究中心副主任和埃默里大学政治学系的兼职教授。

December 4, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

自1920年代中国共产党成立、第一次国共合作及破裂,中美关系就被国共斗争和列强在华争斗所制约。日本侵华导致了第二次国共合作和中美的战略合作。日本投降和冷战爆发又使中美关系陷入新的结构性困局。1949年毛泽东“告别”司徒雷登,决定新中国的外交“一边倒”,次年的朝鲜战争更使中美关系冰冻20余年。从1950年代后期莫斯科和北京的关系持续交恶,到1960年代末,中国国内文革造成混乱和在外部腹背受敌,陷入险境;美国则因深陷越南战争导致其世界地位下跌。双方开始共同探索如何打开和解之门,后经近十年磨合,中美终于在1979年建立正式外交关系。改革开放和中美建交是中国“腾飞”的两个发动机,而崛起的中国逐渐让美国变得忧心忡忡,先后启动“亚洲再平衡”、贸…

The Symposium on Global Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance 2022

Across seven sessions and a series of opening ceremony keynote speeches, nearly 50 experts and specialists in the field of global maritime cooperation and global governance will be sharing their insight. View the Full Speaker List: http://www.csarc.org.cn/the-symposium-on-global-maritime-cooperation-and-ocean-governance-2022/

December 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Inaugurated in November 2020, The Symposium on Global Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance (SGMCOG) aims to offer a unique platform for thought-provoking dialogues among the thinkers of various backgrounds from all over the world and promote academic research and exchange on maritime cooperation and ocean governan…

Studying Maltreatment Through Polyvictimization: Evidence from the Salar Ethnic Group in Qinghai, China

Clifton R. Emery, Associate Professor of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong

December 2, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

This lecture uses in-depth river of life oral history data collected from 200 Salar mothers in Qinghai, China to study the invasiveness, exploitativeness, and severity of victimization among children. This event is part of the 2022-2023 lecture series on “Urbanization, Well-being, and Public Policy: China from Comparat…

The Last Days of Ye Mingchen

Benjamin Penny

December 2, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

In the mid-nineteenth century Ye Minchen was one of the senior Chinese officials in the empire. The Governor of the Two Guang provinces – Guangdong and Guangxi – he was the official with whom representatives of the western powers most commonly interacted, and very commonly disliked. In January 1858, when the British an…

2022年「近世儒學與社會」研究工作坊論文發表會

丘文豪(中央研究院近代史研究所博士後) 周敘琪(銘傳大學通識中心助理教授) 林峻煒(中央研究院近代史研究所博士後) 莊民敬(國立台灣大學中文系博士候選人) 游騰達(國立清華大學華文文學研究所副教授) 楊正顯(中央研究院近代史研究所研究學者) 劉繼堯(香港理工大學中國文化學系專任導師) 魏綵瑩(中央研究院近代史研究所研究學者)

December 2, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

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Project Assemblages: Identity Realignment in the Construction Industry in China-Africa Encounters

Mr. Rundong Ning (Yale University)

December 2, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Despite different arguments on how porous or rigid the boundary between Chinese and Africans is, many current studies on China-Africa assume the centrality of such identities as Chinese and African in the social lives of those studied. Drawing on a multi-year ethnographic research among Chinese and Congolese actors in…

China's Leaders: From Mao to Now

David Shambaugh Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs George Washington University Jean C. Oi Director, China Program Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University Glenn Tiffert Research Fellow Hoover Institution

December 2, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Drawing on his recent book, China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now, in this…

ONLINE | Speculating Futures: How China's Transnational Youths opt out of urbanization and into rural revitalization

Silvia Lindtner

December 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Silvia Lindtner is working on two intertwined topics at the moment: on the one hand, she looks at how data-driven experiments in computer science are applied to transform China's agriculture. This mostly involves research in large-scale farming experiments at the outskirts of China's big cities (precision farming, part…

Unleashing Mass Entrepreneurship: The Impact of China’s Registered Capital Reform

Wei Cui, visiting professor of law at NYU School of Law Robert J. Jackson (moderator), professor of law at NYU School of Law

November 30, 2022 at 5:30 PM UTC

About the event Stimulating private entrepreneurship has been a purportedly vital item on the Chinese government’s recent policy agenda, though perhaps few have given it credence. Arguably the most significant legislative implementation of this policy was the 2013 amendment of the Company Law, which reformed long-stand…

Of ‘Guardrails’ and ‘Floors’: Biden-Xi Meeting and Outlook for U.S.-China Relations and the Taiwan Question

Panelists: Robert SUTTER (Professor of Practice, Elliot School, George Washington University) Zhiqun ZHU (Professor, Bucknell University) Denis SIMON (Professor & Senior Advisor to the President for China Affairs, Duke University) Yawei LIU (Senior Advisor on China, The Carter Center) Moderated by Sourabh GUPTA (Head, TnT Program, Institute for China-America Studies) Opening Remarks by Nong HONG (Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies)

November 30, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Twenty-two months after being sworn into office, and after having declared China to be the “most consequential geopolitical challenge,” President Biden held his first in-person leaders meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia. Earlier in mid-October and early-November, President Xi was confirmed to…

2022 ANU Taiwan Update

Professor Kuei-fen Chiu, National Chung-hsing University Professor Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao, Academia Sinica Associate Professor Kai-ping Huang, National Taiwan University Associate Professor Chun-Yi Lee, University of Nottingham

November 29, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Taiwan is featuring with ever greater frequency in Australian discussions surrounding the diplomacy, politics, security, business, and culture of the East Asian region. It is, therefore, an opportune time to launch an annual ANU Taiwan Update under the auspices of the ANU Taiwan Studies Program. Drawing on the best of…

Nanjing City Wall: A Case Study on Digital Humanities and Community Involvement in Heritage Protection

Dr. Lianyu Jin (Nanjing City Wall Protection and Management Center)

November 28, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History and the KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group kindly invite you to a presentation and discussion with Dr. Lianyu Jin (Nanjing City Wall Protection and Management Center). The talk, titled Nanjing City Wall: A Case Study on Digital Humanities and C…

材料科技与全球碳中和

主讲人: 崔屹 美国斯坦福大学材料科学与工程系,能源科学与工程系Fortinet Founders终身讲席教授,斯坦福大学Precourt能源研究所主任。哈佛大学博士。现任美国国家科学院院士,美国科学促进会会士,美国电化学学会会士,美国材料学会会士,英国皇家化学会会士。《纳米快讯》副主编,美国湾区光伏联盟共同主任和电池500联盟共同主任。从事纳米、新材料、新能源和环境保护的研究。发表科技论文500多篇,被引用指数H-index(Google)高达246。在美国申请超过50项专利。并已在硅谷创建4家新材料新能源企业。 主持人: 吕旭东 加州理工学院博士后研究员,Tahill venture partner。加州大学伯克利博士,北京大学物理学和经济学学士。

November 27, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

世界的主要国家已经宣布了碳中和的时间表:美国 (2050),欧盟 (2050),中国(2060),印度(2070)。世界500强企业也有超过60%的企业宣布了碳中和的时间内表。这些举动是为了应对全球的气候变暖和可持续发展问题。往下30年能源的安全转型将是全世界最重要的议题。本讲座将讨论什么是碳中和,挑战和路径在哪里,世界需要的10大碳中和能源科技,材料能源科技如何助力碳中和,科技如何从大学实验室走向市场。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

'Stand Up Like a Taiwanese!': PRC Coercion and Public Preferences for Resistance

Chong Ja Ian Taiwan's opposition to PRC demands such as acceptance of the ‘92 Consensus’ and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula since 2016 hasinvited a series of retaliatory measures from Beijing, designed to coerce Taiwan into compliance. Given the stark asymmetry in economic size, military capability, and diplomatic status, Taiwan provides a case for studying coercive diplomacy that takes the form of threats to punish. Material differences suggest that Taiwan should capitulate, and ‘cheap talk’ theses expect PRC threats to have no discernible effect, while balance of threat arguments expect resolve. Chong argues that the popular support for resisting China rises as PRC coercion grows and Taiwanese citizens increasingly perceive China to be a threat. His research finds that citizens in a liberal democracy can develop the will to push back against pressure from an authoritarian regime despite sharp asymmetries in capabilities and material limitations. Over time, the PRC has to decide how much it wishes to bear the growing costs and risks of escalation to overcome resistance.

November 27, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Taiwan's opposition to PRC demands such as acceptance of the ‘92 Consensus’ and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula since 2016 hasinvited a series of retaliatory measures from Beijing, designed to coerce Taiwan into compliance. Given the stark asymmetry in economic size, military capability, and diplomatic status, Taiwa…

Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2022-23) - Exploring the Great Wall of the Liao-Jin Period in China and Mongolia

Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi (Professor, Department of Asian Studies, The Louis Frieberg Chair of East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

November 25, 2022 at 7:30 AM UTC

Sometime during the 10th to 13th centuries CE a system of long-walls (or 'Great Walls') was built in areas currently in North China and Northeastern Mongolia. This network of walls, forts, and enclosures covers an estimated area of 4000 km and spans a wide range of ecozones, from the deserts of western China to the ste…

ORENCO and Chinese Small Hydropower in the United States

Dr. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University)

November 24, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

In May 1983, two Chinese engineers spent ten days visiting the decrepit Bolton Falls Dam on the Winooski River in upper Vermont. The visit likely raised eyebrows on both sides of the Pacific. Unlike most of their countrymen, who were sent abroad on study tours by their home institutions in China, these engineers were i…

China's Foreign Policy in Xi Jinping's Third Term

Bonnie S. Glaser, Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

November 24, 2022 at 6:30 AM UTC

Chinese leader Xi Jinping tightened his grip on power at the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Having secured a third term as Party General Secretary and installed loyalists in key positions, Xi is well-positioned to advance both his domestic and foreign policy agendas. As Xi noted in his political…

The Tyranny of Merit: A Student Forum with Michael Sandel

Michael Sandel, Bass Professor of Government

November 24, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

Elite universities are often seen as meritocratic institutions that enable students to rise as far as their effort and talents will take them. Is this the case, or does the intense competition for admission reproduce privilege? If everyone had a truly equal chance to compete, would the winners deserve their admission?…

Anatomy of a Regional Civil War: Guangxi, 1967-1968*

Professor Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University

November 24, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

During the violent early years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the province of Guangxi experienced by far the largest death toll of any comparable region. Why? One explanation posits a process of collective killings focused on rural households categorized as class enemies by the regime. This view draws parallels with g…

Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (Book Discussion with William C. Kirby)

Prof William C. Kirby - Harvard University

November 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that U.S. schools will continue to lead the world a century from now. Indeed, America’s supremacy in higher education is under great…

Face-to-Face Book Talk by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin and Dr. John D. Wong (Nov 22)

Dr. Ghassan Moazzin (HKU) and Dr. John D. Wong (HKU)

November 22, 2022 at 8:00 AM UTC

About the Books (Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919) In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financ…

COEXISTENCE 2.0: U.S.-China Relations in a Changing World

Multiple speakers

November 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The U.S.-China relationship is the most important in the world, with decisions affecting the world’s chances for global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. Each country has its own view of what its role, and the other’s role, in the world should be in the 21st Century. These views are not entirely in sync. This has…

The Debate over New Forms of Capitalism in Japan and the US

Gen Goto, Prof. of Law at University of Tokyo Curtis Milhaupt, Prof. of Law at Stanford Law School Bruce Aronson (moderator), Senior Advisor to the Japan Center at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and adjunct professor at NYU School of Law

November 17, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

In many advanced countries, traditional forms of capitalism have increasingly come under criticism as contributing to economic and social inequality and failing to serve the needs of society. To address these shortcomings, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is proposing a “new form of capitalism” for the country. In…

"The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia"

-Haun Saussy (Author) - University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought -Martin Powers (Discussant) - Professor Powers is Professor Emeritus in the History of Art, and formerly Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan

November 17, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Part of the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies' East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks series, this event will take place virtually on Zoom. Hear the author, Professor Haun Saussy, talk about his recent publication. Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism…

15th All India Conference of China Studies (AICCS) : A Curtain Raiser | 16th November 2022 | 1700-1830 Hours

Shannon Tiezzi is Editor-in-Chief at The Diplomat. Prior to taking on the editor-in-chief role, she was The Diplomats' China editor. Her main focus is on China, and she writes on China's foreign relations, domestic politics, and economy. She received her master's degree from Harvard University, with a focus on modern Chinese literature, and she did her B.A. in English and Chinese from The College of William and Mary. Shannon has also studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing. David Zweig is a Professor Emeritus, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a distinguished visiting Professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1984-85. He lived in Hong Kong from 1996-2019and now lives in New York with his family. Zweig studied in Beijing in 1974-76 and did field research in rural China in 11980-81 and in 1986 and explored the internationalization of southern Jiangsu Province in 1991-1997. he has authored or edited ten books. He is currently completing a book on China's reverse brain drain. Almost 35,000 students have taken his two online classes with Coursera on domestic Chinese Politics and on China and the World. Manoranjan Mohanty was a professor of Political Science and Director of the Developing Countries Research Centre at the University of Delhi where he taught Comparative Politics, Chinese politics, and research methodology. Currently, he is a distinguished professor at the council for Social Development, New Delhi, where until recently he edited the CSD-Sage journal Social Change. He is a social scientist, China scholar, and a peace and human rights activist with a research interest in the study of the Political economy of China, India, and global transformation. He is an emeritus Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies, its founding member, and a former Chairperson. He is also the Emeritus Chairperson of the Development Research Institute, Bhubaneshwar, the research wing of Gabeshana Chakra of which he was the founder-president. The Chair Alka Acharya is an Honorary Director, of the Institute of Chinese Studies and professor, at the Centre of East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies) School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign policy and Political economy to Master's and M.Phil students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. Twelve scholars have so far been awarded a doctoral degree under his supervision. She is the joint editor of the book, Crossing A Bridge of Dreams: 50 Years of India-China, published in 2002, has contributed chapters to many books, and regularly features in the Economic and Political Weekly.

November 16, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

Abstracts Shannon Tiezzi, Editor-in-Chief, The Diplomat "Xi's new Team" By now, it's common knowledge that the Politburo Standing Committee, the apex of political power in China, is stocked with Xi Jinping loyalists. But beyond their personal connections to Xi, what do we know about the six men joining him on the PSC?…

Storm Clouds Over the Pacific? Impacts of the Invasion of Ukraine on China-Taiwan-US Relations

Dr. David Bachman Dr. James Lin Dr. Tabitha Grace Mallory Dr. Anand Yang

November 16, 2022 at 3:00 AM UTC

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent ripples across the international community. Join the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, China Studies Program, and Taiwan Studies Program in-person and online on Tuesday, November 15, from 7-8:30 p.m. PT for a discussion of how the war in E…

China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China

Dr Scott Moore - Pennsylvania University

November 15, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it is that the world is bound together by shared challenges—and that at the center of those challenges stands China. Thanks to decades of breakneck growth and development, Chinese officials, businesses, and institutions now play a critical role in every major global issue, f…

China's Reverse Migration: Towards a Theory of Shortage

David Zweig, Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

November 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Drawing on surveys, interviews and documentary searches, and employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, Dr. Zweig's presentation shows that a key to understanding the process of reverse migration of talent back to China is to focus on what he calls "a theory of shortage." As several returned scientists, acade…

Tools, Platforms, and Cyberinfrastructure

Chair: JIANG Wentao 姜文濤 (Zhejiang University) Discussant: YUAN Xiaoru 袁曉如 (Peking University) Alex Mayfield (Asbury University) Daryl Ireland (Boston University) Eugenio Menegon (Boston University) Jeffrey Tharsen (University of Chicago) Clovis Gladstone (University of Chicago) Michael Fuller (University of California, Irvine)

November 13, 2022 at 2:25 AM UTC

Panel 2: Tools, Platforms, and Cyberinfrastructure 9:25–11:00 p.m., Saturday, November 12 (US Eastern Time) Chair: JIANG Wentao 姜文濤 (Zhejiang University) Discussant: YUAN Xiaoru 袁曉如 (Peking University) Alex Mayfield (Asbury University), Daryl Ireland (Boston University), Eugenio Menegon (Boston University), “Leaping th…

Biographies and Narrative Networks

Chair: CHEN Song 陳松 (Bucknell University) Discussant: Paul Vierthaler (College of William & Mary) Marilyn A. Levine (Central Washington University) Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen) Maciej Patryk Kurzynski (Stanford University)

November 13, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Panel 1: Biographies and Narrative Networks 7:30–9:15 p.m., Saturday, November 12 (US Eastern Time) Chair: CHEN Song 陳松 (Bucknell University) Discussant: Paul Vierthaler (College of William & Mary) Marilyn A. Levine (Central Washington University), “Network Approaches to Understanding Post-WWI Chinese Revolutionari…

Text Networks: Analysis and Criticism (文本網絡分析與批評)

Chair: 趙薇 (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Discussants: 許超 (Nanjing Normal University) and 王濤 (Nanjing University) 秦穎 (California State University, Sacramento) 尚聞一 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) 馬昭儀 (Tianjin University) 何捷 (Harbin Institute of Technology) 劉帥帥 (Guangzhou Urban Planning & Design Survey Research Institute (GZPI))

November 12, 2022 at 1:40 AM UTC

Panel 1: Text Networks: Analysis and Criticism (文本網絡分析與批評) 9:40–10:50 a.m., Saturday, November 12 (GMT+8) Chair: 趙薇 Discussants: 許超 and 王濤 Speakers: 秦穎 ,〈《唐語林》中對話網絡的可視化和統計分析初探〉;尚聞一、桑梓洲,〈湍流中的穩態:東晉門閥貴族的社會網絡〉;馬昭儀、何捷、劉帥帥,〈小說史料的新視角——從人物移動網絡看唐長安城〉。 This is the first of two Chinese-language panels on “Explorations in Humaniti…

再探析中日邦交正常化50周年:原点和现实

主讲人: 川岛真 东京大学教授。专长为中国外交史和亚洲国际关系史。东京大学博士(历史学)。著有《中国近代外交的形成》(北京大学出版社 2012),合著有《日台関系史 1945-2008》(东京大学出版会2009),《日中闋系史》(有斐阁 2013),编有《中国の外交―自己認識と課題 》(山川出版社2007),《近代中国をめぐる国际政治》(中央公论新社 2014)等著作。 评议人: 李廷江 清华大学日本研究中心主任,伟伦特聘教授。(日本)财团法人中日创新中心执行主任。东京大学博士(国际关系论)。曾任哈佛大学日本研究所和亚洲研究中心客座研究员。主要著作:《日本财界与辛亥革命》,《日本财界与近代中国》,《近代牛日关系源流》等。 主持人: 李春利 日本爱知大学国际中国学研究中心主任,经济学院教授。东京大学博士(经济学)。曾任哈佛大学亚洲中心高级研究员。专长国际产业经济学、环境交通经济学。近著有《傅高义的最后一课》(傅高义/李春利合著)、《不确定性的世界与现代中国》(主编)等。

November 12, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

1972年9月29日,中日两国政府在北京发表了中日共同声明,就此开启了中日邦交正常化进程。同日,在北京的田中角荣首相和大平正芳外相电报告知蒋介石此事,随后中华民国政府发表与日本政府断交声明, 但仍保留日本民间“亲善”人士之间的正常往来。 中日两国之间最大的分歧在于“历史、台湾和领土”这三个问题。虽当时两国首脑达成“共识”,但并未解决问题。之后的50年,中日两国依时局适时调整, 维持相对稳定的双边关系。但自2010年后,两国难以达成适当的“共识”,现状充满变数,未来何去何从。 此讲座将讨论1972年中日关系的原点,之后两国关系的变迁,现状以及展望。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Digital History and Network Analysis (數字歷史與網絡分析)

Chair: 桑海 (Macao Polytechnic University) Discussants: 王濤 (Nanjing University) and 邱偉雲 (Nanjing University) 張光偉 (Shaanxi Normal University) 李惠 (Nanjing Agricultural University) 嚴承希 (Renmin University of China)

November 11, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Panel 2: Digital History and Network Analysis (數字歷史與網絡分析) 11:00 a.m. –12:10 p.m., Saturday, November 12 (GMT+8) Chair: 桑海 Discussants: 王濤and 邱偉雲 Speakers: 張光偉,〈基於網絡分析的古文字典核心詞彙的提取——以西夏文字典《文海》為例〉;李惠,〈按圖能否索驥——關於社會網絡分析的一點思考〉;嚴承希,〈基於文本複用網絡的儒家互文性分析——以十三經為例〉 This is the second of two Chinese-language panels on “Explorations i…

Networks and the Management of Risk in the China Trade during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Professor Robin Pearson and Dr. Kaori Abe (University of Hull)

November 11, 2022 at 8:30 AM UTC

The trading voyages to the Pearl River delta made by British, American and European ships in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were the longest and most hazardous in the world. Some were circumnavigations of the globe in an era when large areas of the globe were still unknown to western explorers. This pape…

CUHK LAW GBA Forum Online Seminar – ‘Tax Law in the GBA’

Prof. Jingyi Wang, Assistant Professor, CUHK LAW

November 11, 2022 at 4:45 AM UTC

The launch of the Greater Bay Area (GBA) initiative in South China is one of the most important national strategies adopted by the Chinese government in recent years. It brings both opportunities and challenges to the development of the cities in the GBA. Tax laws and fiscal policies have been employed by GBA governmen…

Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China

Professor Guo Ting (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Guo Ting studies religion, politics, and gender in transnational Asia. She is currently Assistant Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong and incoming Assistant Professor of Language Studies, University of Toronto. She is the book reviewer editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and a Diversity and Equity Committee representative for the Association for Asian Studies. She co-hosts a podcast called 時差 in-betweenness (@shichapodcast).

November 11, 2022 at 3:00 AM UTC

What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has ai (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generations of political leaders as a powerful instrument to the present day? This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introd…

Victor Shih - The Final Calculus of the Founding Generation in China and the Rise of Xi Jinping

Victor Shih

November 10, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

This talk will first discuss strategies dictators use to minimize the chance of an elite coup against them. Although elite politics in China in the 1980s was characterized by power sharing, rehabilitated veterans did not want internal challenges to their spheres of influence. Thus, instead of favoring officials slightl…

Discussion with Artist Hai Zhang on BEING: A Digital Archive of the Age of Flux in China

Hai Zhang

November 10, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Join Hai Zhang, a Visiting Artist for the inauguration of his collaborative digital archive project with India China Institute titled – ‘BEING’. Between 2008 and 2019, Zhang frequently visited China, his homeland, to photograph the changing social and physical landscape. He says: “Every time I return to China (whether…

Among the Braves: Hong Kong’s Struggle for Democracy

Shibani Mahtani, an international investigative correspondent for the Washington Post Timothy McLaughlin, a contributing writer for The Atlantic

November 10, 2022 at 5:30 PM UTC

In 2019, the world was transfixed by the sight of normally tidy, peaceful Hong Kong wracked by months of massive protests. Youths dressed in black and wearing masks for protection against tear gas hurled paving stones and sometimes Molotov cocktails at police, who fired off tear gas, rubber bullets, and even live ammun…

China’s Direction under Xi Jinping: What We Learned from the Party Congress

Carl Minzner Katherine Wilhelm (Moderator)

November 10, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

China is steadily sliding into an era of highly centralized one-man rule. The recently concluded 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party not only confirmed Xi Jinping as China's top leader for a third term, but packed the party’s senior ranks with his own close associates while sweeping out anyone not aff…

Information on Foreign Laws in Government–and Privately–Published Sources from Ming China

Tam Ka-chai

November 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

This seminar investigates legal information about aliens and foreign countries collected in two types of source. The first is Ming official accounts of diplomatic missions. The second is popular daily encyclopaedias (riyong leishu 日用類書) compiled and published in south China during the last few decades of the Ming (1368…

The Fruits of Opportunism: Non-Compliance and the Evolution of China’s Supplemental Education Industry (Book Launch)

Le Lin, UHM, Assistant Professor of Sociology (author of the book) Yan Long, UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Sociology Baoyan Cheng, UHM, Professor of Comparative and International Education Xu Peng, UHM, Assistant Professor of Theatre & Dance

November 9, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

This book is an in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry. Like many parents in the United States, parents in China, increasingly concerned with their children’s academic performance, ar…

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟑𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐥: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 | Wednesday Seminar |

About the Speakers Dr. Jojin V. John is an Assistant Professor School of International relations and Politics at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. Previously Dr. John was affiliated with the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) as Research Fellow for East Asia for five years. Prior to his stint at ICWA, he taught political science in Christ University, Bangalore and held visiting research positions at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul (July -September 2022); National Chengchi University, Taipei (2015); Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi (2013-14); Seoul National University (2012)and Academy of Korean Studies, Korea (2010-11). Dr. John received his Ph. D from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has several publications to his credit, including monographs, book chapters and articles that appeared in academic journals, including Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, China Report, The Journal of International Relations, Strategic Analysis, India Quarterly and Area Studies. Prof. Vyjayanti Raghavan was a Professor of Korean Language and Culture at the Centre for Korean Studies, JNU. She has also been the Chairperson of the Centre from 2013-15 and 2017-19. She has done her Masters in History from Seoul National University and her PhD in International Relations from JNU. Her association with Korea has been since 1976, and she has been teaching at JNU since 2000. She has several publications to her credit pertaining to all aspects of Korea. Some of her recent publications are Colonization: A Comparative Study of India and Korea (co-edited); Sino-Indian and Sino-South Korean Relations: Compulsions, Comparisons and Contrasts (co-authored); Comparative Security Dynamics in North East Asia and South Asia (co-authored). She is currently working on a book titled, Super Power Dynamics in North East Asia and South Asia: The Xi-Trump Effect under a grant from ICWA. Prof. Raghavan is a member of various academic boards. She has played a significant role in setting up the Centre for Korean Studies in JNU, and in recognition of her efforts, she was awarded for contribution to the promotion of Korean in India by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea in 2015.

November 9, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭: With North Korea launching a record number of missiles in recent weeks, the security situation on the Korean Peninsula has once again become highly tense. Though the current North Korean provocation has been in response to a large-scale US-ROK joint military exercise, the security situation has been s…

ICS WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEMS IN CHINA: CHALLENGES IN THE TIMES OF COVID-19|11TH JANUARY 2023 @ 3 P.M. IST | ZOOM WEBINAR

Speaker: Madhurima Nundy is a Fellow in Health and Human Development at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. She holds a PhD in Public Health from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She completed her MPhil from the same centre. Previously she was Assistant Director and Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi (2012-21); Senior Programme Coordinator at the Public Health Resource Network, New Delhi (2009-12). Among other experiences, she was a Technical Consultant with the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2004-05) and a Research Associate at the Institute of Social Studies Trust (1999-2001). Her areas of interest include studying different health service systems, health policies and inequalities in health. She has several publications to her name. Chair: Alka Acharya is the Honorary Director of ICS and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to the Masters and M.Phil students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. She is the joint editor of the book Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008 and most recently edited a volume titled Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012).

November 9, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

In the context of COVID-19, the robustness of health service systems across the world have come under scrutiny that has highlighted the intrinsic fault lines. Even countries that had been categorised as having ‘better performing’ health service systems, faced challenges in managing the pandemic. This talk would take th…

POSTPONED | THE 84TH GEORGE E. MORRISON LECTURE IN ETHNOLOGY: Class Traitors? The Assault on Intellectuals’ Power in the 'Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi'

Yuri Pines, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

November 9, 2022 at 6:30 AM UTC

This event has been postponed until further notice. One of the most notable features of Warring States-period (Zhanguo 戰國, 453-221 BCE) political discourse is the extraordinary self-confidence of intellectually active men-of-service (shi 士). Having positioned themselves as collective possessors of the Way 道, these inte…

Gongfu Tea and Camera: Material and Technological Paths of Exploring Everyday Life in Chaozhou China

Jinghong Zhang

November 9, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

Gongfu Tea and Camera: Material and Technological Paths of Exploring Everyday Life in Chaozhou China Chaozhou, a third-tier city in north Guangdong Province, China, is well-known for its residents’ mass addiction to gongfu tea, an effortful process of preparing and drinking tea. Recently, this consumption habit is faci…

China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress

Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Lucy Hornby, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Former Beijing correspondent, Financial Times Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Moderator: Mark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

November 8, 2022 at 10:30 PM UTC

Speakers: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies Lucy Hornby, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Former Beijing correspondent, Financial Times Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia…

Diversifying the Belt and Road Initiative: The Rise of China’s Overseas Development Investment Funds

Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses, Data Analyst and Database Manager, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center Laura Gormley, Research Assistant, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center Cecilia Springer (Moderator), Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

November 8, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

China’s overseas economic activity is diversifying beyond official development finance from its two main policy banks, the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. Despite the array of various debt, equity and grant financing mechanisms China’s policy banks have at their disposal, separate multi-stak…

Trouble in White Australia: Australia, China, and the Re-Ordering of Australian History

Sophie Loy-Wilson

November 8, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

Where are Chinese Australians in Australian history? Australia’s Chinese past is persistently framed as ‘forgotten’ in public debate, a perpetual newness which ignores forty years of scholarship in the field. Contemporary works on Sino-Australian relations proliferate, resurrecting Cold War mentalities but avoiding Aus…

Wednesday Seminar | China in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Periodicals | 22nd March 2023 @ 3 P.M. IST | Zoom Webinar

Dr. Karina Simonson is an Art Historian and interdisciplinary scholar focusing on cultural connections between the Baltics and Global South in the 20th and 21st centuries. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vilnius Academy of Arts, working on her first monograph provisionally titled, Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture (1945-1990): Origins, Influences, Circulation and After-Effects. She also teaches a unique course titled, Africa and Asia Encounters: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies in Vilnius University. Her main research interests include the cultural production of the Eastern European African diaspora, Africa and Asia cultural connections, South African Jewish history and culture, questions of academic positionality, cultural appropriations, and race and racism in the Baltics. Dr. Simonson holds an MFA from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in Art History and Criticism from the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. About the Chair Dr. Hemant Adlakha is Vice-Chairperson, Honorary Fellow of the ICS, and an Associate Professor at the Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Adlakha’s areas of research include political and foreign policy discourse in the PRC and modern Chinese Literature and Culture. He is a member of the International Editorial Committee, International Society for Lu Xun Studies, Seoul (ROK). His articles have appeared in China Report, The Diplomat, Japan Times, Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism, 2nd Edition, Washington etc. His co-translation of Lu Xun’s prose poetry collection from Chinese into Hindi has been published by the NBT in November 2019.

November 7, 2022 at 6:54 PM UTC

This seminar is based on Dr. Simonson’s postdoctoral research project focusing on the representation of China in several Soviet Lithuanian children’s magazines and newspapers. The speaker will elaborate on the nature and challenges of examining the unexpectedly vast amount of primary material and dwell on the current p…

Virtual Workshop: Archery in Early China

Presenters: Rina Camus (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) James Behuniak (Colby College) Susanne Adamski (Independent Scholar) Chair and Discussant: Sarah Allan (Dartmouth College)

November 7, 2022 at 6:54 PM UTC

Virtual Workshop: Archery in Early China Friday, Jan. 13 10:00-11:30 pm (Taipei/Beijing, UTC+8) Presenters: Rina Camus (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Archery: Context, Function, Significance James Behuniak (Colby College) Archery as Metaphor for Moral Agency Susanne Adamski (Independent Scholar) Archery as Reflecte…

Taiwan Legal: What does international law say about Taiwan?

Peter Dutton is a senior research scholar in law and senior fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, and a non-resident affiliated scholar of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. Before joining Yale, he was a professor of international law in the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College. Dutton also formerly taught as an adjunct professor at NYU Law School and was an adjunct faculty advisor to USALI. At the U.S. Naval War College, his academic home for many years, Professor Dutton’s positions included interim dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies and director of the China Maritime Studies Institute. His research combines international law, China studies, and international politics, and focuses on international law of the sea and air, with an emphasis on the East and South China Seas, Chinese views of sovereignty and international law, the strategic implications of China’s maritime expansion, and the status of Taiwan in international law. He is a non-resident affiliate in research at Harvard University Fairbank Center for China Studies. Professor Dutton is a retired navy judge advocate and former naval flight officer. He holds a Ph.D. from King’s College London, a J.D. from the College of William & Mary, an M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College, and a B.S. from Boston University.

November 7, 2022 at 5:30 PM UTC

What is the status of Taiwan under international law? In the second of our speaker series “Taiwan Legal,” Peter Dutton, senior research scholar at the Paul Tsai China Center of Yale Law School, will unpack arguments about who has sovereignty over the island of Taiwan and adjoining small islands that its government cont…

Can Hong Kong Ever be Allowed to be Itself?

Dr. Kevin Carrico (Monash University) Dr. Louisa Lim (Melbourne University) Rowan Callick OBE FAIIA (Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University)

November 6, 2022 at 7:00 AM UTC

Hong Kong has been the crucible of many hopes – of becoming Asia's leading international city; of maintaining uniquely, openness, personal freedoms and the rule of law within the People's Republic of China; of attracting China to change subtly, of providing a credible "one country, two systems" model that Taiwanese peo…

局部产权理论和国有企业幻象

主讲人: 盛洪 1954 年 12 月生于北京,1983年毕业于中国人民大学,1986年和1990年于中国社会科学院研究生院相继获得经济学硕士和经济学博士。先后工作于中国社会科学院(1986-2001) 和天则经济研究所 (1993-2019)。1993年至 1994 年为芝加哥大学访问学者。现为山东大学教授(退休)。 评议人: 刘小玄 1978年南京大学经济学系,1982年中国社会科学院研究生院经济系。1985年进入中国社会科学院经济研究所工作,在职期间任微观经济学研究室副主任,二级研究员。2005年获得孙冶方经济科学奖,此外还分别获得中国社会科学院第一/三/五/八届优秀科研成果奖。 主持人: 王宁 湖北江陵人,毕业于北京大学(本科)和芝加哥大学(博士),曾执教于芝加哥大学和亚利桑那州立大学。目前是美国科斯研究所(Ronald Coase Institute) 高级研究员,《人和经济》(Man and the Economy) 执行主编。主要研究方向是制度经济学及中国市场经济改革。

November 6, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

国有企业不交利润和地租,少付利息,并拥有垄断权,却没有对劳动(含管理)收入的限制,看来很有吸引力。但由于这一巨大利益并不是确定地转让给某些个人,所以存在着对这一利益的争夺。尤其是对高管位置的争夺会带来94倍于民营企业的获罪率,因而看来有巨大利益的国企高管位置实际上风险很大,期望收益比直观的利益小得多,并不值得去争取。一旦这一国企幻象被戳穿,受过高等教育并有较长眼光的国企精英就有可能成为国企改革的动力。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道,收看讲座。

The CCP 20th Party Congress and China’s Road Ahead

Speakers: Panel One: Domestic Politics Bruce Dickson Professor Dickson received his B.A. in political science and English literature, his M.A. in Chinese Studies, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty of The George Washington University and the Elliott School in 1993. Professor Dickson's research and teaching focus on political dynamics in China, especially the adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party and the regime it governs. In addition to courses on China, he also teaches on comparative politics and authoritarianism. His current research examines the political consequences of economic reform in China, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolving strategy for survival, and the changing relationship between state and society. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Iza Ding Professor Iza Ding is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, with a courtesy appointment in Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. In 2019-2020, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science and a Visiting Associate at the International Institute at the University of Michigan. Professor Ding’s research explores the paradoxes and pushbacks attending economic, political, and cultural modernization, such as creative resistance against institutional rigidities, lingering moral traditions against legal development, enduring historical memories against rapid socioeconomic transformations, and humans' simultaneous degradation of nature and attachment to nature. Her book The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China has been recently released by Cornell University Press. Professor Ding received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, and her B.A. in Political Science and Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Michigan. Jeffrey Ding Professor Jeffrey Ding is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Professor Ding’s research agenda centers on technological change and international politics. His dissertation investigates how past technological revolutions influenced the rise and fall of great powers, with implications for U.S.-China competition in emerging technologies like AI. Other research projects tackle how states should identify strategic technologies, assessments of national scientific and technological capabilities, and interstate cooperation on nuclear safety and security technologies. His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Security Studies, The Washington Post, and other outlets. Professor Ding received his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, Profesor Ding worked as a researcher for Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology and Oxford's Centre for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford. Growing up in Iowa City, he became a lifelong Hawkeye fan and attended the University of Iowa for his undergraduate studies. Panel 2: International Relations David Shambaugh David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and award-winning author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and the founding Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He previously served in the Department of State and on the National Security Council staff during the Carter administration (1977-1979). From 1996-2016 he was also a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution. Professor Shambaugh was previously Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Reader in Chinese Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), 1987-1996, where he also served as Editor of The China Quarterly. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Advisory Board of the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), East-West Center Fellowship Board, is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and member of its Board of Studies, is a participant in the Aspen Strategy Group, and other public policy and scholarly organizations. An active public intellectual and frequent commentator in the international media, he also serves on numerous editorial boards, and has been a consultant to governments, research institutions, foundations, universities, corporations, banks, and investment funds. He has been selected for numerous awards and grants, including as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Senior Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and a Senior Fulbright Scholar (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Hinrich Foundation, the British Academy, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and has been a visiting scholar or professor at universities in Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and he has lectured all over the world. As an author, Professor Shambaugh has published more than 30 books, including most recently International Relations of Asia (third edition, 2022); China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now (2021); Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia (2021); and China & the World (2020). Other books include The China Reader: Rising Power (2016); Tangled Titans: The United States and China (2012); China’s Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008); Power Shift: China & Asia’s New Dynamics (2005); and Modernizing China’s Military (2002); Making China Policy (2001); The Modern Chinese State (2000); Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory & Practice (1994); American Studies of Contemporary China (1993); and Beautiful Imperialist (1991). He has also authored numerous reports, scholarly articles and chapters, newspaper op-eds, and book reviews. He is reasonably fluent in Chinese, and has some French, German, and Spanish. Patricia M. Kim Patricia M. Kim is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at Brookings and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and U.S. alliance management and regional security dynamics in East Asia. Previously, Kim served as a China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she focused on China's impact on conflict dynamics around the world and directed major projects on U.S.-China strategic stability and China's growing presence in the Red Sea region. She was also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. Kim’s writing and research has been featured widely in outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The South China Morning Post. She frequently briefs U.S. government officials in her areas of expertise and has testified before the House Intelligence Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. Kim received her doctoral degree from the Department of Politics at Princeton University and her bachelor's degree with highest distinction in political science and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Korean, and proficient in Japanese. Kim is also a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Robert G. Sutter Robert Sutter is Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University (2011-Present ). He also served as Director of the School’s main undergraduate program involving over 2,000 students from 2013-2019. His earlier full-time position was Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University (2001-2011). A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Sutter has published 22 books (four with multiple editions), over 300 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force, Fifth Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021). Sutter’s government career (1968-2001) saw service as senior specialist and director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service, the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the US Government’s National Intelligence Council, the China division director at the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Panel 3: Economic Policy Maggie Chen Maggie Xiaoyang Chen is a professor of economics and international affairs at George Washington University. Professor Chen's areas of research expertise includes multinational firms, international trade, and regional trade agreements and her work as been published extensively in leading academic journals. She has worked as an economist in the research department of the World Bank, a consultant for various regional divisions of the World Bank and the International Finance Cooperation since 2003, a contributor to the World Development Report and World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Flagship Report, and a trade policy consultant for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Professor Chen is also a co-editor of the Economic Inquiry. Professor Chen received her Ph.D and M.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her B.A. in Economics from Beijing Normal University. David Dollar David Dollar is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and host of the Brookings trade podcast, Dollar&Sense. He is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013, Dollar was the U.S. Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China, based in Beijing, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. Prior to joining Treasury, Dollar worked 20 years for the World Bank, serving as country director for China and Mongolia, based in Beijing (2004-2009). His other World Bank assignments focused on Asian economies, including South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh, and India. Dollar also worked in the World Bank’s research department. His publications focus on economic reform in China, globalization, and economic growth. He also taught economics at University of California Los Angeles, during which time he spent a semester in Beijing at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986. He has a doctorate in economics from New York University and a bachelor's in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College. Stephen B. Kaplan Stephen B. Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for International Economic Policy. He is also a current global fellow at the Wilson Center. Professor Kaplan joined the GWU faculty in the fall of 2010 after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. While completing his doctorate at Yale University, Kaplan also worked as a researcher for former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Kaplan worked as a senior economic researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, writing extensively on developing country economics, global financial market developments, and emerging market crises for more than a half-decade.

November 4, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

Critical questions about China’s future have swirled around the CCP’s 20th Party Congress: What will Xi Jinping’s third term mean for Chinese domestic politics? What are China’s intentions for Taiwan? How will the party manage slowing economic growth along with mounting demographic and environmental problems? The Sigur…

CUHK LAW: Greater China Legal History Seminar Series – ‘Civil Disputes in the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.)’ by Prof. Zhang Zhaoyang (Online)

Prof. Zhang Zhaoyang, Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

November 4, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

How were civil matters handled in ancient China? Analyzing intriguing cases of disputes over inheritance and debt taking place in the Han Dynasty, this talk discusses the functions of the civil justice system of early China in the light of recently excavated legal materials. About the Speaker: Zhaoyang Zhang obtained h…

The Struggle for Religious Freedom in China

Ian Johnson (Panelist), Terence Halliday (Panelist), Franciska Coleman (moderator)

November 3, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

The University of Wisconsin Law School's East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC) is pleased to invite you to "The Struggle for Religious Freedom in China," taking place at 12 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Law School's Lubar Commons (Room 7200). The program will feature Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson and…

CHERN WG 6 Autumn Talk: Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism with Thea Riofrancos

Speaker: Thea Riofrancos from Providence College (US) Host: Nicholas Jepson from The University of Manchester (UK)

November 3, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

In this talk by Thea Riofrancos from Providence College (US), we unpack the challenges of “clean” technologies and renewable energy through the lens of lithium, a so-called “critical mineral” essential for its role in decarbonizing one of the most polluting sectors: transportation. Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Ca…

Examining the multi-dimensional and multiscalar healthcare inequalities in urban China: Towards a synthesised approach

Shenjing He (The University of Hong Kong) and Xiang Yan (The University of Hong Kong)

November 3, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Public health scholars and geographers examine healthcare inequalities using different approaches, leaving salient research gaps due to disciplinary divide. Through a presentation of three studies, we develop a synthesized approach to understand the multi-dimensional and multiscalar healthcare inequalities in urban Chi…

ICAS 2022 Annual Conference

After the U.S. Midterms and the 20th Party Congress: What Will 2023 Hold for U.S.-China Relations? Keynote Dialogue (9:00am) JING Quan, Minister, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States Susan THORNTON, Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School Moderator: Gordon HOULDEN, Director Emeritus, China Institute, University of Alberta Panel I: U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry in the Biden Era (10:00am) Moderator: Gordon HOULDEN, Director Emeritus, China Institute, University of Alberta Michael SWAINE, Director, East Asia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft DA Wei, Director, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University Dennis WILDER, Senior Fellow, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University HUANG Jing, University Professor and Director, Institute of the US and Pacific Studies, Shanghai International Studies University Panel II: U.S.-China Trade and Technology Decoupling (11:35am) Moderator: LIU Yawei, Senior Advisor, The Carter Center Paul TRIOLO, Senior Vice President for China and Technology Policy Lead, Albright Stonebridge Group HUANG Yukon, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace William REINSCH, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic & International Studies Denis SIMON, Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

November 2, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The U.S.-China relationship continues to limp from pillar to post, even as the midpoint of the Biden administration’s term in office is fast approaching. The hoped-for détente between the two sides has been slow to arrive. President Biden has spent the better part of the past two years ‘investing, aligning and competin…

Wednesday Seminar | Mechanisms Contributing to China’s Technological Progress| 2nd November @ 3 P.M. IST | Zoom Webinar

Prof. S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri is a Professor and Dean of the School of Management, Mahindra University. He was previously on the faculty of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), where he held the Chengwei Capital Chair in Entrepreneurship, and on that of IESE Business School. He has been a Visiting Professor at ISB, the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Bocconi University, and the International Anti-Corruption Academy Austria. His areas of expertise are: i) entrepreneurship and innovation; ii) innovation and technology in China; and iii) management education. He has been a facilitator in executive education programs for Michelin, Air Liquide, Roche, Evonik, Tencent, China Development Bank, SASAC, Shandong Gold, Kangshifu, Bosch, UNICEF, Henkel Adhesives Technologies, Abbott Laboratories, Goodyear-Dunlop, and Vodafone, etc. He has also been a facilitator in the China Entrepreneurial Leadership Camp and the CEO Collaborative Forum. His research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals (Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review) and has received more than 4,500 Google Scholar citations. He is one of the most cited scholars in the world on business model innovation. He has published approximately 50 teaching case studies, most of which are available through Harvard Business School Publishing, Ivey Publishing, CEIBS Publishing and IESE Publishing. Three of his case studies have won awards and several have been on best-seller lists. He has written for, given interviews to, and been quoted in a number of international and national media outlets. He served on the 2019 and 2020 Advisory Councils of the CNBC Disruptor 50, to select the 50 most disruptive private companies in the world. Prof. Varaprasad S. Dolla is a Professor in Chinese Studies and former Chairperson of the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently, he teaches courses on Chinese history, and development and inequality in China and India. Earlier, he taught courses on science and technology in China’s development, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese political system, and contemporary issues in Asia. He has guided 34 M.Phil and 18 Ph.D students in their research for over twenty-five years. He was an ASIA (Asian Studies in Asia) Fellow at Peking University, Beijing, in 2004. He was Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University in 2014. He was an Academic Mentor to post-doctoral scholars at India China Institute, New School, New York during 2017-19. In 2015, he published a book titled, Science and Technology in Contemporary China: Interrogating Policies and Progress (Cambridge University Press). Besides publishing research articles in journals and chapters in edited books, he has also presented research papers in several international and national conferences. His media appearances include CCTV, Xinhua News, Lok Sabha TV, WION and China Radio International. He has also contributed to Economic Times, People’s Daily, The Hindu and other media.

November 2, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

This seminar would document China’s meteoric rise over a relatively short time period in the global innovation rankings of countries. It will explore the mechanisms the Chinese government leveraged to i) promote innovation and technology development inside the country, and ii) facilitate the inward flow of knowledge an…

'Lost In The Cold War' A Book Talk With Thomas Christensen And Jack Downey

This event is intended to be a hybrid event. In-person attendance is reserved for CUID card holders only. Register to attend in-person here. Webinar registration for all non CUID holders to attend online is available here. In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard “Dick” Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau’s release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon’s visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau’s release in 1971 and Downey’s in 1973. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home. Downey’s lively and gripping memoir—written in secret late in life—interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for “show” photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau’s families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release. PUB DATE: August 2022 - ISBN: 9780231199124 - 344 pages - FORMAT: Hardcover - LIST PRICE: $27.95 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/lost-in-the-cold-war/9780231199124 This event is co-sponsored by the China and the World Program, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), and Weatherhead East Asian Institute. ABOUT THE AUTHORS John T. Downey (1930–2014) was the longest-held prisoner of war in U.S. history. He went on to serve as commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities for the state of Connecticut and as a Connecticut Superior Court judge. In 2013, the CIA awarded Downey the Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the agency’s highest honor. Thomas J. Christensen is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and the director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2006 to 2008, and his books include The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (2015). Jack Lee Downey is the John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Bread of the Strong: Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910–1985 (2015). Photo Credit: Columbia University Press - https://cup.columbia.edu/book/lost-in-the-cold-war/9780231199124

October 31, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

This event is intended to be a hybrid event. In-person attendance is reserved for CUID card holders only. Register to attend in-person here. Webinar registration for all non CUID holders to attend online is available here. In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot do…

The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?

Professor David Shambaugh, Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and Director of the China Policy Program, Elliott School of International Affairs, at George Washington University

October 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

How has Western social science scholarship of contemporary China (1949‒) evolved over the past 7+ decades? In this special China Centre lecture, Professor David Shambaugh will reflect on the evolution and state of the field throughout the People’s Republic of China. During the 1950s‒1960s, when they could not go to mai…

International Logistics in a Time of Turmoil

Helen Cousineau, Managing Director and Import Services Leader, Global Trade Advisory at Deloitte Tax LLP Gregory Tuthill, Chief Commercial Officer of SeaCube Containers Chung Tam, Executive Director of the Sino-American Logistics Council Kurt Tjaden, Former President of HNI International and Senior VP of HNI Corporation Pontiac P. Li, Founder and General Manager of Shanghai Join Industrial Co. LTD.

October 28, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

At this time of turmoil in the world, how are companies coping with international logistical challenges, and what are the major trends and shifts? This special webinar moderated by Dr. Haozhe Chen, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Iowa State University, will bring in perspectives from both the U.S. and China. Th…

Debt and Financial Risk from China's Real Estate Sector - Michael Pettis and Hui Shan

Speakers: Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking University Hui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks: William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators: Richard Yarrow and Jinlin Li, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

October 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Real estate has had a vast influence on China's economy. In particular, real estate has taken a massive role across China's financial system — accounting for an estimated 70 percent of Chinese households' assets, 30 percent of local governments’ revenues, and almost 30 percent of all outstanding bank loans before the p…

文字改革與時代變遷:近代中國的簡體字運動

陳建守教授(中研院近代史研究所助研究員)

October 27, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

本文將針對晚清以迄中華人民共和國的簡體字運動進行討論,主要著眼於以下三個面向。首先,這些懷持漢字改革理想的知識人,背後的想法是什麼?其次,本文認為這些知識人受到「工具理性」的影響,認為語言文字的改革是讓落後的中國接軌進步的西方的萬靈丹。 最後,本文將介紹1935年南京國民政府公布的「第一批簡體字表」和中華人民共和國1956年頒佈的「漢字簡化方案」,並分析兩者的異同及其背後的思想預設。

"The “Rhythm” of Revolution: Body Politics and the Voice in the Leftist Poetry Recitation"

Ling Kang (Associate Professor in Modern Chinese Literature at Fudan University)

October 26, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

In 1932, a group of leftist poets in Shanghai established the China Poetry Society, aiming to produce poetry that would enlighten and mobilize the masses to be the self-conscious political subject. This talk revisits the poetic works and theories of the members of the Society, focusing in particular on the extensive di…

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden w/ Zhuqing Li

Zhuqing Li

October 25, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

UW's China Studies and Taiwan Studies Programs welcome Professor Zhuqing Li to discuss her newly published book, Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden. Li will share her journey in trying to understand and reconstruct the near-century-long-lives of her two maternal aunts. Accidentally separated when China split in 19…

East South-East Asia Colloquium: "Figural Shadows: On Being Inside when Outside on the Streets of Saigon"

Erik Harms

October 24, 2022 at 9:15 PM UTC

This talk offers a peek into an aspirational but still shadowy larger project on the anthropology of shadows and shade. Building from recent research in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), as well as retrospective reimagining of two decades of ethnographic work in the city, this talk will draw attention to the ways in which day…

OVERREACH: HOW CHINA DERAILED ITS PEACEFUL RISE - A BOOK TALK BY SUSAN SHIRK FOLLOWED BY A PANEL

This event is intended to be a hybrid event. In-person attendance is reserved for CUID card holders only. In-person attendance register here. Webinar registration for all non CUID holders to attend online is available here. Book Talk by Susan Shirk For three decades after Mao’s death in 1976, China’s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country’s inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China’s peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows in this illuminating, sobering, and utterly refreshing new book, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, muscling its way around the South China Sea, punishing countries that disagree with China, intimidating Taiwan, tightening its grip on Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence not just economically and technologically but militarily. China began to overreach. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, author of the hugely influential China: Fragile Superpower, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war. Prying open the "black box" of China’s political system, Shirk shows the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao. As China’s economy boomed, especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, Hu and the other leaders lost restraint, abetting aggression toward the outside world and unchecked domestic social control. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. In the decade following, and to the present day, Xi has accumulated greater power than any leader since Mao. Those who implement Xi’s directives compete to outdo one another in fervor, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. Shirk’s extensive interviews and meticulous analysis reveal the dynamics driving overreach. To counter it, she argues, the worst mistake the rest of the world, and the United States in particular, can make is to overreact. Understanding the domestic roots of China’s actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war. (The verbiage above is from the publisher of Overreach and is not reflective of or endorsed by CWP or Columbia University) Susan Shirk is a Research Professor and Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego. Shirk is the author of China: Fragile Superpower, and The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. From 1997-2000, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.’ Panel Discussion Following book talk: Thomas J. Christensen is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and Director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University. He arrived in 2018 from Princeton University where he was William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Director of the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program, and faculty director of the Masters of Public Policy Program and the Truman Scholars Program. From 2006-2008 he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for relations with China, Taiwan, and Mongolia. Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. She is also the director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. John K. Culver is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior intelligence officer with thirty-five years of experience as a leading analyst of East Asian affairs, including security, economic, and foreign-policy dimensions. Previously as national intelligence officer for East Asia from 2015 to 2018, Culver drove the Intelligence Community’s support to top policymakers on East Asian issues and managed extensive relationships inside and outside government. Co-sponsored by: the China and the World Program, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS). To purchase a copy of Dr. Shirk's book please go here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overreach-9780190068516?cc=us&lang=en& Photo Credit: Oxford University Press & Jordan Engle

October 24, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

Book Talk by Susan Shirk For three decades after Mao’s death in 1976, China’s leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country’s inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China’s peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows in thi…

India, China and the UN Charter Order in the Age of the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Dr. David M. Malone UN Under-Secretary-General and Rector of the United Nations University José E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law and the faculty director of USALI

October 24, 2022 at 5:20 PM UTC

* This is a hybrid event. In-person attendance is limited to NYU ID holders due to COVID restrictions. Others are welcome to join on Zoom. Please register to attend in person or via Zoom.* Russia’s actions in Ukraine have raised questions about the future of the United Nations (UN). Many UN members have supported US-le…

瓦全还是玉碎:顾维钧的外交应对之道

主讲人: 金光耀 复旦大学历史系教授。1978年进入复旦大学历史系学习,先后获历史学学士、硕士和法学(国际关系)博士学位。1986年至今在复旦大学历史系任教。主要从事中国近代对外关系史和当代中国史的研究与教学。著有《以公理争强权:顾维钧传》等,编有《顾维钧与中国外交》、《中国新方志知识青年上山下乡史料辑录》(合编)等。 评议人: 侯中军 中国社会科学院近代史研究所研究员,经济史研究室主任,中国社会科学院大学近代史系博士生导师。在近代中国的不平等条约、北京政府时期的中国外交、抗战外交及冷战研究方面都有专论。国家社科基金重大项目“哥伦比亚大学图书馆藏顾维钧档案整理与研究”首席专家。 主持人: 贾浩 独立学者;美国乔治•华盛顿大学政治学哲学博士、硕士(国际关系和美国政治专业),上海国际问题研究院法学硕士(美国外交和政治专业);曾任多家中美大学与智库教授和研究员,中国留美学者政治学和国际关系学会会长,大华府华人专业团体联合会创始会长,上海市欧美同学会留美分会常务副会长、研究中心副主任。

October 22, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

在顾维钧从事外交活动的时代,中国通常是以弱国身份与列强打交道的。这一境况十分考验中国外交尤其是外交官的应对。弱国有无外交?弱国如何外交?这是民国年间中国面对列强的一大问题。顾维钧对中国的国力有清醒的认识,承认弱国这一事实,但在与列强交涉时,有理有节,不自卑更不胆怯,为国家争权益也赢得尊重。弱国外交的应对不仅仅要处理与列强打交道的问题,还要面对国内民众的要求和呼声,这同样考验外交官的智慧和勇气,也影响中国与外部世界的关系。本次讲座将通过顾维钧与巴黎和会、国联、中英新约谈判和旧金山会议等具体事例展现并讨论他的外交应对之道。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道,观看本次讲座。

Promoting Women’s Rights in Asia & Globally

Chen Chao-ju, Melissa Murray, Feng Yuan (remote), Benjamin Liebman, Molly Bodurtha of Columbia Law School, Sylvia Law, Masako Mori (pre-recorded), Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Carole Petersen, Vasuki Nesiah, Jose E. Alvarez, Kyungjin Oh, Kavita Ramdas, Cai Yiping, Lopa Banerjee, Katherine Wilhelm, Rebecca Cook

October 21, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

*Those without an NYU ID who attend in person must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination upon entry. Please register here to attend in person or via Zoom.* About the event The U.S.-Asia Law Institute holds the Gelatt Dialogue every year with a different theme but the same broad goal: to foster connection and improve under…

How to Read Ancient Chinese Philosophy: Interpretation and the Problem of Authorship (Faculty Dialogue)

Tao Jiang, Professor of Chinese and Buddhist Philosophies at Rutgers University Esther Sunkyung Klein, Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University Franklin Perkins, Professor of Philosophy at UHM

October 19, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

The history of pre-Qin Classical Chinese thought is usually woven around a small set of great philosophers, each taken as the authorial voice behind a single text: Kongzi (the Lunyu), Laozi (Daodejing), Mozi, Mengzi, Zhuangzi (the “Inner Chapters” of the Zhuangzi), Xunzi, and Hanfeizi. Does this view of texts and autho…

Wednesday Seminar | Active Defence in China’s Military Strategy: Deciphering Chinese Military Thinking | 19th October @ 3 P.M. IST | Zoom Webinar

Dr. Amrita Jash is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) in Manipal, India. She holds a PhD in Chinese Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was a Pavate Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Jash has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, a UGC graduate fellow (2012-2017), a researcher under the Harvard-Yenching-Nanching Programme (2015), a researcher under China’s Ministry of Commerce (2014), and a US-India-China Initiative fellow at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (2013). In 2019, she received a commendation by the Chief of the Army Staff General Bipin Rawat for her contribution to the field of Chinese Studies at the Centre for Land Warfare Studies. Dr. Jash has authored The Concept of Active Defence in China's Military Strategy (Pentagon Press, 2021). Her research interests are China’s foreign policy, the PLA, security and strategic issues in India-China and China-Japan relations as well as the Indo-Pacific. M V Rappai is a Delhi based security analyst specializing in Asian Strategic issues. He worked with the Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India and later on joined the IDSA as a Research Fellow (1996 - 2002). He is currently associated with the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and has published chapters in books and articles in reputed journals and newspapers. Rappai holds a P G Diploma in Chinese language from the School of Foreign Languages, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

October 19, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

In 2015, China issued a Defence White Paper that categorically stated that “the strategic concept of active defense is the essence of the CPC’s military strategic thought” - lifting the veil over China’s military strategy. However, what remains unclear is how defensive is the concept of active defence? ‘Active defence’…

A Conversation with Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power

Dr Maria Repnikova - Georgia State University

October 18, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

This conversational event will draw on key points from Dr. Repnikova’s latest book, Chinese Soft Power (Cambridge University Press, 2022), which unpacks China’s visions and practices of soft power both domestically, and internationally. Analysing a variety of soft-power mechanisms, the research traces both their offici…

「房稿」與晚明科舉時文風潮:一種出版習慣的歷史

徐兆安(中央研究院近代史研究所助研究員) Shiuon Chu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

October 18, 2022 at 5:30 AM UTC

「房稿」與晚明科舉時文風潮:一種出版習慣的歷史 主講人: 徐兆安教授(中央研究院近代史研究所助研究員) 主持人: 劉瓊云教授(中央研究院中國文哲研究所副研究員) 主辦單位: 中央研究院中國文哲研究所--古典哲學研究室 時間: 2022 年 10 月 18 日(二)下午 1:30 至 下午 3:30 地點: 中央研究院中國文哲研究所二樓會議室/Webex視訊會議室 線上報名:https://reurl.cc/eOZvrW 本活動主要採視訊方式進行。 ※報名截止時間:10/13(四)中午12時。寄發會議連結:10/14(五)下午5時之前, 以電子郵件通知。

Analyzing the Sinophone Narratives on the Russian Invasion in Ukraine

Carsten Schäfer; Yevheniia Hobova; Tanina Zappone; Oleksandra Stryzhak; Hu Zichen; Dong Zhigang; Xu Botao; António dos Santos Queirós; Petro Schevchenko

October 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

Dear Colleagues, The Ukrainian Associations of Sinologists, jointly with A. Krysmkyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Science of Ukrainian and Helvetica Publishing Group, is pleased to invite you to an international online conference "Analyzing the Sinophone Narrative on the Russian Invasion in…

清前期甘肅官茶引與地方財政

賴惠敏教授(中研院近代史研究所所研究員)

October 13, 2022 at 6:30 AM UTC

本研究利用《清代軍機處滿文熬茶檔》、《軍機處雍正朝滿文議覆檔譯編》、《康熙朝滿文硃批奏摺全譯》、《雍正朝滿文硃批奏摺全譯》、《雍正朝漢文硃批奏摺彙編》、中研院史語所藏《清代內閣大庫原藏明清檔案》,國立故宮博物院藏《清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件》、中國第一歷史檔案館藏《宮中硃批奏摺.財政類》等有百餘件檔案,分為三個章節:康雍時期甘肅的官茶引、乾隆年間積貯茶封的處理,以及茶引與地方財政的關係,分析茶課經費支應地方用度。

China and the World (Faculty Dialogue)

Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) Wei Victor Huang, Chair and Professor of Finance, UHM College of Business

October 13, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Henry Huiyao Wang is the Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a top 64th global think tank ranked by the University of Pennsylvania and accredited with UN NGO “Special Consultative Status.” Dr. Wang is former Counselor to the China State Council, China’s cabinet, a global thought leade…

Prospects of Climate Policies and Cooperation: The Expectations of COP 27

PANELISTS: Anke HEROLD, Executive Director & Executive Board Member, Oeko-Institute e.V. (Institute for Applied Ecology) Sally YOZELL, Senior Fellow & Director, Environment Security Program, Stimson Center TENG Fei, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy, Tsinghua University Keita FURUKAWA, Affiliated Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Institute, Sasakawa Peace Foundation MODERATOR & WELCOMING REMARKS: Nong HONG, Executive Director & Head, Blue Carbon & Climate Change Program, Institute for China-America Studies OPENING REMARKS: WANG Sheng, President, National Institute for South China Sea Studies; Senior Advisor, Blue Carbon & Climate Change Program, Institute for China-America Studies CONCLUDING REMARKS: YANG Li, Executive Director, Institute for China-Europe Studies

October 12, 2022 at 1:30 PM UTC

There is about one month to go to the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UNFCCC, which is set to take place in Egypt from November 7-18, 2022. The world’s climate is deteriorating at a much faster pace than expected as we experience more frequent extreme weather and natural disasters. Also, th…

The Paradox of Chinese AI Regulation: Too Little and Too Much?

Angela Zhang is a global professor of law at New York University. She also serves as an associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, where she is director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Professor Zhang is a highly sought-after commentator on Chinese tech regulation and has published extensively in this area. Her first book, “Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation,” garnered significant media attention and was named a Best Political Economy Book of the Year by ProMarket in 2021. Her second book, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy,” is set to be released by the Oxford University Press early in 2024. Professor Zhang’s is currently researching artificial intelligence, with plans to both teach and write on AI regulation in the coming years. Please read her recent op ed on this subject here. Benedict Kingsbury is the Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law, vice dean of global programs, and director of the Institute for International Law at NYU School of Law. His broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law closely integrates work in legal theory, political theory, and history. His current research focuses on planetary and space law & governance issues, infrastructures as regulation, and global data law & AI. With NYU colleague Richard Stewart, he helped pioneer the field of global administrative law. Professor Kingsbury is also the faculty director of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies and its Global Law & Tech initiative launched in 2018. Kingsbury has written on a wide range of international law topics, from indigenous peoples issues to interstate & investor-state arbitration, indicators & rankings, infrastructure, and genetic sequence data. His co-edited volumes include Megaregulation Contested (2019), The Quiet Power of Indicators (2015), Governance by Indicators (2012), and books on Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and Alberico Gentili (1552-1608).

October 11, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

China has rapidly emerged as a global leader in artificial intelligence, closely rivalling the United States. China is also at the forefront of regulating AI. It has proactively introduced some of the world’s earliest and most comprehensive rules concerning algorithms, deepfakes, and chatbots, among others. Angela Zhan…

Decoding the Chinese discourse: Same terms, different meanings?

Marina Rudyak

October 11, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Core concepts of international relations, such as cooperation, democracy, human rights or multilateralism, can be found equally in European and Chinese discourses. Yet the same words often conceal very different concepts in Europe and China. What does Xi Jinping mean when he talks about the rule of law? How does the Ch…

Governing the 'China Boom' in the Amazon Basin: Social and Environmental Regulation Amid A Commodity Supercycle

Paulo Esteves, Coordinator, Socio-Environmental Platform and the Global South Unit for Mediation, BRICS Policy Center of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Rebecca Ray, Senior Academic Researcher, Boston University Global Development Policy Center Cecilia Springer (Moderator), Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

October 11, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Latin America’s recent commodity 'supercycle,' a synchronized and sustained price increase lasting more than five years, was largely driven by a major influx in Chinese investment, finance and demand for raw materials. Throughout that boom – and the slump that followed – Amazon basin countries sought to balance economi…

Love in the 'Chinese' Way: Making New National Role Models under Xi

Dr Kailing Xie - University of Birmingham

October 11, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

When the Western concept of "true love” first came to China at the beginning of the twentieth century, China’s New Culturalists critiqued its absence in traditional arranged marriage. They argued for the abolishment of traditional family norms as an integral part of modernizing the Chinese nation. Since the marketizati…

Classical Worship and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages

Dr. Chicheng Ma (Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU)

October 11, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

This paper examines how intellectual culture affects modern economic growth. The research context is historical China, where the learned class had been entrenched in the worship for classical wisdom for millennia before being introduced to Western industrialization in the mid-19th century. Drawing upon data across 269…

The Interpretive Principles of Qing Scholars– Bernhard Karlgren's Critique

Presenter: Magnus Ribbing Gren (Princeton, Ph.D.) Chair: Steven B. Miles (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Discussants: Martin Kern (Princeton), Ori Sela (Tel Aviv)

October 10, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Virtual Lecture: The Interpretive Principles of Qing Scholars– Bernhard Karlgren's Critique We are happy to announce a special session to be hosted by "Philology in Our Time: The Early China Projec Room" on Monday October 10, 2022, 8:00 PM Taipei/Hong Kong (8:00 AM EST UTC-5h) on Zoom. Presenter: Magnus Ribbing Gren (P…

中国贤能政治解析

主讲人: 姚洋 美国威斯康星大学农业与应用经济学博士。北京大学国家发展研究院院长、博雅特聘教授,中国经济研究中心主任,南南合作与发展学院执行院长,《经济学(季刊)》主编;中国经济学年会理事长,当代经济学基金会理事长;中国经济50人成员。获2008、2014年孙冶方经济科学奖、第一届和第二届浦山国际经济学奖 (2008年、2010年)、第二届张培刚发展经济学奖 (2008年);被评为2006年北京大学十佳教师和2017年北京大学十佳研究生导师。主要研究领域包括中国制度转型、开放条件下的中国经济增长以及农村发展。在国内外发表学术论文百余篇。 评议人: 苏力 北京大学博雅讲席教授,法学院天元讲席教授;博士。当过军人、工人、干部,1992年至今任教北京大学法学院。有论文、书评200余篇,个人独著10部,译著10余部;获奖若干。 主持人: 林侃 哈佛大学CMSA研究员,复旦-斯坦福金融科技与安全研究院副院长,清华五道口金融学院兼职研究员,民盟中央经济委员会委员。东京大学博士。于部委机关从事多年宏观政策、 金融监管、金融科技等政策研究制订。

October 8, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

儒家一向被认为是为中国古代专制制度辩护的理论;姚洋教授挑战这种说法。他回到先秦儒家,从儒家的人性论出发,推导出儒家政治的原则和可行结构。西方现代政治哲学里的人性是建构的、单一的,而儒家的人性观是基于经验的观察形成的,认为人性是多样的、流变的和可塑的,而且,个人的自我完善在其中扮演着很重要的角色,每个人最终至圣至贤的程度不同。由此,儒家政治必然包括层级,而且,选贤任能必然是它的宪法原则。在此原则之下,儒家政治里的人民主权是被动的,其职责是同意或否决贤能者的意见。儒家政治拒绝抽象的平等,肯定以贤能为基础的平等。但儒家肯定个人价值和个人自决,因而与古典自由主义是相通的。如此构建的儒家政治可以成为国家治理方面民主政治之外的另一个选项。姚洋教…

How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan: The Case of the Green Party Taiwan

Dr Dafydd Fell - SOAS University of London

October 7, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

Electoral defeat is often viewed as the mother of party change. However, studies show that parties do not necessarily learn the right lessons of defeat. The way that parties react to electoral setbacks is often closely tied to the internal power structure and power struggles in the aftermath of the election. Parties al…

Silver Valley: The Merchant Society of Central Shanxi in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Dr. George Qiao (Amherst College)

October 7, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

During the Qing, central Shanxi was home to millions of traveling merchants who established the empire’s most powerful business network. These merchants went far afield, penetrated northern frontier regions such as Manchuria, Mongolia, and Xinjiang, and connected these markets with those in China’s southern provinces.…

魔窟.大觀園──記滿洲國對漢民族社會的一次「實態調查」

林志宏教授(中央研究院近代史研究所副研究員)

October 6, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

本文利用一部滿洲國警務總局保安局的「極秘」資料,嘗試理解殖民調查與知識的關係。這本內容共295頁、且由官方在1941年編纂的文獻,勾勒殖民者如何在知識和政治的光譜上操作,試圖達成其治理目標。該書以哈爾濱的傅家甸為背景,描寫當地一處名叫「大觀園」的漢族貧民窟。在形式上,它採取人類學口述訪談的形式,配合地圖示意、攝影寫真等技術強化「惡社會」的形象。藉由對大觀園的調查,殖民者刻畫底層民眾的生活,並從偵防來思考滿洲國社會問題的解決之道。從研究者的角度來看,如此調查顯然是具有特定的偏見:一方面以學知構築一套對被統治者的認識,另一方面深化日本帝國推動殖民政策的準則。

The Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and Its Implications (Inter-Regional Dialogue)

Speaker: Zhiqun ZHU, Professor of Political Science & International Relations, Bucknell University. Moderator: Cathryn H. Clayton (UHM), Associate Professor and Chair of Asian Studies. Respondents: Kristi Govella (UHM), Assistant Professor of Asian Studies. Tarcisius Kabutaulaka (UHM), Associate Professor of Pacific Island Studies.

October 5, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

With the release of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022 and the launch of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework in May 2022, the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy has taken shape. The Indo-Pacific strategy aims at maintaining a free and open regional order and focuses heavily on competition with China t…

Scottish Centre for China Research seminar series: Discussing How We Understand and Study Chinese Foreign Policy

Dr Andrea Ghiselli, University of Exeter. Andrea Ghiselli is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter and Head of Research at the ChinaMED Project. His research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and its making, particularly with regard to the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of two books: Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy (OUP, 2021) and Narratives of Sino-Middle Eastern Futures: In the Eye of the Beholder (CUP, 2025, with Mohammed Al-Sudairi). 

September 30, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

China’s international behaviour has become a central concern in both scholarly and policy debates, yet interpretations of its motives and strategies diverge sharply. This talk presents a framework for making sense of these debates by evaluating four core analytical logics—universalist, exceptionalist, comparativist, an…

Central Review as an Information-Centered Approach to Conceptualizing the Late Imperial Bureaucracy

Speaker: Maura Dykstra(Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology) Moderator: Li Ren-Yuan (Assistant Research Fellow, IHP, Academia Sinica) Discussants: Tseng, Mei-Fang (Associate Professor, Taipei Medical University), Lawrence Zhang(Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

September 30, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

The sixth talk of the Qing Law, Institutions and Society series. The lecture will be conducted in English, and the discussion will be in both English and Mandarin. Registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/n23nefb9 Contact: Miss Hung, instihp@gmail.com

Combating Anti-Asian Hate

Jennifer H. Wu Lawrence G. Wee

September 29, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Register for this event In-person attendance is limited to NYU ID holders. Attendance via Zoom is available. Harassment and violence directed at Asians and Asian-Americans has surged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jennifer Wu (NYU Law 2004) and Lawrence Wee, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Ga…

Conversations on The Wuhan Lockdown (Book Talk: Guobin Yang with Wei Zhang)

Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Center on Digital Culture and Society. Wei Zhang, Professor and the Chair of UHM’s Department of Sociology.

September 28, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

The lockdown of Wuhan in 2020 was the first of its kind in the COVID-19 global pandemic. Keenly aware of the unprecedented nature of this event, many residents in Wuhan took it upon themselves to document its history by recording their personal experiences and sharing them on social media. These acts of citizenship ins…

Urban China Series featuring Yang Zhan – “Keep Moving, Little Bees!”: Real Estate Promotion and the Financial Roots of Urban Precariousness in China

Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

September 27, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Developers in China’s real estate industry organize temporary workers, or “little bees,” to promote sales. Most developers rely on high-interest loans, and must repay their creditors as quick as possible to keep the chain of funding intact, reduce risk, and secure profits. Thus, little bees are pushed to sell quicker,…

China Humanities Seminar – Writing and Reading “Local Court Drama” in Late Imperial China: Texts, Genres, and Identities

Tian Yuan Tan 陳靝沅: Shaw Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford

September 26, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Recent reprint projects have given researchers much improved access to the vast corpus of Chinese court dramatic texts kept in palace archives and private collections, which in turn presents a challenge: how do we unpack the complex textual web and varied forms contained therein? I am interested in ways of reading cour…

Urban Growth and Social Movements in Asia

Prof. Hyun Bang Shin (London School of Economics and Political Science) Prof. Shitong Qiao (Duke Law School)

September 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Asian countries have grown at a record-setting pace this century, generating enormous economic growth and becoming hubs of creativity and cosmopolitanism for millions of residents, but also resulting in displacement of lower-income residents and unequal distribution of wealth. In some places, this has led to protests a…

Internationalism, identity, and ideology in the shaping of postwar China

Professor Rana Mitter OBE FBA, University of Oxford

September 22, 2022 at 8:00 AM UTC

The post-World War II period saw China debate many issues that still have immense importance for understanding the China of today. China moved into a new phase of internationalization, becoming embroiled in global debates about the links between economic and social development. Ideological concerns about democracy, con…

Chinese Settlement in the Mekong River Delta, 1400-1700: A New Interpretation. (Inter-Regional Dialogue)

Xing Hang, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University

September 21, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

It is commonly assumed that a sustained Chinese presence in the Mekong River Delta first occurred during the late seventeenth century, when Ming loyalist refugees fleeing from their homeland sought and received permission from the Nguyen lord of Cochinchina, in present-day central-southern Vietnam, to settle down and o…

Victor Fan – The Insight-Image: Illuminating the Reality of Deleuze’s Time-Image

Victor Fan, King’s College London

September 21, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

In Zen Buddhism, the notion of here and now is the key to attain––or return to––paññā/prajñā (insight). On a day-to-day basis, we live each moment with a preoccupation of the past and an anticipation for the future. Our retrospection and expectation produce afflictions such as avarice, anger and frustration, as well as…

Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Fiona Cunningham – China’s Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age: Past, Present, Future

Fiona Cunningham, University of Pennsylvania

September 21, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

Fiona Cunningham is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and affiliated with the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Christopher H.. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her res…

Panel Discussion – Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School; Faculty Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Ajantha Subramanian, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies; Chair of the Anthropology Department, Harvard University Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; William Fung Director of the Asia Center, Harvard University

September 20, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC

What can India and China, the world’s most populous countries, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, ph…

20th Party Congress and U.S. Midterm Elections: Implications for U.S.-China Relations

Robert Daly (Wilson Center) Yawei Liu (The Carter Center) Rory Murphy (The U.S.-China Business Council) Denis Simon (Duke University) Moderated by Sourabh Gupta (ICAS) Welcome Remarks by Nong Hong (ICAS)

September 20, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

On October 16th, the Communist Party of China will kick-off its 20th National Congress. The Party Congress is expected to be a watershed one, anointing President and General Secretary Xi Jinping to an unprecedented third term in office. The membership line-ups of the Politburo and Politburo Standing Committee merit wat…

‘The Most Expensive Item in the World’ Online Marketing and the E-commercialisation of Charitable Projects in Contemporary China

Dr. Jacqueline Zhenru Lin (Center for China Studies, CUHK)

September 20, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

This ethnographic study uses long-term intensive fieldwork on charitable organisations to explore how e-commerce platforms change the moral landscape of Chinese society by creating a novel culture around doing good. Expanding beyond a simple communication channel, social media platforms in China allied with charitable…

CCS Webinar - The Crucial Role of Regional Governments in National Constitutional Development: A Comparative Historical Study in China and the United States

Professor Bin Ling, Professor Charles Booth, Professor Carole Petersen

September 18, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Although the focus is usually on the federal/central government, the development of national constitutions is often significantly influenced by the role of regional governments. The United States is a federal system, and state governments have played a well-known prominent role in the formation of the national constitu…

文明的两端

主讲人: 何怀宏 郑州大学哲学学院特聘首席教授,北京大学哲学系教授。主要从事伦理学及人生哲学、社会与文明历史等领域的研究。著有《良心论》、《世袭社会》、《选举社会》、《道德•上帝与人》、《新纲常》、 Social Ethics in a Changing China (Brookings) 等。译著有罗尔斯《正义论》(合译)、诺齐克 《无政府、国家与乌托邦》、奥勒留《沉思录》等。 评议人: 於兴中 澳门大学法学院讲座教授,曾任教于美国康奈尔大学法学院、香港中文大学、西北政法大学 (西安)。兰州大学文学学士,哈佛大学法学硕土、博士。主要研究兴趣为法理学、法律与社会理论、法律文化、人工智能与法律及网络法。著有《法治与文明秩序》、《法理学前沿》、《法治东西》、《法理学检读》等书。译有《没有上帝的宗教》(德天金著)。 主持人: 陈丹丹 纽约州立大学法明代尔分校历史政治与地理系副教授,哈佛大学博士。研究与教学领域为中国文学文化与思想史,全球史,尤致力于以跨学科路径,探索历史转折期之中西对话与古今之争。专著《明末清初与清未民初的文化世界:转折时代的文人与世变》即将出版。

September 17, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

文明的两端是指人类文明开始的一端和现代的一端。戴蒙德等学者对文明演变持一种环境决定论的解释,但一种不同时段的多因论的解释看来更为合理,具体说来是一种“物质是基础、价值是主导、政治是关键”的逻辑。由此,一万余年的人类文明历史也呈现出一种“同——异——同”的面貌。我们可以考察这主导价值追求基本相同的两端,但是,文明首端物质追求的意义还是在奠定政治文明和精神文明的基础,而现代的一端则是以技术和经济的追求作为最高的目的。近代以来主导价值不断朝向提升控物能力和物质生活水平的转变,这和一种“平等的狡计”不无关系。文明会不会以物质始而以物欲终?搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Marriage Unbound: Divorce in Rural China

Prof. Ke Li, assistant professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

September 15, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

* This is a hybrid event. In-person attendance is limited to NYU ID holders due to COVID restrictions. Others are welcome to join on Zoom. Please register below to attend in person or via Zoom.* About the Event Divorce rates in China have risen sharply over the past three decades, as socioeconomic transformations have…

“Payoffs from Chen Shu’s Paintings and Persona—How Qian Chenqun Built His Long-term Connection with the Qianlong Emperor” Faculty Dialogue: Sylvia Lee in conversation with Kate Lingley.

Sylvia Lee, Ph.D. (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Kate Lingley, Associate Professor (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Art and Art History)

September 14, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

In seventeenth-century China, courtesans (mingji 名妓) and gentry women painters had different motivations to paint, and their paintings circulated outside their boudoirs. Many women painters, such as Chen Shu 陳書 (1660-1736), used their paintings to support their families financially. These talented women and their famil…

Why Deng Xiaoping? How Mao’s Political Strategy Shaped Politics in the 1980s

Victor C. Shih is Ho Miu Lam Chair Associate Professor in China and Pacific Relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego specializing in China. He is the author of a book published by the Cambridge University Press entitled Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation and also a new book Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Stratagem to the Rise of Xi. He is also editor of Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Institutions and Financial Conditions, published by the University of Michigan Press. This book uses comparative cases to explore how authoritarian regimes respond to economic crises. He is further the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including The American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, and The Wall Street Journal. Shih served as principal in The Carlyle Group’s global market strategy group and continues to advise the financial community on China related issues. Shih graduated summa cum laude at the George Washington University and received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. He is currently working on several papers using quantitative data to analyze the Chinese political elite and China’s defense industry.

September 14, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

After the Lin Biao incident in 1971, Mao rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping and immediately thrust him into the powerful position of the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission. This position set him on a course to be “first among equals” in the 1980s, despite later dismissal by Mao. Why did Mao put Deng in charge of…

The Future of Industrialization in a Post-Pandemic World

Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University; Previous Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012 Kevin P. Gallagher (Moderator), Director, Boston University Global Development Policy Center; Professor of Global Development Policy, Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University

September 13, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Industrialization, facilitated by an industrial policy to remove infrastructural and other bottlenecks, is essential for generating decent jobs and eliminating poverty and hunger in a developing country. The governments in most developing countries will have less resources to use industrial policies in the post-pandemi…

Iran and BRI: A Cultural Perspective of Strategic Cooperation

Dr. Alireza Khoshrou (Islamic Cultural and Relation Organization, Iran)

September 13, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

Iran and China’s relationship is following a long tradition of exchanges that can be traced back to ancient times. Certainly, when studying the long tradition of Iran and China, we can perceive that the Silk Road was not only linking cities like Xi’an and Isfahan for trade but also facilitated, the exchange of ideas, s…

重新理解企业家精神

主讲人: 张维迎 牛津大学博士,曾在国家体改所工作。现任北京大学博雅特聘教授,北大国家发展研究院经济学教授,北京大学市场网络经济研究中心主任。曾获第四届“中国经济理论创新奖”。 评议人: 谭劲松 加拿大约克大学舒立克商学院纽蒙特企业战略讲席教授。曾任北京大学光华管理学院特聘教授,2005-06年美国富布莱特杰出教授。研究方向为战略管理,创业,创新与科技政策。 评议人: 冯仑 中国社会科学院法学博士。先后在中央党校、中共中央宣传部、国家体改委任职。万通集团创始人之一,之后参与创建中国民生银行并长期出任该行的董事。2015年起任御风集团董事长。 主持人: 张晓波 北京大学光华管理学院讲席教授,北京大学企业大数据研究中心主任,国际SSC期刊《China Economic Review》主编。北京大学ESIEC/OSOME/CFPS项目负责人。曾获孙冶方经济学奖、张培刚发展经济学奖。

September 10, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

张维迎教授研究企业家精神近40年,在最新出版的《重新理解企业家精神》一书中,他指出,在一个不确定的世界里,企业家精神是市场有效运行和经济增长的关键;主流经济学里没有企业家,因而其对市场的理解是误导性的,所主张的干预政策是有害的。他认为,理解企业家精神的关键是理解企业家決策不是什么:(1) 企业家决策不是科学决策;(2) 企业家决策不是给定约束条件下求解,而是改变约束条件;(3)企业家追求的不仅仅是赚钱,甚至主要不是为了赚钱。理解了这三点,主流经济学的许多政策主张(如反垄断法、产业政策)就失去了经济学依据。 在本次沙龙中,张维迎教授将与听众交流、分享《重新理解企业家精神》一书的核心观点。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization​

Dr. Juanjuan Peng (Georgia Southern University)

September 9, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

By tracing the history of Yudahua from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, this study analyzes a successful inland business model among textile companies in modern China. The steady growth of this enterprise relied primarily on its strategy to focus on low-end markets and to locate new m…

Collecting the Revolution: British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution material culture

Associate Professor Emily Williams,

September 8, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

In recent years, there has been emerging scholarly interest in ‘global Maoisms’—the impact and influence Chinese communism had around the world—but because Britain had a poorly developed Marxist-Leninist movement, and lacked the same engagement on an intellectual or activist level as elsewhere, ‘British Maoism’ is ofte…

Startalk 2007–2023: Federal Leadership in U.S. Chinese Language Education

Jacob ALGRIM, Xi MATTOX, Jing WU, Cynthia NING

September 7, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Given the tension between the world’s two most influential nations, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is keenly aware of the nation’s need to bolster critical language education, especially Chinese. After all, China begins English language instruction universally in elementary school, and it is widely held that the…

Social Visibility and Political Invisibility: The Ethnography of a School in Nationalist Taiwan

Professor Allen Chun, Research Fellow, Academia Sinica

September 1, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

Beginning as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1990, it provides a concrete point of departure and framework of political-cultural practice for understanding the historical evolution of a system of socialization that resides at the basis of an ongoing process of national identification. This process of n…

Japanese Foreign Policy: Challenges in the Post- Abe Era

About the Speaker Tomohiko Taniguchi is Professor at Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management where he reads international political economy and the politico-economic development of Japan. He holds a doctorate in national security from Takushoku University, and LLB from the University of Tokyo. As the late prime minister ABE, Shinzō’s primary foreign policy speech writer, he penned most of Mr Abe’s important foreign policy speeches -- in Japanese and in English -- including the one he delivered to the Indian parliament in August 2007, under the title “Confluence of the Two Seas”. He began his career as a journalist with a Japanese-language business and finance weekly magazine Nikkei Business where he spent twenty years before joining Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director General, Press and Public Affairs. He later joined the second Abe Administration first as a Cabinet Councillor, and second as Special Advisor to Prime Minister Abe’s Cabinet. He has spent sabbaticals at Princeton University as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow and at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. One of the books he has authored is forthcoming in September, titled, ABE Sōri no Speech (Prime Minister Abe’s Speeches) to be published by Bungei Shunjū, Inc. He has given numerous live interviews to CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, and India’s WION. About the Discussant Jagannath Panda is the Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA). He is also the Director for Europe-Asia Research Cooperation at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies. Dr. Panda’s research focuses primarily on India’s relations with Indo-Pacific powers (China, Japan, Korea, USA); China-India Relations, EU-India Relations; and EU’s infrastructure, connectivity and maritime initiatives in Indo-Pacific. His recent work includes Quad Plus and Indo-Pacific (Routledge: 2021); Scaling India-Japan Cooperation in Indo-Pacific and Beyond 2025 (KW Publishing Ltd. 2019), and The Korean Peninsula and Indo-Pacific Power Politics: Status Security at Stake (Routledge, 2020), India-Japan-ASEAN Triangularity (Routledge: 2022), and the Future of Korean Peninsula: Korea 2032 and Beyond (Routledge: 2021). About the Chair Srabani Roy Choudhury is a Professor in the Japanese Studies Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her association with Japan began with the Japan Foundation Fellowship 1996-1997. She has been on a visiting scholar programme to Keizai Koho Centre, Ministry of Economics and Industry, Japan, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance, Japan, REIB, Kobe University, GSID, Nagoya University. Her recent publications are centred on economic diplomacy between Japan and India with reference to Japanese business. In light of the power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region, her interest looks at India- Japan relations in this perspective. She has to her credit two edited volumes Japan-SAARC Partnership: A Way Ahead (2014) and India-Japan Relations @ 70: Building Beyond Bilateral (2022).

August 24, 2022 at 10:30 AM UTC

Abstract The late Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe sought to engage India to build a coalition of maritime democracies. He foresaw that a) the PRC will further its effort to “mainlandise” Taiwan to ultimately annex the island nation; b) no country alone by itself could deter China’s quest for hegemony; c) India will…

印度宪法如何破解种姓问题——印度种姓特留权制度的产生与运行纠结

主讲人: 张文娟 印度金德尔全球法学院副教授、金德尔全球大学印中研究中心创始主任、哈佛肯尼迪学院艾什中心亚洲学者。她的主要研究领域是:比较宪法、比较公共政策、民间组织发展与儿童权利。 评议人: 鲁楠 清华大学法学院副教授,主要研究领域为法理学、比较法学与法社会学,在印度法研究领域有特别兴趣,曾在《中外法学》、《清华法学》、《政法论坛》等刊物发表相关论文若干。 评议人: 尚会鹏 北京大学教授,主要研究领域为印度社会与文化、文化与国际关系。主要著作:《种姓与印度教社会》、《印度文化史》等。 主持人: 周小明 温州大学法学院副教授,兼职律师,主要从事涉侨涉外法律的研究和实务。公开发表论文20多篇,出版专著《印度宪法及其晚近变迁》、合著《古代远东法》。

August 20, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

种姓歧视是印度文化中的历史性顽疾。印度独立运动领袖和制宪会议代表都赞成它是宪法亟需解决的核心议题之一,但对于如何解决却存在严重分歧。种姓特留权,作为妥协的结果,成为宪法性平权的核心制度之一。它对印度选举票仓有很大的摇摆力,也因此成为政客们最易开给选民们的政治支票。印度最高法院成为了该制度发展的关键平衡者,与联邦议会和邦议会不断拉锯,试图抑制政客们对这一制度的过度滥用与狂热扩张。 种姓特留权问题是,自90年代经济自由化之后至今,印度的核心政治议题和最活跃宪法议题之一。其引发的进步、张力和纠结,也是印度独立后在传统宗教文化基础上嫁接现代民主自由制度所产生的惊喜、张力和纠结的一个缩影。本次讲座将聚焦于种姓特留权制度的产生及其运行,并力争呈…

Finding Security: US-China Ag Trade in a Changing World

Scott Gerlt, Chief Economist at the American Soybean Association Joesph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow IPFRI Jim Schultz, Chairman & CEO OpenPrarie Dr. Dong Yan, Director, Trade Department, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

August 16, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Despite growing competition between the U.S. and China, trade volume between the two countries remain significant and robust. U.S. agricultural exports to China, in particular, has seen tremendous growth. But the world is changing dramatically and the impact is felt locally in the Heartland, where a majority of the U.S…

人工光合作用 • 液态阳光

主讲人: 杨培东 美国加州大学伯克利分校化学系S. K. and Angela Chan讲席教授 / 材料科学与工程系教授,美国国家科学院院士。Kavli Foundation伯克利纳米能源科学研究所所长,加州科研联盟中心主任,美国能源部人工光合作用中心创始主任。 主持人: 吕旭东 加州理工学院博士后研究员,Tahill Venture partner。加州大学伯克利博士,北京大学物理学和经济学学士。

August 14, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

人类工业化进程中世界各国二氧化碳大量排放,二氧化碳温室效应引发的气候变化成为了人类面临的全球性问题。在这一背景下,世界各国以全球协约的方式减排温室气体,并设置碳达峰碳中和目标。譬如中国承诺在2030年前,二氧化碳的排放不再增长,以达到“碳达峰”;到2060年,进一步完成“碳中和”目标。在这个过程当中人类社会的能源结构会怎样演变;如何大力推动可再生能源,以完成人类历史上从化石能源为主到非化石能源为主的过渡。在这个讲座中我们会重点剖析人工光合作用以及所产生的新可再生能源:液态阳光,讨论二氧化碳从哪里来,应该到哪里去,展望人类“光子经济”的未来。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道,收看讲座。

CHINA’S PRESENCE IN NEPAL: IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA

Ranjit Rae served in the Indian Foreign Service for over three decades and has been deeply involved in multilateral and bilateral diplomacy. He has worked in crisis situations and in conflict areas. Prior to retirement in 2017, Rae had served as India’s Ambassador to Hungary, with concurrent accreditation to Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vietnam and Nepal. He is also a Member of the Peace Advisory Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Rae has a Master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics and worked as a lecturer at St Stephen’s College, Delhi University. He has recently published his first book Kathmandu Dilemma, Resetting India-Nepal Ties (Penguin 2021) Kanak Mani Dixit is Founding editor of the Himal Southasian regional review magazine, as well as publisher of the Nepali language weekly Himal Khabarpatrika. He has degrees in Law (Delhi University), International Relations and Journalism (Columbia University). He has been a journalist since 1971, and worked in the United Nations Secretariat between 1982 and 1990. Lately, he has been engaged in civil rights activism in relation to peace, democracy and human rights in Nepal. Constantino Xavier is a Fellow in Foreign Policy and Security Studies at CSEP, and a Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He leads the Sambandh Initiative on Regional Connectivity, which examines India’s political, security and economic relations with the South Asian neighbourhood. He is currently writing a book on how democratic values influence India’s foreign policy, with case studies on Nepal, Sri Lanka and Myanmar based on new archival sources and interviews. He is also part of several policy dialogues between India, the European Union and other Indo-Pacific powers, and frequently comments for the media. He received research awards from the United States Fulbright program and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and holds a Ph.D. in South Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University. Sangeeta Thapliyal is professor at the Centre for Inner Asian Studies at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her areas of specialisation include India’s strategic interests in the Himalayas and Trans-Himalayas; India’s relations with Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet; South Asian Security; and Water Security in South Asia. About the Chair Hemant Adlakha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Chinese & South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is Vice Chairperson and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies.

August 10, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

Even as China’s diplomatic and economic footsteps have expanded rapidly, there are concerns about the increasing interference by China in Nepal’s internal affairs as well as the huge deficit in the balance of trade. Nepal also has the unenviable position of balancing its relations with India, China and the US, amidst t…

The History and Influence of Jazz in China

This panel features Dr. Eugene Marlow (award-winning composer/arranger, producer, presenter, performer, author/journalist, and Professor at Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, City University of New York), Philip V. Bohlman (Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities in the College; Associate Faculty, Divinity School, University of Chicago), and will moderated by Kenneth Pomeranz (Faculty Director, University of Chicago Yuen Campus in Hong Kong; and University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College, University of Chicago).

August 10, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Jazz is appreciated around the world for its improvisational, free style. It originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana and continues to be a significant and symbolic art form in the United States. How has jazz evolved from a music founded on the rhythmic and blues traditions of West Afric…

围堵在亚洲:日美同盟关系的深化 (1960-1972)

主讲人: 黄自进 台湾师范大学历史学系教授,北京清华大学历史学系客座教授,中央研究院近代史研究所研究员。日本庆应义塾大学政治学硕士、博士。研究领域:近代中日关系史研究、近代日本政治思想史研究、近代日本外交史研究。著有《围堵在亚洲:日美同盟关系的深化 (1960-1972)》等。 评议人: 廉德瑰 上海外国语大学日本文化经济学院教授、博士生导师,日本研究中心主任,中日韩合作研究中心执行主任。毕业于黑龙江大学哲学系,早稻田大学政治学硕士,文学博士学位(日本史)。研究领域:日本政治与外交、中日关系、日美关系、日本历史与文化等。 主持人: 陶赋雯 南京大学艺术学博士,复旦大学新闻传播学出站博士后,2017年曾赴东京大学教养学部表象文化专业访学,现为上海师范大学影视传媒学院副研究员、硕导,近年来从后记忆影像、负遗产等视角进入日本二战史、原爆文化研究。

August 7, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

从“围堵”政策在亚洲的落实以及日美同盟关系深化之角度,论析1960年代日本的国家发展战略和经济得以高速增长的来龙去脉。尤其是针对池田勇人及佐藤荣作两位首相因个人人格的差异,政治理念的不一,在面对国内外不同外在环境的压力下所反映出的执政特质,作一全面性的梳理。特别是聚焦于评价池田勇人首相的“所得倍增计划”与日本和平崛起之间的因果关系以及佐藤荣作首相为收回琉球,在落实日美同盟关系深化政策上的功过得失。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation

Prof Lajos Bokros Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Central European University Former Minister of Finance of Hungary Prof Marcin Piatkowski Professor of Economics, Kozminski University Author of Europe’s Growth Champion: Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland Prof Dwight Perkins Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University Former Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Visiting Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, and Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Harvard Kennedy School

August 3, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

In the 1980s, Eastern European economies were stagnant or in decline. Mass shortages and unemployment combined with decaying institutions to throw economies and societies in turmoil. Three decades later, Eastern Europe has transformed. Of the 23 countries to become high income since 1992, nine are in Eastern Europe. In…

Taiwan Issue in China-US Relations in the Wake of the Ukraine War

About the Speakers Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is concurrently a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Da Wei is currently Professor in the Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University. He is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for International Strategy and Security (CISS) at Tsinghua. His research expertise covers China-US relations and US security & foreign policy. Prior to current positions, he used to be Assistant President of University of International Relations (2017-2020), director of the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (2013-2017). He has written hundreds of policy papers for the Chinese government, and published dozens of academic papers in journals in China, the US and other countries. Hemant Adlakha is Associate Professor at the Centre for Chinese & South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is Vice Chairperson and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies. About the Chair Raviprasad Narayanan is associate professor in the Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is also an associate research fellow with the Institute of International Relations (IIR) at National Chengchi University, Taipei. He has a master's degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and he earned his M.Phil/Ph.D from the Centre of East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests include Sino-Indian relations, South Asian security, Asia-Pacific security issues and IR Theory & Research Methods. His publications have appeared in the Asian Perspective, China Report, Harvard Asia Quarterly and the Strategic Analysis among other journals.

August 3, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Abstract In the context of the tense US-China relations continuing in the Biden era, and the Ukraine war, some China-watchers are encouraged in their belief that China resorting to military action in Taiwan has become more likely. Notwithstanding its previous policy of “strategic ambiguity,” President Biden has reitera…

拜登政府「對台政策」的特徵 —— 從裴洛西擬「訪台」說起

主讲人: 林泉忠 日本東京大學法學博士,歷任中研院近史所副研究員、琉球大學國際關系學系准教授、哈佛大學費正清東亞研究中心傅爾佈萊特學者,武漢大學國際問題研究院教授、《明報》主筆等。主要研究領域為東亞國際關係,側重兩岸三地關係、中日美關係、琉球研究、東海南海研究等。 评议人: 唐欣偉 美國克萊蒙研究大學政治學博士,臺灣大學政治學系副教授;國際關係學會副會長。主要研究領域為國際政治理論與國際政治史。 主持人: 張倫 法國塞爾奇-巴黎大學教授,Agora 研究所研究員,法國人文科學之家 (la Fondation Maison des sciences de I'homme)兼任研究員。中文學術網站「中國:歷史與未來」主編。

July 30, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

臺灣處在亞太地緣政治上的特殊位置,成為冷戰時期美國圍堵中國“第一島鏈”的重要一環,也成為冷戰後美國繼續關注乃至介入台海的主要因素。中國崛起後,近年中美競合關係逐漸形成,美國的“臺灣牌”層出不窮。拜登上臺後,積極組建“三四五中國包圍網”等一系列應對台海局勢的政策,包括“台海問題國際化”等。本講座聚焦拜登政府對台政策的特徵,以及對東亞格局的影響。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube讲座收看讲座。

Bodies Beyond Boundaries: The Exceptional, the Disabled, the Displaced

Avital Rom (University of Cambridge) He Jianjun 何建軍 (University of Kentucky)

July 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Exploring Disability and Bodily Impairments in Early Chinese History: Methods, Topics, and Questions 早期中國史中的殘疾與肢體損傷:方法、議題、與問題 Avital Rom 艾葦婷 University of Cambridge 劍橋大學 Physiognomy and the Reduplication of the Imperial Body in Han Historical Texts 相術與漢代歷史文本中的帝王身體複製 Jianjun He 何建軍 University of Kentucky 肯塔基大學 Discussan…

Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges

Prof Bojan Bugarič Professor of Law, University of Sheffield Former Deputy Interior Minister of Slovenia Prof Jacques Rupnik Research Professor, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris Former Advisor to Czech President V. Havel and to the European Commission Dr Lance Liangping Gore Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Visiting Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, and Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Harvard Kennedy School

July 28, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

In the 1980s, governing systems of Eastern Europe were in a state of turmoil. Few people trusted political leaders or regimes’ ideologies. Large, little-changed bureaucracies were unable to cope with growing pressure for social and economic improvement. By the late 1980s, widespread protests shook political systems acr…

What is China’s Maritime Power?

Edward Sing Yue Chan

July 28, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

It has been a decade since 2012 when China has set the national goal of ‘constructing a strong maritime state’ (建设海洋强国). However, the government has introduced all-encompassing maritime policies, claiming that they all play a part in the building of maritime power. Therefore, it is still unclear to us of what China’s m…

EMERGING STRATEGIC CONTESTATION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

About the Speakers Ambassador Yogendra Kumar retired from diplomatic service in 2012 in the rank of secretary, equivalent to vice minister, in the government of India. He has been ambassador to the Philippines, with concurrent accreditation to Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Earlier, he was head of the Indian mission in Namibia and in Tajikistan (2000–03), during which period he also handled India’s policy towards Afghanistan. He has also been Consul General in Tashkent covering the entire Soviet Central Asia. He has served in the Indian diplomatic missions in Moscow, London, Islamabad and Brussels. In Delhi, he has served on the faculty of National Defence College. At the foreign office, he has handled relations with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Soviet Union, Central Asian countries and with numerous multilateral economic organisations. He has most recently authored, a book titled, 'Diplomatic Dimension of Maritime Challenges for India in the 21st Century', and a book titled, 'Whither Indian Ocean Maritime Order?' Vice Admiral Anil Chopra has been a Distinguished Fellow with a number of think-tanks, including the Observer Research Foundation, Gateway House, Vivekananda International Foundation, and Delhi Policy Group. He is a former Commander-in-Chief of both the operational commands of the Indian Navy i.e., the Western Naval Command, and the Eastern Naval Command; as well as a former Director General of the Indian Coast Guard. He has also commanded the Western Fleet, and the aircraft carrier, INS Viraat. As Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Policy and Plans), and earlier as Principal Director Naval Plans, he was extensively associated with the Navy’s Long-Term Force Structure and Financial Planning. As member of the apex Defence Acquisition Council for three years, he was involved with the ongoing evolution of the Defence Procurement Procedure. He has also been a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the U.S. in Washington D.C. Admiral Chopra retired in 2015, after forty years of distinguished service. Dr. Pragya Pandey is a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), Sapru House, New Delhi. She specialises in issues related to maritime security, Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific and regional geopolitics. She has written extensively on these issues. Earlier, Dr Pandey was Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has received her PhD from the Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has co-edited volumes titled ‘Roads, Winds, Spices in the Western Indian Ocean: The Memory and Geopolitics of Maritime Heritage’, ‘KM Panikkar and the Growth of a Maritime Consciousness in India’, and ‘1982 UNCLOS Perspectives from the Indian Ocean’. She has presented papers at various national and international conferences and dialogues and has considerable publication to her credit.

July 26, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC

In recent times, the South Pacific has emerged as a new arena for strategic contestation. Great powers like the U.S. and China are now jostling for influence in a region traditionally dominated by regional players like Australia and New Zealand. The region, which includes 14 sovereign nations, and seven territories, li…

Legacy and Impact of Shinzo Abe

About the Speakers Chiharu Takenaka is former professor of International Politics at Graduate School and College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. She served as President for the Japan Association for Asian Studies in 2013-2015 and the Peace Studies Association of Japan in 2019-2021. Currently, she is a trustee of the International House of Japan and a director of the Japan-India Association. Her writings cover the fields of International Politics and South Asian Studies, including Why are there always Fights in the World? To Untie the Chain of Violence (Tokyo, 2004, in Japanese and Korean), The Bandit History of India: Empire, the State and Outlaws (Tokyo, 2010, in Japanese), awarded the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2011, and Gandhi, a Man Spinning Peace (Tokyo, 2018, in Japanese). She translated the earlier works of Subaltern Studies in Subaltern History: Deconstructing Indian History (Tokyo, 1998, in Japanese). Rohan Mukherjee is an incoming Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions, is forthcoming in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series at Cambridge University Press. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. About the Chair Deepa Wadhwa has been a distinguished career diplomat who joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1979 and retired in December 2015.She has served as Ambassador of India to Japan (2012-2015), Qatar (2009-2012) and Sweden (2005-2009). During her career, she has also held other significant assignments in China, Geneva, The Netherlands, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Ministry of External Affairs. Ms Wadhwa is currently Chairperson of the India- Japan Friendship Forum, Member, Governing Council of the Institute of Chinese Studies and is on the Governing Council of the Asian Confluence, based in Shillong.

July 24, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC

Abstract Shinzo Abe was a towering figure in Japanese politics, leaving his imprint on virtually all aspects of national life and policy. As an ardent nationalist with a whip of leadership, however, his advocacy of political agenda often challenged and split the public opinion such as revision of the Japanese Constitut…

再论中国现代化进程与全球化

主讲人: 文贯中 中国社会科学院英语翻译,复旦大学世界经济硕士,芝加哥大学经济学博士,长期任职于美国三一学院经济系,现为该校荣休教授,曾任上财高研院特聘教授,留美经济学会会长 (1999-2000),担任过几家英,中文经济学期刊的共同主编或编委。 评议人: 张欣 美国托列多大学经济学荣体教授和前亚洲研究所所长。第五届中国留美经济学会会长1996—2004代英文中国经济研究权威期刊China Economic Review的共同主编。曾在世界银行,哈佛大学,波兰华沙大学,香港中文大学经济系工作、访问和讲学。 主持人: 刘亚伟 美国卡特中心中国事务高级顾问,中美印象网站主编,美国外交学会会员,亚特兰大中国研究中心副主任和埃默里大学政治学系的兼职教授。

July 24, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

中国内地媒体曾就全球化前景和中国改革窗口期对文贯中作过一次采访。两年后的今天,文贯中愿借沙龙的平台,进一步闸述自己的想法。首先会讨论超级全球化究竟是否可能?经济全球化是否有良、恶之分?在价值观不相容的经济体之间,全球化是否一定会倒退到阵营化和区域化? 市场经济的本质特征是什么?良性全球化的必要条件又是什么?要素市场为何在中国或者迟迟无法发育(土地市场),或者严重扭曲(资本市场和劳动市场),或者与世界严重切割(信息要素)?这是否必然使政府在配置要素中起了决定性的作用?这种国家主义的中国模式与WTO的初衷和愿景相洽吗?中国是最近这轮全球化的最大受益国。全球化倒退后,中国快速现代化进程必然严重受阻。中国应严肃对待要素市场发育受阻的现状,尽…

再论中国现代化进程与全球化

主讲人: 文贯中 中国社会科学院英语翻译,复旦大学世界经济硕士,芝加哥大学经济学博士,长期任职于美国三一学院经济系,现为该校荣休教授,曾任上财高研院特聘教授,留美经济学会会长 (1999-20),担任过几家英,中文经济学期刊的共同主编或编委。 评议人: 张欣 美国托列多大学经济学荣体教授和前亚洲研究所所长。第五届中国留美经济学会会长1996—2004代英文中国经济研究权威期刊China Economic Review的共同主编。曾在世界银行,哈佛大学,波兰华沙大学,香港中文大学经济系工作、访问和讲学。 主持人: 刘亚伟 美国卡特中心中国事务高级顾问,中美印象网站主编,美国外交学会会员,亚特兰大中国研究中心副主任和埃默里大学政治学系的兼职教授。

July 24, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

中国内地媒体曾就全球化前景和中国改革窗口期对文贯中作过一次采访。两年后的今天,文贯中愿借沙龙的平台,进一步闸述自己的想法。首先会讨论超级全球化究竟是否可能?经济全球化是否有良、恶之分?在价值观不相容的经济体之间,全球化是否一定会倒退到阵营化和区域化? 市场经济的本质特征是什么?良性全球化的必要条件又是什么?要素市场为何在中国或者迟迟无法发育(土地市场),或者严重扭曲(资本市场和劳动市场),或者与世界严重切割(信息要素)?这是否必然使政府在配置要素中起了决定性的作用?这种国家主义的中国模式与WTO的初衷和愿景相洽吗?中国是最近这轮全球化的最大受益国。全球化倒退后,中国快速现代化进程必然严重受阻。中国应严肃对待要素市场发育受阻的现状,尽…

特備工作坊:盛世之後

賴佩暄(國立中山大學) 陳煒舜(香港中文大學) 呂家慧(香港城市大學) 討論人:楊治宜(法蘭克福大學)

July 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

發表人: 賴佩暄(國立中山大學):小說中國,危言盛世 陳煒舜(香港中文大學):風月繁華記盛時,欲將寶鑑警頑癡――吳世昌《紅樓》題詠論略 呂家慧(香港城市大學):符瑞與唐玄宗時代的盛世敍事 討論人:楊治宜(法蘭克福大學) 主持人:林凌瀚(加州大學柏克萊校區) 如欲出席是次工作坊,請到這裡註冊。

The Politics of China's Demographic Challenge

About the Speaker Carl Minzner is senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also a professor at Fordham Law School, specializing in Chinese politics and law. He is the author of End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival Is Undermining Its Rise (Oxford University Press, 2018). Minzner has published numerous articles on Chinese politics and governance in academic publications including China Quarterly, Asia Policy, American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Democracy, China Leadership Monitor, as well as opinion pieces in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor, among others. He received a BA in international relations from Stanford University, an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and a JD from Columbia Law School. He is a member of the California bar. About the Discussant Partha Mukhopadhyay is Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research since 2006. He was previously part of the founding team at the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), focusing on private participation in infrastructure. In previous positions, he has been with the Export-Import Bank of India, and with the World Bank in Washington. He has published extensively, frequently writes for the national media and has also been associated with a number of government committees. Most recently, he was chair of the Working Group on Migration, Government of India and member of the High-Level Railway Restructuring Committee, Ministry of Railways and of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. He received his PhD in economics from New York University and an MA and M.Phil from the Delhi School of Economics. About the Chair Patricia Uberoi is currently an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. She served as the Chairperson of the Institute of Chinese Studies from 2015-2021. A sociologist by training, Uberoi has taught Sociology at the University of Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and retired as Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research interests centre on aspects of family, kinship, gender, popular culture and social policy in respect to both India and China.

July 20, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

Abstract As with the rest of East Asia, China faces a massive demographic challenge. The contours are well known. Once young, China is growing old. Fast. The working age population peaked in the early 2010s and will continually decline from here on out. China’s total population could start to decline as early as next y…

半导体产业的全球化分工、价值链竞争及其在中国的前景

主讲人: 张军 加拿大多伦多大学地理和规划系副教授。美国明尼苏达大学地理系博士。主要研究领域为经济地理学、城市与区域经济发展、比较政治和制度经济学、全球化背景中的产业创新和演化等。 评议人: 杨春 香港浸会大学地理系教授,社会科学院副院长(研究),曾任哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心访问学者(2008年),主要研究全球化与中国、特别是珠三角和粤港澳大湾区的城市与区域发展。 主持人: 刘明兴 教授、博士生导师,现任北京大学中国教育财政科学研究所常务副所长,主要研究领域为发展经济学和政治经济学研究。出版Revolutionary Legacy, Power Structure, and Grassroots Capitalism under the Red Flag in China等多部学术著作。

July 16, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

半导体已经成为全球经济最重要的战略性支柱产业和国际竞争的焦点,也是中美冲突的核心。主讲人试图从产业时空演化和价值链竞争的角度,梳理半导体产业的发展历程和现状。就理论而言,讲座将从分工理论、创新理论、全球价值链理论、市场与政府的关系理论以及地缘政治的综合视角去解析半导体产业时空演化的本质。就实证而言,讲座将从两个主要视角来审视中国大陆半导体产业发展的过去、现在和未来:1)半导体产业在美国、日本、韩国、台湾四大领先经济体发展过程中的起伏涨落与经验教训;2)国际环境从开放合作转向封闭冲突对分工和竞争的影响。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

士之自覺:《國史大綱》與現代中國的知識分子論(重返《國史大綱》系列講座)

徐兆安(中央研究院近代史研究所) Shiuon Chu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

July 16, 2022 at 6:30 AM UTC

今日台灣的讀者,絕對有充分的理由不喜歡《國史大綱》這本書。不論是對於中國文化傳統保持溫情敬意的主張,或是中國在歷史上長期和平而統一的想像,都與台灣當下的處境格格不入。 但無論是對《國史大綱》作批評或辯護,都不應該忽略一點:錢賓四當初設想的讀者,並不是如今身在台灣的我們。錢賓四寫《國史大綱》時值抗日戰爭,動機在於對探索中國民族的出路。此外,中國大陸寫這本書時的錢賓四,與後來寓居台灣的錢賓四,思想立場也有著微妙而關鍵的差異。 今天重讀《國史大綱》,我會把重點放在兩方面。首先是錢賓四在歷史與思想,事實與價值之間的種種曲折間,找尋民族出路的思考過程。同時,我更注意錢賓四作為挑戰者的氣魄。對於清末至抗戰間所累積的多種主流概念,錢賓四都以一夫當…

South Korea's Foreign Policy under the Yoon Suk-yeol Administration

Sang Hyun Lee is a senior research fellow at the Sejong Institute in Korea. He also serves as President of the Korea Nuclear Policy Society (KNPS). He has been policy advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Unification, and Ministry of National Defense. He has served as Director-General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) from May 2011 to April 2013. He has been a visiting scholar at Institute for Development and Security (ISDP) in Stockholm, Sweden, and Stimson Center in Washington DC. Lee's main research interests include international politics and security, Korea-U.S. relations, inter-Korean relations, nuclear security and non-proliferation, and East Asian security issues. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. Sandip Mishra is associate professor at Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Mishra has been Visiting Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum, Institute for Far East Studies, Kyungnam University, Sejong Institute, Northeast Asia History Foundation, and Korean Institute for International Economic Policy. He has published several articles in Indian and Korean academic journals along with book chapters and contributed opinion articles to Indian and Korean newspapers such as Korea Times, Indian Express, Financial Express, Pioneer, and Statesman. He completed his Master degree in International Politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the same university. He has studied Korean Language at Yonsei University and Sogang University. Angana Guha Roy is a research associate at Delhi Policy Group. Her research interests pertain to various dimensions of International Relations theory, Indian Foreign Policy, Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region, and Conventional and Non- Conventional Threats. She completed her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. Her Ph.D. thesis dealt with " South Korea's New Asia Initiative: Search for Regional Power Status''. In 2013, she received the Shinan Bank Dream Foundation Scholarship from Shinan Bank. She has published research papers and articles and has presented papers in various national and international conferences in India and abroad. About the Chair Skand Ranjan Tayal is Adjunct Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies. He was Ambassador of India to the Republic of Korea during 2008-11. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976 and served in Indian Missions in Sofia, Warsaw, Geneva and Moscow. He was India’s Consul General in Johannesburg (1996-98) and Houston (2002-05), and Ambassador of India to Uzbekistan (2005-08). He has wide experience in both bilateral and multilateral diplomacy and has been a frequent speaker on contemporary affairs. He regularly writes for academic journals. He has authored a book India and Republic of Korea: Engaged Democracies (2013). Tayal is a graduate of Allahabad University and has a postgraduate degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

July 13, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

Abstract In a closely contested presidential election in South Korea, Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition party got elected and took charge of 13th President of South Korea on 10 May 2022. Prior to his sudden entry into politics, he was Prosecutor General of South Korea and his experience in politics is quite limited.…

‘Follow the Surplus: drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese entrepreneurial migration to South Africa and highlighting what these practices mean to ordinary Chinese and African actors’

Mingwei Huang (Assistant Professor Dartmouth College, United States)

July 12, 2022 at 10:30 AM UTC

In the China, Europe and the changing global order webinar series, graduate students and early career scholars present their work in conjunction with our REDEFINE project at the Open University, University of York, and CHERN. In the second ‘China, Europe and the changing global order’ webinar, Mingwei Huang (Assistant…

Global Lives of Medicines: Materials, Markets, and Healing Practices Across Asia

Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano (University of Pennsylvania) Ruth Yun-ju Chen (Academia Sinica) Hsiao-wen Cheng (University of Pennsylvania) Mengliu Cheng (University of Pennsylvania) John DiMoia (National Seoul University) James Flowers (Kyung Hee University) Shireen Hamza (Harvard University) Bryce Heatherly (University of Pennsylvania) Nikita Kuzmin (University of Pennsylvania) Yan Liu (SUNY Buffalo) Benedetta Lomi (University of Bristol) Andrew Macomber (Oberlin College) Wee-Siang Margaret Ng (College of Wooster) Amanda Respess (Ohio State University) Joshua Schlachet (University of Arizona) Jing Sun (University of Pennsylvania) Akif Yerlioglu (Bosphorus University) Meng Zhang (Vanderbilt University)

July 11, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

“Global Lives of Medicines” is a collective project on the cross-cultural exchange of medicines and the ways in which global trade networks and local healing practices intertwined across Asia and with other parts of the world. We argue for a renewed attention to the roles that materiality and bodily experience play in…

明治轉型與德川思想:經驗與史訓

主讲人: 吕玉新 (美)圣约翰大学文理学院客座教授。圣约翰大学近代世界史博士。曾任教于日本茨城大学、日本国立国语研究所(研究员)等。著有《古代东亚政治环境中天皇与日本国的产生》《政体、文明、族群之辨:德川日本思想史》等。 评议人: 陈浩武 文化学者,经济学博士,长江证券公司创始人,原北京大学光华管理学院研究员,石门坎教育公益基金会理事长。 评议人: 荣剑 中国独立学者,公共知识分子,1980年代著有《民主论》 等专著,以及学术论文近百篇。2019年出版《山重水复的中国——荣剑演讲及对话录》(香港),2020年出版《新盛世危言——荣剑时政评论录》(纽约)。 主持人: 冯玮 复旦大学历史学系教授、日本研究中心研究员,博士。历任日本神奈川大学客座研究员、庆应大学客座教授等。撰有《日本通史》《日本经济体制的经济变迁》 《日本外交简史:锁国·扩张·依附》等十余本专著。

July 9, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

今日日本,无实权却是凝聚国民的政治象征天皇,地方行政分治,终身雇佣的大家庭团体意识,等级習俗的烙印,19世纪实现产业革命的第一个非西方国家,富国强兵走上军国主义,国家神道,极端民族主义……..诸此,都和德川日本思想传统有关。 德川思想的发展经历了什么样的过程?有什么重要史鉴?讲座人借广视角对原始文献挖掘,推翻了水户学创建人德川光圀与朱舜水的忠极权君定论,并通过论证朱舜水的在日活动否定了学界与理论界一直认定的、如丸山真男所论证的德川思想因其内在理性生变明治转型得以成功说,也旁证了世界变局大环境给明末和德川带来的外因影响。講座人的文明不以地緣、“邊緣文明可中心”之說,体现了主讲人横跨东西,具有宽阔的文明史、文明论視野。

A book presentation: Friendship and Hospitality---The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China.

Author: XU Dongfeng (Colgate) Discussant: Haun Saussy (U. of Chicago) Chair: Edward L. Shaughnessy (U. of Chicago)

July 8, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

A book presentation for-- Friendship and Hospitality The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China https://sunypress.edu/Books/F/Friendship-and-Hospitality2

The Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy and Its Implications for the Region

Zhiqun Zhu, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Bucknell University

July 7, 2022 at 7:00 AM UTC

The Biden administration’s policy toward the Indo-Pacific region is taking shape now, with the release of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, Biden’s launching of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework on May 23, and the much anticipated China speech by Secretary of State Blinken on May 26. The Indo-Pacific strate…

Caught between Empires: Democracy and Nation State Formation in Taiwan

Dr Rwei-ren Wu (吳叡人)

June 30, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

The webinar is supported by Macquarie University in memory of Prof Chwei-Liang Chiou AM (1938-2021). In this lecture, Dr Rwei-ren Wu (吳叡人), Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Taiwan History in Academia Sinica (Taiwan), will deliver a talk entitled “Caught between Empires: Democracy and Nation-State Formation…

4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies

Bill Lavely James Lin Hsin-huang Michael Hsiao Sheng-mei Ma Ming-yeh Rawnsley Ann Heylen Naiyi Hsiao Jeffery Hou Ming-sho Ho Richard Boyechko Chih-Jou Jay Chen Michelle Fei-Yu Hsieh Jieh-Min Wu Fu-Chang Wang Ekhong Ljavakaw Sia Lung-Chih Chang Wen-Chin Wu Evelyn Shih Hsin-Chin Hsieh Ting-Fai Yu Yen-Pin Su Derek Sheridan Yu-Yueh Tsai Yi-Cheng Hsieh Frank Muayrd Isabelle Cheng Adam K. Dedman Howard Chiang Hsunhui Tseng

June 27, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

The University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program will host the 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies from June 27 to 29, 2022. All three days of the conference will be livestreamed on our Facebook and YouTube pages. To join us online, please register at the WCTS website. Registration to view the livestream is free an…

Writing and Beyond: Text, Performance, and Living Practices

Hajni Elias (University of Cambridge) Maddalena Poli (University of Pennsylvania) Huang Ruxuan 黃儒宣 (Academia Sinica) Discussant: Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill University)

June 24, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Abstracts coming up soon on https://www.philologyinourtime.org/?page_id=530

The Tsinghua *Xinian and the Tomb-Text of the Zhushu jinian(2022/6/24)

Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, Advisory Board Member of the Hong Kong Baptist University Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology

June 24, 2022 at 8:00 AM UTC

The HKBU Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology is honoured to form a partnership with the Institute of Oriental Studies (IOS), Russian Academy of Sciences and devise a five-year plan together, to forge a stronger bond between the two institutions, and by extension the two sinological communities, in terms of teaching and res…

Bearing Witness: Narrative Journalism and Human Rights in Xinjiang, China

Ben Mauk, Journalist, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Grantee Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College, University of Chicago

June 23, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

One duty of journalism is to hold powerful actors to account by bearing witness to their mistreatment of vulnerable populations. Firsthand eyewitness testimony is a special form of evidence that can be brought to bear on these efforts. Eyewitness accounts are inherently limited -- accounts are subjective, memories are…

The “New” and “Old” in Xi Jinping as a Chinese Leader

Joseph Torigian, American University in Washington

June 23, 2022 at 7:30 AM UTC

Xi Jinping is often described as a fundamentally new kind of leader in Chinese politics – one who has ended a tradition of collective leadership and returned to a Maoist ideological agenda. While those two conventional views have some truth to them, they do not fully grasp the complexities of Chinese elite politics or…

Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China

William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University

June 22, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

Will China surpass the United States as the world’s leader in higher education? William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, will discuss this question in a conversation about his new book, Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern Univ…

‘Intelligentization’ in the People’s Liberation Army | 22nd June at 3:00 PM IST

About the Speaker KK Venkatraman is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. He was commissioned in the Indian Army in 1997 and has served extensively in the Northern and Eastern theatres. He holds a Masters in Defence & Strategic Studies from University of Madras and an MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from Punjabi University, Patiala. His MPhil dissertation was titled, ‘International Dynamics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: An Analytical Study’. His interest areas are PLA, Security Studies and Emerging Technologies.. He can be reached at kk.venkatraman@gmail.com. About the Discussant Megha Pardhi is a Research Analyst (China Studies) at The Takshashila Institution. Her research focuses on China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the role of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Quantum Computing in the military. She writes a weekly newsletter, China Tech Dispatch, following discourse on emerging technologies in PLA and other science and technology-related developments in China. She has a Master’s degree in Politics and International Relations from JNU, Delhi, and a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. Her writing has been previously published by South China Morning Post (SCMP), The Diplomat, Firstpost, Deccan Herald, Hindustan Times, ORF, and ICS, among others. About the Chair Lt. Gen. SL Narasimhan, PVSM, AVSM*, VSM is an Infantry Officer commissioned in 1977. He has done graduation in Mathematics, Post-Graduation in Defence Studies and PhD in India China Relations. He has been awarded four times for his outstanding contribution to the Indian Army by the President of India. He served as the Defence Attaché in the Embassy of India in China for three years. He is qualified in Chinese language and has been a keen observer of China for the past 18 years. His expertise spans international relations and internal issues, economy and defence related subjects of China. He has taken part in many Track 2 dialogues both in India and abroad. Lt. Gen. SL Narasimhan has authored many articles in various journals and magazines. He is, presently, Member of the National Security Advisory Board, India and Director General, Centre for Contemporary China Studies. He is also a Distinguished Fellow with Centre for Air Power Studies, India.

June 22, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

Abstract China has set as a goal for the People’s Liberation Army to become a world class military power by mid-21st century. Towards this, China changed its military strategic guideline (军事战 略方针) to ‘winning informatized local wars’ (打赢信 息化局部战争) in 2014 and further revised it to ‘Military Strategic Guidelines for the…

Turning Within: Psychoanalysis and Buddhism for Times of Turmoil

Gelong Thubten: Meditation and Hard Times – The Power of Transformation Mark Epstein: Real Healing: How Buddhism and Psychoanalysis Can Help Each Other (And Us) in These Times of Turmoil Chaired by the Freud Museum's Education & Outreach Manager, Emilia Raczkowska

June 19, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

An online event with Buddhist Monk, Gelong Thubten and Psychotherapist, Mark Epstein. 5.30pm - 7.30pm British Summer Time Celebrated Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author Gelong Thubten and acclaimed clinician and author Mark Epstein who integrates Freud and Buddha in his practice will meet to explore the astoni…

两个“上帝”的比较:《圣经》及中国先秦文献中两个“上帝”的比较

主讲人: 杨鹏 文化学者,研究领域为中国传统文化与犹太-基督教比较研究。掌上国学院创办人。哈佛大学亚洲中心访问研究员 (2014-2016)。著有《上帝在中国源流考》《天生德:杨鹏解读论语》《杨鹏解读道德经》DAO DE JING(美国出版)等九本著作。 评议人: 何光沪 中国人民大学宗教学系教授,中国社会科学院哲学博士,1997-1998年在哈佛大学任访问学者。主要从事宗教学、宗教哲学、基皙教神学等领域的研究。著有《百川归海:走向全球宗教哲学》《天人之际》等。 主持人: 黄保罗 赫尔辛基大学哲学与神学双博士,东京大学东洋文化研究所博士后,上海大学博导,马丁•路德翻译和研究专家。著有《与儒家对基督教救赎教义的理解相遇——儒基对话基本问题的系统神学分析》《汉语字术神学——作为学科体系的基督教研究》等。

June 19, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

《圣经》至上神“上帝”与中国先秦文献中至上神“上帝”的比较研究,这是明末清初基督教与中国传统文化相遇时开始展开的神学比较研究题目。 中国商朝甲骨文中,有至上神“上帝”的概念。西周继承“上帝”概念并加以改造发展,与至上神:“天”、“上天”、“昊天”概念并列或混用,如“皇天上帝”、“昊天上帝”等,由此确立中国先秦至上神“上帝”“天”的祭祀信仰传统。 明末清初耶稣会士利玛窦等人入华传教,认为中国先秦文献中的“上帝”概念可以翻译《圣经》中的至上神耶和华,“上帝”逐渐在中国语汇中成为基督教至上神概念。本讲座将对两个“上帝"进行细致分析,总结出两者的异同。

JAS Archaeology Talks: Anhui University Bamboo Strips (2022/6/17-24)

徐在國教授 Prof. Xu Zaiguo 程燕教授Prof. Cheng Yan

June 17, 2022 at 4:00 AM UTC

Revered as the “national treasure”, the Warring States bamboo slips are one of the rare manuscripts from the pre-Qin period. Acquired in 2015, Anhui University's collection of the Warring States bamboo strips mainly consists of Shijing 詩經 (Book of Odes), history of the ancient state of Chu 楚, Confucian quotations and C…

The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World: Geo-Political Challenges Facing ASEAN

Professor José E. Alvarez, Faculty Director at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, Professor at NYU School of Law Ambassador Bilahari Kausikan, Chairman of the Middle East Institute Professor Peter Dutton, Interim Dean Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College Professor Kiichi Fujiwura, International Politics department; Director of Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo Ms Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center

June 16, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World Joint Virtual Symposium 2022 US-Asia Law Institute, NYU and Centre for International Law, NUS SESSION 2: Geo-Political Challenges Facing ASEAN Register for this event Thursday, June 16 2022, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET Throughout its history, ASEAN has…

'China’s Strategic Shift and Sino-EU Relations in Global Governance: The Quest for Identity?'

Jilong Yang, PhD at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

June 16, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

China, Europe and the changing global order Webinar series featuring graduate students and early career scholars About this event China’s emergence and growing footprint across the world has spawned much debate on its implications for the global order. To analyse these debates and illuminate the underlying issues, Open…

Digital Chinese Diaspora: The Emergence of a New Transnational Subject - CHERN DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON GLOBAL CHINA

Professor Wanning Sun

June 16, 2022 at 9:00 AM UTC

Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is currently a member of the College of Experts (2020-2022) of the Australian Research Council. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she has worked in the area of cultural anthrop…

Sino-Russian Relations in Historic Context: Ideology, Agency and Interests

Joseph Torigian, American University in Washington

June 16, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC

Sino-Russian relations have always had a deep impact on both countries, and the rise and fall of their alliance during the Cold War even significantly shaped the history of Xi’s own family. In this talk, Professor Joseph Torigian will compare that earlier era of the relationship to the present day across three issue ar…

Wednesday Seminar | Book Discussion: How China Sees India and the World written by Amb. Shyam Saran

About the Speaker Shyam Saran is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a prestigious think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently Life Trustee of India International Centre, Member of the Governing Council/Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies and Centre for Policy Research, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India) and Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). About the Discussant Alka Acharya is a professor at the Centre for East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She was the Director and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies. She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012). She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008. Her current research focuses on India-China-Russia Trilateral Cooperation and the Chinese strategic response to the post-cold war regional architecture, with special reference to China’s neighborhood. About the Chair Ashok K. Kantha has been the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies since 2017. A career diplomat, Kantha was Ambassador of India to China until January 2016. Prior to this, he was Secretary (East) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, with responsibility for about 65 countries in India’s extended neighbourhood. His previous assignments include High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka and Malaysia, Consul General in Hong Kong, Deputy Chief of Mission in Kathmandu (Nepal), and Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the Ministry of External Affairs. Earlier, Kantha served in different capacities at Indian Missions in Singapore, China and the USA, and at headquarters in New Delhi. In his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, Kantha specialized in Asian affairs, with a particular focus on China.

June 15, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

In this magisterial book, acclaimed diplomat Shyam Saran writes the authoritative account of the India–China relationship and how China perceives our country. Saran starts his story with the rise and fall of Buddhism and its spread through the trade routes that connected India to China and China to Europe through Centr…

Book Talk: China-Russia Strategic Alignment in International Politics

Alexander Korolev

June 15, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

This is a hybrid event. How closely aligned are China and Russia? Why won’t China condemn Putin’s Ukraine war? How to define and measure strategic alignments between states? This book talk for China-Russia Strategic Alignment in International Politics (Amsterdam University Press, 2022) bridges area studies and Internat…

The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World: Economic Challenges Facing ASEAN

Professor Joseph Weiler, Leading Co-Director, ASEAN ITL Research Project at CIL Elizabeth Chelliah, Principal Trade Specialist, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore Dr Deborah Elms, Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Trade Centre, President of the Asia Business Trade Association Professor Wang Jiangyu, Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law, City University of Hong Kong

June 15, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

The ASEAN, China, USA Triangle: Navigating in a Post-Ukraine/Russia World Joint Virtual Symposium 2022 US-Asia Law Institute, NYU and Centre for International Law, NUS SESSION 1: Economic Challenges Facing ASEAN Register for this event Tuesday, June 14, 2022 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM ET Trade has for some time been recognized…

Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent

Dr. Jason Kelly (U.S. Naval War College)

June 10, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

China today seems caught in a contradiction: a capitalist state led by a Communist party. But as Jason Kelly shows in Market Maoists, this seeming paradox is nothing new. Since the 1930s, before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, Communist traders and diplomats have sought deals with capitalists in an effort to…

Wednesday Seminar | Economic and Political Crises in Sri Lanka: Role of India and China

Michael Kugelman, the Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center, is a leading specialist on Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan and their relations with the United States. The editor or co-editor of 11 books, he has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and other publications, covering topics ranging from U.S. policy in Afghanistan to terrorism to water, energy, and food security in the region. Chulanee Attanayake is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Her research focus is on China and its policies in South Asia. She is one of the few Sri Lankans who focus on this research area. Dr Attanayake’s book China in Sri Lanka, a comprehensive analysis of Sino-Sri Lankan bilateral relations was published in 2013. Deep Pal is a visiting scholar in the Asia program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) as a non-resident fellow. His research and publications focus on the Indo-Pacific, Indian foreign policy in its immediate and greater neighbourhood, and regional security of South Asia, with particular emphasis on China. He is currently working on a project that investigates the nature and influence of Chinese involvement in South Asian states; his other research project involves understanding the relationships between violence and public goods in India’s border districts. About the Chair Ashok K. Kantha has been the Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies since 2017. A career diplomat, Kantha was Ambassador of India to China until January 2016. Prior to this, he was Secretary (East) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, with responsibility for about 65 countries in India’s extended neighbourhood. His previous assignments include High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka and Malaysia, Consul General in Hong Kong, Deputy Chief of Mission in Kathmandu (Nepal), and Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the Ministry of External Affairs. Earlier, Kantha served in different capacities at Indian Missions in Singapore, China and the USA, and at headquarters in New Delhi. In his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, Kantha specialized in Asian affairs, with a particular focus on China.

June 8, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

Abstract Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, which has left the country unable to buy enough fuel, with people facing an acute scarcity of food and basic necessities. The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka have rallied against a downward spiralling economy that has exhausted Sri Lanka…

Online Research in China in a Time of No Access: Methods, Techniques and Tips

Professor Angela Xiao Wu (New York University); Professor Samantha Hoffmann (Australian Strategic Policy Institute);Professor Christian Göbel (University of Vienna)

June 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

Online panel with: Professor Angela Xiao Wu (New York University): ‘Digital Media as Intelligence (?)’ Professor Samantha Hoffmann (Australian Strategic Policy Institute): ‘Producing Policy-relevant China Research and Analysis in an Era of Strategic Competition’ Professor Christian Göbel (University of Vienna): ‘Resear…

The West, China and 'Systemic Rivalry' – Coalitions and Counter-coalitions

Andrew Small (The German Marshall Fund of the United States - GMF)

June 8, 2022 at 9:00 AM UTC

Recent years have seen intensifying US coalition-building efforts among partners and allies to address common concerns about the People’s Republic of China. This has moved beyond classic military balancing in Asia to focus on the economic, technological and ideological dimensions of competition and rivalry with China,…

Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program

Bradley Parks is the executive director of AidData, a research lab at William and Mary. Prior to joining AidData, Dr. Parks was part of the initial team that set up the U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Dr. Parks is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, ​Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He co-chairs the Hoover Institution’s programs on China’s Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region. Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University. For the past 30 years, he has worked on the economics of poverty. His work on poverty has its focuses on human capital, including issues of rural health, nutrition, and education. Dr. Rozelle has received numerous honors and awards. Among them, in 2008 he was awarded the Chinese Government's Friendship Award. Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power and works closely with government and civil society partners to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. Most recently, he co-authored and edited Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk in the Research Enterprise (2020).

June 7, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

Is China a “rogue donor” that uses its largesse to prop up corrupt and authoritarian regimes? Does Beijing bankroll politically motivated and economically inefficient ‘‘white elephants”? What are the risks of borrowing from Beijing? The existing debate about China’s overseas lending and grant-giving activities is large…

Beyond Heteronormativity? Intimacy and Intersectionality of Lesbians and Gay Men in Post-Reform China

Professor Susanne Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

June 6, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

Following the growing cultural visibility of sexual minorities, there has been a proliferation of research on LGBT lives, particularly those related to their identity, marriage, family and activism. However, limited research about their intimate/sexual lives beyond a public health perspective has been conducted. Based…

Consulting in China: A Mutual Exploration of Similarity, Difference, and Synergy

王媛 Yuan Wang 罗晶晶 Luo Jingjing 吴玺 Wu Xi 邹雨辰 Zou Yuchen David Morgan Psychoanalyst BPAS BPA BPF Chaired by: Jan Harvie Clark

June 5, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Half-day conference exploring psychoanalysis in China 9.00am - 12.00pm, British Summer Time or 5.00pm - 8.00pm Shanghai Ticket holders will receive access to the recording (for 1 month) within 7 days of the event. David Morgan has been leading a workshop for the last two years for Chinese psychotherapists interested in…

Hollywood in China

Ying Zhu is professor emeritus at the City University of New York and director of the Center for Film and Moving Image Research in the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds (2019) and Two Billion Eyes: The Story of China Central Television (2013). Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-chairs the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power and works closely with government and civil society partners to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. Most recently, he co-authored and edited Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk in the Research Enterprise (2020).

June 2, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Professor Ying Zhu charts a century of relations between Hollywood and China against the backdrop of shifting U.S.-China dynamics. She teases out competing political and economic interests as well as cultural values that have played out in the art and artifice of filmmaking on a global scale, and with global ramificati…

Fathoming the Changes between Heaven and Earth. Reconsidering the Status of the Book of Changes in Wang Bi’s Philosophy

Dr Raphaël Van Daele (Université Libre de Bruxelles; Academic Visitor, University of Oxford)

June 2, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

The present talk addresses the status of Wang Bi 王弼 (226‒249)’s Commentary on the Book of Changes (Zhouyi Zhu 周易注) in the overall framework of his thought. Apart from a few exceptions, Wang Bi’s thought has been approached through his Commentary on the Laozi (Laozi Zhu 老子注). In this perspective, the two commentaries ar…

Conference: Gender and Buddhist Art: Embodiment, Patronage, and the Sacred

Please refer to the conference program.

June 2, 2022 at 1:30 PM UTC

Welcome to the Collective on Gender, Religion and the Arts of Asia! Our purpose is to facilitate the interchange of ideas across these three disciplines with respect to issues like the visual representation of gender, women and their role in artmaking, and the status of the body in the history of Asian art. To this end…

[Book Talk] Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim, The University of Melbourne

June 2, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

This book talk for Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong (Riverhead Books, Text Publishing 2022) explores a new attempt to craft a history for Hong Kong centring local voices. It describes how the book uses archival research and recently released oral history accounts from the 1980s and 1990s to resto…

The US-China Competition: Who’s Winning?

Edward Steinfeld, Watson Institute director and Dean's Professor of China Studies, Brown University Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University

June 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Register here to join the webinar. Edward Steinfeld is the Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Dean's Professor of China Studies, professor in the Department of Political Science, and director of the China Initiative. Steinfeld received his BA, MA, and PhD…

The Margins of the Human in Medieval China

Sarah M. Allen Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Williams College Lucas Rambo Bender Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University Robert Ford Campany Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University Jack W. Chen Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Virginia Hsiao-wen Cheng Associate Professor of East Asian Religions, University of Pennsylvania Manling Luo Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Alexis Lycas Maître de conférences, École pratique des hautes études (EPHE, PSL) Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO, UMR 8155) Jonathan Pettit Associate Professor of Chinese Religions, University of Hawaii Xiaofei Tian 田曉菲 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Don J. Wyatt John M. McCardell, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Middlebury Colleg Shao-yun Yang Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Denison University Zekun Zhang Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University

June 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

What constitutes being human? What are the boundaries or fuzzy edges of humanity? What can we learn from exploring the margins of humanity? These questions lie at the heart of this symposium, which will bring together twelve scholars across a variety of fields to consider how concepts analogous to our contemporary idea…

Taiwanese at the UN: The Use and Abuse of UN Resolution 2758

Jessica Drun is a Nonresident Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub. She has also held positions in the defense contracting space and the National Bureau of Asian Research. Ms. Drun specializes in cross-Strait relations, Taiwan politics, and U.S.-Taiwan relations and regularly provides commentary on these issues. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Chih-Fu Yeh is a Ph.D. candidate studying microbial community ecology and evolution in the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He was born and raised in Taiwan. In Winter 2020, Chih-Fu applied to an ICTP/UNESCO winter school session on quantitative systems biology and was denied permission to attend the event because of his Taiwanese nationality. Kharis Templeman is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and part of the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific. Templeman is a political scientist (Ph.D. 2012, Michigan) with research interests in Taiwan politics, democratization, elections and election management, party system development, dominant party systems, and politics and security issues in Pacific Asia, among other topics.

May 31, 2022 at 6:30 PM UTC

In 1971, UN Resolution 2758 granted the seat occupied by the Republic of China in the General Assembly and the Security Council to the People's Republic of China (PRC). In recent years, the PRC has attempted to reinterpret this resolution as an endorsement of its "One China Principle," and it has promoted the fallacy t…

AIGCS(Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies) Launch Ceremony

Congratulatory Speech by Prof. Michael A. Szonyi, Director of the Fairbank Center; Prof. David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University; Prof. YUAN Xingpei, Peking University; Professor LIU Yucai, Peking University; Ms. Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press; Mr. Robert Dilworth, Director of Journals Department, Duke University Press

May 31, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

Join Lingnan University in Hong Kong as it celebrates the launch of its Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies (AIGCS). AIGCS’s mission is to foster in-depth scholarly exchanges among institutions and scholars in Chinese studies throughout the world in ways that enhance Lingnan’s international prominence for int…

Reading Metaphors: Approaches, Methodologies, Pitfalls

Speakers: Zhou Boqun 周博群 (University of Hong Kong) Roy Porat (Brown University) Kevin Buckelew (Northwestern University) Discussant: Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge)

May 27, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

This is the fifth event in the online lecture series "Philology in Our Time: The Early China Project Room," hosted by the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. For paper abstracts and registration please click the "Upcoming Events" tab at the provided URL. Inquiries may be emailed t…

Political Demonstration Effects: Authoritarian Informational Statecraft and Public Support for Democracy

Audrye Wong (University of Southern California)

May 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

In this paper (co-authored with Meir Alkon, Fordham University) we develop and test the concept of ‘political demonstration effects’: the idea that information about a foreign country’s regime type and regime performance, whether positive or negative, may influence foreign publics’ attitudes towards democracy in genera…

On Translation: a China Centre Conversation

Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford); Dr Ewan Macdonald (University of Oxford); Professor Nicholas Morrow Williams (Arizona State University); Chair: Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)

May 26, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

In turn a teaching tool, a literary and textual practice, or an object of scholarly enquiry, translation has long occupied a privileged position in the field of sinology and China studies. But what does it mean for scholars today to engage with these different modalities of translation and negotiate a double identity a…

Chinese Legal Thought on the Global Stage

Professor Samuli Seppänen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

May 25, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC

In the past few years Chinese political leaders and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideologues have become outspoken about the global significance of Chinese legal thought. Chinese commentary on the recently launched ‘Xi Jinping thought on the rule of law’ has adopted a particularly ambitious tone. According to CCP ideol…

EU-China in the Wake of the Ukraine Crisis

Noah Barkin, Managing Editor in the China practice at Rhodium Group and Visiting Senior Fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund Gudrun Wacker, Senior Fellow in the Asia Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin, Arun K. Singh has served as the Indian ambassador to the US, Israel, and France, and currently serves as a visiting professor at the Ashoka University.

May 25, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

EU-China ties have been strained in the last few years with ‘systemic rivalry’ becoming the defining prism of the relationship in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, US-China trade war, and closeness between Russia and China. Especially since the war in Ukraine, the EU and the United States have moved closer on tougher p…

Magic Power Reconfigured: Chinese Popular Religion in Cities

Professor Wei-Ping Lin (National Taiwan University)

May 25, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

This talk analyzes how divine magic power is reconfigured in the urban setting. The speaker will discuss how a spirit medium, who moved from the countryside in Taiwan to an urban area, refashioned the elements of village religion to cope with the fast life rhythms of adherents who are scattered across the city and no l…

The changing state of urban environmental governance in China

Alana Boland, University of Toronto

May 25, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

In much of the scholarship on urban environmental governance in China, understanding the logics and effects of state power has been a central concern. Of late, there has been increasing reference to an emergent eco-developmental state to explain the greening of Chinese cities. This framing can risk narrowing our analys…

Sinology in Wartime: A conversation

Dr Yevheniia Hobova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); Professor Olga Lomová (Charles University Prague); Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)

May 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

Dr Yevheniia Hobova is a Fellow at the A. Yu. Krymskiy Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a member of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists. Her research focuses on language policies and strategies, political discourse and Sinophone media analysis. She has published widely on…

Feeling Precarious in China

Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

May 24, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

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…

Sinostan, China's Inadvertent Empire

Rafaello Pantucci, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore + the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London

May 24, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC

Seeking to gain a better understanding of what’s happening on the ground, Raffaello Pantucci and his late co-author, academic, writer and geopolitical energy expert, Alexandros Peterson, set out to track China’s footprint and growing influence across the Central Asian steppe. What they discovered was signs of China eve…

Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media

Dr Michael Masterson, Dartmouth College + Missouri State University

May 20, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Researchers have linked a variety of emotions including anger, hatred, fear and humiliation to intergroup conflict attitudes. National humiliation has particularly come under scrutiny because of its influence on China's and Russia's foreign policies. Do emotional expressions of humiliation cause advocacy of hostile for…

WildChina Book Club: Kingdom Of Characters by Jing Tsu

Jing Tsu (Yale) , Mei Zhang (WildChina)

May 20, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

For our May book club we’re reading Kingdom of Characters in preparation for our chat with the author, Jing Tsu. -- After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive tec…

Building an academic career in sinology

Tom Mullaney, Stanford

May 19, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

Talk by Prof. Mullaney to address building skills in Sinology when entering the job market.

How to understand sincerity and authenticity in premodern Chinese literature, intellectual history and manuscript culture?

Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), Antje Richter (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Christopher Foster (SOAS), chaired by Robert Chard (University of Oxford).

May 19, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Authenticity and sincerity are complex questions with many ramifications depending on the matter in question, be that literary representation, intellectual history, manuscript culture and so on. How, during the Han, did conditions arise for anxieties over textual ‘inauthenticity’ and, in parallel, a space to interrogat…

Book Talk: The Emergence of Global Maoism

Matthew Galway

May 19, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

How did Maoism go global? This book talk for The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979 (Cornell University Press, 2022) explores the link between the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to globalize Maoism and the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by in…

Nashville Qi Chinese Medicine in an American Heartland

Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

May 18, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

This talk explores the terrain of “Oriental Medicine” in a quintessentially American town: Nashville, Tennessee, home of the Grand Ole Opry and a birthplace of country music. The research excavates the origins of acupuncture in Tennessee and traces the personal journeys of practitioners who came to the American South f…

Indo-Pacific Economic Framework: A New Model of Regional Trade Liberalization or One-Time Aberration?

Craig Allen - President, US-China Business Council Satu Limaye - Vice-President, East-West Center Mary Lovely - Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics Denis Simon - Professor of China Business and Technology & Senior Advisor to the President for China Affairs at Duke University

May 18, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Later this May, the Biden administration is expected to unveil the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IEPF) – its signature economic and trade cooperation initiative for the Indo-Pacific region. The four-pillared framework will take the form of an “administrative arrangement” that “will not include new market access comm…

Mapping the Risks of China’s Global Coastal Development to Marine Socio-Ecological Systems

Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University Kevin P. Gallagher, Director, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

May 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Rapid coastal development presents substantial risks to marine habitats, biodiversity and coastal communities dependent upon vital marine ecosystem services. Noting that China is now the world’s largest bilateral creditor of overseas development finance, Blake Alexander Simmons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the De…

China and the Emerging Regional Supply Chain

Prof. Amita Batra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Dr. G. Venkat Raman, Indian Institute of Management, Indore Mr. Santosh Pai, Link Legal

May 18, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

The ongoing trade war between the United States and China and the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the vulnerability of complex global supply chains to ongoing structural changes in the global economy resulting from rising labour costs, automation, protectionism and geopolitical tensions like the Ukraine crisis. Thes…

The Structural Transformation of China’s Real Estate Development Industry

DENG Lan, University of Michigan

May 18, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

China’s real estate development industry has experienced a major transformation in the past two decades, evolving from a small sector dominated by state-owned enterprises to a trillion-dollar industry populated by a large number of private firms. Recent evidence points to a growing concentration among the country’s lar…

The Thinking Heart: Relationships and Mental Health in China

David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff – Empty Heart Disease in China and the West Huan Wang – Integrity or Integration: A Very Chinese Dilemma Elise Snyder – Psychoanalysis and China: Then and Now Hsuan-Ying Huang – Reading Online to Know Your Self

May 15, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

International online symposium. Held as part of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022. 13.00pm - 17.00pm, British Summer Time. Coinciding with the UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 whose theme is ‘loneliness’, this special online symposium will explore the dynamics of inter-personal relationships and intimacies of daily…

The Thinking Heart: Relationships and Mental Health in China

David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff; Huan Wang; Elise Snyder; Hsuan-Ying Huang

May 15, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Coinciding with the UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 whose theme is ‘loneliness’, this special online symposium will explore the dynamics of inter-personal relationships and intimacies of daily life in modern China, as they develop against the breathless pace of the country’s socio-economic changes. Speakers with e…

《永乐北藏》存世本研究

主讲人: 龙达瑞 中国社会科学院研究生院世界宗教系博士,美国哈佛大学世界宗教研究中心访问学者,美国哈佛大学燕京学社访问学者,美国洛杉矶西来大学宗教系教授。主编 Chinese Buddhist Canons in the Age of Printing 《刻印时期的中国佛教大藏经》。 评议人: James Robson 罗柏松 哈佛大学亚洲中心主席/主任,哈佛大学东亚语言文明学系教授,哈佛大学前东亚学主任,斯坦佛大学博士。斯坦福大学行为科学高级研究中心研究员。著有《圣地的力量:在中世纪的南岳衡山的宗教景观》等多本著作。专长:道学、佛学、禅学。 主持人: 依法 美国耶鲁大学宗教博士,哈佛大学访问学者,前西来大学宗教系主任。著作:Origins of Monastic Codes in China《中国寺院清规的起源》。

May 15, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

2009年主讲人获得普林斯顿大学图书馆奖学金,对该图书馆珍藏的《永乐北藏》进行研究。主讲人对《中国古籍总目录》提供的存有《永乐北藏》的图书馆、博物馆和寺院(大约20多处)进行调研,拍照记录芝加哥大学、普林斯顿大学和波兰亚盖隆大学图书馆的藏本,并与国内存世本进行对比分析,增加了对《北藏》的认识。主讲人发现各地存世的《永乐北藏》 各有特色,其题记、牌记、纸张、丝绸裱封、寺院历史等都值得进一步研究。

Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882 – 1955

Dr. Ying Jia Tan (Wesleyan University)

May 13, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882 – 1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare. Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle o…

"The Shanghai Lockdown" with Dali Yang

Dali Yang (University of Chicago) Neysun Mahboubi (University of Pennsylvania) Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan) Victor Shih (University of California, San Diego) Sida Liu (University of Toronto) Maggie Lewis (Seton Hall University) Alex Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) Iza Ding (University of Pittsburgh)

May 13, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

The Zhengfawei 政法委 Standing Committee will chat with Dali Yang, the William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, about recent lockdowns in Shanghai (and other Chinese cities), and implications for the future of China's "Zero-Covid" policy.

China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?

Chen Long, Co-Founder and Partner at Plenum Yang Yuanchen, Economist at the International Monetary Fund

May 13, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Chinese businesses employing tens of millions of people rely on property development— from steel to construction to banking. China’s property sector faced a crisis this past year, with talk of the bankruptcy of Evergrande and threats of a debt crisis and sharp slowdown in China’s overall economy. As China faces renewed…

He Zhaohui – The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story

He Zhaohui, Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University

May 12, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

More Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/

Book Discussion | The Comrades and the Mullahs : China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics

Ananth Krishnan, China Correspondent, The Hindu Stanly Johny, International Affairs Editor, The Hindu Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshal Fund's Asia Program Amb. Vijay Nambiar

May 11, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

The withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan has left a lasting impact on both Afghanistan’s future and on Asian geopolitics. It has also brought China into focus. "The Comrades and the Mullahs" traces the emergence of China as a key player in Afghanistan and the evolution of China’s Afghan policy especially wi…

“An Absolutely Ordinary Person”: Stories from the Wuhan Lockdown

Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

May 10, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an unprecedented event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia University Press, Guobin Yang’s book "The Wuhan Lockdown" recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of dramatic scenes and characters. This talk introduces the main features of…

“The Dharma Assembly”: Exploring a Dynamic Infrastructure for Contemporary Han Chinese Participation in Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Contexts

Dr. Catherine Hardie (Hong Kong Baptist University)

May 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

During the first half of the twentieth century, all but a handful of intrepid Han Chinese practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism undertook the long and difficult journey to the Tibetan plateau. In the contemporary era, however, massively improved transport infrastructures mean that Tibetan sacred landscapes, monastery space…

评汪晖《世纪的诞生》

主讲人: 荣剑 中国独立学者,公共知识分子,1980年代著有 《民主论》等专著,以及学术论文近百篇。2019年出版《山重水复的中国——荣剑演讲及对话录》(香港),2020年出版《新盛世危言——荣剑时政评论录》(纽约)。 评议人: 张博树 中国社科院哲学博士,哥伦比亚大学客座教授,已出版《经济行为与人》,《Marxism and Human Sociobiology 》,《中国批判理论建构十讲》,《植根大地:中国自由知识分子的自我省思》 等著作。 评议人: 陈纯 独立青年学者,中山大学哲学系博士毕业,研究领域主要为伦理学、政治哲学和价值现象学,2020年在纽约出版《自由主义的重生与政治德性》。 主持人: 洪朝辉 美国纽约福坦莫大学教授。主要研究领域为经济史、经济思想史和经济转型研究。著论颇丰。2021年出版《左右之间 两极之上——适度经济学思想导论》。

May 8, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

汪晖教授是中国新左派的旗帜性人物,在国内外有重要影响。其新著《世纪的诞生——中国革命与政治的逻辑》,系统地阐述了关于中国革命和政治的一系列新见解。 本期主讲人拟对汪晖新著展开全面批评,解析汪晖思想演变的三个阶段,指证其最新建构的理论体系是一个关于中国革命既要解放自己也要解放全人类的新的理论版本,是一个试图用“中国方案”来解決世界的世纪性问题的国家主义计划(大学沙龙欢迎并一直在邀请汪晖教授来进行反批评)。

The Future of PLA Strategy and Operations Concerning Taiwan

Dr Joel Wuthnow, National Defense University

May 6, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Over the last few years, the tempo of Chinese military operations around Taiwan has accelerated and some foreign analysts and government officials have grown increasingly concerned about the prospects that China will seek to achieve unification through force. Yet the risks of such a conflict for the PRC would be enormo…

The US Needs to Step up in the Pacific: Facing up to China’s Military Challenge

Anne-Marie Brady Professor University of Canterbury, New Zealand Larry Diamond Senior Fellow Hoover Institution Glenn Tiffert Research Fellow Hoover Institution

May 5, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

The US is on the backfoot in the South Pacific. Distracted by other global challenges, it has for a long time outsourced its regional policymaking to Australia and New Zealand. But the South Pacific is essential to US security. If a hostile power controls a base in the region, it could block shipping traffic from the P…

Social Sorting of LGBTQ+ Activists and Organisers in China

Ausma Bernot

May 5, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

The expansion of home-grown social media platforms in the past decade has provided a (relatively) safe haven for LGBTQ+ people in China to connect online. Additionally, prior to 2016, a growing number of LGBTQ+ groups and organisations had established themselves in the country, building physical spaces of connection an…

Faculty Dialogue: Chinese History and Chinese Possibilities: Understanding a Changing Society's Place in the World

Kenneth Pomeranz, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the College at the University of Chicago. R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA

May 4, 2022 at 6:54 PM UTC

In this dialogue between two of the world’s most renowned China scholars, historians Kenneth Pomeranz and R. Bin Wong exchange thoughts on four broad areas related to the past, present and future of China in the world context. These include Chinese urbanization and persistent political concern about rural China, China’…

Practicing Policing in China (1949-1963)

WANG Juan, Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University Moderated by JM Chris Chang, Asia in Action / Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

May 4, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Policemen served a pivotal role in the politics of the Mao era, yet we know little about these important historical actors. Wang's paper draws upon rich archival records of police work reports to county authorities in western China from 1949 and 1963 to examine everyday practices of policing. In particular, Wang looks…

Neighborhood Governance during the Shanghai Lockdown

Professor Shitong Qiao Kenney Zhu Professor Roderick M. Hills

May 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Building on his research into neighborhood governance in urban China, Professor Shitong Qiao will discuss grassroots governance during the Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown, including the emergence of spontaneous cooperation among residents at the neighborhood level and the regulation and self-regulation of resident groups. N…

The Lives and Roles of Cadres in the Chinese Communist Party

Julia Marinaccio (University of Bergen) Yunyun Zhou (University of Oslo) Chair: Hedda Flatoe (FaFo)

May 4, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The Chinese political system includes several million full-time professional staff often referred to as 'cadres'. Who are these local administrators, and how important are they for the Chinese Communist Party's developmental policies? How will it influence an individual to become a CCP cadre? In this seminar, we will e…

Two Years of Crisis in Eastern Ladakh: Way Ahead

Amb. Gautam Bambawale, Symbiosis International University, Pune. Lt. Gen. DS Hooda (Retd.) PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM**, Co-founder, Council for Strategic and Defence Research, New Delhi and Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group. Senior Colonel Zhou Bo (Retired) Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University Mr. Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research Amb. Ashok K. Kantha, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi Dr. Rityusha Mani Tiwary, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi

May 4, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

5 May 2022 marks the second anniversary of the current crisis in Eastern Ladakh, the deadliest such since 1962 and follows a series of such crises since 2013. On 5 May 2020, the first clash occurred resulting in injuries to several soldiers on both sides. This was followed by another major clash on the night of 15-16 J…

China100 @ UH Mānoa: Online Exhibit to Commemorate 100 Years of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Shana Brown, Associate Professor of History, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Song Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Linguistics, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Dongyun Ni, Chinese Studies Librarian, Hamilton Library, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa

May 4, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

Please join us in celebrating the launch of this online exhibit to commemorate the centennial of Chinese studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. We focus on the first fifty years (1920-1970), highlighting the evolution of academic units, the contributions of faculty, and the creation of our library collection. W…

Oysterman and Refugee: Hong Kong and China Between the Tides, 1949–1997

Dr. Denise Y. Ho (Yale University)

May 4, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

This talk examines the Hong Kong-China maritime border since 1949. It focuses on the oyster producing communities in the tidelands of the Pearl River Estuary, showing how oystermen — some of them also refugees — faced security threats exacerbated by the Cultural Revolution while they also leveraged the borderland’s opp…

Taiwan's Quest for Energy Security in an era of Global Instability

Ker-hsuan Chien Assistant Professor Institute of Technology Management at National Tsing Hua University Kuan-Ting Chen Chief Executive Officer Taiwan NextGen Foundation Marcin Jerzewski Research Fellow Taiwan NextGen Foundation Kharis Templeman Research Fellow Hoover Institution

May 3, 2022 at 11:30 PM UTC

In 2020, 93 percent of the energy consumed in Taiwan came from imported fossil fuels: oil, coal, and liquid natural gas. Taiwan’s government is also phasing out nuclear power, with the last nuclear generation unit scheduled to be shut down in 2025. This overwhelming reliance on imports is at odds with Taiwan’s pledges…

Wang Shu-Li – The Heritage Complex in China

Wang Shu-Li, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

May 3, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

More Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-heritage-complex-in-china/

Teaching Chinese Food History in a Pandemic Era

Michelle T. King is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research specialty is Chinese gender history. She is currently working on a book project about Fu Pei-mei (1931-2004), the beloved cookbook author and television personality from Taiwan. She is editor of the volume Culinary Nationalism in Asia (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019), author of Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2014), and has written a variety of other articles and book chapters on Chinese gender history and food history. MODERATOR: Francesca Bray is an historian and anthropologist of science, technology and medicine, specializing in China. She is particularly interested in how politics are expressed and enacted through everyday technologies (including food, housing, communications and hygiene) and in the politics underpinning different narratives about technology in national, comparative and global history. She is the author of Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 1997) and a co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2015), among many others. PRESENTER: Yuan Yi, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern China Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-2022. Her book manuscript, "Industrial Craft: Machine, Skill, and the Making of Chinese Cotton Factories, 1877-1937," examines the industrialization of Chinese cotton spinning with emphasis on the circulation of spinning machines, technical experts, and cotton varieties between China and the United States. She earned her PhD in Chinese history from Columbia University in October 2020.

May 3, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Chinese food has been at the center of increasing anti-Chinese (Asian) sentiment since the advent of COVID-19. As the exceptionally high rate of Chinese takeout restaurants forced to close in 2020 indicates, the pandemic has reinforced a long-held racist view of Chinese food as unhealthy and unhygienic. This panel addr…

A Shared Bewilderment — An Imaginary Conversation with Pu Songling 蒲松齡

Emeritus Professor John Minford, The Australian National University

May 3, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC

For the past three centuries, Pu Songling 蒲松齡 (1640-1715) the author of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 聊齋誌異has cast a dizzying, hallucinatory spell on his reader, drawing them into the spiritual, emotional and erotic depths of the Chinese Realm of Fantasy. Written in a highly eloquent, witty and allusive form of c…

Problematizing Justice and Partiality in Early Imperial Legal Thought and Practice

Liang Cai (University of Notre Dame) Trenton Wilson (Yale University)

April 29, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

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Master Xuanzang’s Contribution to Modern Buddhist Studies | 玄奘大师对现代佛学研究的贡献

Ven. Prof. K.L. Dhammajoti, Buddha Dharma Centre of Hong Kong

April 29, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

The Goodman Lectures Khyentse Foundation is pleased to announce the Goodman Lectures (「古德曼佛學講座」). Every month we will feature a lecture from one of the many Buddhist studies programs the foundation partners with at universities in Asia, Europe, and North America. The lectures, delivered by leading scholars in the field…

WildChina Book Club: Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

Weike Wang, Mei Zhang

April 29, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

For our April book club we’re reading Joan Is Okay in preparation for our chat with the author, Weike Wang. -- Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted…

International Connections: Deep Dive on China (Session 1: China's Foreign Policy)

Governor Bob Holden, Chairman & CEO of the U.S. Heartland China Association, USHCA Strategic Advisor Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, former Ambassador to Cambodia, USHCA Board Member Ms. Susan Thornton, a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center

April 28, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

The U.S. and China share very different historical backgrounds in terms of challenges, growth, and philosophy, including very different geographical perspectives that have played a large part in each country's trajectory. How do these historical perspectives impact the U.S. and China's current foreign policies when eng…

Liu Wenjin – Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》)

Liu Wenjin, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022 David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor Of The Humanities, Harvard University

April 28, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Ba Jin (1904-2005), who called himself “the son of the May 4th movement,” is a giant of 20th-century Chinese literature whose writing inspired a generation of youth to join the communist movement. Written in his later years, Random Thoughts is one of the earliest and most influential memoirs of China’s Cultural Revolut…

Media Innovation in China & Contemporary Chinese Digital Materials – CHERN webinars

Joanne Kuai, Karlstad University; Eric Zhang, LeidenAsiaCentre

April 28, 2022 at 1:15 PM UTC

CHERN, the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies NIAS (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), and the Center for East Asian Studies CEAS (University of Turku, Finland) are organizing a CHERN Training school on computational methods in Chinese studies in April 2022, and two webinars that are part of the program will be open n…

Chinese Loans to Africa Database: Data Release

• Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses: Data Analyst and Database Manager, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center • Yike Fu: China-Africa Policy Analyst, Development Reimagined • Magalie Masamba: Global China Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Boston University Global Development Policy Center; Post-doctoral Fellow, International Development Law Unit, Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria • Phiwokuhle Mnyandu: Lecturer, African Studies, Howard University • Cecilia Han Springer (Moderator): Assistant Director, Global China Initiative, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

April 28, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Over the past 21 years, Chinese policy and commercial banks, government entities, companies and other financiers have financed billions of dollars of infrastructure, energy and development projects throughout Africa. Since 2016, financing has steadily declined, dropping from a peak of $28.4 billion to $8.3 billion in 2…

Mass Timber: Engineered Wood and Material Modernity in the People’s Republic of China

Dr. Jennifer Altehenger (University of Oxford)

April 28, 2022 at 8:00 AM UTC

How did materials shape everyday technology in the People’s Republic of China? And what might a material history of socialist China look like? Steel and cotton were among the most famous materials, widely discussed, heavily politicized, and prominent in everyday life between the 1950s and 1980s. Yet there were several…

Book Launch: Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi

Professor Franklin Perkins of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Department of Philosophy; Professor Jim Behuniak of Philosophy at Colby College; and Associate Professor George Tsai of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.

April 27, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

The Center for Chinese Studies introduces a new book by Professor Franklin Perkins along with a Faculty Dialogue. For more than two thousand years, the writings of the Confucian philosopher Mengzi have been a source of guidance and inspiration for those set on doing something to improve the state of the world. Doing Wh…

Trade Links: New Rules for a New World

James Bacchus (Founding Member of the WTO, University of Central Florida) Jose Alvarez (U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law)

April 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

The World Trade Organization (WTO) faces an existential crisis because it has failed to keep pace with the needs of a changing world. So argues James Bacchus, a founding member and former chairman of the Appellate Body of the WTO. Professor Bacchus sets out his analysis in a new book, Trade Links: New Rules for a New W…

Chinese History in the Age of Big Data

LU Yi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. Moderated by JM Chris Chang, Asia in Action / Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

April 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Digitization facilitates censorship in Chinese archives, but it also gives us new tools to study censorship and to renew the historian's craft. This talk explores the opportunities and challenges of studying twentieth-century Chinese history in the digital age. Drawing on archival statistics and metadata from several p…

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bert Hofman – A Broad Assessment of the Growth Outlook for China—Will it Meet Xi Jinping’s Goals, Will China Overtake the US? How Will China Seek to Achieve this?

Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University Singapore Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management; Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

April 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is the director of the East Asian Institute at NUS and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School. Before joining NUS, he has been working with the World Bank for 27 years, 22 of which in Asia, and 12 of which on China. Mr Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-20…

Book Discussion | The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949 to 1962

Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary of India and Author. Ananth Krishnan, China Correspondent, The Hindu (Discussant). Ashok K. Kantha, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi (Chair).

April 27, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

Nirupama Rao’s book ‘The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949 to 1962’ (Penguin Random House India, 2021) is a history of the diplomacy between India and China during a crucial period of their early nationhood. This year, 2022, we mark sixty years after the momentous events of 1962 that culminated in the brief, b…

Fragmented or Fused Governance? Reassessing the Administrative Logic of Zone-Style Entities in Urban China

Kyle Jaros, University of Notre Dame

April 27, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Despite the ubiquity of zone-style administrative entities in Chinese cities, scholars lack a clear understanding of how they fit into the fabric of urban governance. On the one hand, development zones and other functional areas seem to clutter an already fragmented urban governance landscape, making administrative coo…

What can we learn from the past when trying to make sense of the Chinese Communist Party today?

Professor Diana Fu (University of Toronto); Mr Ian Johnson (The Council on Foreign Relations); Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)

April 26, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Much has been made of the Xi Jinping era as one that has ushered in significant changes to how the Chinese Communist Party rules and is ruled. In particular, the upcoming 20th Party Congress appears likely to assert a continued role for Xi Jinping as head of the party leadership, overturning prior practice and further…

Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?

Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Jeremy Garlick, Director, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations and China Studies, Prague University of Economics and Business Arseny Sivitsky, Co-Founder and Director, Minsk-based Center for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies James Evans. Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

April 26, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Over the past three decades, China has become a major trade partner and investor for Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. The region is also an important component of the BRI New Eurasian Land Bridge, providing alternative access to Western Europe. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is shaking up China’s plans and prospects in thi…

Queer Feminist Theory: Language, Pedagogy, and Becoming in Hong Kong

Dr. Grace En-Yi Ting (Gender Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong)

April 26, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

Queer feminist writing — on lived experiences of gender, race, and queerness — resists mainstream understandings of what “counts” as theory or scholarship. What does it mean for a junior scholar to undertake these forms of writing and speaking in the academy today? In this talk, I take up my embodiment as a “woman of c…

Panel Discussion – The Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo: Historical Reflections

Wayne Chiang 蔣萬安, Member of Legislative Yuan, Taiwan Hsiao-ting Lin, Stanford University Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate

April 26, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Please register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C4PppqSqS_iqexUaMVzXXg

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

Michael Meyer MICHAEL MEYER took a wide route to the story of Benjamin Franklin's remarkable afterlife, starting when Meyer was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. Beginning with The Last Days of Old Beijing, he authored three critically-acclaimed reported books set there, as well as numerous stories that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Time, Smithsonian, and on This American Life. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. Currently a Fulbright scholar in Taipei and a fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing, he is working on a biography of Taiwan. Meyer is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Squirrel Hill.

April 25, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Join us on the 232rd anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's death on April 12, 1790 to see what came of his last bet—a gift of 2,000 pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump‑start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went acc…

Taiwan: Asia's Ukraine?

Professor Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations, Boston University; Director BU Center for the Study of Asia

April 25, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

Please join in the final 2022 talk in BUCSA's series of Taiwan: Culture, Society and Politics. Taiwan is a vibrant and successful democracy and a bold showcase for what modern East Asia looks like. At the same time, it is sitting on one of the world’s most precarious geopolitical fault lines. This program is designed t…

Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring – Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought

Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo

April 25, 2022 at 3:30 PM UTC

Mind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer when spontaneous thoughts constantly pull your mind in other directions? This talk will focus on the answers of two 19th-century Chinese Pure Land Buddhist monks, Wukai (悟開, d. 18…

战败者如何书写历史:日本二战电影的记忆建构主体研究

主讲人: 陶赋雯 南京大学艺术学博士、复旦大学新闻传播学博士后,曾赴东京大学教养学部访学,现任上海师范大学影传学院副研究员、硕导。研究方向为中日媒介传播、历史记忆、影像史学等。在《世界历史》《学术月刊》《现代传播》《清华大学学报》等期刊发表文章。 评议人: 乔林生 南开大学日本研究院教授、博士生导师、日本中央大学客座研究员。研究方向为日本政治外交、中日关系、东亚国际关系。专著《民主的危机——日本“世袭政治”研究》《日本对外政策与东盟》《日本与东亚国际关系》等。 主持人: 王钊 复旦大学历史学系博士研究生,研究方向为抗日战争史、近代中英关系史,在《抗日战争研究》、《民国档案》等期刊发表文章,参加国内学术会议10余次。

April 24, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

每一个民族或国家都有其相对偏重的历史记忆和叙述框架。当代日本二战电影所构建的历史总体上偏向于“大和魂”的塑造,缺乏对其作为战争加害者罪行的反省。随着史 鉴者逐一离世,加上战争本身的庞大性和复杂性,战争记忆主体呈现巨大流变,虚无主义、表达娱乐化沉渣泛起,战争记忆迄今为止未取得历史共识和社会共识。 本讲座以日本二战电影记忆建构主体为研究对象,通过如何面对战败、如何纪念亡人、如何叙述战败来探索日本战电影的现实性政治诉求、慰魂式情感认同、遮耻化历史表述等日本战败者独特的历史书写方式,通过昭和怀旧日的文化想象,美化历史的银幕生产,制造出“影像伪史”来转译二战历史,拟造战争的合法性。这种“非忏悔化”的历史反思,是对全球政治秩序与二战记忆重建的严…

Julia K. Murray in Conversation with James Robson on Her New Book the Aura of Confucius

Julia K. Murray, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

April 22, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

Julia K. Murray, Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Ma Hezhi and the Illustration of the Book of Odes, Mirror of Morality: Chinese Narrative Illustration and Confucian Ideology, and many articles on Chinese painting, woodblock printing, narrative illustra…

Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

Weike Wang (author) Mei Zhang (WildChina)

April 22, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

For our April book club we’re reading Joan Is Okay in preparation for our chat with the author, Weike Wang. --- Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted…

Chinese Food Futures: Roundtable Discussion with Fuchsia Dunlop, Lucas Sin, and Xiaowei Wang

Fuchsia Dunlop is a cook and food writer specializing in Chinese cuisine. She trained as a chef at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in the 1990s and has been researching Chinese food and culinary culture for more than two decades. Fuchsia is the author of six books about Chinese cuisine, including the critically-acclaimed memoir Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, and, most recently, The Food of Sichuan (which won the Fortum and Mason Cookbook of the Year award in 2020). Fuchsia makes regular appearances on radio and TV as a Chinese food expert, featuring on shows such as Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, David Chang's Ugly Delicious, and the Chinese documentary series Once Upon a Bite (fengwei renjian). Her work has received numerous awards, including from the James Beard Foundation and the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals). Lucas Sin, Chef and Co-Founder of Nice Day and junzi kitchen, opened his first restaurant when he was 16 in an abandoned newspaper factory in his hometown of Hong Kong. Despite spending his Yale undergraduate years in the Cognitive Science and English departments, Lucas spent his weekends running restaurants out of his dorm, known as Y Pop-up. Prior to junzi kitchen and Nice Day, Lucas cooked at Modernist Cuisine in Seattle, Kikunoi Honten in Kyoto, and Michelin-starred kitchens in Hong Kong and New York. Lucas has been named a Star Chef Rising Star, an Eater Young Gun, Forbes 30 under 30, and a Food and Wine Best New Chef. Beyond junzi and Nice Day's daily menu, Lucas curates a collaborative tasting menu exploring the narrative of Chinese culinary history in relation to other cultures of the world, which became a project known as Distance Dining during the COVID-19 pandemic. With Eric Sze, chef of Taiwanese restaurant 886, Lucas co-founded SHY*BOYZCLUB, an introverted Asian pop-up collective. Xiaowei R. Wang is an artist, writer, organizer, and coder. They are the author of the book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside and one of the lead facilitators of Logic School, an organizing community for tech workers. Their collaborative project FLOAT Beijing created air quality-sensing kites to challenge censorship and was an Index Design Awards finalist. Other projects have been featured by the New York Times, BBC, CNN, VICE, and elsewhere. Their most recent project, The Future of Memory, was a recipient of the Mozilla Creative Media Award.

April 21, 2022 at 11:30 PM UTC

Tradition looms large when we talk about Chinese food and foodways. It gives us a sense of gravity—a kind of culinary mooring to people, places, and times beyond our immediate grasp. And given how rich and diverse local and regional Chinese food and practices are, tradition often serves to weave both the maker and the…

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate

Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst William N. Kring, Executive Director, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

April 21, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

China has become deeply integrated in the world economy, yet gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without a wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. In her new book, “How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate,” Isabella Weber uncovers the fierce contest for economic reforms th…

Notes from the Home Front: One Woman's Chinese Revolution, 1897-1975

Gail Hershatter, Research Professor and Distinguished Professor Emer. of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Moderated by JM Chris Chang, Asia in Action / Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

April 20, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

This lecture explores the life of an elite woman, raised in Beijing and educated at a missionary school during the May Fourth era. Daughter of a Beiyang reformer, wife of a Nationalist official educated at MIT, mother of an underground Communist revolutionary, she herself left no direct trace in the public record. She…

Middle Power Countries' Perceptions on U.S.-China Relations

Opening Remarks Nong Hong – Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies Moderator Jia Wang – Interim Director, China Institute, University of Alberta Speakers Ron MacIntosh – Senior Fellow, China Institute, University of Alberta Deepa Ollapally – Professor, George Washington University Rumi Aoyama – Director, Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Waseda University Yoon Sukjoon – Senior Fellow, Korea Institute for Military Affairs Sourabh Gupta – Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies Concluding Remarks Ren Libo – Director, Grandview Institution

April 20, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

As the United States and China find themselves caught in a great power struggle, the rest of the world is left watching. Middle power countries–such as Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and South Korea–now find themselves caught in between the toxic struggle between the United States and China for global prominence and…

How Overloaded Chinese Courts Handle Takings Claims

Professor Shitong Qiao (Duke Law School), Professor Chaoqun Zhan (Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University)

April 20, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The 2015 revision of China’s Administrative Litigation Law caused an explosive increase in courts’ workload, including a surge in Chinese citizens suing local governments over property expropriation. Professor Shitong Qiao of the Duke School of Law, one of the leading scholars of Chinese property law, and Professor Cha…

A Spatial Environmental Assessment of Select Belt and Road Initiative Projects in Indonesia

Albertus Hadi Pramono, University of Indonesia Masita Dwi Mandini Manessa, University of Indonesia Mochamad Indrawan, University of Indonesia Dwi Amalia Sari, University of Indonesia Rebecca Ray, Boston University Global Development Policy Center Kevin P. Gallagher, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

April 20, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesia has increased dramatically since 2013 when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced. The dominant investments have been in infrastructure development, power plant construction and mineral extraction and processing. In a recent collaboration with the Boston Un…

V.P. Dutt Memorial Lecture | Japan’s Surrender in 1945 and the Remaking of Asia

Prof. Hans van de Ven, University of Cambridge Dr. Madhavi Thampi, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi (Moderator) Prof. Sreemati Chakrabarti, Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi (Chair)

April 20, 2022 at 11:30 AM UTC

Japan accepted the allied demand for unconditional surrender on 15 August 1945. Rather than focusing on just Japan and the USA or seeing Japan’s surrender as the definite end of the Second World War, in this lecture, Hans van de Ven examines the complex politics of surrender as various parties in China, Indonesia, and…

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

Michael Meyer MICHAEL MEYER took a wide route to the story of Benjamin Franklin's remarkable afterlife, starting when Meyer was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. Beginning with The Last Days of Old Beijing, he authored three critically-acclaimed reported books set there, as well as numerous stories that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Time, Smithsonian, and on This American Life. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. Currently a Fulbright scholar in Taipei and a fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing, he is working on a biography of Taiwan. Meyer is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Squirrel Hill.

April 19, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

Join us on the 232rd anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's death on April 12, 1790 to see what came of his last bet—a gift of 2,000 pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump‑start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went acc…

W22 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Dreams and Memories in the Making of the Ivens' Documentary "A Tale of the Wind"

Liang Luo, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Kentucky

April 19, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

This talk uses the Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens’ (1898-1989) "love letter to China," his 1988 film Une Histoire de vent (A Tale of the Wind) as a case study to explore the profound connection between fiction and documentary, between biography and history, and between private life and collective experience. L…

A Long Environmental History of the Loess Plateau: Conflict, Extraction and Intensification Between Biomes

Prof. Ruth Mostern

April 15, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

The Loess Plateau is a tectonic block surrounded by the Yellow River and comprised of the world's largest formation of loess soil. Loess, a silt-like sediment that accumulated in the region over the past two million years, has excellent drainage capacities when it is covered with vegetation, but is highly prone to eros…

“China and the War in Ukraine” with Lily Kuo

Lily Kuo (The Washington Post) Neysun Mahboubi (University of Pennsylvania) Victor Shih (University of California, San Diego) Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan) Sida Liu (University of Toronto) Maggie Lewis (Seton Hall University) Alex Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)

April 15, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

The Zhengfawei 政法委 Standing Committee will chat with Lily Kuo, the China Bureau Chief for The Washington Post, about developing Chinese perspectives, official and popular, toward Russia's invasion of and the subsequent war in Ukraine. The conversation will be recorded and available at the event link from the moment it…

Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism & Health in Historical Perspective

Professor Pierce Salguero, Penn State Abington

April 14, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

The so-called “Mindful Revolution” sweeping through mainstream American popular culture has tended to overshadow both the deep historical roots of the connections between Buddhism and health, as well as the diversity of those Buddhist healing methods beyond merely meditation. This talk places the contemporary focus on…

Contemporary Chinese Society Lecture Series featuring Rachel Stern – Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court

Rachel E. Stern, Professor of Law and Political Science, Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies, UC Berkeley School of Law

April 14, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Rachel E. Stern is a Professor of Law and Political Science and currently holds the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Her research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution building, political space, and professionalization. Stern i…

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

Michael Meyer MICHAEL MEYER took a wide route to the story of Benjamin Franklin's remarkable afterlife, starting when Meyer was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. Beginning with The Last Days of Old Beijing, he authored three critically-acclaimed reported books set there, as well as numerous stories that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Time, Smithsonian, and on This American Life. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. Currently a Fulbright scholar in Taipei and a fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing, he is working on a biography of Taiwan. Meyer is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Squirrel Hill.

April 14, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Join us near the 232rd anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's death on April 12, 1790 to see what came of his last bet—a gift of 2,000 pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump‑start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went a…

Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US Author Event

Peter B. Walker David O’Brien

April 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Join USHCA for our fifth author event as we invite Peter B. Walker to discuss his book: “Powerful, Different, Equal: Overcoming the Misconceptions and Differences Between China and the US.” Mr. Walker speaks often on U.S.-China relations and has visited China over 80 times, meeting with business leaders, regulators, ex…

Dramas of Catastrophes: American and Chinese Governments’ Cultural Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Speaker: Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work

April 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

In an ongoing project, Xu examines the American and Chinese governments’ cultural responses to the COVID-19 crisis. “Cultural response,” defined as the governments’ symbolic action to address their citizens’ suffering and death in disasters, is often neglected by scholars and dismissed by public opinion as secondary an…

The Responses of India and China to the War in Ukraine

Shyam Saran FORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY OF INDIA Senior Fellow CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH LU, Yang Research Fellow Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY Nimmi Kurian Professor CENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH DA, Wei Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) Professor, School of Social Sciences TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

April 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which prompted immediate censure and sanctions against Russia by Western governments, has been met with a more ambivalent response by China and India. While both governments have issued statements deploring the harm to civilians and loss of life, for different reasons, they have abstain…

Milk Tea Alliance: The Last Wave of Decolonization

Speaker: Professor Wasana Wongsurawat, Associate Professor of History, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Discussant: Professor Duncan McCargo, Professor of Political Science and Director of Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Moderator: Professor Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

April 14, 2022 at 7:15 AM UTC

People tend to think of decolonization in Asia as being a phenomenon of the Cold War Era, where European colonizers, having survived humiliating blows of Japanese occupation of their Asian colonies during the Second World War, reluctantly but unavoidably relinquished their suzerainty and allowed numerous new nation-sta…

Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature

双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao, Writer 程异 Jeremy Tiang, Translator 张学昕 Zhang Xuexin, Critic 罗鹏 Carlos Rojas, Scholar, Translator 陶建 Eric Abrahamsen, Translator Brian Lax, Editor

April 14, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Guests: 双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao, Writer 程异 Jeremy Tiang, Translator 张学昕 Zhang Xuexin, Critic 罗鹏 Carlos Rojas, Scholar, Translator 陶建 Eric Abrahamsen, Translator Brian Lax, Editor Organizers: 王德威 David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University 宋伟杰 Weijie Song, Rutgers University This event will be conducted in Mandarin and English.

Spring 2022: Current State of US-China Relations

Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council Jan Berris, Vice President, National Committee on U.S. China Relations Alyssa Tracey, Director of International Trade, State of Michigan Lynn Paine, Associate Dean for International Studies, College of Education, MSU Manual Chavez, Professor, Journalism, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, MSU

April 13, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

The Michigan State University Office of China Programs, the International Business Center/MSU-CIBER at Broad College, and other cosponsors are pleased to present this expert panel on US-China relations with a unique Michigan focus. The panel will respond to questions from the MSU community about Russia-China-US relatio…

Revising Japan’s Security Policy for a Rapidly Changing World

Yuki Tatsumi (Director of the Japan Program at The Stimson Center) Bruce Aronson (Affiliated Scholar at the U.S.-Asia Law Institute)

April 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has added new urgency to the ongoing periodic review of Japan’s security policy. New tensions with Japan’s neighbor Russia join existing concerns over North Korea’s ballistic missile tests and China’s activities in the East China Sea. Responding to China’s pressure, enhancing the US-Japan a…

Governing in an Interconnected World: Has the EU Joined China to shut out American Companies?

Mark Scott, Chief Technology Correspondent, Politico (via Zoom) Tom Wheeler, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

April 13, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

While the US government dawdled, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act has set new rules for internet services. What does this mean for American companies? What does this mean for the future of multilateral relations? Lunch will be served.

The South China Sea and Rules-based International Order

Prof. Pankaj K Jha, O.P. Jindal Global University Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, Asia Pathways to Progress Foundation Surbhi Moudgil, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (Chair)

April 13, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over extensive areas of the South China Sea (SCS) and non-adherence of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has far-reaching implications beyond the region. International law reflects the global distribution of power and defending a rules-based order against China’s bid fo…

Making mobile professionals: The reproduction of gender and class in Chinese women’s transnational education

Associate Professor Fran Martin Fran Martin is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She recently concluded a 5-year ARC Future Fellowship project on the social and subjective experiences of young women from China studying and living in Australia (http://www.mobileselves.org). Fran’s prior research has focussed on television, film, literature and other forms of cultural production in contemporary transnational China (The People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong), with a specialization in cultures of gender and sexuality. In addition to Dreams of Flight (Duke U.P, 2022), she is the author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film, and Public Culture (HK U.P., 2003); Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary (Duke U.P. 2010); and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia (with Tania Lewis and Wanning Sun, Duke U.P. 2016). Her co-edited books include AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (with Peter Jackson, Mark McLelland and Audrey Yue, Illinois U.P. 2008); Embodied Modernities: Corporeality, Representation, and Chinese Cultures (with L.N. Heinrich, Hawaii U.P. 2006); and Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (with Chris Berry and Audrey Yue, Duke U.P. 2003).

April 13, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC

This presentation draws on a 5-year ethnographic study of the social and subjective experiences of fifty young women from China through the years of their university study in Australia, whose findings were recently published in Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Duke U.P. 2022). Although…

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

Michael Meyer MICHAEL MEYER took a wide route to the story of Benjamin Franklin's remarkable afterlife, starting when Meyer was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. Beginning with The Last Days of Old Beijing, he authored three critically-acclaimed reported books set there, as well as numerous stories that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Time, Smithsonian, and on This American Life. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. Currently a Fulbright scholar in Taipei and a fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing, he is working on a biography of Taiwan. Meyer is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Squirrel Hill.

April 12, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

Join us on the 232rd anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's death on April 12, 1790 to see what came of his last bet—a gift of 2,000 pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump‑start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went acc…

Guarding Dictatorship: The Organization, Tactics, and Scale of China's Surveillance State

Minxin Pei Professor Claremont McKenna College Larry Diamond Senior Fellow Hoover Institution Jean C. Oi Director, China Program Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University Glenn Tiffert Research Fellow Hoover Institution

April 12, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

China has built an extensive, sophisticated, and highly effective apparatus to monitor the activities of its population and target, in particular, perceived threats to regime security. China's "whole-of-nation" approach has produced a surveillance apparatus few dictatorships can match. The country's rapid economic grow…

W22 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ The Making of “Good” Citizens: Examining the Mechanism of and Public Support for China’s Social Credit System

Fan Liang, Assistant Professor of Media, Duke Kunshan University

April 12, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

This talk examines citizen scoring in and public support for China’s Social Credit System (SCS). Dr. Fan analyzed the mechanism of credit scoring embedded in the SCS and show two facets of the SCS: a normative apparatus fostering “good” citizens and a regulative apparatus normalizing “deviant” behaviors. He also used a…

Managing Information in the Early People's Republic of China

Daniel Leese (Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Freiburg); CHEN Min (Researcher, University of Freiburg); Amanda Shuman (Researcher and Lecturer, University of Freiburg); YANG Long (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Freiburg); Moderated by JM Chris Chang, Asia in Action / Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, WEAI

April 12, 2022 at 3:30 PM UTC

With the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party faced a major dilemma: How to obtain useful information, when public debates are massively restricted and loyalty counts for more than competence? To deal with the problem of information distortion, the CCP developed a two-pronged…

Infrastructure-led development and the urbanization of capital in Chongqing: a critical evaluation

Kean Fan Lim, Newcastle University

April 12, 2022 at 1:30 PM UTC

Infrastructure-led development has become a prominent World Bank planning prescription for city-regions. This presentation critically evaluates this prescription in Chongqing, a major metropolis in southwestern China. The launchpad of the transformative China-EU transcontinental railway project (中欧班列), Chongqing is a h…

Death, Ritual, and Redemption: A Study of Ghost Opera from a Socio-religious Perspective

Dr. Jules Zhao Liu (Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU)

April 12, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

In the early 1960s, a religious ritual — ghost opera — swept across China. Regarding the prevalence of ghost opera in cities and the countryside, the Party committee of the Cultural Ministry drafted a work report to the Central Political Bureau and the Propaganda Department suggesting that all forms of ghost opera perf…

China, Semiconductors and Global Competition

Jimmy Goodrich

April 11, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

Jimmy Goodrich, Vice President for Global Policy at the Semiconductor Industry Association, takes a closer look at global competition in the semiconductor industry. Semiconductors are a critical technology, powering everything from telecommunications to cars to defense systems. Critically, the innovative nature of the…

The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History in Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. His first book The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan won the Memory Studies Association First Book Award in 2020, and in 2021, was selected as a Finalist for the International Book Award in the category of History: General. For his research, Dominic also received University of Missouri Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award in 2020. He is the first faculty in University of Missouri Department of History to receive this honor in the award’s twenty-year history.

April 11, 2022 at 12:15 PM UTC

The Great Exodus examines one of the least understood forced migrations in modern East Asia—the human exodus from China to Taiwan following the Nationalist collapse and Chinese Communist victory in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, the book tells a very different story from conventional hist…

“Without Ritual, There Would Be No Ethnic Culture”: Religion and Changing Chinese Diasporic Identity in Vietnam

Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Tho (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City)

April 11, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

In this talk, the speaker will present a total of four case studies to analyse the transformations and hidden discourses of ethnic Chinese (người Hoa 華人) rituals dedicated to public gods. Vietnam’s ethnic Hoa communities have proactively taken advantage of their long-lasting folk religions and ritual system to reserve…

Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2021-22) - Messaging with Images among the Song Literati: Learning from Su Shi’s Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo

Professor Peter Sturman (Professor Departments of History of Art and Architecture, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Chair, Committee on Committees University of California, Santa Barbara)

April 11, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC

The sudden emergence of Su Shi’s Old Tree, Rock, and Bamboo into the public light a few years past provided a rare opportunity to examine closely this famous scroll that includes Su Shi’s painting and Mi Fu’s calligraphy. With the focus on the scroll’s authenticity, there was renewed interest and disagreement regarding…

C&WP Conference at Indiana University Bloomington

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April 8, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

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‘I am not now, that which I have been’: A global-microhistory of Augustine Heard & Company

Dr. Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol)

April 8, 2022 at 8:30 AM UTC

Founded in 1840 following a rift between partners of Russell & Co., Augustine Heard & Co. rapidly became the second largest American trading firm in China. The firm expanded operations throughout China’s treaty ports, its partners witnessing first-hand many of the defining moments of Sino-Western contact during…

From Tangut to Taiwan: A Dialogue with Lo Yi-chin on Diaspora and Identity Politics in Fiction 從西夏到台灣:駱以軍談離散文學與認同政治

Lo Yi-chin 駱以軍, Writer and winner of Dream of the Red Chamber Fiction Prize Mingwei Song 宋明煒, Wellesley College David Der-wei Wang 王德威, Harvard University

April 8, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

This roundtable will be in Mandarin.

The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post–Martial Law Taiwan Book Talk with Professor Kirk A. Denton

Professor Kirk A. Denton (Professor Emeritus of Chinese literature, Ohio State University)

April 8, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

RSVP required for both in-person and online attendance: https://bit.ly/3I2hyEx The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post–martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics—especially political p…

Nitasha Kaul – ‘Inbetween’ India and China: Bhutan’s International Relations

Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University

April 7, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

The antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception, frequent hostilities along their shared border across the Himalayas and a demonstrable ineffectiveness of big power diplomacy in bringing about conciliatory understandings in spite of increasing volumes of trade between…

Roselyn Hsueh – Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University

April 7, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Hsueh will discuss how her book’s Strategic Value Framework shows that the perceived strategic value orientation of state elites rooted in significant phases of internal and external pressures shape dominant patterns of market governance, which vary by country and sector within country. Specifically, Hsueh’s research d…

The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (University of Missouri-Columbia)

April 7, 2022 at 12:15 PM UTC

The Great Exodus examines one of the least understood forced migrations in modern East Asia—the human exodus from China to Taiwan following the Nationalist collapse and Chinese Communist victory in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, the book tells a very different story from conventional hist…

Crossing the Strait? PLA Modernization and Taiwan

Phillip C. Saunders Director, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs National Defense University Kharis Templeman Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Program Manager of the Hoover Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific

April 7, 2022 at 6:30 AM UTC

Drawing upon the new book Crossing the Strait: China’s Military Prepares for War with Taiwan, Dr. Saunders will discuss China’s available military options, how organizational reforms and new capabilities have improved the PLA’s ability to execute these options, the current cross-strait military balance, the challenges…

Injunctions Against “Homosexuality” in the Chinese Bible

Dr Benjamin Penny

April 7, 2022 at 6:00 AM UTC

It is well-known that when Chinese people converted to Protestant Christianity in the nineteenth century they were instructed to abandon certain practices that were regarded by their new faiths as sinful. Notable amongst these were the veneration of their ancestors and the taking of multiple wives or concubines. Some t…

Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Victor Seow — How to Write a History of Energy in Modern East Asia

Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Ling Zhang, Boston College

April 7, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

In this session, Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, will be introducing his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). Centered on the history of what was once largest coal mine in East Asia,…

Megasite Survey: Questions, Methods, and Practices in Guicheng Archaeology

Feng Li (Columbia)

April 6, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

Megasites pose special challenges to the archaeologists conducting field survey. The Guicheng city-site, measuring 8 sq. kilometers, was a prominent Bronze-Age metropolis situated in eastern Shandong Peninsula in the 10th -5th centuries BC. It also held a key position in a “frontier zone” at which a great deal of cultu…

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Nye – US-China Strategy and the Lessons of History

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean, Harvard Kennedy School of Government William Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

April 6, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

Joseph Nye received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned a PhD in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and Depu…

Mapping China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Perspectives from Without and Within

Professor Maria Adele Carrai of NYU Shanghai Hong Zhang (Stella Hong), a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

April 6, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Many debates exist about the nature of China’s engagement with the international “rule-based” order and whether the arrangements underpinning the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will be formalized into hard laws. Research into the BRI often treats the Chinese state as a monolith and focuses on the initiative’s external…

India-Africa Relations and the China Angle

Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Gateway House, Mumbai Dr. Veda Vaidyanathan, Harvard University Asia Center Prof. Renu Modi, University of Mumbai Amb. Ashok K. Kantha, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi

April 6, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

India-Africa engagement can be better studied and appreciated if it is assessed in the larger context of the unfolding changes in Africa and the continent’s growing relations with the international community, especially China. How has China been able to craft a formidable, multi-dimensional relationship with Africa wit…

China's Restless Young Women: Negotiating Gender, Class, and National Identities

Fran Martin (University of Melbourne) Kailing Xie (University of Brimingham) Mimi Lau (South China Morning Post)

April 6, 2022 at 9:00 AM UTC

How important is gender for young people in contemporary China? What challenges and aspirations are central to young Chinese women? This seminar will focus on how young women from China negotiate different expectations and identities both inside and outside their homeland.

New dynamics in China's land politics: Varieties of capital under land ownership reform

Karita Kan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

April 6, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

This talk examines how the expansion of land rights reform impacts the political economy and community politics of peri-urban villages in China. Recent policies have facilitated the sale of land management rights from rural households and collectives to commercial operators. This shift from state expropriation to marke…

China Humanities Seminar featuring Yuri Pines – The Great Unity (da yitong 大一統) Ideal: The Key to China’s Imperial Longevity?

Yuri Pines, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 5, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

One of the most notable features of imperial China is the exceptional durability of the imperial political system. Having been formed in the aftermath of Qin 秦 unification (221 BCE), this system lasted intact for 2132 years, until the abdication of the child emperor Puyi 溥儀 on February 12, 1912. For sure, the empire wa…

W22 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ “New People” Found in Translation: A Dialogue between Chinese and Global Science Fiction

Jing Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Humanities, Reed College

April 5, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Literary imaginations about modern China are often synonymous with imaginations about “new people.” This talk focuses on how such imaginations unfolded and evolved in 20th-century Chinese science fiction. In particular, it calls attention to the dynamic interaction between translation and creation, and to the genre’s c…

Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross – Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan

Julia Cross, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University

April 4, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

Prior to the medieval period, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically under the domain of the court or court-related temples. In the Kamakura era (1185–1333), this shifted, however, as relic worship became increasingly accessible to temples and shrines outside of court circles. As social anxieties mag…

"Why Nations Rise: Narratives And The Path To Great Power" With Manjari Chatterjee Miller

MANJARI CHATTERJEE MILLER

April 4, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

Manjari Chatterjee Miller is senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a research associate in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. An expert on India, China, South Asia,…

俄乌冲突、世界秩序与中国的角色选择

主讲人: 蒲晓宇 美国俄亥俄州立大学政治学博士,内华达大学政治学系副教授,美中关系全国委员会“公共知识分子项目”学者。代表著作:Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford University Press, 2019). 评议人: 刘亚伟 美国卡特中心中国事务高级顾问,中美印象网站主编。美国外交学会会员,亚特兰大中国研究中心副主任和埃默里大学政治学系的兼职教授。 主持人: 王震 法学博士,现为上海社会科学院中国学所研究员、博士生导师。主要研究领域为国际安全、冷战史及中东问题等,先后出版学术专著2部,翻译学术作品3部,公开发表学术论文及评论文章上百篇,研究成果多次获得省部级奖项。

April 3, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

俄乌战争举世瞩目,世界既有秩序面临重大挑战,各国媒体、政商圈议论纷纷,许多国家把目光投向中国。本讲座首先介绍俄乌冲突的背景。其次,以俄乌冲突为案例,从国际关系学角度讨论中国与世界秩序的几种角色选择。讲座不仅会分析中国现有的外交政策立场,也会分析中国学界的论辩与各种不同视角。讲座最后会展望俄乌冲突对中美关系的可能影响。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Megan A. Black, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conevery Bolton Valencius, Boston College Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard University Shigehisa Kuriyama, Harvard University

March 31, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

This is a Co-Sponsored lecture with Harvard Department of the History of Science. Please register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAufu2prTspGdHHOoKNT0nFpIOS54OUS6Pq

Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2021-22) - The Sino-Southeast Asian Embrace Trans-Regional Histories, 600-1600 CE

Professor Eric Tagliacozzo (John Stambaugh Professor of History, Cornell University)

March 31, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

This presentation takes a look at how transnational interactions developed in the “adolescence” of Sino-Southeast Asian contact, in the time period roughly covered by the thousand years between 600 and 1600 CE. We know very little about the “infancy” of these dealings, in the years before the T’ang. But by that dynasty…

Corporate Governance and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific

Jennifer G. Hill (Professor at Monash University), Yumiko Miwa (Professor at Meiji University), Umakanth Varottil (National University of Singapore School of Law), Bruce Aronson (Affiliated Scholar at U.S.-Asia Law Institute)

March 31, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia: Climate Change in Asia-Pacific Panel 4: Corporate Governance and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific States take the center stage at global climate negotiations, but corporations sit squarely in the crosshairs as contributors to climate change, casualties of the fa…

China’s Conservation Policies after Rapid Economic Development and Global Impact

Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Gretchen Daily, Stanford University Tong WU, Stanford University ZHENG Hua, Chinese Academy of Sciences OUYANG Zhiyun, Chinese Academy of Sciences Doug Gage, Michigan State University Jianguo "Jack" LIU, Michigan State University Jiaguo QI, Michigan State University Peilei FAN, Michigan State University Steven Pueppke, Michigan State University

March 30, 2022 at 11:30 PM UTC

This second event in the Michigan State University (MSU) Office of China Programs spring series, China and the World: Beyond the Headlines, will focus on research conducted by members of Stanford’s Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI) and their research collaborators at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Th…

Marites V. Detug – Philippine Presidential Election and the South China Sea: Navigating Maritime Dispute with China

Speaker: Marites D. Vitug, Author, Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China; Chair Emeritus of the Board, Journalism for Nation Building Foundation; Editor-at-Large, Rappler Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard University

March 30, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

This lecture is part of the Asia Center’s Philippines Lecture Series. Please register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xgtnyq5NQmyiO_G88xUtng

Faculty Roundtable: The Effects of Covid-19 on Public Health in Contemporary China: Perspectives from History and Anthropology

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University; Miriam Gross, Associate Professor in the Departments of History and of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma; and Katherine Mason, medical anthropologist who conducts ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, mental health and global health.

March 30, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

The Center for Chinese Studies presents a Faculty Roundtable, with Nicole Barnes, Assistant Professor of History at Duke University; Katherine Mason, Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Director of Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement for Anthropology at Brown University; and Miriam Gr…

Taiwan on the Front Line: The Changing Geostrategic Environment around the Taiwan Strait

Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute, Brown University Dr. Lyle Goldstein, Director of Asia Engagement, Defense Priorities Discussant: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations Boston University Moderator: Dr. Grant Rhode, Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University

March 30, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Taiwan on the Front Line: The Changing Geostrategic Environment around the Taiwan Strait will be discussed by speakers Ambassador Chas Freeman and Dr. Lyle Goldstein this Wednesday, March 30 at 4 pm. Registration link to attend this Zoom Webinar session is on the website. On the geostrategic front, parallels between Ta…

Michael McElroy – Decarbonizing India’s Economy

Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment

March 30, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of generating 50 percent of its energy requirement from renewables by 2030. Join Professor Michael B. McElroy as he explores India’s path to a decarbonized power system. Co-spon…

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Iza Ding – The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China

Iza (Yue) Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History and Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

March 30, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of stre…

Managing China’s Domestic Economic Governance

Muyang Zhang, Associate Professor at China Public Finance Institute, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Shenghao Zhu, professor of Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Aravind Yelery Senior Research Fellow, Peking University, Beijing/Shenzhen Santosh Pai, Partner, Link Legal and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi (Chair)

March 30, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

China’s journey in the global economy earned it the title of ‘unstoppable juggernaut’, but the growing discussions on China’s economic future indicate the extreme swings. This is evident especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, trade war, plunging exports and overwhelming pressures causing weak recov…

W22 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University

March 29, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state–market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining…

"Micro-Institutional Foundations Of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways To Globalization In China, India" With Roselyn Hsueh - Temple U

ROSELYN HSUEH

March 28, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

I am an Associate Professor (tenured) of Political Science at Temple University. I co-direct the Certificate in Political Economy, a program of the College of Liberal Arts. I am also a faculty affiliate of Global Studies and Asian Studies at Temple. I have served as a Global Order Visiting Scholar at the University of…

2022 Harvard Law School China Law Symposium: Charting a New Course through Uncertainties

Harvard Law School China Law Association

March 28, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties,” from Monday, March 28th to Thursday, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations.…

Navigating EU-China Relations in the Democracy-Autocracy Binary – CHERN & CEU DI Online Event

SPEAKERS: Zhang Yongjin, University of Bristol; Gudrun Wacker, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP; Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Riga Stradins University DISCUSSANTS: Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow; Nana de Graaff, Vrije Universiteit MODERATOR: Agota Revesz, Technische Universität Berlin

March 28, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

The past three years have seen a world in isolation, China has practically shut its doors airtight. Our democracy is ailing and needs corrections or even a full-scale transformation. Institutions for global governance that could efficiently fight against a pandemic or climate change are barely functional. Against this…

US-Japan Partnership in Climate Change

Tomoaki Ishigaki (Minister, Embassy of Japan in Washington), Pete Ogden (VP for Energy, Climate, and the Environment at the UN Foundation), Bruce Aronson (NYU School of Law)

March 25, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia: Climate Change in Asia-Pacific Panel 3: US-Japan Partnership in Climate Change Discussions of US-Japanese cooperation often focus on geopolitics and trade. This panel will examine the ways in which the two governments, working separately and together, have sha…

The Legacy of Koxinga in South East Asia: Chia Joo-ming and Nanyang Narrative

Chia Joo-ming, Writer, Sinagpore Ko Chia-cian, National Taiwan University Liu Hsiu-mei, National Dong-hwa University David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University

March 25, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

Co-organized with the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Please register via https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZTgwHdNtRqSh2BddTChbKA

Taiwan Studies Workshop Featuring Lev Nachman – Why is Unification So Unpopular in Taiwan? It’s the PRC Political System, Not Just Culture

Lev Nachman, Hou Family Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

March 24, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Lev Nachman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation Movement Parties in Contested States: Taiwan’s Post- Sunflower Movement Parties focuses on contested states, examining why some flourish while others decline.

Changing Higher Education in East Asia: A CGHE Book Symposium

Simon Marginson, University of Oxford Xin Xu, University of Oxford Olga Mun, University of Oxford Yunkyung Min, Seoul National University CHAIR: Ka Ho Mok, Lingnan University

March 24, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

East Asian higher education has common cultural roots in Chinese civilization, each country has been shaped in different ways by Western intervention, and all are building global strategies. Shared educational agendas combine with long political tensions and rising national identities. Hope and fear touch each other. W…

Rising Sea Levels in Asia

José E. Alvarez (Professor at NYU School of Law & USALI Faculty Director), Patricia Galvão-Teles (Co-Chair, ILC Study Group on Sea Level Rise in Relation to International Law), Dr. Nilüfer Oral (Director, Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore &Co-Chair, ILC Study Group on Sea Level Rise in Relation to International Law), Bryce Rudyk (Legal Advisor to the chair of the Alliance of Small Island States)

March 24, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Rising sea levels due to climate change are affecting the livelihoods of millions of persons in Asia-Pacific. While engineers develop physical adaptations, the UN’s International Law Commission (ICL) has been studying needed adaptations to international legal frameworks in order to protect the status and rights of affe…

Climate Governance and the Rule of Law

Navroz K. Dubash (Professor at the Centre for Policy Research), Tabitha Grace Mallory (CEO of the China Ocean Institute), Jacqueline Peel (Director of Melbourne Climate Futures), Ye Qi (Professor of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Oran Young (Artic Expert, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Barbara)

March 24, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Timothy A. Gelatt Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia: Climate Change in Asia-Pacific Panel 1: Climate Governance and the Rule of Law The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that the damage to Earth’s ecosystems from rising temperatures is mounting far more rapidly t…

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Hanming Fang – Population Aging, Pension System, and Retirement Income Security in China

Hanming Fang, Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

March 23, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC

Professor Fang, is an applied microeconomist with broad theoretical and empirical interests focusing on public economics, including topics such as discrimination, social insurance, and welfare reform, health insurance markets, and population aging. In 2008, Professor Fang was awarded the 17th Kenneth Arrow Prize by the…

The Birth of Chinese Buddhist Modernism

Prof. Douglas Matthew GILDOW

March 23, 2022 at 3:30 PM UTC

Let's check out Prof. Douglas Matthew GILDOW upcoming webinar at 11:30am, on Mar 23 (Wednesday). The topic is The Birth of Chinese Buddhist Modernism. He is going to share about origins of Chinese modernist Buddhism, including its features and relationships. It is conducted in English. Due to the new social distancing…

China Humanities Seminar featuring Yiqun Zhou – A Book for Hard Times: Wu Mi and Dream of the Red Chamber

Yiqun Zhou, Stanford University

March 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

This talk examines the role that Dream of the Red Chamber played in the life and work of Wu Mi 吳宓 (1894-1978), a pioneer in the study of Comparative Literature in China and a cultural conservative known for his staunch resistance to the prevailing New Culture Movement. Long condemned to infamy and oblivion because his…

Contemporary Chinese Society featuring Bin Xu – Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China

Bin Xu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Emory University

March 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Presented via Zoom Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tAq7qVC8SAaKecM0XzVqxg

China's Sharp Power in Africa: A Handbook for Building National Resilience

Larry Diamond Senior Fellow Hoover Institution Glenn Tiffert Research Fellow Hoover Institution Oliver McPherson-Smith Doctoral Candidate University of Oxford The Hon. Jendayi Frazer Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow Hoover Institution H. Kwasi Prempeh Director Ghana Center for Democratic Development

March 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

China's Sharp Power in Africa: A Handbook for Building National Resilience Across sub-Saharan Africa, China has burst on to the scene as a leading partner. Although this affords African nations rich opportunities, it also exposes them to the risks of authoritarian sharp power and makes the conditions for democracy in t…

Weddings, Funerals and Banquets: The Impact of Guanxi on Political Representation in Taiwan

Dr. Tao Wang is Research Associate at the Manchester China Institute. His research interests lie in the fields of political culture, democratisation, and nationalism, with a focus on East Asia. His research can be found in Foreign Affairs, Journal of Contemporary China, and World Affairs.

March 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

“The funeral home was like his second office.” On average, a Taiwanese MP receives 31 requests a week from constituents to attend funerals. Why are voters interested in having MPs present at private funerals? Drawing on evidence from in-depth interviews and observation, this study focuses on the role of guanxi, the Chi…

Daoism in China’s Climate Change Policy

Martin Palmer, Theologian, Author and Broadcaster

March 22, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

In 2009 the UN, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC), the Chinese Government and representatives of over a thousand Daoist temples, monasteries and organisations met at the ancient sacred site of Hua Shan. There, the Daoists launched their first eight year plan to combat climate change, address bio-diversit…

Cabo Verde-China Relations: How Can a Small State Navigate between Great Powers

Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan (Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University)

March 22, 2022 at 4:30 AM UTC

Cabo-Verde-China relations have rapidly developed in the last two decades. China has provided a lot of assistance to this small archipelagic nation located in the Atlantic Ocean, around 400 kilometres west of the Africa continent. Several Chinese companies, including Huawei, are active there. A Confucius Institute has…

"Countering China’s Economic Coercion: From A Medium-Sized State Perspective" With Christina Lai

Christina Lai

March 21, 2022 at 8:30 PM UTC

Over the last decades, China has punished countries that undermine its territorial claims and foreign policy goals with measures such as restricting trade, encouraging popular boycotts, and cutting off tourism. These coercive measures have caused significant economic damage to U.S. partners such as Japan, the Philippin…

Chinese Religions Seminar featuring Vincent Goossaert – Social Networks of the Gods in Late Imperial Spirit-Writing Altars

Vincent Goossaert, Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions, École Pratique des Hautes Études

March 21, 2022 at 4:00 PM UTC

Chinese social life is saturated with interactions with entities other than living humans – ancestors, suffering souls, gods, animal spirits… A wide repertoire of ritual techniques regulates these interactions; some of them, aim at limiting those with dangerous entities, but this talk is interested in those that instea…

小孩是怎么学会说谎的: 带给人工智能的启发

李康 加拿大国家一级讲席研究员,多伦多大学儿童研究所/人类发展与应用心理学系教授,加州大学圣迭戈分校心理学系和人类发展中心教授研究员,中国海外杰青获得者。致力于通过心理学和认知神经科学手段研究儿童道德社会化的心理与神经机制。 毕彦超 哈佛大学心理学博士,北京师范大学认知神经科学与学习国家重点实验室、IDG/麦戈文脑科学研究院教授。长江学者特聘教授、杰青。研究方向为语义记忆和知识表征的认知神经基础。 王腊梅 哈佛大学访问学者,深圳大学心理学院副教授,中科院心理所和德国萨尔大学联培博士,香港大学心理系博士后。主要从事家庭和儿童心理研究。

March 19, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

小孩说谎是跟大人学的吗?大人能否根据表情判断一个孩子是否在说谎?如果有一种方法能有85%的准确率检测一个人是否在撒谎,那会怎么样?李康教授20多年来致力于儿童说谎的研究,其研究成果已经推动加拿大有关儿童证人待遇的法律改革。本次讲座将讨论关于儿童如何学会说谎的研究发现,以及这些研究如何促进血谱光学成像这一突破性技术的发明——该技术可以检测人脸的面部血流,并利用这些信息来建模和检测各种生理和心理状态,以及该技术在智能教育、医疗保健、心理学研究、情感人工智能等领域的应用潜力。

Fantasies of Chinese Porcelain from "Zheng He’s Voyage" to the "Western Ocean" to the "Ballet des Porcelaines"

Judith T. Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago

March 18, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

This talk builds on recent scholarship that takes seriously fantasmatic portrayals of transmutation in Chinese porcelain manufacture. The speaker argues that creative accounts—theatrical and narrative, Chinese and European—position porcelain as a substance hovering on the cusp between life and death, person and thing,…

The History and Future of Chinese Classical Scholarship 經典的未來

Speaker: David B. Honey (Brigham Young University) Discussants: Su Jie 蘇傑 (Fudan University) Wu Fei 吳飛 (Beijing University) Pham Lee-moi 范麗梅 (Academia Sinica)

March 18, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

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Russia, Ukraine and China's Long Game — Kevin Rudd and Peter Mansbridge In Conversation

• Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia, President of the Asia Society • Moderator: Peter Mansbridge, Celebrated broadcaster and Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy • Welcome: Peter Loewen, Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

March 18, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

In early February, China and Russia issued a joint declaration that solidified their bilateral relationship, outlining their intention to advance “unprecedented” economic and security cooperation. The statement, which ran more than 5000 words in length, declared that there were “no limits” to the China-Russian relation…

Funny Money Circulation and Fabric Exports From China to Dubai Through Indian Trading Networks

Dr. Ka-Kin Cheuk (Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong)

March 18, 2022 at 8:30 AM UTC

Chiefly drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in the district of Keqiao in Zhejiang Province since 2009, Dr. Cheuk argues that irregular financial transactions — conceptualized as “funny money” in this talk — play a significant role in the sustenance of otherwise tenuous business relations between Indian traders and Ch…

Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture

Shengqing Wu, Professor of Chinese Literature, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Moderated by Ying Qian, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

March 17, 2022 at 11:00 PM UTC

Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography, a transformative technology and presumably realistic medi…

Practicing Intimacy in the Cult of the Goddess of Mount Tai in Late Imperial China

Zhujun Ma (University of Colorado Boulder)

March 17, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

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Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party

John Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He served for five years as China Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing (2008-2013) before heading the Asia-Pacific philanthropy studies program at Swinburne University. His books include Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, awarded the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association, and Awakening China: Politics, Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution, awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of the US Association for Asian Studies. Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party is due for release in March 2022. Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a historian of modern China. He co-leads the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power and works closely with government and civil society partners to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions. Most recently, he co-authored and edited Global Engagement: Rethinking Risk in the Research Enterprise (2020).

March 16, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party China’s communist party regards itself as engaged in a global information war. In his new book, Cadre Country, historian John Fitzgerald probes some of the key stories the party tells to advance i…

Simulating the Impacts of China's Clean Energy Transition Abroad

Ian Kieffer, Global China Research Fellow, Boston University Global Development Policy Center Ian Sue Wing, Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University; Core Faculty Member, Boston University Global Development Policy Center

March 16, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

In recent years, China has grown to be one of the largest providers of outward power development globally through its growing global shares of foreign direct investment (FDI) and development bank finance. Until Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s announcement that China “will not build new coal-fired power plants abroad” in Se…

Dual Circulation Strategy: Causes and Progress

Dr. Avinash Godbole, Jindal Global University Prof. Amita Batra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Chair)

March 16, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

In May 2020, as the world was grappling with Covid, Xi Jinping made an announcement that China was going to focus on developing what he called a “dual circulation strategy”. As a general objective, this strategy aims to promote innovation driven high-quality growth as a long-term target. It also goes well with China’s…

Impacts of major function oriented zoning on regional development in China: A perspective of land development rights

TIAN Li, Tsinghua University

March 16, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

The concept of major function oriented zoning (主体功能区) was put forward in 2005, and the central government issued a National Major Function Oriented Zoning Plan in 2010. By designating areas for development and conservation, it has had a significant impact on regional development in China. I introduce how major function…

Emory – Nanjing International Symposium on Literature, Culture, and Language Research and Practice

Maria Franca Sibau, REALC, Emory University (Panel 1) Guangchen Chen, REALC, Emory University (Panel 2) Hong Li, REALC, Emory University (Panel 3) Heather Boldt, Laney Graduate School, Emory University (Panel 4)

March 16, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Emory University and Nanjing University are proud to present an academic symposium exploring topics in literature, culture, and language research and practice. This inaugural event jointly organized by our two institutions and hosted by Emory University will provide the opportunity to share new and ongoing research and…

Ukraine Crisis: A tightrope for Chinese Diplomacy?

Amb. Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary Professor Da Wei, Tsinghua University Professor Michael Klare, Five Colleges Programme in Peace & World Security Studies Prof. Anuradha M. Chenoy, former Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Dr. Hemant Adlakha, Jawaharlal Nehru University,

March 15, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

The pounding of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv at 4 a.m. on 24 February by the Russian missiles has been called "the end of the post-Cold War" world order by one influential Chinese financial daily. Following the Russian military assault on Ukraine, China's "ambiguous" stance on the ongoing military action has been serious…

Rural returns and ritualized commensality during the Lunar New Year: Restoration or transformation of moral communities

Prof. Ellen Oxfeld

March 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Let's check out Prof. Ellen Oxfeld upcoming webinar at 9:00am, on Mar 14 (Monday). The topic is Rural returns and ritualized commensality during the Lunar New Year: Restoration or transformation of moral communities. She is going to share about the moral dimensions of return at Chinese village. It is conducted in Engli…

中日两国外交政策及其对两国关系的影响

梁云祥 北京大学国际关系学院教授 张云 日本国立新潟大学国际关系学副教授 张翔 复旦大学历史学系教授

March 13, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

本讲座拟对中日两国战后不同时期总体的外交追求目标和政策及其具体到日本对华外交目标及其政策和中国对日外交目标及其政策进行分析和简单评价,并以此来看两国各自的政策对当时的两国关系造成哪些影响。

Translating the “Cold War”: Japanophone/Sinophone Literature from Okinawa and Kinmen

Huei-chu Chu is distinguished Professor at the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. She is the author of two books in Chinese, The Transplantation and Translation of “Modern”: Postcolonial Thinking in Colonial Literature from Taiwan (2009), and Power and Intimacy under the Japanese Empire: Race and Ethnic Relations in Colonial Literature from Taiwan (2017), both published by Rye Field Publishing Co. These two books explore, respectively, the issues of colonial modernity and race relations in Taiwan literature under Japanese colonial rule. Her English articles have appeared in Positions, Amerasia Journal, and Comparative Literature Studies. She is currently working on a book project focusing on cultural productions in Cold War Taiwan and Okinawa.

March 12, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

In January 2017, John Bolton, foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations advocated that the United States revisit their “One-China policy” and reevaluate their political and military relationship with Taiwan as China had become “increasingly belligerent” in recent…

China: Its rise and consequences

Michael Szonyi (Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Frank Wen-Hsuing Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University) Theresa Lee (Associate Professor - Dept of Political Science - University of Guelph) Norman Smith (Professor - Dept. of History - University of Guelph)

March 11, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

The Olympics returned to a new and emboldened China. What should we learn from China’s transformation? Join the discussion with our experts to discuss the rise and consequences of China's transformation: Michael Szonyi Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Frank Wen-Hsuing Wu Memorial Professor of Chi…

Making China Great Again? China’s “Green” and “Digital” Belt and Road Initiative

Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS, University of London)

March 11, 2022 at 2:30 PM UTC

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (hereinafter BRI) – Yi dai yi lu – is Xi Jinping’s flagship foreign policy which brings together the country’s geopolitical and geo-economic aims under the banner of the ‘community of shared destiny of mankind’. Xi’s ambitions to make China a ‘strong and wealthy nation’ under the ‘Two C…

How Transnational Education Transforms Privilege

Yingyi Ma is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies at Syracuse University. Professor Ma is a sociologist of education and migration. She is currently the Provost Faculty Fellow on internationalization at Syracuse University. In 2019, she was selected as a Public Intellectual Fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her monograph Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education, published in 2020 by Columbia University Press, has won the Best Book Award, Higher Education Special Interest Group, Comparative and International Education Association (2021), and Bourdieu Book Award Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association (2021). She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.

March 10, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

This study examines two cohorts of Chinese international students studying in the U.S. whose privilege is challenged and sometimes upended before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research questions the dominant framing of privilege centering on the notion of ease, as informed by the western scholarship on elite e…

An English Schoolboy in War-torn China

Walford Gillison, in conversation with Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)

March 10, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

Walford Gillison, a missionary son born in Wuhan, was a neutral during China’s war with Japan. He was semi-imprisoned after Pearl Harbor, but a full POW in Yangzhou from March 1942. In his book, he describes everyday life in an over-crowded camp with 600 people. He recounts the food shortage, lack of privacy, steaming…

Journey to the South: Buddhism in the Age of Chinese Migration

Dr Jack Meng-Tat Chia, National University of Singapore

March 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM UTC

Chinese Buddhists have never remained stationary. They have always been on the move. Why did Buddhist monks migrate from China to Southeast Asia? How did they participate in transregional Buddhist networks across the South China Sea? In this talk, I will tell the story of “South China Sea Buddhism,” referring to a Budd…

Racing to the Bottom? The Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Collective Labor Rights

Speakers: Dr. Yujeong Yang (Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Prof. Chelsea Chia-Chen Chou (Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University)

March 10, 2022 at 2:00 AM UTC

For event registration, please contact Ms. Ya-hui Huang: ahui@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Shadow Banking and State Finances in China

Carl Walter, Visiting Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

March 9, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

The fundamental reason for the extreme leverage today in China’s banks, enterprises and the state itself is found in the decentralized fiscal arrangements of highly self-reliant local governments. This problem has been compounded by the excessive stimulus lending over the past decade. As a result Beijing has promoted t…

The Buried Truth? The 1965 Lanting 蘭亭 Debate and the Politics of Authenticity

Prof Guangchen Chen (Emory University)

March 9, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

In January 1965, an Eastern Jin dynasty tomb was discovered in the suburb of Nanjing. As the epitaphs showed, it belonged to Wang Xingzhi (王興之) and his wife Song Hezhi (宋和之), who were distant relatives of the celebrated calligrapher Wang Xizhi (王羲之). The tomb is located in an area that historically had deep links to th…

Negotiations on Investment Facilitation for Development at the WTO

Kei Tomaru (Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva) Karl P. Sauvant, (Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) & Columbia Law School)

March 9, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

At the World Trade Organization (WTO), over 110 countries and regions are currently negotiating over investment facilitation for development. The aim is to facilitate foreign direct investment by improving the transparency and efficiency of investment measures and encouraging sustainable investment. This plurilateral i…

China's Nuclear Modernisation and Implications for India

Dr. Hans Kristensen, Federation of American Scientists Amb. Jayant Prasad, Former India Ambassador to UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva Air Marshal M. Matheswaran (Retd), former DCIDS(PPFD), India and Founder President, The Peninsula Foundation

March 9, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

China’s nuclear arsenal is undergoing the most dramatic modernization since China first acquired nuclear weapons 57 years ago. In addition to increasing road-mobile ballistic missiles, the current phase involves construction of what appears to be more than 300 missile silos, launching additional ballistic missile subma…

中国新型城市化的战略目标和核心举措

尹稚,清华大学建筑学院

March 9, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

该讲座以清华团队城镇化研究主要成果为基础,讨论现代化在中国的内涵,特别是以人为核心的,实现城、乡、治的现代化。讲座将介绍如何在中国实现围绕人的现代化,以人的素质和生活质量提升为核心,坚持走人本共享、六化协同、布局协调、绿色健康、文化传承、治理现代的城镇化中国道路,实现“人、城、乡、治”四个现代化目标。中国未来面向现代化的新型城镇化战略任务将包括五个方面:实现人的素质提升和无差别化发展,实现六化协同的城乡发展新动能,实现布局协调的城镇化空间新格局,实现绿色健康的城乡发展新模式,实现文化传承的人居环境新风貌。该讲座将详细解说该五大战略任务与相应的十八项核心举措,以及建议的五大改革领域和十六项改革建议。

W22 LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Musical Connections in Challenging Times: Beethoven, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Critical Nature of Cultural Exchange with China

Jindong Cai (Professor of Music and Arts at Bard College); Sheila Melvin (Writer, Author and Consultant)

March 8, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

This talk will explore how Beethoven became an iconic figure in the People’s Republic of China and consider the role that his music, and classical music in general, has played in China’s internal politics and diplomatic relationships. The Philadelphia Orchestra’s history, and example, as a bridge builder between the US…

Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in Language Campaigns in China: A Regional Comparison

Jocelin Lingxia Zhou

March 8, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

In recent years, "dialect-protection" campaigns have emerged in major Chinese “dialect” speaking areas in China. In more economically developed regions and individualized societies, local “dialect” speakers are more assertive and vocal about their linguistic rights and the preservation of the local language and culture…

How the National Security Law is Shaping Education in Hong Kong

Dr Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education, Kyushu University

March 8, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

One country, one system, one culture. This talk will analyse the educational implications of Hong Kong’s new National Security Law. The implications of Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL), which came into force in July 2020, are still being worked out in many spheres of life in the HKSAR. Education has been a major…

Foreigners and Outsiders: Chinese Views of Jesuit Missionaries in the Late Ming Period

Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina)

March 7, 2022 at 1:00 PM UTC

This lecture proposes to analyse different views of the Jesuit missionaries in late Ming China, with special focus on their status as ‘foreigners’. The missionaries’ activities in various domains, i.e. religious, scientific, philosophic, among others, lent themselves to different appreciations of their presence in late…

Freud’s Chinese Things: Contexts and Interpretations

Stanley Abe Stacey Pierson Eva Stroeber Sarah Cheang Craig Clunas

March 6, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

A half-day online symposium hosted by the Freud Museum London, in association with the exhibition ‘Freud and China’, will examine the Chinese things around Sigmund Freud in his last decade, and situate them in the context of cultures of collecting in his lifetime. The Chinese antiquities in the Freud collection, the ‘C…

Green Gold and Paper Gold: Financing the Chinese-American Tea Trade before the Opium War

Dr. Dan Du (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

March 5, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

This research explores the credit economy of the tea trade between China and the United States from 1784 – 1842. Preoccupied with the large volume of silver flowing into China, previous research portrayed China’s foreign trade as a cumbersome system undergirded primarily by a barter economy and silver payments. This re…

CANCAN LIAO – THE INTERPRETATIONS OF “HEAVEN”: ENCOUNTER, CONFLICT AND ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN CHINESE LITERATI AND EUROPEAN JESUITS IN LATE MING CHINA

Cancan Liao, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2021-22 Peter Bol, Harvard University

March 4, 2022 at 5:30 PM UTC

Late Ming and Early Qing was a period during which China underwent a transformation both on intellectual thoughts and society life, influenced with Western natural science (more precisely, natural philosophy) and Catholicism transmitted by European Jesuits. In the course of cultural exchange, the interpretations of “he…

New Urbanisms of China and India: A Panel Discussion

Lisa Björkman Nick R. Smith

March 4, 2022 at 3:00 AM UTC

A growing body of research on urban India and China shows that the concepts drawn from the histories of urbanization in the West are not adequate for understanding the new forms of power, networks, capital, and infrastructure that constitute the rapidly changing urban ecologies of China and India. The authors of two re…

VICTORIA CHEN – COASTAL FORMOSAN, NUCLEAR AUSTRONESIAN, AND BEYOND: HOW DO FORMOSAN LANGUAGES INFORM THEORIES OF AUSTRONESIAN EXPANSION?

Victoria Chen, Victoria University of Wellington

March 4, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

The Indigenous languages of Taiwan feature two patterns of morphological discrepancy. First, only some possess a symmetrical morphological paradigm associated with a phenomenon known as ‘noun-verb homophony’. Second, only a handful of the languages allow the Proto-Austronesian stative affix ma- to be used in a transiti…

New Urbanisms of China and India: A Panel Discussion

Lisa Björkman Associate Professor, Urban and Public Affairs University of Louisville Nick R. Smith Assistant Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies Barnard College of Columbia University

March 3, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

A growing body of research on urban India and China shows that the concepts drawn from the histories of urbanization in the West are not adequate for understanding the new forms of power, networks, capital, and infrastructure that constitute the rapidly changing urban ecologies of China and India. The authors of two re…

The Portrayal of Chinese International Students: A Critical Review

Dr Cora Lingling Xu, The University of Durham

March 3, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

Chinese international students are often portrayed in a monolithic manner in popular discourse. To offer a more comprehensive and critical representation of Chinese international students, this paper conducts a thematic narrative review of 128 English-language and 74 Chinese-language peer-reviewed articles published be…

Knowledge Building and Everyday Practices: Hot Springs, Public Bathing and Medical Pilgrimages in Early Modern China

Fei Huang, Tübingen University

March 2, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC

Lecture followed by Q & A Knowledge about hot springs can be key to understanding how the interrelationship between nature and the human body operates both locally and globally. This lecture provides some hints of how knowledge about hot springs has been shaped and transmitted through encounters between highly stru…

One Hundred Years of Communism with Chinese Characteristics

Tony Saich (Harvard University) Bruce Dickson (George Washington University) Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia) Chair: Rebekka Aasnes Sagild (University of Oslo)

March 2, 2022 at 3:00 PM UTC

Governing China since 1949 and now listing about 90 million members: Is the Communist Party really a political party? Are there other ways to better understand this organisation and its history? In this seminar, three internationally renowned China scholars will present their recent books on the Chinese Communist Party…

When Data Universes Collide: U.S. and China's Rival Approaches to Data-linked Decoupling

PANELISTS Paul TRIOLO Senior Vice President for China and Technology Policy Lead, Dentons Global Advisors-Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG) Denis SIMON Senior Advisor to the President for China Affairs, Professor Duke University Kendra SCHAEFER Partner and Head of Tech Policy Research, Trivium China Sourabh GUPTA Senior Fellow and Head of Trade ‘n Technology Program, Institute for China-America Studies (ICAS) MODERATOR Yawei LIU Senior Advisor, China Focus, Carter Center

March 2, 2022 at 2:30 PM UTC

Data is the lifeblood of the digital economy. It is also an arena of fierce maneuvering as China and the United States seek to gain a leg-up in key industries that will define the Fourth Industrial Revolution. President Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to deepen the integration of Internet, big data and artificial in…

CRITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING CHINA SERIES FEATURING XINGXING WANG – CHINESE POLICY TOWARD NORTH KOREA

Speakers Speaker: Xingxing Wang, Shanghai International Studies University Moderator: William Overholt, Harvard Kennedy School

March 2, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Over the last decade, Dr. Wang has conducted research at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University—among several other universities in South Korea— Her research primarily concerns Northeast Asian studies, particularly focusing on the intersection between China, the Korean Peninsula and China-U.S. rel…

Five Phases of BRI development, 2013-2022

Prof. David Arase, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, Nanjing University Amb. Ashok K. Kantha, Institute of Chinese Studies

March 2, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

The rollout and development of BRI cooperation is seen as a dynamic process and is discussed in terms of five successive phases: 1) Rollout; 2) Routinization; 3) Community of Shared Destiny; 4) Diversifying aims and adapting to constraints; 5) Covid and post-Covid adjustments. The overall process is seen as progressing…

Post-urbanism 2.0: infrastructure spaces and half-finished cities in China

Tim Oakes (University of Colorado Boulder)

March 2, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

This talk explores China’s National New Area experimental urban development zones as ‘infrastructure spaces’ of diffuse and fragmented urbanization. Such spaces typically feature a rapidly built, large scale infrastructure grid laid upon an existing though increasingly obsolete rural landscape. They also seem to sugges…

Faculty Roundtable: “Ritual & Relationship in Living Daoist Practice”

David Mozina (independent researcher) Jonathan Pettit (University of Hawaii at Mānoa) Edward Davis (University of Hawaii at Mānoa)

March 1, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

The Center for Chinese Studies presents a Faculty Roundtable with David J. Mozina in conversation with Jonathan Pettit and Edward Davis. Dr. Mozina studies living Daoist and Buddhist ritual traditions in Hunan province in south China, and the roots of those traditions in the liturgical vibrancy of the Song, Yuan, and e…

CHINA HUMANITIES SEMINAR FEATURING YUHANG LI – ENGINEERING RELIGIOUS BLISS AT THE QING COURT: JILE SHIJIE IN THE BEIHAI PARK

Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

February 28, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

In 1770, with the purpose of presenting an unusual surprising gift to his mother Empress Dowager Chongqing (1692-1777) for her eightieth birthday, Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799) ordered the imperial architectural department to construct a Buddhist compound named jile shijie or blissful land on the northern shore of imper…

The Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

Professor Roselyn Hsueh (Temple University)

February 28, 2022 at 12:30 PM UTC

What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state–market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia and examining…

A Public Lecture - How Do We Think about History: The Intellectual Inquiry of Thinking about Historiography in Asia

趙軼峰教授 (東北師範大學亞洲文明研究院院長;《古代文明》執行主編)

February 28, 2022 at 2:30 AM UTC

The Dawn of Science as Cultural Authority in China Tianyanlun (On Heavenly Evolution) in the Post-1895 Debate over Preserving China’s Dogma

Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Director and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan, and a Professor at the Institute of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

February 26, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

There is an intriguing puzzle to be found in the historiography of science in modern China: While Yan Fu’s Tianyanlun 天演論 (On Heavenly Evolution), which was published in 1898 as the Chinese translation of Thomas Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics (1893), is universally celebrated as the most influential book in modern Chine…

Revisiting the History of Daoism through Early Chinese Scriptures (shu 書)

Speaker: Yegor Grebnev (Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai) Discussant: Mark Csikszentmihalyi (UC Berkeley)

February 25, 2022 at 7:00 PM UTC

Politics of AI in China

Jinghan Zeng (Lancaster University)

February 25, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

China’s open ambition to become a global AI superpower has attracted considerable policy, media and academic attention. This talk will focus on national strategy, security and governance aspects of China’s AI approach. It will discuss why China’s AI approach is sophisticated and multifaced, and how it has brought about…

Old Roads, Religious Mobility, and Paradigms of Long-Distance Transmission — Epigraphic and Petroglyphic Complexes in a Transit Zone between Eurasian Frontiers

Dr. Jason Neelis (Wilfrid Laurier University)

February 25, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Graffiti inscriptions and rock drawings mark an ancient network of capillary routes that connected Central Asian Silk Routes with major South Asian arteries for religious mobility and trade. The presentation aims to showcase developments of digital imaging and mapping techniques to document and promote the tangible cul…

Sailing from Canton to Macao: A Map of the Waterways between the Two Cities

Dr. Ronald C. Po (London School of Economics and Political Science)

February 25, 2022 at 9:30 AM UTC

Canton and Macao are two exceptionally prominent and symbolic port cities linking China and the rest of the world. Their histories are so well known that they should require no further elaboration. Instead of retelling the relatively familiar stories of these two places, we will look at the history of how these two sea…

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Evolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu

Jing Tsu (Yale) Mei Zhang (WildChina)

February 25, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

For our March book club we’re reading Kingdom of Characters in preparation for our chat with the author, Jing Tsu. --- After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive…

You're Hired! A Guide for Foreign-Born People Seeking Jobs

Betsy Cohen (St. Louis Mosaic Project) Qiaoni "Linda" Jing (Genective)

February 25, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

The struggle of securing employment during a pandemic is hard – especially for foreign- born job applicants. Moreover, finding a helpful guide to navigate that process is even harder! This special event will feature USHCA’s next spotlighted author whose book is being touted as a “tremendous asset” for foreign-born appl…

Energy Issues in East Asia Lecture Series

"Dr. Wei-Ming Chen (University of Delaware)," "Dr. Pei-Wen Lu (National Changhua University of Education)," "Dr. Ker-Hsuan Chien (Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)"

February 25, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Join the University of Washington Taiwan Studies Program for the Winter 2022 Lecture Series covering Energy Issues in East Asia. Each lecture will feature a different expert who will speak on different energy related issues issues facing East Asia. Thursday, Feb 24, 2022, 4 – 5 PM PT Energy Transition and Climate Actio…

CEAS ICEA Series: "Gender Ideology and Neofamilism: Gender, Marriage, Family, and Sexual Values in China"

Xiaoling Shu (UC Davis)

February 24, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

This event will only be published with the approval of the speaker. This event will be hybrid and a Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the event following registration via EventBrite.

CEAS ICEA Series: "Gender Ideology and Neofamilism: Gender, Marriage, Family, and Sexual Values in China"

Xiaoling Shu (UC Davis)

February 24, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

This event will only be published with the approval of the speaker. This event will be hybrid and a Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the event following registration via EventBrite.

Social Media and Social History during the Wuhan Lockdown: A Talk By Guobin Yang

Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

February 24, 2022 at 10:00 PM UTC

The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an unprecedented event in modern world history. Recently published by Columbia University Press, Guobin Yang’s THE WUHAN LOCKDOWN recounts this history by presenting a galaxy of dramatic scenes and characters. This talk introduces the main features of the bo…

Charting the Ideological Spectrum and Public Opinion in China

Jennifer Pan is an Associate Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research focuses on political communication and authoritarian politics. Pan uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity in China and other authoritarian regimes to answer questions about how autocrats perpetuate their rule. How political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age. How preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result. Rory Truex is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. His research focuses on Chinese politics and authoritarian systems. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Perspectives on Politics, and The China Quarterly, and featured in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. In 2021 he received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching honor at Princeton. He currently resides in Philadelphia. Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy, Kennedy has been traveling to China for over 30 years. His specific areas of expertise include industrial policy, technology innovation, business lobbying, U.S.-China commercial relations, and global governance.

February 24, 2022 at 8:00 PM UTC

Join Asia Society Southern California for a conversation on understanding the Chinese ideological spectrum with leading scholars in the field of contemporary Chinese politics and political communication, the first in a series of collaborations with the Standford Center on China's Economy and Institutions. Register here…

Jokebooks and Humour Publications in Late-Ming China

Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)

February 24, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

From the mid-1500s onwards, Ming China saw a boom in printing and publishing which generated an explosion of fresh intellectual currents, increased the accessibility of all kinds of information and fundamentally altered people’s relationship with knowledge and the written word. This talk will place the spotlight on the…

Classical Chinese poetry - lecture by Olga Lomová

Olga Lomová

February 24, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Re-visiting the primary textual sources about the ancient 'Nüguo' matriarchal queendoms of the Chinese borderlands

Frederique Darragon (Sichuan University)

February 24, 2022 at 3:30 PM UTC

‘Gender Identities in Early and Premodern Text Cultures’.

Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

Roselyn Hsueh (Temple University)

February 24, 2022 at 12:30 AM UTC

What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How do state-market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-Cold War era of global conflict and cooperation? Drawing on research in China, India, and Russia, Micro-Institutional F…

Putting China’s Personal Information Protection Law in Context

Graham Webster (Stanford University) Katherine Wilhelm (New York University)

February 23, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) has grabbed international attention largely because it imposes costs on foreign companies with Chinese customers and pushes us even further in the direction of data localization. The law does all that – and in conjunction with the new Data Security Law and other ne…

CHINA, THE US, AND THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER(S)

Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School. Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon. Stacie Goddard, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Faculty Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College. Zha Daojiong, Professor of International Political Economy, School of International Studies, Peking University. Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University. Chair: Melani Cammett, Center Director. Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

February 23, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China

LU Yao (Columbia University)

February 23, 2022 at 1:30 AM UTC

Massive rural-urban migration and growing collective resistance are two profound transformations in China. How are these two phenomena connected? Also, rural and urban protests in China have been portrayed as fragmented phenomena. With greater geographic mobility, have the urban-rural linkages been restored to a certai…

Russia in the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from China, Russia, and the United States

Speakers: Artyom Lukin, Deputy Director for Research and Associate Professor at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia Elena Feditchkina Tracy, Associate Researcher at the Virtual Research Lab and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois Gaye Christoffersen, Former Professor of International Politics, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Nanjing Center Ying Liu, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations; Deputy Director of Center for Russian Studies, China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) Moderator: Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scientist, China and Indo-Pacific Studies division, CNA, on leave from Montclair State University in 2022, Senior Research Scholar, WEAI, Columbia University

February 23, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC

Russia’s role in the Indo-Pacific is an understudied topic—while much of the discussion of Russia in Asia typically focuses on its response to geopolitical rivalries, the volume addresses ideational factors in Russia’s relations with regional and global powers, the domestic drivers of Russia’s Asia-Pacific policy, as w…

CEAS East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: "International Conference, Transnational Networks and Chinese Buddhist Diplomacy in Thailand"

Thomas Borchert, Professor, The University of Vermont

February 22, 2022 at 10:15 PM UTC

**This event will also be live streamed via Zoom. Register on Eventbrite** While the government of the People’s Republic of China is widely understood as being antagonistic to religion, Buddhism has long been used by the Communist Party of China in its efforts to foster ties with other parts of Asia. The tooth relic ha…

W22 Noon Lecture Series ~ Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750

Michele Matteini, Assistant Professor of Art History, New York University

February 22, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC

The history of ink painting in early modern China is often told as a history of uninterrupted lineages and seamless transmission through time. There were, however, passages in that history when transmission was not so certain, and artists developed modes of painting that put under pressure teachings and standards inher…

"On China" With C&WP Fellow Justin Canfil

Justin Canfil

February 21, 2022 at 9:30 PM UTC

I am a political scientist (PhD Columbia) whose interests span international security, emerging technologies, and law. My research leverages game theory, computerized text analysis, archival research, and survey-experimental methods to provide empirical traction on questions about how states use legal and foreign polic…

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM FEATURING KENG CHING – TOWARDS A NEW INTERPRETATION OF DIGNĀGA’S MENTAL PERCEPTION (MĀNASA-PRATYAKṢA): CLUES FROM THE NOTION OF SIMULTANEOUS MENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Keng Ching, Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University

February 21, 2022 at 9:00 PM UTC

帝国政治、意识形态和民族主义

赵鼎新(浙江大学) 孙雁(纽约市立大学) 周雪光(斯坦福大学)

February 20, 2022 at 1:00 AM UTC

现存关于民族主义运动的理论多多少少存在以下几个误区:缺乏长时距和宏观的权力/结构视角,简单地给不同的民族主义意识形态定性,强调民族主义运动是一个自下而上的运动,认为民族想像必须要有族群、文化、语言等客观基础。针对这些不足,本讲座提出了一个「帝国政治 — 意识形态」解释框架,即强调帝国政治和世界性主导意识形态在民族主义运动的形成和扩散,以及民族主义运动性质的演变过程中的关键作用 。在此理论框架的基础之上,本讲座划分了民族主义运动在近代形成和发展的九个最为关键的历史阶段, 分析了各阶段民族主义运动的基本特征及形成原因,并对为什么二战后民族国家这一政治形态会在全球范围内成为主流,以及当代世界民族主义运动的性质和发展趋势等等问题作出了分析。…

China’s Bid to Join the CPTPP: The View from Japan and the US

Prof. Christina Davis (Harvard University) Dr. David M. Malone (United Nations)

February 16, 2022 at 2:00 PM UTC

Geopolitical rivalry with China and the US’s unexpected withdrawal pushed Japan to take the lead in negotiations for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP. Now that China has applied to join the CPTPP, economic interests and leverage to reform China provide reasons to engag…

China’s Battler Poetry and the Hypertranslatability Of Zheng Xiaoqiong

Maghiel van Crevel (Leiden University)

February 3, 2022 at 6:00 PM UTC

Coming from a place where poetry is a firmly rooted social practice, China’s battler poetry (dagong shige) highlights the cruelty of precarious labor regimes spawned by global capitalism. So it makes sense that there is plenty of foreign interest in this writing. Yet, this interest has overwhelmingly focused on just tw…

Workers and Change in China

Manfred Elfstrom (University of British Columbia Okanagan)

February 3, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC

Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade-plus. The state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on civil society groups pushing for reform. Why are these two seemingly clashing developments occurring simultaneously? Drawing on his rece…

Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China

Joel Andreas (Johns Hopkins University)

January 27, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC

The dynamics of popular protests in China

Chih-Jou Jay Chen (Academia Sinica)

January 13, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC

Networks of Contention – Linkages and Diffusion Processes in China’s Environmental Protests

Maria Bondes (Freie Universität Berlin)

January 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM UTC