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Special Zone Currency: Shenzhen’s Monetary Experiment and China’s Foreign Exchange Reform

Professor Taomo Zhou (National University of Singapore)

December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

Between 1981 and 1985, policymakers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) initiated discussions and preparations for the issuance of a "special zone currency," a proposed legal tender designed exclusively for use in Shenzhen, the country’s first Special Economic Zone (SEZ). During this early reform era, as Shenzhen o…

大学沙龙第223期:冯玉军——俄乌战争的全球战略影响

主讲人: 冯玉军 中国著名国际问题专家。曾任中国现代国际关系研究院俄罗斯所所长,复旦大学国际问题研究院副院长、俄罗斯中亚研究中心主任。主要从事俄国史/苏联史、俄罗斯/苏联问题、中俄关系的历史与现实、国际战略与大国关系、国际能源安全与外交研究。著有《谁将接掌俄罗斯:普京之后的俄罗斯政治精英》《欧亚新秩序》(分别获第九届教育部高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖(人文社会科学)二等奖、上海市第十五届哲学社会科学优秀成果奖一等奖)《俄罗斯发展前景与中俄关系走向》《俄罗斯外交决策机制》《俄罗斯国家安全决策机制》《百年中俄关系》等。 评议人:赵隆 法学博士,先后毕业于俄罗斯莫斯科国立大学和华东师范大学。现任上海国际问题研究院全球治理研究所副所长、研究员、博士生导师,兼任中国国际关系学会理事、上海国际战略问题研究会秘书长、上海市国际关系学会常务理事、华东师范大学俄罗斯研究中心兼职研究员。研究领域为全球治理、大国关系、海洋极地研究等。在《国际问题研究》《现代国际关系》等核心刊物上发表论文数十篇,多篇被《中国社会科学文摘》《人大报刊复印资料》转载,用英文、俄文在国际学术期刊上发表论文数篇,出版2部专著和多部合著。 主持人:吕宁思 华语媒体人,时事观察分析人,凤凰卫视《总编辑时间》主持人,网络视频《思路话语》主讲人。

December 14, 2024 at 1:30 AM UTC

俄乌战争已经持续1000多天,就战场而言,双方陷入了残酷而血腥的消耗战和相持战,其前景受到俄乌双方战争能力和战斗意志、国际社会不同行为主体的态度特别是特朗普当选总统后美国的政策选项等多重因素的影响。俄乌战争是二战结束后欧洲发生的最大规模的地区战争,已经对俄乌双方、欧洲、欧亚地区格局乃至国际政治与世界经济产生了深远而广泛的影响。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

大学沙龙244期:刘冬梅——当代唐卡画师的多重生活世界

主讲人:刘冬梅,中央民族大学藏学研究院教授、人类学系博士研究生导师,2025-2026芝加哥大学艺术史系与东亚艺术中心访问学者。曾在中国西藏自治区昌都、拉萨等地开展深度参与观察,以拜师学艺方式进入唐卡画师群体,从艺术人类学视角探讨喜马拉雅艺术的跨文化交流史与手工艺知识的多语境变迁。 评议人:姚霜,中国人民大学文学院比较文学专业讲师(助理教授)。先后毕业于北京外国语大学、英国爱丁堡大学,获清华大学中文系博士。主要研究领域为少数民族语言文学(藏学)、汉藏佛教与艺术研究。 主持人:李志农,云南大学民族学与社会学学院教授,教育部重点研究基地——西南边疆少数民族研究中心副主任,博士生导师。教育部长江学者特聘教授,云南省“云岭学者”,中青年技术和学术带头人。

December 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

本次讲座延续近年来人类学对喜马拉雅艺术的研究取向,将唐卡置入当代青藏高原的社会与文化场景之中,将其理解为一种在日常生活中被持续实践与再创造的文化生产过程。基于主讲人自2008年以来在中国西藏自治区昌都市与拉萨市开展的人类学田野调查及多次回访所得的一手资料,讲座将聚焦唐卡文化传承的主体——画师群体,尝试从主位视角探讨他们如何理解并阐释与唐卡相关的观念、技艺与行为意义。关注当代唐卡画师如何在宗教信仰、生计策略、文化传承与艺术表达等维度中定位自身,展现其在不断变化的社会语境中形成的多重生活世界。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

ICAS 2024 Annual Conference & ICAS 10th Anniversary

Conference Agenda: Introduction HONG Nong (Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies) Opening Remarks WU Shicun (Chairman of the Advisory Board, Institute for China-America Studies) Keynote QIU Wenxing (Minister, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States Moderator - Gordon HOULDEN (Director Emeritus, The China Institute, University of Alberta) Panel I: Geopolitics & Security Michael SWAINE (Senior Research Fellow, East Asia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft) YU Tiejun (President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies & Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University) Robert DALY (Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Wilson Center) ZHAO Hai (Research Fellow, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Senior Fellow, Beijing Club for International Dialogue) Moderator - LIU Yawei (Senior Advisor on China, The Carter Center) Panel II: Science & Technology Paul TRIOLO (Partner for China and Technology Policy Lead, Albright Stonebridge Group) CAO Cong (Professor in Innovation Studies, Department of International Business and Management, University of Nottingham) Denis SIMON (Distinguished Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies) LU Xiaomeng (Director, Geo-Technology, Eurasia Group) Moderator - Sourabh GUPTA (Senior Fellow & Head, Trade ‘n Technology Program, Institute for China-America Studies) Luncheon Speech [Free lunch provided for registered in-person attendees] Stephen ORLINS (President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations) Moderator - Amy CELICO (Partner, Albright Stonebridge Group) Panel III: Third Parties' Views on U.S.-China Relations Vikram NEHRU (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Enrique DUSSEL PETERS (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Jan Willem BLANKERT (Senior Fellow, Europe Asia Analysis) Rachel Minyoung LEE (Senior Fellow, Korea Program & 38 North, Stimson Center) Moderator - YANG Li (Executive Director, Institute for China-Europe Studies) Panel IV: People-to-People Exchanges Madelyn ROSS (President Emeritus, US-China Education Trust) HAN Hua (General Secretary, Beijing Club for International Dialogue) Jan BERRIS (Vice-President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations) WANG Sheng (President, National Institute for South China Sea Studies) Moderator - Eric RICHARDSON (Founding President, INHR; China Coordinator, PAX sapiens) Closing Remarks HONG Nong (Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies)

December 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC

An event summary and a full recording is now available. Trump 2.0: Will U.S.-China Relations Prosper, Suffer or Muddle Through? On January 20, 2025, the United States of America’s 45th president will also become its 47th president. As its 45th president, Donald Trump had declared China to be a revisionist power that wa…

Before They Graduate: Divining Same-sex Schoolgirl Love from Women Writings

Dr Sophia Huei-Ling Chen, postdoctoral researcher at Academia Sinica (Taipei).

December 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Talks in Chinese Humanities Before They Graduate: Divining Same-sex Schoolgirl Love from Women Writings Do women love beyond marriage? Are they capable of loving each other? If Sedgwick has proposed a homosocial world amid the privileged men in Between Men (1985), what can be said about the privileged women–those who r…

Taixu’s Perception of Christianity: Insights from an Early Twentieth-century Chinese Buddhist Teacher

Peter Boros

December 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

“China needs Christianity, while Europe and America need Buddhism.” This powerful utterance comes from Taixu, a Buddhist monk active in early twentieth-century China. Taixu gave this title to one of his most informative speeches about Christianity, delivered in 1938 at a Christian university in Chengdu. What were Taixu…

Negotiating Legal Belonging on the Edges of Empire: Experiences of British Nationality Law in Twentieth-Century China

Professor Catherine Ladds (Hong Kong Baptist University)

December 10, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

The codification of British nationality in the early-to-mid twentieth century, beginning with the 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, had a profound impact upon putative Britons living on the peripheries of empire, where the loss or acquisition of British status mattered a great deal. Consular discussion…

大学沙龙222期:劳东燕——人脸识别规制与个人信息权益保护

主讲人:劳东燕 法学博士,清华大学法学院教授,博士生导师。中国刑法学会常务理事,曾挂职担任最高人民检察院法律政策研究室副主任与北京市海淀区人民法院副院长。在《中国社会科学》《中国法学》《法学研究》等专业刊物上发表学术论文九十余篇,出版《风险社会中的刑法》《功能主义的刑法解释》《罪刑法定本土化的法治叙事》等专著。 评议人:赵宏 北京大学法学院研究员,博士生导师,德国慕尼黑大学、科隆大学、纽伦堡大学访问学者。著有《权力的边界》《行政法学的主观法体系》《法治国下的目的性创设:德国行政行为理论与制度实践》《法治国下的行政行为存续力》。 主持人:王涌 中国政法大学民商经济法学院教授,中国商业法研究会副会长,洪范法律与经济研究所所长。

December 7, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

大数据时代的到来,使得技术的社会化运用变得越来越普遍,由此导致个人信息权益面临重大的威胁。传统法律体系难以提供有效的保障,必须实现基本范式的转型。鉴于人脸识别技术在我国有广泛的运用,对于以人脸识别为代表的生物识别技术进行法律规制尤有必要。就涉人脸识别技术的社会化运用而言,国家不仅负有消极保护义务,而且应当承担积极保护义务。国家的积极保护义务,需要同时体现在对数据处理者合规义务的设定,以及个体信息权益的积极肯认与有效救济之上。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism

Dr. Koji Hirata (Monash University)

December 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Located in Manchuria (Northeast China), the geopolitical borderland between China, Russia, and Japan, among others, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang) was Mao-era China's most important industrial enterprise. The history of Angang from 1915 to 2000 reveals the hybrid nature of China's accelerated industrialization, s…

「考古、文物與藝術」2024-25系列講座:賴德霖教授——明清敘事性繪畫與江南園林建築空間(2024/12/3)

賴德霖教授 路易斯維爾大學 藝術史與建築史摩根講座教授 藝術史項目主任、教授

December 3, 2024 at 7:30 AM UTC

孫少文基金會贊助的「考古、文物與藝術」2024-25系列講座將於2024年11月起開展,饒宗頤國學院將與海內外著名考古、歷史、文物、藝術史研究者、藝術品收藏家和鑒賞家等專家學者合作,為師生大眾由淺入深展開超越地域的學習之旅。今次很榮幸邀請到路易斯維爾大學賴德霖教授,為我們主講一場。活動詳情如下: 明清敘事性繪畫與江南園林建築空間 2024/12/3 | 15:30–17:30 | 普通話主講 賴德霖教授 路易斯維爾大學 藝術史與建築史摩根講座教授 藝術史項目主任、教授 明清時期,中國建築呈現出前所未有的對於空間豐富性、趣味性和新異性的追求,特別表現在江南園林的建築設計中,並推動了江南園林從山水園向庭園模式的轉變。講座聚焦於晚明至清中…

Home-making Strategies of Homeless People in Post-repatriation Urban China

Jin Zhu, Assistant Professor at Department of Real Estate and Construction and Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong.

December 3, 2024 at 1:30 AM UTC

Sydney China Seminars Home-making Strategies of Homeless People in Post-repatriation Urban China While Chinese people are technically guaranteed a place to live through the hukou system, homelessness is still an issue in China. Our paper aims to explore the home-making strategies of homeless people in the context of Ch…

Re-Energizing the Sino-American Higher Education Relationship: The Role of the U.S.-China Higher Education Dialogue #1 and #2

Dr. Denis Simon

December 2, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

Abstract: Cooperation in higher education has been one of the bedrock elements in U.S.–China relations for over four decades. The mobility of students and scholars as well as faculty and administrators in both directions has helped to support the internationalization goals of universities on both sides of the Pacific.…

Daoism, Ecology and Sustainable Investing

Professor James Miller (Duke Kunshan University)

December 2, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Prof James Miller (Author of China’s Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future) (Duke Kunshan University) 主題發言人:苗建時教授 (Prof James Miller)(杜克崑山大學) ABOUT THE SPEAKER His research focuses on the intersection of religion and ecology in China. He has published six books including “China’s…

Polyasporic Chinese Voices in the Opera ‘Moon Spirit Feasting’

Liza Lim, Professor, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Beth Yahp, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, USYD.

November 29, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Talks in Chinese Humanities Composer Liza Lim and librettist Beth Yahp describe their opera Yuè Ling Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting), commissioned by and premiered at the 2000 Adelaide International Festival of the Arts, as a ‘Chinese ritual street opera’. The work is based on Lim and Yahp’s research in 1999 into street per…

大学沙龙221期:易富贤——独生子女政策重塑中国经济和中美关系

主讲人:易富贤。威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校研究员,《报业辛迪加》专栏作者,率先掀起停止中国计划生育的思潮和运动。《大国空巢》从2007年的禁书到2013年新华网的“十大好书〞。博鳌亚洲论坛、路透社Nex峰会嘉宾。在北大、清华、芝加哥大学等地演讲上百场。接受上百家媒体采访。报告入选《改革40年:经济学文选》。 评议人:梁中堂。退休前为上海社科院研究员。从1979年开始反对“一胎化”生育政策,是1985年至2015年山西省翼城县“允许农民生育二孩实验”的主持者。近年从事计划生育史研究,著有《“一胎化”生育政策产生的时代背景研究》《回首西州路,兼评中国现代人口学霸权主义》《陈慕华主管计划生育,兼评中国现代人口学浪漫主义》等。 主持人:王勋。美国威斯康辛大学帕克塞分校社会学系教授、原系主任。该校中国研究所创始和现任所长。曾任教育部”长江学者” 评委、清华大学、南开大学、武汉大学和中国人民大学等大学访问学者和客座教授。主要研究领域为组织社会学和社会变迁。著有《全球社会学》《纵横当代科学前沿:社会科学与行为科学》等著作。

November 24, 2024 at 1:30 AM UTC

中国独生子女、以及二孩、三孩政策的预测基础都值得商榷。根据高估的人口,有中国经济学家预测中国经济将会是美国的2到3倍,引发美国的战略焦虑;其实主讲者研究表明2030-35年中国所有人口参数都将比美国差。独生子女政策减少家庭规模和刚需,导致居民可支配收入、消费占GDP比例从1983年的62%、53%降至2023年的44%、38%,引发内需不足,经济和就业高度依赖顺差,其中四分之三来自美国。居民可支配收入降低导致"强政府、弱家庭",与美国的意识形态差距扩大。主讲者认为这些是两国关系恶化和美国制造业衰落以致于铁锈区的选民在2016年、2024年将特朗普推上总统宝座的原因之一。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube 频道收看讲座。

Dr LI Kin-sum Sammy: Ephemeral Arts: Bell Chimes, Zither Tones, and Tea Whisking

Dr LI Kin-sum Sammy Department of History, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University

November 22, 2024 at 8:30 AM UTC

Sponsored by Simon Suen Foundation, the “Archaeology, Artifacts and Art” 2024 Lecture Series will be held from November 2024 to August 2025. The Academy will curate a series of lectures on archaeology, history, artifacts and art in collaboration with experts and scholars locally and abroad, including esteemed researche…

Of the People, for the People, but not by the People -- Confucian Meritocracy as a Correction of Democracy

Tongdong Bai, Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University

November 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm Online event -- Zoom Click link below to register Registration required: click here to register There are four problems with democracy, especially the institution of one person one vote. These include an inherent anti-elitism; a failure to consider nonvoting stakeholders;…

Capitalism and Resilience

Professor Geoffrey Jones (Harvard Business School)

November 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC

Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts. Firms are much more fragile institutions than the capitalist system, although there are prominent examples of resilience, very occasionally for…

Global Economy and Geopolitical Constraints in China and Taiwan

Federico Pachetti, Assistant Professor, the Department of Sociology at Corvinus University of Budapest

November 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Sydney China Seminars Global Economy and Geopolitical Constraints in China and Taiwan In contrast with recent scholarship about China’s growing power in the international economy (i.e. with Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Belt and Road Initiative), this talk argues that China has historically been constrained by the glo…

Book Talk - The Collapse of Heaven – The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850-1880

Huan Jin, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Emily Mokros, Associate Professor of history at the University of Kentucky Scott W Gregory, Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, the University of Arizona

November 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

Wielded between two political entities of opposing ideologies, the Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) is one of the most devastating civil wars in human history. What is the effect of the confluence of political discourses? How to make sense of an individual’s historical existence during political turbulence? How did the pr…

From the Slave Trade to the Opium Rush: China-America Trade in the Making of the Global World

Sucheta Mazumdar, Associate Professor Emerita of History, Duke University

November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

This talk by Sucheta Mazumdar (Associate Professor of History, Emerita, Duke) is part of the China Forum seminar series at Jesus College Cambridge (UK). This will be a hybrid event with an in-person component at Duke University. Online attendees must register in advance by emailing: china-forum@jesus.cam.ac.uk. Additio…

From Birth Control to Reproductive Health: The Long Journey of Ending China's One Child Policy

Judith Bruce is a Senior Advisor to the Population Council where she worked for 47 years as a Senior Associate and Policy Analyst. Through policy analysis, evidence-based intervention design, advocacy, and capacity-building, Bruce has changed the way the world thinks about quality of care from the client’s perspective and about the power and potential of the poorest, most excluded girls. She was among the first to illuminate the scope and negative impact of child marriage—including violence and discrimination. A graduate of Harvard University, Bruce received the Association for Women in Development’s bi-annual award for outstanding contributions to the field in 1993. Yong Cai is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He specializes in Chinese demography, especially China’s low fertility in a global context. His research challenges the conventional wisdom that the one-child policy was the main driving force behind China's fertility decline. His work demonstrates that major part of fertility decline in China happened before the one-child policy, and current low fertility in China has more to do with structural changes brought by socioeconomic development as well as cultural features deeply embedded in Chinese society. His publications have appeared in Demography, American Sociological Review, Population and Development Review, and others. Baochang Gu is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Population and Development Policy Studies, Fudan University. As an advisor to the China delegation, Gu attended the ICPD Prepcom in New York in April as well as the Conference and NGO Forum in Cairo in September in 1994, and attend the 4th World Women’s Conference in Beijing in 1995. Gu was involved in the quality-of-care initiative in family planning programs in the mid-1990s, and worked with a team on three petitions for lifting the one-child policy in 2004, 2009 and 2015. Gu co-edited Efforts in Memory – Quality of Care Initiative in China’s Family Planning Program (2020) and co-authored An Ongoing Journey – Review of ICPD-25 in China (2025). Joan Kaufman is the NY-based Senior Director for Academic Programs for Schwarzman Scholars, Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow at Harvard in 2001. She has lived and worked in China for fifteen years as Ford Foundation’s Program Officer for Gender and Reproductive Health, Director of Columbia University’s Global Center for East Asia (Beijing), and for four years as the first International Program Officer for the newly opened UN Population Fund Office in 1980. Jeanette C. Takamura is professor and dean emerita of the Columbia School of Social Work. Much of her life’s work has been dedicated to the advancement of national and state policies and programs in aging, health, and related areas, as well as organizational change to ensure relevance and competitiveness within a global environment. Dr. Takamura served as the assistant secretary for aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1997 to 2001, where she led the development and enactment of a modernized Older Americans Act and established the National Family Caregiver Support Program. WANG Feng is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in global demographic change, social inequality, public policy, and comparative population and social history. Wang Feng is the author of several award-winning books in these areas and has contributed to many other publications. His work and views have appeared in major global media outlets. His latest book, China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath, examines the underlying forces driving China’s four-decade-long historical transformations.

November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in September 1994, and as part of WEAI 75th Anniversary celebration’s Global Policy Series, this panel discussion will feature several scholars and policymakers deeply involved in the evolveme…

Before BRI: Japan’s Overseas Development Assistance

Hiroaki Shiga is a professor at the Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, and a leading expert on Japan’s ODA policy. His research centers on development cooperation strategy, informed by his experience working in development cooperation at the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the Ministry of Finance of Japan. The results of his research have been published in international academic journals such as World Development and IDS Bulletin of Sussex University, and by research institutions such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Professor Shiga is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and has a Master of International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.

November 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC

Beginning in the 1950s, Japan’s Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) has been an important instrument for Japanese diplomacy. Its initial focus on economic development in Asia was characterized as being both nonmilitary and nonpolitical. However, this cold war strategy has evolved over the past two decades, in large p…

Tibetan Languages in the People's Republic of China

Gerald Roche, Associate Professor of Politics at La Trobe University Shannon Ward, linguistic anthropologist, New York University,

November 19, 2024 at 2:30 AM UTC

Tibetan Languages in the People's Republic of China: Threats to Diversity and Identity The diversity of Tibetan societies, their languages and culture, is often poorly understood outside those communities. This webinar presents research from two recently published studies of language and linguistic change in Tibetan pa…

The Return of Donald Trump and its Implications for U.S.-China Relations

Welcome Remarks: Hong Nong, Executive Director, ICAS Moderator: Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow & Head of ICAS Trade n’ Technology Program Panelists: - Robert Sutter, Professor of Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School, George Washington University - Zhiqun Zhu, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Bucknell University

November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM UTC

On November 5, Donald Trump was returned to the White House with a resounding victory over Kamala Harris. As the 45th president of the United States, Trump had brought the era of engagement in U.S.-China relations to an unceremonious close and declared China to be a revisionist power that was engaged in long term strat…

Green Alliances: Cultivating US and Chinese Climate Leadership on Food and Agriculture

Min Fan (Executive Director, US Heartland China Association) Karen Mancl (Professor Emerita, the Ohio State University & Wilson Center Fellow) Jennifer Turner (Director, China Environment Forum of the Wilson Center)

November 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

The U.S. China Agriculture Roundtable has grown to be the most broad-based bilateral dialogue platform around agriculture, drawing leaders spanning government, trade, business, education, and think tanks from both countries. The upcoming 4th annual Roundtable will further strengthen bilateral collaboration and people-t…

大学沙龙220期:丛日云——西方思想史上的三次价值革命

主讲人:丛日云。法学博士,中国政法大学讲席教授。曾为耶鲁大学富布赖特访问学者、东京大学客座教授。主要研究领域为西方政治思想史,涉猎比较政治和当代中国政治。主要著作有《西方政治文化传统》《在上帝与恺撒之间--基督教二元政治观与近代自由主义》《当代世界的民主化浪潮》等·近年关注西方保守主义复兴现象发表了《精英民主、大众民主到民粹化民主——论西方民主的民论西方知识界解释特粹化趋向》《民粹主义还是保守主义?——朗普现象的误区 》《由现代向后现代文明转型时期的特朗普保守主义》《后现代主义价值革命与川普的保守主义》等文章。 评议人:康子兴。北京大学法学博士,北京航空航天大学人文与社会科学高等研究院副教授。主要研究领域为政治哲学、古典政治经济学与古典社会理论。发表论文《鲁滨逊的贸易与劳动:笛福对海洋帝国的政治经济学批判》《驯化资本:(国富论)与重商主义时代的主权论》《商业与道德:亚当·密理论中的社会维度》等,出版专著《社会的立法者科学:亚当·斯密政治哲学研究》,译著《论文明社会史》《亚当·斯密与启蒙德性》《让-雅克·卢梭与亚当·斯密:一场哲学的相遇》等。 评议人:骆斯航。印第安纳大学政治学博士,斯坦福大学公民教育计划(StanfordCivics Initiative)博士后,主要研究兴趣为现当代政治理论、中国政治思想、政治记忆、社会运动等等。论文发表于AmericanPolitical Science Review、European Journal of PoliticalTheory、Global Intellectual History等期刊。 主持人:张军。加拿大多伦多大学地理与城市规划系任副教授。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。

November 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

本讲座试图阐述一个解释西方思想史乃至文明史的新的框架,也是理解当代西方左翼进步主义与保守主义之争的独特视角在西方政治思想上,价值观的演变经历过四个阶段和三次价值革命:古典城邦时代占主导地位的是有机整体主义价值观;城邦解体后,个人开始从整体中挣脱出来,基督教带来价值观的第一次革命,即超验个人主义价值观;到文艺复兴和宗教改革时期,基督教的超验个人主义在将教会个体化的同时也渗透和改造了世俗社会结构,到17世纪形成了以古典自由主义为代表的现代世俗个人主义价值观;上个世纪晚期,现代文明臻于成熟,从中演化中后现代自我表现价值观,即后现代世俗个人主义价值观。它以后现代主义哲学头先声,以西方公众价值观的转型为标志。当代西方社会的极化(文化战争)是这…

Industrial Production in the Ancient World: Bronze Mirrors and Bells in China

Dr. Kin Sum (Sammy) LI (Hong Kong Baptist University)

November 15, 2024 at 6:30 AM UTC

Was there any industrial scale of production in the ancient world? How do we gather relevant evidence? How can we better use modern digital technology to help us gather this evidence? This lecture explores these questions using examples of bronze mirrors and bells from ancient China, dating from 500 to 200 BCE. Produce…

Frontiers in Chinese Studies - “Man Proposes, Heaven Disposes”: The Political Logic of Succession in Imperial China

Duancheng Yang楊端程, Lecturer, East China University of Politics and Law (dcyang@ecupl.edu.cn)

November 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC

This study is based on a database encompassing all instances of political succession in imperial China, constructed by the speaker from a large collection of historical sources. The analysis reveals that only half of the designated successors in the two millennia of imperial Chinese history successfully ascended to pow…

Infrastructures of Control and Service: Reforming Grassroots Governance in Beijing

Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla: Professor, the Institute of China Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

November 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

CSC International Research Webinar This webinar critically explores the transformation of grassroots governance in Beijing, focusing on recent reforms that promise greater responsiveness but also heighten surveillance and control. As the Chinese Communist Party seeks to address the complexities of urban governance, it…

A Context of Interconnectedness: The First China War (1840–1842) and the British Empire in Asia

Professor Gary Luk (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

November 12, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

This paper examines the transregional thinking that conceptualized the British imperial interests and expansion in Asia from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the Opium War or “First China War” (1840–1842). It argues that to fully appreciate the nature of the First China War in the history of the British Empire…

大学沙龙219期:朱锋——美国大选及对世界的影响

主讲人:朱锋 南京大学国际关系学院执行院长、中国南海研究协同创新中心执行主任。曾任北京大学国际战略研究院副院长国际关系学院教授·研究专长为中美关系、东亚地区安全与南海海上安至。曾在布鲁金斯学会、哈佛大学费正清研究中心、CSIS等国际知名学术机构担任访问学者。代表性学术专著有《海洋命运共同体建设:理论与实践》 评议人:刁大明 中国人民大学国际国际关系学院教授,外交学系系主任。研究方向为美国政治与外交、中美关系。曾任中国社会科学院美国研究所助理研究员,并在清华大学国际问题研究所从事博士后研究工作。访问经历包括在美国俄克拉何马大学美中问题研究所及夏威夷亚太安全研究中心交流。出版专著《国家的钱袋:美国国会与拨款政治》《解构国会山:美国国会政治与议员涉华行为》。 主持人:于铁军 北京大学国际战略研究院院长、国际关系学院教授。主要教学和研究方向为东亚国际关系、国际政治理论国际政治思想史和国际安全·曾在东京大学、斯坦福大学和哈佛大学等机构留学或访学·著作有《中日历史认识共同研究报告》《中日安全与防务交流》《帝国的迷思》等,并在国内外刊物发表多篇论文。

November 10, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC

2024年美国大选备受全球瞩目。选举尘埃落定后,中国名校的少壮知美派将如何解读这次选举及其对世界格局的深远影响?本期沙龙将为您带来精彩的分析与讨论。搜索大学沙龙YouTube频道收看讲座。

Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914–1956)

Dr. Cécile Armand (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)

November 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914–1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of the advertising industry in pre-Communist China. Utilizing a diverse array of previously unexplored primary sources,…

Where Christians and Other Believers Meet: A Re-examination of Christianity in Chinese Societies

Professor Xie Zhibin (Institute of Sino-Christian Studies)

November 8, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

It has been reported that Chinese societies (including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore) have high levels of religious diversity. It is imperative to locate Christianity in this diverse religious context in order to reexamine the role of Christianity in Chinese societies. With reference to the ideas of…

New Horizons: Navigating the Future of US-China Educational Exchanges

SHEN Xuesong (Minister Counselor of Education for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China) Peggy Blumenthal (Senior Counselor to the CEO of the Institute of International Education) Dr. James Smith (President, Eastern Michigan University) Dr. Heather Burns Page (Principal, The Baccalaureate School for Global Education, New York City Public Schools) Dr. Alpha Xinying Edens (Professor at University of Tulsa & 2023 Heartland Chinese Teacher Award Recipient) Min Fan (Executive Director of the US Heartland China Association)

November 5, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

Since the normalization of US-China bilateral relationship 45 years ago, educational exchanges have brought many benefits to both countries. Even though the pandemic and geopolitical tensions have significantly hindered two-way exchanges during the last three years, the overall environment is improving. Last November,…

Taiwan Legal: What Does US Law Say About Taiwan? - Revisiting the Taiwan Relations Act

Richard Bush is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and previously was director of the center. He joined Brookings in July 2002 after serving nearly five years as chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a congressional staffer, first on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and later for the full committee. From 1995-1997, he became national intelligence officer for East Asia and a member of the National Intelligence Council, which coordinates the analytic work of the intelligence community. He has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles about Taiwan, US-Taiwan-relations and China-Taiwan relations. Recent publications include “Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations” (Brookings, 2013); “Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan” (Brookings, 2016); “Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life” (Brookings 2021), and “U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis?” (Brookings Press, 2023). Bush has a PhD in political science from Columbia University. Here is the text of the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, 22 USC 3301 through 3316. Here is the text of Richard Bush’s 2014 talk, The Taiwan Relations Act After 35 Years. Here is Richard Bush’s 2017 One China Policy Primer.

October 30, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

One of the most complicated issues in contemporary international relations is the status of the self-governing island of Taiwan and its government in Taipei, formally called the government of the Republic of China. Is Taiwan a sovereign state? What is the legal relationship between the Republic of China and the People’…

Iconic Mao—A Biography in Images

Barbara Mittler, a Chair in Chinese Studies at CATS, the Center for Asian and Transcultural Studies at Heidelberg University

October 29, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

CSC International Research Webinars This study of Mao Zedong focuses on one hyper-visible protagonist of the twentieth century—master choreographer of his image—to ask how this flesh-and-blood man has been transformed into a globally recognizable “bio-icon”. The book argues that looking at—rather than through—images (l…

大学沙龙218期:张笑宇——产业社会的时空逻辑:去全球化+AI革命意味着什么

主讲人:张笑宇。先后就读于中国人民大学、北京大学和柏林自由大学,现为独立学者,著有“文明三部曲”系列(《技术与文明》《商贸与文明》《产业与文明》,其中《技术与文明》获2021年亚洲图书奖),主要研究领域为政治思想史、地缘政治、技术史、商贸史与产业史,现致力于技术社会学研究。 评议人:罗小朋。经济学家,明尼苏达大学经济学博士。曾任牛津大学访问学者,哈佛费正清中心联系研究员。 主持人:刘擎。华东师范大学紫江特聘教授,政治与国际关系学院博士生导师,明尼苏达大学政治学博士。主要研究领域为西方思想史、政治哲学与当代政治思潮。

October 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

进入工业革命以后,人类社会发生了巨大的颠覆性变革。在传统的人文学科关怀中,这种变革被表述为现代性/反现代性的精神性对抗,从中又派生出“进步主义/保守主义”、“现代社会/后现代社会/反现代主义”、“前现代政治/现代政治”等叙事话语,以及“威权/民主”或“自由/极权”等次生叙事话语。 但是,以上叙事的底层逻辑是以工业时代技术进步(及其经济后果)的指数型增长为前提的,然而这很有可能是不成立的。目前看来,工业社会的进步自有其逻辑和周期,而在时间轴和空间轴上展开为两大方向:时间轴上是工业社会的兴起和衰落,而空间轴上则是产缘与地缘的扩散和对抗。 因此,工业社会的二百年,乃至现代社会展开以来的五百年,就可以表述为这两大逻辑的交错关系。我们藉此便可…

"Good Wife, Wise Mother”: Assimilating Han Taiwanese Under Japanese Rule

Assistant Professor Fang Yu Hu California State Polytechnic University

October 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

"Good Wife, Wise Mother”: Assimilating Han Taiwanese Under Japanese Rule In 1897, two years after Japan began its half-century rise as an imperial power, it inaugurated an ambitious experiment to make modern Japanese citizens out of Han Taiwanese schoolgirls in its first overseas colony, Taiwan. The goal of the segrega…

"Good Wife, Wise Mother”: Assimilating Han Taiwanese Under Japanese Rule

Fang Yu Hu, Assistant Professor of History at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

October 25, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Talks in Chinese Humanities In 1897, two years after Japan began its half-century rise as an imperial power, it inaugurated an ambitious experiment to make modern Japanese citizens out of Han Taiwanese schoolgirls in its first overseas colony, Taiwan. The goal of the segregated education was to train Taiwanese boys and…

Frontiers in Chinese Studies - State-Building or State-Weakening? The Consequences of Military Control in Medieval China

Erik H. Wang 王海驍, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University (erik.wang@nyu.edu)

October 23, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

State-building in conflict-prone societies faces the challenge of autonomous armed groups. We argue that military centralization, while strengthening a state’s ability to control the upper elites of these armed groups, can weaken the state's coercive capacity by reducing discipline and efficiency among the lower ranks…

International Law in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal

Carole J. Petersen is the Cades Foundation Professor of Law in the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she teaches courses on international law, human rights, and gender and the law. She is also a member of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. From 1989-2006, Professor Petersen taught law in Hong Kong, where she also served as a director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law and an active member of the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. She continues to research human rights in the territory and the implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” model of autonomy. Her recent article, Territorial Autonomy as a Tool of Conflict Resolution? Lessons from “One Country, Two Systems” in Hong Kong, is available in the Academia Sinica Law Journal, 2022 Special Issue 195-243. Professor Petersen holds a BA from the University of Chicago, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a postgraduate diploma in the law of the People’s Republic of China from the University of Hong Kong.

October 22, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

The National Security Law, which China imposed on Hong Kong in 2020, takes precedence over local law and has profoundly affected civil liberties and the right to fair trial. Does this mean international law no longer matters in Hong Kong? Our speaker, Carole Petersen, professor of law at the University of Hawaii at Man…

大学沙龙217期:梁在——小餐馆,大世界:从纽约唐人街说开去——华人移民研究的新视角

主讲人:梁在。纽约州立大学奥本尼分校杰出教授、社会学系主任。曾任中国城市研究网络中心主任。现任美国社会学学会国际移民分会主席和社会学研究协会会士。研究兴趣包括国内和国际移民、社会人口学、城市社会学、种族和民族关系等。近期研究项目包括”一带一路"背景下中国国际移民的研究;COVID-19疫情对曼哈顿唐人街经济和社会的影响研究。最新新著From Chinatown to Every Town。 评议人兼主持人:高琴。哥伦比亚大学社会工作学院社会政策教授,博士项目主管副院长,哥大中国社会政策中心主任。研究关注中国社会福利体系的变迁及其对贫困和不平等的影响、中国城乡流动人口及美国亚裔移民的生活状況、社会政策的跨国比较研究。著有Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China和China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions。

October 20, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

早期华人移民在美国的居住地点偏好纽约、旧金山等大城市。我们观察到1990年以来这个居住模式发生了重大变化,特别是许多低技能的中国移民从纽约曼哈顿唐人街搬迁到了非传统的移民居住地。通过在曼哈顿唐人街以及六个非传统移民居住地的十多年的深入研究,本讲座分析中国餐馆的拓展和日益流行如何促使移民向更偏远和乡村地区迁移。研究表明,职业介绍所、曼哈顿唐人街大巴和位于唐人街的餐馆供应链等关键因素推动了餐馆老板和工人向外州拓展生意。同时,这些因素也促进了曼哈顿唐人街与这些非传统移民居住地之间紧密的社会,经济,和宗教的联系。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

In-person Event | States, Citizenship, and Welfare in India and China

Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia university Andaleeb Rahman, Research Associate, Tata-Cornell Institute, Department of Global Development, Cornell University Sanjay Ruparelia, Associate Professor, Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, Toronto Metropolitan University

October 18, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC

In China, recent reforms have aimed at expanding social security coverage, improving healthcare, and addressing rural-urban disparities. India has launched several ambitious welfare schemes aimed at poverty alleviation, healthcare, food security, and right to work programs. By virtue of population size, these programs…

Reassessing the emergence of early village life in North China: process and variability

Dr. Tu Dongdong (ShanghaiTech University)

October 18, 2024 at 6:30 AM UTC

The transition from mobile foraging societies to settled agricultural communities is a critical period in human history. In this talk, I try to examine abundant archaeological evidence and demonstrate the long process of emergence of early village life in North China. I argue that several material traits including grin…

Kazakhstan’s Perceptions of China: Government, Media and Society

Professor Aziz Burkhanov (Nazarbayev University)

October 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

This presentation explores perceptions of China and the “One Belt One Road” initiative in the public discourse of Kazakhstan. In recent years, China, Chinese investments, and Chinese-backed projects have gained a lot of attention in Kazakhstan's media discourse. Discourse analysis of different languages of media outlet…

Southeast Asia in the Global Order

Bilahari Kausikan, Former Permanent Secretary of Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Singapore Ambassador to the United Nations and Russia Moderator: Richard Yarrow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University

October 15, 2024 at 8:30 PM UTC

During his nearly four decades in Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bilahari Kausikan represented the Southeast Asian state at the UN, Russia, Canada, and as an Ambassador at Large, and served as the Ministry's Permanent Secretary. Kausikan will discuss Southeast Asia’s role in the global order and how the regio…

Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival Academic Speech

Siyang Gu Film Festival Programmer of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast

October 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM UTC

In the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai became a dynamic metropolis, blending Western influences with traditional Chinese culture and creating a unique urban atmosphere. This fusion of ideas and aesthetics shaped every aspect of city life, especially cinema, which was pivotal in expressing and influencing this cultural combin…

Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of the Cold War Order, 1938-1955

Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

October 11, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

From 1940 to 1945, the United States relied heavily on a steady stream of Chinese tungsten ore, hog bristles, and tung oil in order to power American wartime industry. The flow of Chinese products to the United States was only possible with the efforts of a small handful of Chinese businessmen who served as the linchpi…

Law as Infrastructure: China in the World

Matthew S. Erie

October 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

Private law scholars have viewed Anglo-American common law as the core infrastructure of modern capitalism the world over. But what happens when rising powers like China with very different legal and political systems begin investing abroad on a vast scale? Our speaker, Matthew Erie, associate professor at the Universi…

Imagining Life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900

Wing Tek Lum

October 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

In The Oldtimers, his third collection of poetry, Wing Tek Lum imagines life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900, giving voice to the forgotten pioneer generation of sojourners and settlers, detailing the trials and temptations of this bachelor society living far from their homeland - their hard work, their diversions, th…

Webinar - Education for Social Justice: The Meaning of Justice and Current Research in China

Nicholas Michelli, Tina J. Jacobowitz, José Barzola, Ni Zhang, Di Xu, Stacey Campo, Kenita Williams

October 9, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

When you think about social justice, what comes to your mind? In many societies, including the United States, there has never been a more critical time for reaching some consensus of the meaning of the concepts governing our lives. We need to have a sense of what they mean to us as we make important decisions, both per…

Professor Lauren F. PFISTER: The Importance of Reading Original Editions: Critical Discoveries regarding the German Corpus of Richard Wilhelm's(1873-1930) Ruist and Daoist Classics

Professor Lauren F. PFISTER Professor Emeritus, Hong Kong Baptist University Rector, Hephzibah Mountain Aster Academy

October 4, 2024 at 2:30 AM UTC

The Academy is honoured to invite Professor Lauren F. PFISTER, Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong Baptist University and Rector of Hephzibah Mountain Aster Academy, to speak for 2024 Distinguished Sinologist Lecture Series with the below details: The Importance of Reading Original Editions: Critical Discoveries regarding…

East South-East Asia Colloquium: “ ‘Vietnamization’, Taiwan's IndoChinese Refugee Camps and the Making of Chinese-Vietnamese Americans (1950s-present)”

Dr. Alvin Bui

September 30, 2024 at 9:15 PM UTC

On January 22, 2023, less than 24 hours after the deadliest mass shooting in the history of Los Angeles County, major news sources reported conflicting information about the 72-year old shooter, Huu Can Tran: that he was “an immigrant from China” (CNN) yet “born in Vietnam” (NY Times). Two months later, Ke Huy Quan, wh…

大学沙龙216期:高全喜——启蒙运动之前的王权与宪政——莎士比亚历史剧抉隐

主讲人:高全喜。上海交通大学凯原法学院讲席教授。研究领域为宪法学、政治哲学、法理学与中西宪法史。近著有《莎士比亚历史剧与英国王权》《中美法政文化六谈》《苏格兰道德哲学十讲》《西方近现代政治思想》等。 评议人:翟志勇。北京航空航天大学法学院教授,清华大学法学博士。曾任哈佛大学访问学者。主要研究公法学、法理学、科技法律与公共政策。近著有《法律如何实现正义》《公法的法理学》《从〈共同纲领〉到“八二宪法”》等。 评议人:周林刚。华东师范大学政治学系副教授。清华大学法学博士。主要研究西方政治思想史、政治哲学与宪法理论。著有《基础规范的基础》,译有《政治多元论》,合译有《身披法袍的正义》《制定法时代的普通法》等著作。 主持人:邓航。北京大学西方政治思想史博士。上海方舟书坊特约撰稿人。已完稿拉塞尔·柯克《权利与责任:美国宪法的保守主义本质》《政治的审慎》与沃尔特·李普曼《政治的序论》《道德的序论》《良治社会》的中文首译。

September 28, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

英美政治思想史的主流研究通常认为是以《大宪章》为源头,以“光荣革命”为中游,并在启蒙运动推波助澜下,才最终汇成势不可挡的宪政洪流。如果洛克的《政府论》完成了君主立宪的政治正当性论述,那么苏格兰启蒙运动就可谓为英国经济、社会的现代性变革做出了道德辩护。但当以苏格兰启蒙运动为历史分水岭,就会发现从约翰王被迫签署《大宪章》到《权利法案》的四百多年间,英国王权与宪政在金雀花王朝、都铎王朝、斯图亚特王朝都展开过刀光剑影的斗争,而这大多又在莎士比亚的系列历史剧中保存了栩栩如生的记录。本次讲座将随新书《莎士比亚历史剧与英国王权》回到历史现场,探寻不列颠人几经废立、终成正果的宪政之路。 搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

China’s Role and Social Power in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Dr. Emilie Tran (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)

September 27, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

Over the past decade, China has been establishing access to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through infrastructure projects and trade development. The MENA is considered a crucial area in China’s foreign policy. This rapidly growing relationship has had significant geopolitical implications, particularly…

Theatre as Business: A study of the Triangular Relations among Shanxi Merchants’ business, Theatre Sponsorship and Social Status in Late Imperial China

Dr Yunjie Hu Recent PhD graduate from the Department of Chinese Studies, The University of Sydney

September 27, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

Talks in Chinese Humanities Theatre as Business: A study of the Triangular Relations among Shanxi Merchants’ business, Theatre Sponsorship and Social Status in Late Imperial China. Shanxi merchants were one of the most powerful merchant groups that rose in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). In the Qing dynasty (1644-1912),…

Xiaomei Wang in the Artist Studio!

Xiaomei Wang, Director of the "Hands on Memory Museum"

September 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC

Batik craftsmanship is important cultural heritage to a wide range of Indigenous people who live in Southwest China. Xiaomei Wang, the Director of the “Hands on Memory Museum”, has dedicated her life to preserving and revitalizing traditional batik production techniques. Xiaomei will exhibit traditional clothing from t…

Humanities Colloquium: "What Do We Mean by ‘China?’ a Transnational and Shared History Perspective"

Dr. Guoqi Xu

September 25, 2024 at 9:15 PM UTC

When Chinese and non-Chinese mention “China,” what do they mean? How China becomes China? This talk will discuss some key issues related to the idea of China from transnational and shared history perspectives. Speaker's Bio: Professor Xu Guoqi received Ph.D in history from Harvard University and is currently a professo…

Xiaomei Wang in the Artist Studio!

Xiaomei Wang, Director of the "Hands on Memory Museum"

September 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

Batik craftsmanship is important cultural heritage to a wide range of Indigenous people who live in Southwest China. Xiaomei Wang, the Director of the “Hands on Memory Museum”, has dedicated her life to preserving and revitalizing traditional batik production techniques. Xiaomei will exhibit traditional clothing from t…

Indigo Harvest and dye party: Workshop with Xiaomei Wang (Director, Hands on Memory Museum)

Xiaomei Wang, Director of Hands on Memory Museum

September 24, 2024 at 11:30 PM UTC

Workshop with Xiaomei Wang. Refreshments/pizza provided. RSVP by emailing jguedes@uw.edu.

Roundtable Panel: "Memory on Hands": Crafting Community Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge in Multiethnic Southwest China. Xiaomei Wang, Louisa Schein, Yu Luo

Xiaomei Wang, Director, Memory on Hands Museum; Louisa Schein, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University; Yu Luo, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Puget Sound

September 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM UTC

A roundtable discussion by three experts on Southwest China on the roles of indigenous communities in relation to museums, tourism and culture heritage preservation efforts. Please RSVP to jguedes@uw.edu to arrange for catering.

大学沙龙215期:任剑涛——信念与经验:现代启蒙中的英格兰与苏格兰

主讲人:任剑涛。清华大学政治学系教授,教育部“长江学者”特聘 教授。主要研究领域为政治哲学、中西政治思想与中国政治。近期出版《建国之惑:留学精英与现代政治的误解》《复调儒学—从古典解释到现代性探究》《拜谒诸神:西方政治理论与方法寻踪》《公共的政治哲学》《当经成为经典:儒学的现代型变》《中国的现代国家构造》。 评议人:谭安奎。中山大学政治与公共事务管理学院教授,博士生导师,北京大学哲学博士。曾为芝加哥大学、哈佛燕京学社访问学者。主要研究政治哲学。著有《自然权利的遗产》等多部著作。 主持人:周濂。中国人民大学哲学院教授, 香港中文大学哲学博士。曾为牛津大学、哈佛燕京学社访问学者。主要研究政治哲学、道德哲学和语言哲学。著有《现代政治的正当性基础》等著作。

September 22, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

比较观察启蒙类型时,人们常将经验性取向的苏格兰启蒙视为高于理性化取向的法国启蒙。然而,英格兰启蒙不应被排除在外。启蒙三型相比而言,英格兰启蒙的原创性意义被低估了,苏格兰启蒙的改进性意义被高估了,而法国启蒙的限度被夸大了。如仅就不列颠的两次启蒙来看,英格兰启蒙的现代原创性、启蒙基调性、信念关联性、功能有效性,都高于苏格兰启蒙。苏格兰启蒙是英格兰启蒙的产儿,但凸显了道德与经济向度的特殊价值。这是一种结构性补缺。由此体现出启蒙的政治-经济双关性与发展先后的次序性。英格兰启蒙的信念性与苏格兰启蒙的经验性,各具得失。苏格兰启蒙的经验与功利取向,导向了历史主义与社会主义,影响了后起现代路向,由此呈现其历史作用的复杂性。面向整个启蒙,需致敬英格兰…

The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society

Professor Thomas Larkin (University of Prince Edward Island)

September 20, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society.…

Frontiers in Chinese Studies - Historical Minds and Artificial Intelligence: How AI Helps Rediscover Ancient Minds

Yuqi Chen 陳鈺琪, PhD Candidate (History), Peking University

September 18, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

In recent years, advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in natural language processing, has enabled large-scale quantitative analysis of historical texts, thus thereby making it possible to systematically investigate the minds of past generations. This talk will present two cases showcasing the application o…

Perpetual Foreigners: The Asian American Fight for Civil Rights

Gisela Perez Kusakawa

September 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM UTC

The U.S.-Asia Law Institute kicks off its 2024-2025 programs by taking a close look at a problem right here at home: racial profiling of Asian Americans, including at universities. During the Trump administration, the Department of Justice created the China Initiative, a program presented as safeguarding universities a…

Bringing Emotions into the City: History and Heritage

Dr Toby Lincoln (Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester)

September 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

Urban inhabitants have long had an emotional attachment to the cities they live in. This expresses itself through daily life, culture, and heritage. This talk highlights some of the ways in which urban populations in China have reflected on their emotional attachment to the city. Examples include huaigu poetry mourning…

Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

Professor Tristan Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

September 10, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s las…

A Comparative Perspective on Precarity in China

Gilles Guiheux Professor at the Université Paris Cité, France. Fiona Gill (Moderator) Senior Lecturer and Discipline Chair in sociology and Criminology, The University of Sydney

September 5, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

CSC International Research Webinars The presentation will introduce a collective research program carried over the last 5 years by a group of historians and sociologists examining workers’ experiences in Japan, France and Belgium during the 30-year post-war boom and in China from the 1980s to the present day. The origi…

CCS Webinar - Faculty Dialogue: Graduate Education at Peking University in the New Era

Meng Li

September 4, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

In the new era, graduate education at Peking University aims to cultivate talent with a solid and broad foundation in their discipline, comprehensive knowledge of related fields, and the ability to conduct independent scientific research, ultimately producing innovative contributions. To achieve this, Peking University…

World Factory and After: Grass Stage and the Fate of Social Theater in Xi Jinping’s China

Prof Christopher Connery in the Literature department at the University of California Santa Cruz

August 30, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

World Factory and After: Grass Stage and the Fate of Social Theater in Xi Jinping’s China Sydney China Distinguished Fellow Presents X Talks in Chinese Humanities The Shanghai-based Grass Stage theater troupe performed versions of World Factory at various venues in China, Hong Kong, and North America from 2014-2016. Wo…

Media, Gender and Politics: Representation of Female Political Leaders in The People’s Daily

Dr Minglu Chen (Usyd) Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards (Moderator) (UNSW)

August 26, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

Media, Gender and Politics: Representation of Female Political Leaders in The People’s Daily This event is part of the mini series on "women in China". This presentation focuses on how Chinese female political leaders are represented in media, through the examination of the People’s Daily’s coverage of female Politburo…

大学沙龙214期:张笑宇——“正增长秩序”与现代社会兴起

主讲人:张笑宇。先后就读于中国人民大学、北京大学和柏林自由大学,现为独立学者,著有“文明三部曲”系列(《技术与文明》《商贸与文明》《产业与文明》,其中《技术与文明》获2021年亚洲图书奖),主要研究领域为政治思想史、地缘政治、技术史、商贸史与产业史,现致力于技术社会学研究。 评议人:罗小朋。经济学家,明尼苏达大学经济学博士。曾任牛津大学访问学者,哈佛费正清中心联系研究员。 主持人:刘擎。华东师范大学紫江特聘教授,政治与国际关系学院博士生导师,明尼苏达大学政治学博士。主要研究领域为西方思想史、政治哲学与当代政治思潮。

August 25, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

现代政治秩序本质上是一种成本较高,但是同时又能带来高收益的政治秩序,其兴起根基是古代基于长途商贸超额利润的商业城邦。在商业城邦中,商贸集团与暴力集团以城市宪章的形式达成了最基础的社会契约,然后政治体系才有了向现代代议制演化的可能性。这意味着国家的现代化以财政国家转型为根基,但是早期成型的财政国家又必须以代议制保驾护航。由此反观中国的政治现代化进程,我们可以看到,自10世纪到20世纪的一千年里,古代中国数次踩在财政现代化的门槛上,却始终未能取得关键突破,这或许与中国本身的地缘政治结构束缚了商贸集团的兴起有很大关系。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Women’s Entitlement in China’s Urbanization: Family Division of Relocated Housing Properties

Professor Jing Song (HKU) Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards (Moderator) (UNSW)

August 19, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

Women’s Entitlement in China’s Urbanization: Family Division of Relocated Housing Properties This event is part of the mini seires on "Women in China". Please join us for the other two webinars online. When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China (Monday 12 Au…

大学沙龙213期:黎安友、李沉简——中美通识教育的现状、挑战与机遇

对话者:黎安友 Andrew J. Nathan。哥伦比亚大学政治学系资深“1919 讲席教授”,《外交事务》杂志亚太地区特邀定期书评人。哈佛大学博士。曾任哥伦比亚大学韦瑟黑德东亚研究所所长、政治学系系主任、晨兴机构审查委员会 (IRB) 主席。研究中国的政治和外交政策、亚洲的政治参与和政治文化等领域。在通识教育方面,执教最著名的哥伦比亚大学核心课程四十余年,参与和见证了其内容、教学法、组织方式的发展和变迁。 对话者:李沉简。斯坦福大学胡佛研究所研究员、北京大学教授。先后在北京大学、北京协和医科大学学习。获美国普度大学分子神经生物学博士。曾执教美国康奈尔大学医学院和纽约西奈山医学院。历任北大副教务长, 北大元培学院执行院长,主持推行了北京大学整体和元培学院的通识教育建设。于科研同时,倾力于中学生,本科生,研究生,医学生教育改革、培养对人文和科技有具有坚实基础、有理性思维、批判性思维和创造性思维的各行各业领军人物。

August 18, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

通识教育是现代高等教育中重要的奠基性部分,具有几千年传统。它包括人文社科和科学的最基础知识、批判性思维和理性思维的框架构筑、深度交流的能力、和知行合一的态度。 在美国几乎所有的高校,包括以科学技术为重点的大学都非常重视,给予大量的教育资源。其中常春藤大学、综合大学、文理学院则更视之为办学的第一层地基。本期沙龙由哥伦比亚大学的黎安友教授和北京大学-斯坦福大学的李沉简教授对话与讨论。这些大学和两位教授是美国、中国推行通识教育的杰出代表。两位教授将分享并参与讨论通识教育的历史和当下内涵、重要性、不同类型、资源要求、学生感受和反馈、存在的问题和挑战等等议题。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

大学沙龙212期:欧阳康——全球治理变局与中国国家治理现代化

主讲人:欧阳康。哲学博士,二级教授,博士生导师,教育部“长江特岗学者”, 华中科技大学原副校长,现任国家治理研究院院长,哲学研究所所长。 国家社科基金重大项目“大数据驱动地方治理现代化”首席专家。 著有《社会认识论导论》《国家治理现代化理论与实践》等20余部著作。 评议人:翁诗杰。马来西亚亚太一带一路共策会会长、新亚洲战略研究中心主席,中国太和智库与上海环太国际战略研究中心高级研究员。曾任马来西亚国会下议院副议长、马来西亚交通部部长、英联邦国家议会协会常委等要职。马来西亚土生华裔第二代,涉猎工程界、文学界、政界与智库研究。 主持人:李山。清华大学学士、麻省理工学院经济学博士。全国政协委员。联合国投资委员会委员。麻省理工学院经济系和斯隆管理学院顾问、哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院理事。曾参与创立清华大学国家治理研究院任执行院长。

August 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

制度优势是一个国家的最大优势,制度竞争是国家间最根本的竞争。当前,中国处于以中国式现代化推进中华民族伟大复兴的关键时期,世界处于百年未有之大变局,两者同步交织、相互激荡。在世界范围内,传统全球化仍在继续,新型全球化正在展开,二战以来形成的世界秩序正在重构,全球治理机制需要调适和优化,这对世界各国的国家制度和国家治理体系也构成严峻挑战。本次讲座将梳理百年来全球治理体系的复杂变局、演进逻辑及其当代特点,分析近代以来中国与世界关系的演变逻辑及其当代走势,探讨新时代中国国家制度和国家治理现代化的多维内涵及其创新机制。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

China’s Red Collectors: History, Culture and ‘Positive Energy’

Emily Williams is a cultural historian of modern China interested in Maoist material culture and collections of red relics in contemporary China. She is associate professor and head of the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her first book, Collecting the Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield), was published in 2022.

August 14, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

This talk will introduce the China’s ‘red collectors’, collectors of ‘red relics’: objects relating to the Chinese Communist Party, People’s Liberation Army and the history of Chinese socialism. In introducing these collectors, the talk will seek to make two arguments. The first is that these collections and the motiva…

Confronting the Present: Grass Stage & the Vicissitudes of Social Theatre

Zhao Chuan Prof Christopher Connery in the Literature department at the University of California Santa Cruz

August 14, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

Sydney China Distinguished Fellow Presents Please join us for another two events presented by Professor Connery. 9 August | China & the Mutations of Neoliberalism: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture 30 August | Grass Stage and the Fate of Social Theater in Xi Jinping’s China A discussion of Shanghai-based Grass St…

When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China

Assistant Professor Xinhui Jiang (Nanjing University) Emeritus Professor Louise Edwards (Moderator) (UNSW)

August 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

When Socialist Legacy Meets International Norms: Gender Quota Adoption and Institutional Change in China This event is part of the mini series on "Women in China". Please join us for the other two webinars online. Women’s Entitlement in China’s Urbanization: Family Division of Relocated Housing Properties (Monday 19 Au…

Whose Womb is It Anyway?: Women’s Liberation, Nation-Building, and the Politics of Abortion in Modern China

Assoc Prof Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Emory University)

August 12, 2024 at 3:00 AM UTC

This event is co-hosted with UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture's Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art and Laureate Centre for History & Population. Sydney China Seminars At an annual rate of 49 abortions per 1,000 reproductive-aged women, China has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. Thi…

大学沙龙211期:马国川——日本帝国为什么会灭亡

主讲人:马国川。独立学者,资深媒体人士,曾任职于《经济观察报》《财经》等报刊。长期关注中国改革进程,近年来致力于研读日本近代史,著有《重启改革议程》(与吴敬琏合著)、“日本三部曲”(《国家的启蒙》《国家的歧路》《国家的重生》)等。 评议人: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》《日本经济体制的历史变迁》《日本外交简史:锁国·扩张·依附》等十余本专著。 主持人: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》《近代中日关系源流》等。

August 10, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

在大正时代,日本帝国站在历史的十字路口:一方面国内发展民主,国际上积极融入世界主流,另一方面明治时代晚期以来的民族主义、国家主义暗潮涌动。两种力量互相博弈,让日本帝国充满张力。随着大萧条的到来,日本军部势力急剧扩张,制造九一八事变,导致脱离“国联”,国家失去正确的方向,超国家主义渐成主流。日本帝国越来越排斥和仇视欧美自由主义,最终与德意法西斯走到一起,结成轴心国同盟,让日本帝国不可挽回地走向战争深渊,走向毁灭。近代日本是中国的镜子,也是中国的鞭子。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

China & the Mutations of Neoliberalism: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture

Prof Christopher Connery in the Literature department at the University of California Santa Cruz

August 9, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

Sydney China Distinguished Fellow Presents Please join us for another talk presented by Professor Connery. 30 August | Grass Stage and the Fate of Social Theater in Xi Jinping’s China This hybrid event is co-presented with the Discipline of Gender and Cultural Studies. Zoom link will be provided late. You are also welc…

From South China to Australia: Sources Surrounding 19th-century Cantonese Bilingual Lexicons

Dr Michelle Jia YE is Associate Director of CUHK-Chiang Ching-kuo Asia Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies and Lecturer at the University General Education China Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She authored a monograph (2021) on translation in early Republican Shanghai literary journals, and published Chinese translations of social scientific works.

August 8, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

The talk explores a series of Chinese-made English-Chinese lexicons published in the 1850s and 1860s in Canton and Hong Kong, which represented the first local attempts to systematically facilitate English language learning among Chinese communities, and which brought my archival search to Australia in July 2024. These…

A Journal of My Misgivings: Liang Yusheng, Sima Qian & the History of Qin

Jeffrey Riegel Professor Emeritus The University of California, Berkeley, and The University of Sydney

August 5, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

This event is co-presented with the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. Praised and occasionally criticized by Qing dynasty scholars as well as contemporary authorities, the Shiji zhiyi 史記志疑 of Liang Yusheng 梁玉繩 (1745-1819) is a detailed analysis and critiq…

大学沙龙210期:张伦——2024:通过选举看欧洲政治——从近期的欧洲议会、法国与英国立法选举谈起

主讲人:张伦。法国塞尔奇-巴黎大学教授,Agora 研究所研究员,法国人文科学之家(Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme)兼任研究员。中文学术网站《中国:历史与未来》主编。研究领域包括中国的现代性与转型,知识分子,东亚地缘政治,可持续发展及全球治理等。著作有 La vie intellectuelle en Chine d’après Mao,La Chine en transition 等。 评议人:王飞凌。美国乔治亚理工大学纳恩国际事务学院教授,美国 对外关系委员会成员。美国宾夕法尼亚大学博士。曾任教于美国军事学院(西点军校)和美国空军学院(科罗拉多泉)。著有《中国的户口制度》和“中国三部曲”:《中华秩序》《中国记录》《中华博弈》等。 主持人:夏明。纽约城市大学史坦顿岛学院政治学与全球事务系政治学教授,纽约市立大学研究生中心博士生导师。

July 27, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

2024可谓世界历史上少见的大选举年。全世界几十亿人参加各种预定和临时增加的选举。这些选举一方面反映着当下这个动荡世界的种种变动趋势,另一方面或也在强化或改变着这些趋势,形塑着未来。如何看待这些现象,我们通过近期欧洲举行的几个选举来尝试做些分析,尽管我们了解,欧洲包括其各国的选举都有其自身的特点,但或许其过程与结果也可以为我们提供观察整个世界的一些一般性的趋势,更好地认识这个复杂的世界提供某种帮助。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Roundtable on China's 2024 Third Plenum

Philippa Jones Prof James Laurenceson (UTS) Dr Wei Li (Usyd) Richard MacGregor Prof David S G Goodman (moderator)

July 26, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

The Communist Party of China has signalled that the 3rd Plenum of its 20th Central Committee will meet in July. By practie the 3rd Plenum of each Central Committee determines economic policy. Within China there has been intense speculation that this year’s 3rd Plenum will focus on structural reforms that • strengthen i…

大学沙龙209期:张笑宇——技术社会学:被遮蔽的因果关系

主讲人:张笑宇,先后就读于中国人民大学、北京大学和柏林自由大学,现为独立学者,著有“文明三部曲”系列(《技术与文明》《商贸与文明》《产业与文明》,其中《技术与文明》获2021年亚洲图书奖),主要研究领域为政治思想史、地缘政治、技术史、商贸史与产业史,现致力于技术社会学研究。 评议人:罗小朋,经济学家,明尼苏达大学经济学博士,曾任牛津大学访问学者,哈佛费正清中心联系研究员。 主持人:刘擎,华东师范大学紫江特聘教授,政治与国际关系学院博士生导师,明尼苏达大学政治学博士。主要研究领域为西方思想史、政治哲学与当代政治思潮。

July 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

本次讲座以《技术与文明》一书为基础,讨论技术突破与人类文明重大政治变革之间存在的隐性因果联系。作者主张对这一主题的研究不应过分偏重技术史或技术主义的任意一端,而应持“技术社会学”的基本态度。在此基础上,作者总结出一种理解技术进步与人类社会系统互动的中观理论:“漏斗-喇叭”模型,并以此审视诸如秦制国家或现代国家的缔造,战争、地缘政治或意识形态冲突的形塑等传统政治学关注的重大议题,亦讨论了个人可能在关键历史节点中扮演的作用。本书为“文明三部曲”(《技术与文明》《商贸与文明》《产业与文明》)系列之一,关于技术突破、商业繁荣、政治现代化、产业革命及其如何影响当今人类社会演变趋势等话题,后续再行组织专门讨论。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道…

大学沙龙208期 陈兼:走近周恩来——探究那个并未逝去的时代

主讲人:陈兼。上海纽约大学暨纽约大学全球体系杰出历史学讲席教授、康奈尔大学胡适讲席荣誉教授、华盛顿威尔逊国际学者中心全球学者,华东师范大学紫江特聘教授。著有China’s Road to the Korean War: The Making of Sino-American Confrontation 和 Mao’s China and the Cold War 等论作。译有孔飞力所著《叫魂——1768年中国妖术大恐慌》和《中国现代国家的起源》。近作有 Zhou Enlai: A Life 和《怎忍青史尽成灰:文革政治史批判笔记》。与耶鲁大学文安立(Odd Arne Westad) 教授合著的The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform将于2024年秋出版。 评议人:徐国琦。香港大学历史系教授。于安徽师范大学、南开大学、哈佛大学分别获历史学学士、硕士、博士学位。一直致力于跨国史、共有历史研究。主要中英文著作有《中国与大战: 寻求新的国家认同与国际化》《一战中的华工》《亚洲与一战:一个共有的历史》《中国人与美国人:一个共有的历史》《奥林匹克之梦:体育视野下的中国与体育1895- 2050》《为文明出征:第一次世界大战期间西线战场华工的故事》《文明的交融:第一次世界大战期间的在法华工》《难问西东集》《边缘人偶记》等。 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。

June 23, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

哈佛大学出版社最近隆重推出了杰出历史学家陈兼教授在多年从事多种语言、多边档案、及多方面资料研究的基础上写成的巨著Zhou Enlai: A Life。周恩来是在20世纪中国和世界的发展演变中都占有重要地位的历史巨人。为他写这么一本涵盖其一生、并同时具备学术和思想深度又有可读性的综合性传记实属不易。本期沙龙,陈兼教授将分享他写这本书所走过的心路历程,以及所面临的历史的、学术的、智识的和其他各种挑战。陈兼教授也是很多读者所熟悉的孔飞力著《叫魂》和《中国现代国家的起源》的中译者。本讲座不仅让听众直接聆听陈兼教授现身说法,分享治学和研究的心路历程、也为华语学术界提供一个极其难得的与杰出历史学家交流和切磋之宝贵机会。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTu…

HKHC & HKIHSS Conference 2024: Journeys

Please refer to the conference program

June 20, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” ‘Little Gidding’, T.S. Eliot What can we learn about Hong Kong’s history from thinking about journeys? Hong Kong was a point of arrival, and a point of departure; it was a way…

游走的文明:絲路粟特商人的自畫像 (Diaspora: Self-portrait of a Sogdian Commercial Troupe along the Silk Road)

邱忠鳴教授 (北京服裝學院) Professor Qiu Zhongming (Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology)

June 18, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

絲綢之路不僅是一條地理學或社會史意義上的橫向路線,更在一定程度上引動了時代樣貌的變遷。這些縱橫交錯的線索,根源於一個更加複雜的“場域”。中古時期活躍在絲綢之路上的粟特商隊,擁有冒險精神、商業才能以及多語言優勢,往來東西之間,販運絲綢、寶石、香料等,並在絲路沿線建立或大或小的聚落,也是鉤連東西方藝術、文化、思想與信仰的重要媒介,對中西亞、南亞和東亞文明的演進起著重要的作用。本講座以一個北齊造像上的圖像細節為鎖鑰,解讀一個粟特商隊的身份、人生故事及其映照出的絲路圖景。 The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a co…

Racism in China's sports fandom

Altman Yuzhu Peng is an associate professor at the University of Warwick and received his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

June 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

This talk discusses the manifestation of racism within China’s sports fandom, focusing on a case study of basketball fans’ discussions about the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement on Hupu, the leading Chinese-language sports fandom platform. The research reveals a pervasive trend of negative commentary towards the BLM m…

China’s Viral Villages: Digital Nationalism in Times of Crisis

Florian Schneider

June 14, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

Crisis moments like the 2019 Hong Kong protests or the COVID-19 pandemic have shone a spotlight on how divided political opinions are across the Chinese-speaking world, often along fault lines created by tribalist and nationalist attitudes. These attitudes are shaped by official propaganda, but they also interact in co…

U.S.-China and Trade Frictions: How Much Worse Will It Get?

Introduction: Hong Nong, Executive Director, ICAS Moderator: Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow & Head of ICAS Trade n’ Technology Program Panelists: - Mary Lovely, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics - Tu Xinquan, Professor & Dean, China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics

June 13, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

Aggravated trade tensions are once again rising to the fore in U.S-China relations. In mid-May, President Biden confirmed the Trump administration’s Section 301 tariffs on China and proceeded to heap additional tariff raises on semiconductors, EVs, batteries, and solar cells. In late-May, Treasury Secretary Yellen soun…

Sin Wai-Kin Fellowship Awardee Webinar Series

Al Lim (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology and School of the Environment Yale University) Yijun Gai (PhD Candidate, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong)

June 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

PRESENTATION TITLE: The Gendered Allure of Nang Kwak: from statuettes to NFTs in Thailand by Al Lim BIOS:- https://anthropology.yale.edu/people/al-lim ABSTRACT: Nang Kwak, or “The Beckoning Lady,” encapsulates the convergence of commercial aspirations and spiritual devotion in the cultural landscape of Thailand. Amid t…

Living in the Society of the Gods A Critical Comparative Approach to Gods as seen from the Chinese Case

Professor Vincent Goossaert (EPHE, PSL, Paris)

June 11, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

This paper is based on my ongoing work on Chinese gods and processes of subjectification whereby such gods affirm unique personas and engage humans in person-to-person interactions. It is based on a critical approach to much of the scholarship on gods who merely treat them as projection of human collective values and n…

大学沙龙207期:张鸣——国民党为何丟掉了大陆

主讲人:张鸣。中国人民大学政治学系退休教授。其主要专著有《武夫治国梦》《乡土心路八十年》《乡村社会权力和文化结构的变迁》《中国教育病了吗?》《北洋裂变:军阀与五四》《共和中的帝制》等数部;还写有《直截了当的独白》《关于两脚羊的故事》《历史的坏脾气》《历史的底稿》等历史文化随笔。 评议人:李勇。知名文史作家、文化评论家,笔名十年砍柴。毕业于兰州大学,前媒体人、副编审,出版有《闲看水浒》《皇帝、文臣和太监》《历史的倒影》《家国与世情》《寻找徐传贤:从上海到北京》《乡野与国士》《进城走了十八年》《晚明七十年》《找不回的故乡》等著作。 主持人:吴思。历史学者,资深编辑。毕业于中国人民大学中文系。2018年哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心访问学者。由出生地北京下乡插队期间曾任生产队长,大队副书记。后曾任《炎黄春秋》杂志总编辑,天则经济研究所理事长。著有《陈永贵:毛泽东的农民》《潜规则》《血酬定律》及二者合集《隐蔽的秩序》《我想重新解释历史》等书。

June 9, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

关于国民党为何丢掉了大陆,是个提出时间很早且有各方多角度持续研究的话题。长时间来也累计了不少答案和说法。常被提到的有:1. 共产党给了农民土地,国民党没有解决好土地问题;2. 中共的组织力强,凝聚力强;3. 蒋介石胡乱指挥;4. “共谍”太多,由于“共谍”情报导致国民党的战场失败;5. 民心所向。本讲座将从经济政策、战略选择、民众动员等角度剖析这一时期国共双方的异同得失,并提出与上述常见答案不尽相同的三点重要因素。搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。

Wednesday Seminar |The Rise of ‘For Profit’ Medical Care in China: The Case of United Family Healthcare|5 June 2024 @ 3:30 PM IST

Roberta Lipson is a pioneering figure in China's healthcare industry with over 40 years of experience. She founded United Family Healthcare (UFH) and served as CEO, guiding its transformation into China's first and largest foreign-invested healthcare system. Under her leadership, UFH expanded to encompass 11 hospitals, nearly 20 clinics, and an internet hospital, earning recognition as "The Most Trusted Healthcare Brand of China." She also led UFH through a public listing on NASDAQ in 1994, a merger with NYSE: New Frontier Health in 2019, and subsequent privatization in 2021. She also founded the United Foundation for China’s Health, focusing on providing healthcare interventions for underserved populations and spearheading initiatives to eradicate cervical cancer. Ms. Lipson is an influential leader in both Beijing and Washington, holding positions such as Vice Chair of AmCham-China and Chair of the U.S.-China Business Council. Her contributions have earned her prestigious awards and recognition, including the Great Wall Friendship Award and the China Pioneer Award. Lipson holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MBA from Columbia University. About the Chair Rama V. Baru recently retired as a Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is an Honorary Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, India and an Honorary Professor at the India Studies Centre, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. Her major areas of research interest include the commercialisation of health services, infectious diseases, comparative health systems and health inequalities. Her most recent publications include Commercialisation of Medical Care in China: Changing Landscapes (2020), and a co-edited book titled Global Health Governance and Commercialisation in India: Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local (2018). She is currently also a member of the Ethics Committee at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the Technical Appraisal Committee for Health Technology Assessment, the Department of Health Research, the Ministry of Health, the Government of India and the Scientific Advisory Group, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi.

June 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM UTC

In the first 25 years since the founding of the PRC, great strides were made in public health. Healthcare and prevention services were distributed as a public good through the commune system, reaching deep into the countryside. With the breakup of the commune system, most state funding stopped at the provincial level.…

British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS) 2024 annual conference

50+ postgraduate speakers and 2 keynote speakers: Prof. Jiang Jiehong (Birmingham City University) and Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford University).

June 5, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

This year, the British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (2024) Annual Conference will welcome more than 50 speakers to share their research over the course of 2 days, 5 and 6 June 2024. As the third decade of the 21st century begins, monumental changes are occurring worldwide. On the one hand, the challenges po…

Escaping the Holocaust: The Mir Yeshiva from Vilna to Shanghai and beyond

Professor Jay Winter (Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University)

June 5, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

During the Second World War the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in Talmudic academies or ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe. Remarkably, one academy survived intact. The Mir yeshiva was based in Byelorussia, but in 1939 fled Stalin to independent Lithuania. The outbreak of war put an end to Lithuanian indepen…

Stone and Sediment: Interaction between Resources and Society in the Jianghan Area from 1,600 to 1,050 BC

Dr. Xin Su (Ph.D. Anthropology, Harvard University)

May 31, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

How the interaction between resources and society shaped the social world is an important anthropological concern. In the study of the Bronze Age, prominent resources, represented by bronzes, are often the focus of researchers. However, there are many different types of resources, and while prominent resources are impo…

Ritualized Homeland or Dangerous Frontier? A Study of Nalan Xingde’s Poems Written in Manchuria

Annie Luman Ren

May 30, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

Nalan Xingde or Nara Singde 納蘭性德 (1655-1685) is regarded as one of the greatest lyric (ci 詞) poets of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1644-1912). In 1682, Xingde embarked on two separate journeys to Manchuria, first accompanying the Kangxi Emperor to make sacrifices at the tombs of the dynasty’s founding fathers; then, on a s…

Assessing the Impact of US-China Rivalry on Ukraine and Taiwan

- Da Wei, Director of Center for International Security and Strategy; Professor at School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; - Dmytro Burtsev, Junior Fellow at A. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; - Emilian Kavalski, Professor at Centre for International Studies and Development, Jagiellonian University in Krakow; - I Yuan, Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

May 30, 2024 at 5:00 AM UTC

This talk will examine the geopolitical implications of the escalating rivalry between the United States and China, focusing on its impact on Ukraine and Taiwan. The participants will discuss three key questions: - What are the drivers of growing tension over Taiwan? - How has the Russo-Ukrainian War affected Taiwan's…

大学沙龙206期:何岸——莫迪十年:印度政治强人的几个侧面

主讲人:何岸。国观智库秘书长,南亚研究中心主任,中国原驻印度使馆一秘,国际关系学院英国文学硕士。长期从事国际战略研究,参与编写重大课题数十余部,参与涉及我国大型专项保障数十余起,重点研究方向为中印关系和南亚地区问题等。 评议人:毛克疾,国家发展改革委国际合作中心助理研究员。毕业于清华大学和美国约翰霍普金斯大学,获法学硕士、文学硕士双学位,哈佛燕京学者,长期从事南亚国家的政治经济研究。著有《印太战略下的美印协调》《莫迪的“印度梦”》《印度的“大国情结”与中国对印战略》《“印度制造”的双重困境》等文章。 主持人:张文娟,印度金德尔全球法学院教授、副院长,金德尔全球大学印中研究中心创始主任。主要从事比较治理、公益慈善方向的研究,发表中英文论文50多篇,最近出版了《雾与悟:亲历印度》一书。

May 26, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

4月下旬,印度开始了近30年来最漫长的选举。外界普遍预测,莫迪有望成功连任。执政十年,莫迪打着印度教民族主义旗号,实施大刀阔斧的改革,印度在经济快速增长、国际影响力不断增长的同时,也面临着国内年轻人失业率飙升和贫富差距扩大的困境。十年时间,分享人何岸以曾经常驻新德里的前外交官身份,近距离观察莫迪。这次沙龙,分享人将通过这一观察视角,和大家一起交流这位印度政治强人的不同侧面。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Book Talk: Interconnected Worlds with Henry Yeung

Henry Yeung

May 23, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

On Thursday, May 23 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Henry Yeung (National University of Singapore) to discuss his book Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia. His book offers key empirical observations on the highly contested and…

The Contested Polarity: Systemic Power Distribution and Implications for U.S-China Relations

Baohui Zhang is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. David Smith (Moderator) is Associate Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, jointly appointed between the US Studies Centre and the School of Social and Political Sciences. He is a regular commentator on American politics in the Australian media.

May 23, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

What defines the polarity of the current international system? Unipolarity, bipolarity, or multipolarity? This talk examines the theoretical and real-world challenges of deciphering the polarity of the international system. It argues that the root cause of the challenges lies with the fuzzy nature of power, which makes…

Prestige Gold and the Crossroads of Civilizations: Chang’an to Athens

Professor Fiona Yan Liu Northwestern Polytechnical University

May 22, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

As a portable wealth, gold was highly valued by mobile pastoralists for its monetary and aesthetic values in ancient Eurasia. The gold making in ancient China underwent an important development during the early Iron Age following the arrival of new decorative motifs and technological skills from foreign lands. Comparin…

In Conquest’s Wake: Trauma, Transformation, and Becoming through the Shang-Zhou Transition

Dr. Andrew MacIver Ph.D. Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles

May 21, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

In the late second millennium BC, the socio-political landscape of early China underwent a major rupture when the Zhou and their coalition of highland allies conquered the Late Shang state (ca. 1250-1046 BC) at Anyang. Following the fall of Anyang, the Shang people dispersed widely throughout the Western Zhou world (ca…

Business History without Business: Making Sense of China’s pre-1949 Cattle Trade

Professor Thomas DuBois (Beijing Normal University)

May 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

China’s large and valuable pre-1949 cattle trade is effectively invisible to historians. Trade was completely decentralized, and transactions were often conducted clandestinely, leaving behind little record. Alongside the few discernible routes, cattle trade ran simultaneously in all directions corresponding to the cha…

Spring Third Space Story Circle

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May 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

USHCA is excited to announce our upcoming seasonal Third Space Story Circle program! Join us for our Spring Story Circle as we dive into topics like cross-cultural understanding, language, and navigating the virtual world in 2024. With social media becoming an increasingly popular topic amongst policymakers, this Stude…

Book Talk: Renegade Rhymes with Meredith Schweig

Meredith Schweig, Associate Professor of ethnomusicology at Emory University

May 16, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

The UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome associate professor of ethnomusicology at Emory University, Meredith Schweig, to discuss her book Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Online participants can join the book talk via Zoom here: https://washington.zo…

Hong Kong After the National Security Law

James Cunningham Sebastien Lai Sophie Richardson Cherie Wong Larry Diamond

May 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power invites you to Hong Kong After the National Security Law on Tuesday, May 14 from 4-5:30pm PT. This event will present perspectives on the current political and civic climate in Hong Kong since the passage of the National Security Law on June 30, 2020 and the imposition o…

The Political Ecology of Settlement Geography on the Ordos Plateau: An Environmental and Spatial History of Borderland Infrastructure in Imperial China

Prof. Ruth Mostern ( University of Pittsburgh)

May 14, 2024 at 12:00 PM UTC

The Ordos Plateau, the semiarid loess-soil region of northern Shaanxi at the periphery of the East Asian summer monsoon, is a historically multiethnic domain that is sensitive to small shifts in climate. During imperial times, Ordos residents generally subsisted as herders, farmers, and salt miners. The Ordos was also…

大学沙龙205期:王元崇——大国外交与晚清兴衰

主讲人:王元崇。历史学博士,美国特拉华大学历史系副教授,主要研究清代中外关系史和近世中国国家的形成与变迁,已版专著包括Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616-1911 (重塑中华帝国:1616-1911年之满韩关系)和《中美相遇:大国外交与晚清兴衰,1784-1911》。 评议人:王立新。北京大学历史学系博雅特聘教授、教育部“长江学者奖励计划”特聘教授,兼任国务院学位委员会第八届学科评议组(世界史组)联合召集人、北京大学人文学部副主任。主要从事美国对外关系史、中美关系史和国际史的教学与研究,著有《美国传教士与晚清中国现代化》《意识形态与美国外交政策――以20世纪美国对华政策为个案的研究》《踌躇的霸权:美国崛起后的身份困惑与秩序追求(1913-1945)》《有思想的历史》等。 主持人:皇甫峥峥(Jenny Huangfu Day),纽约州斯基德莫尔学院(Skidmore College)历史系副教授。主要研究方向为近代中外关系史、中西交通史、国际法学史。已出版专著Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China (远西旅人:晚清外交与信息秩序),整理出版《晚清伦敦使馆照会档案》。

May 12, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

与今日中美关系的重要性截然相反,晚清时期的中美关系从未成为两国外交的重点,双方也严重缺乏交流,未能建立起对彼此社会和文化的深入认识,在中国一侧尤属不堪。美国建国并派遣商船来华之时,正逢清代乾隆年间,弱小的美国面对着的是清代中国这个大国施行已久的对外关系框架,必须遵循其典章制度。然而,两次鸦片战争以后,局面开始急剧反转。美国尾随英法之后,开始以殖民武力为背景,通过不平等条约和国际法,改变在华地位,并稳步拓展在华的商贸和外交网络。当时的清代中国,却完全无力对美达成对等交际,远者不能保护数十万赴美的华工,近者无力改变正在覆盖整个东亚、东南亚和中亚地区的新式国际政治和外交的格局,遂至内外交困、处处被动。如今,自诩天朝的大清国早已经灰飞烟灭,…

What China Remembers About the Cultural Revolution, and What it Wants to Forget

Tania Branigan, The Guardian Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Institution

May 10, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

The Hoover Project on China’s Global Sharp Power, Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies, and Stanford's Department of History invite you to What China Remembers About the Cultural Revolution, and What it Wants to Forget on Friday, May 10, 2024 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PT in the George P. Shultz Building, Shultz Audito…

Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Democratic Regimes

Pratap Bhanu Mehta Jessica Pisano Sultan Tepe

May 9, 2024 at 5:54 PM UTC

India goes to the polls for its national elections amidst widespread concerns that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has systematically eroded Indian democracy. Since coming to power in 2014, the Modi government has compromised the integrity and independence of state institutions, and attacked civil societ…

Symposium by Distinguished Scholars in Literature, History and Philosophy: History of Disease and Related Teaching and Public History in the Post-Pandemic Period (2024/5/9)

Keynote: Dr PI Kuo-Li (Graduate Institute of History, National Central University) Discussants: Professor WONG Man Kong (Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University) Dr LAW Yuen Han (Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University) Moderator: Dr DONG Xianliang (Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University)

May 9, 2024 at 6:30 AM UTC

Between 1918 and 2023, spanning over a century, humanity has faced and conquered numerous infectious diseases. Among these, the three major global infectious diseases that stand out for their unique characteristics and lasting impact are the influenza pandemic, SARS, and COVID-19. The speaker will delve into these dise…

What is “National Sickness”? Beriberi in Meiji Japan and Tuberculosis in Republican China

Professor LIU Shi-Yung (Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

May 9, 2024 at 2:30 AM UTC

Abstract: The late 19th and early 20th century influx of Western influence in East Asia spurred a dual challenge for China and Japan. They faced pressure to implement Westernization reforms to confront Western encroachment, while simultaneously seeking explanations for perceived physical frailties of their populaces, e…

Transnational Networks of Human Resources and Knowledge in East Asia: A Case Study of Taiwan Merchant Wang Xuenong (1870–1915) and His Trading Company

Professor Yuju Lin (Academia Sinica)

May 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

Trade has historically driven Taiwan’s economic growth, with cane sugar dominating exports from the 1620s to the 1960s. Despite this, the strategic evolution of sugar traders has been overlooked. This article explores how Takow (Kaohsiung) merchants navigated international trade, particularly after the 1870s, adapting…

Book Launch/Interdisciplinary & Interregional - States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the 20th Century

Adhira Mangalagiri

May 2, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating wit…

Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival Cultural Bridge Special Section Screening

Speaker: Dr. Liang Wang Leader of the Tandem Language Exchange programme and the Chinese Culture Programme at Queen’s University Belfast Language support officer of Queen’s University Belfast Wejdan Alawad Events manager of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival Lecturer in Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University PhD candidate in Translation Studies at Queen's University Belfast Film Director's Statement and Q&A Film director: Chunjing Wang, Mei Duan, Boyan Guo, Kunyu Cai, MengyuanSu, Yijing Wang Host: Tianpeng Yao Founder of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD Candidate in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast Panelists: Siyang Gu Marketing manager&programmer of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast Lauren McShane Programmer of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD candidate in French Studies at Queen's University Belfast Course representative for Modern Languages postgraduate research students at Queen’s Xiaoxiang Ma Technical director of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD student in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast Yang Ni Media producer of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival PhD student in History at Queen's University Belfast Xun Hu Programmer of the Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival Postgraduate student at University College London

May 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM UTC

The Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival (EAFF) is a non-profit international film exhibition focused on fostering artistic exchange and development among new filmmakers. Organized by Queen’s University Belfast and funded by the Queen’s Annual Fund, EAFF serves as a platform for emerging talents to showcase their work. This…

Halal or Qingzhen?: A Question of Sinicization of Islam in China

Professor James Frankel (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

April 30, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society. This process of naturalization and localization, sometimes referred to as “Siniciza…

Perspectives on the Materiality of City Walls in Chinese and European History

Laura McAtackney Yue Zhang Eva Žile Jiayao Jiang Hannibal Caleb Taubes Lianyu Jin Iva Stojević Oliver Creighton Zhaoxiang Mu Yuanlin Hao Cai Yuqing Ding Yu Jie Liu Mingshuai Li Taylor Zaneri

April 26, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTC

The ERC project Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History (RegInfra) is organizing a workshop titled Perspectives on the Materiality of City Walls in Chinese and European History on April 26-27. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working in different archaeological contexts to share best p…

The Population History of China (1368–1953)

Shuji Cao 曹樹基教授 (Honorary Professor, HK Institute for the Humanities & Social Sciences)

April 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM UTC

Join us for the highly anticipated book launch event celebrating the release of "The Population History of China (1368–1953)" by our Honorary Professor Shuji Cao. His newly released work offers a comprehensive exploration of China's population figures, density, and changes from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty. As we celeb…

Quantitative History Book Launch Series | The Population History of China (1368–1953)

Professor Shuji Cao 曹樹基教授 (Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong)

April 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM UTC

Join us for the highly anticipated book launch event celebrating the release of "The Population History of China (1368–1953)" by our Honorary Professor Shuji Cao. His newly released work offers a comprehensive exploration of China's population figures, density, and changes from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty. As we celeb…

Tales from a Small North China Commercial Town

Professor Linda Grove (Sophia University)

April 26, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

In the early 1930s Gaoyang (in Hebei province) was the center of one of China’s best known rural industrial districts, producing cotton and rayon textiles that were sold through a nation-wide marketing network. My own earlier work on Gaoyang, A Chinese Economic Revolution: Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Centur…

Book Talk: Island X with Wendy Cheng

Wendy Cheng

April 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

On Wednesday, April 24 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Wendy Cheng to discuss her newest book entitled Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism. Wendy delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came t…

WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | GENDER ISSUES AND FEMINISM IN ECONOMICALLY ADVANCED SOUTH KOREA | 24 APRIL 2024 @ 4:30 PM IST | ZOOM WEBINAR

About the Speaker Hawon Jung is a journalist and author of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea’s Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women’s Rights Worldwide, chosen as one of the best books of 2023 by The Economist magazine. Her coverage of South Korea’s #MeToo movement was shortlisted in the Awards for Editorial Excellence by the Society of Publishers in Asia. Her writings and commentary have been featured in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, and the BBC. She was chosen in 2024 as one of 30 individuals championing rights for women and sexual minorities around the world in the CNN series ‘As Equals’. About the Chair Sandip Kumar Mishra is Professor in Korean Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), New Delhi and a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi. He obtained his doctoral degree in Korean Studies and International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He studied Korean Language at Yonsei University and Sogang University. He has published several research articles and book chapters, and features in newspapers such as Korea Times, Times of India, Indian Express, Financial Express, Pioneer, Tribune, and Statesman.

April 24, 2024 at 11:00 AM UTC

South Korea is the world’s 13th largest economy, a tech powerhouse that is home to many technological innovations and is globally recognized as a cultural juggernaut churning out K-pop stars, K- dramas and cinemas. But the country also ranks 105th in a global gender equality survey, has had the largest gender pay gap i…

Locality God vs. Locals: Ritual Worship as Risk Management in a Sino-Mongolian Mining Encounter by Ruiyi Zhu

Dr. Ruiyi Zhu (New York University Shanghai)

April 23, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

This paper is concerned with the significance of rituals in transnational extractive operations, drawing on an ethnographic account of a privately-owned Chinese mining company in post-socialist Mongolia. I argue that Chinese miners adopt ritual worship of Tudi Ye (Locality God) as a strategy for managing the risks asso…

ONLINE SEMINAR SERIES | China in International Development: Instruments, Finance, and Infrastructures

Min Ye Xiaoyang Tang Jennifer Bouey Courtney Fung Ammar Malik Mustafa Sayed Yan WANG Wendy Leutert Austin Strange Oscar Otele Andrea Pollio Isaac Kardon

April 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

China’s global engagement with countries in the developing world is rapidly evolving in an era where traditional aid discourses and the practices of emerging powers in international development are undergoing significant changes. As the largest South-South cooperation provider and the world’s second-largest economy, Ch…

大学沙龙204期:王寅丽 —— 阿伦特和波考克关于美国革命的共和主义论述

主讲人:王寅丽。复旦大学哲学博士,曾任教于华东师范大学哲学系多年,现为上海科技大学人文科学研究院常任副教授,研究员。主要从事西方政治哲学和伦理学研究,尤为关注阿伦特研究、共和主义、基督教与现代政治思想等。出版专著《汉娜•阿伦特:在哲学与政治之间》《汉娜•阿伦特:爱、思考和行动》《世俗时代的政治哲学:共和主义的一项研究》。译著有《当代法国哲学》《人的境况》《过去与未来之间》《爱与圣奥古斯丁》。曾在《世界哲学》《学术月刊》《哲学与文化》《道风:基督教文化评论》《基督宗教研究》,Religions等海内外刊物上发表论文三十多篇。 评议人:崇明。北京大学历史学系长聘副教授,北京大学历史学系博士。研究领域涉及近现代法国史、西方政治思想史,著有《创造自由:托克维尔的民主思考》《启蒙、革命、自由:法国近代政治与思想论集》,编有《托克维尔文集》。 主持人:高全喜。上海交通大学凯原法学院讲席教授。曾任北京航空航天大学人文与社会科学高等研究院院长、法学院教授。研究领域为宪法学、政治哲学、法理学与中西宪法史。近著有《苏格兰道德哲学十讲》《西方近现代政治思想》等。

April 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

在阿伦特和波考克对美国革命“共和主义叙事”中,共和国被视为希腊和罗马古典共和精神的延续,共和主义在此典型地体现了现代关于“人类自足性”的文化意识,和对人类创建政治国家以实现世俗不朽的渴求。在阿伦特那里,美国革命的核心问题是立国的问题,在波考克那里是共和国的持存问题。 本讲座分析阿伦特和波考克都致力于探讨的美国革命问题,说明他们的共和主义一方面类似于一种世俗化的“政治神学”,另一方面凸显了当代共和主义力图复兴的古典共和理想与基督教之间的复杂张力关系。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2023-24) - The master and his students and what early Chinese tradition thought about them

Professor Hans van Ess (Vice President, Department für Asienstudien, Institut für Sinologie, LMU München)

April 19, 2024 at 7:30 AM UTC

Abstract: In the sixth chapter of the Lunyu Confucius talks about his students. It is not always easy to understand what he actually has to say about them. Moreover, sometimes he seems to contradict himself as far as other statements on the same students are concerned. Interestingly, in the 67th chapter of the Shiji, t…

The United States and China's Global Maritime Relations: Inevitable Competition or Feasible Collaboration?

Introduction & Moderation: Philippe Rheault, Director, The China Institute, University of Alberta Book Talk: Hong Nong, Executive Director & Senior Fellow, ICAS Panelists: - Gregory Poling, Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies - Dingli Shen, Professor Emeritus and Former Executive Dean, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University - Gilang Kembara, Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Nanyang Technological University

April 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC

As science and technology continue to advance, the ocean, covering 71% of the Earth’s surface, is undeniably assuming an increasingly vital role for humanity. Consequently, nations are diligently pursuing their respective maritime interests, revealing both commonalities and distinctions. The United States and China, wi…

Big Brother: Friendship, War, and Peace between China and the USSR in the Socialist Era

Dr. Qiang Fu

April 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

Drawing on big data analytics of over 50,000 newspaper articles published in People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this international collaborative project delves into the CCP’s narrative portrayal of the USSR from the late 1940s to the collapse of the world's first proletarian re…

High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy

Angela Huyue Zhang, associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong (speaker) Thomas Streinz, executive director of Guarini Global Law & Tech (modeator) Professor Harry First and Eleanor Fox will be discussants

April 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC

China’s success in cultivating Big Tech firms has enabled it to emerge as a formidable rival to the United States in the digital sphere. But in the past few years, the Chinese government has embarked on a massive regulatory crackdown, targeting its largest tech corporations such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Meituan. Many W…

Alternative Hygienic Modernity: Chinese Medical Therapy Project for Industrial Pollution in Cold War Taiwan

Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester)

April 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

The concept of Hygienic Modernity has been proposed for about 20 years. This talk takes the Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) poisoning event in Taiwan in the Cold War period as an example to revisit this well-known concept in the modern history of East Asia. The PCBs are incurable industrial toxicants and have caused e…

Advocating for Uyghurs in China and in the US

Ned Levin Ned is an attorney in Washington, D.C. He consults with clients in media and finance and represents Uyghur asylum seekers. He previously worked for a hedge fund investigating listed companies for misconduct and securities fraud, including using forced labor in China. Before becoming a lawyer, he was a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal based in Istanbul and Hong Kong. Mr. Levin earned his J.D. and M.B.A. from Yale and his A.B. from Harvard, where he majored in Silk Road Studies.

April 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM UTC

Materials from China’s Xinjiang region, including cotton and polysilicon, permeate global supply chains. All products made with such materials are presumptively banned from the United States under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which took effect almost two years ago. Ned Levin, an attorney who has investigated…

The United States, China and AI: What Does Cooperation Look Like

Introduction: Hong Nong, Executive Director, ICAS Moderator: Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow & Head of ICAS Trade n’ Technology Program Panelists: - Paul Triolo, Associate Partner for China and Technology Policy Lead, Albright Stonebridge Group - Denis Simon, Distinguished Fellow, ICAS

April 10, 2024 at 1:30 PM UTC

Artificial Intelligence has emerged as an unlikely area of U.S.-China cooperation amid their race for supremacy in cutting-edge technologies. In November 2023, President Biden and President Xi agreed to establish a govt-to-govt mechanism to discuss AI at their summit in Woodside, California, and a US-China working grou…

Emergence of Chinese Charitable Organizations in the MENA Region: A New Moral Paradigm in a Globalized Charitable Market

Professor Yuting Wang (American University of Sharjah) and Dr. Shaojin Chai (University of Sharjah)

April 10, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

China’s deepening ties with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the last decade, spurred by the Belt and Road Initiative, have fostered the rise of Chinese private charities in the region. These charities come in two forms: overseas branches of mainland Chinese NGOs and grassroots initiatives within overseas Chi…

The Fragmented Chinese Corporate-Political Ecosystem

Dr. Colin Hawes is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, teaching Corporate Law, Asian Law, and Chinese Business Law. He has published widely on Chinese corporations, law, and culture, including three books, the latest of which is The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

April 9, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

Many Australian and international commentators have expressed deep concern about the expansion of Chinese corporations overseas. They are especially suspicious of Chinese firms being utilized as tools to promote Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence in ways that undermine the “rules-based” democratic order. My presen…

大学沙龙203期:刘杰——日本对华外交中的知中派——从战前到战后

主讲人:刘杰。日本早稻田大学社会科学综合学术院教授。东京大学文学博士。曾担任哥伦比亚大学客座研究员,朝日新闻亚洲研究员等职务。研究领域包括近代日本政治外交史、东亚国际关系史、现代中日关系论。著有《日中戦争下の外交》(吉川弘文馆 1995),Toward a History Beyond Borders(Harvard University Asia Center 2012)《中国の强国构想ー日清戦争から现代まで》(筑摩书房 2013),《中日国力消长与东亜秩序重构》(五南図书出版 2021 共著),《超大国中国のゆくえー文明観と歴史认识》(东京大学出版会 2022 共著)。 评议人:段瑞聪。日本庆应义塾大学商学院教授。庆应义塾大学法学博士。2008-2010年美国斯坦福大学APARC、胡佛研究所访问学者。2017-2020年兼任南开大学历史学院讲座教授。主要研究领域为中国近现代政治史、中日关系史、当代中国政治。主要著作有《蒋介石と新生活运动》(庆应义塾大学出版会 2006 独著),《改订版岐路に立つ日中关系》(晃洋书房 2012 合编著),《蒋介石の戦时外交と戦后构想1941-1971年》(庆应义塾大学出版会 2021 独著),《现代中国の国家形成》(庆应义塾大学出版会 2024 编著)。 主持人:郑成。日本兵库县立大学环境人间学部教授。早稲田大学学术博士。主要研究领域为中国现代史。目前研究题目为建国初期的知识人精神史。主要著作有《国共内戦期の中共・ソ连关系: 旅顺・大连地区を中心に》(御茶ノ水书房 2012),《和解のための新たな歴史学―方法と构想》(明石书店 2022 合著)。

April 7, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

如同现在的日本有一个庞大的知中派一样,太平洋战争结束以前,日本的政官界,财界,军界以及知识界内同样有一个熟悉中国事务,在中国构建了多种类型的人际网络的人群,被称作“支那通”。他们依靠各自的学识和人脉,一方面影响着日本的对华政策,另一方面在中日两国政府之间扮演着沟通或桥梁的角色。同时,不可否认的是,在有些重要的历史节点他们对中国内情的误解和对日本舆论的误导,将中日关系引领到了危机的边缘。如何评价这些知中派的历史地位和作用是客观把握中日关系的重要前提之一。本报告聚焦战前和战后的日本外务省的知中派,透过他们的政策和行动,分析在复杂的中日关系中他们发挥的作用,并为这些知中派寻找一个合理的历史定位。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Chinese Companies in the US Legal System

Ji Li is the John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law at the University of California Irvine. Before that, he taught at Rutgers University. His teaching and research explores a broad range of topics including Chinese law and politics, international business transactions, contracts, comparative law, and empirical legal studies. His JD is from Yale Law School and his PhD in political science is from Northwestern University. After law school, he practiced corporate and tax law for several years in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

April 4, 2024 at 2:30 PM UTC

Chinese companies that operate in the US face an increasingly complex legal and political landscape. Rising geopolitical tensions between China and the US make it difficult for Chinese multinationals to comply with the laws of both countries. But they are reluctant to leave the US, having made substantial investments h…

A Double-Edged Sword? Doing Chinese Studies in the AI Era

Kwok-leong Tang

March 30, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC

Event Details: - Date: Saturday, March 30, 2024 - Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Eastern Time) - Zoom ID: 996 7549 6616 - Zoom link: https://www.zoom.us/j/99675496616

Constructing the “Scientific” Child in Late Qing Periodicals

Shih-Wen Sue Chen is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. She is the author of Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Representations of China in British Children’s Fiction, 1851–1911 (Routledge, 2013) and the co-editor of Representations of Children and Success in Asia: Dream Chasers (Routledge, 2022). Her current research project focuses on science in nineteenth-century English and Chinese children’s literature.

March 28, 2024 at 5:00 AM UTC

The influence of classic Confucian texts such as The Twenty-four Exemplars of Filial Piety on Chinese childhoods has been well-documented. However, non-canonical texts published for Chinese children in the late Qing dynasty, particularly children’s periodicals, have received less critical attention. This talk explores…

The Importance of US-Japan Scholarly Exchanges

Noriyuki Shikata, Cabinet secretary for public affairs in the office of the Prime Minister of Japan Setsuo Miyazawa, senior director emeritus of the Center for East Asian Legal Studies and senior affiliated scholar at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco Troy A. McKenzie, dean of the NYU School of Law Carolina van der Mensbrugghe, associate director of the NYU School of Law Public Interest Law Center

March 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM UTC

One of the missions of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute is to facilitate scholarly exchanges between the US and East Asian countries, with Japan as one of our most important partners. USALI is part of a wider effort at NYU School of Law to be an international law school and foster scholarly conversation across borders. Purs…

大学沙龙202期 黄亚生:中国经济历史中的几个关键问题——黄亚生教授作品The Rise and Fall of the East 研讨

主讲人:黄亚生。麻省理工斯隆管理学院政治经济和国际管理教授,“时代基金会”讲席教授。2013年至2017年,任麻省理工斯隆管理学院副院长。历任密歇根大学、哈佛大学教职和世界银行顾问。研究领域涉及国际商务管理、政治经济学和制度经济学。在麻省理工斯隆管理学院, 创办了旨在帮助中小企业提高管理的“中国实验室”、 “印度实验室”和“东盟实验室”。著有The Rise and Fall of the East (Yale University Press, 2023),《具有中国特色的资本主义》和《销售中国》等11部专著。 评议人:马德斌。牛津大学经济史教授及牛津万灵学院院士,复旦大学经济学院兼职教授。美国北卡罗莱纳大学经济学博士。量化历史研究的发起人之一,《量化历史研究》辑刊、《新史学(量化历史研究)》专辑的联合主编,剑桥大学出版社New Approaches to Economic and Social History丛书的编委。代表著作有与万志英合作编辑的两卷本的《剑桥中国经济史》The Cambridge Economic History of China (Cambridge University Press, 2022)、《中国经济史的大分流与现代化:一种跨国比较视野》(浙江大学出版社,2020)。 主持人:包刚升。复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授,哈佛大学访问学者(2019-2020学年),著有《演变:西方政治的新现实》《儒法道:早期中国的政治想象》《抵达:一部政治演化史》《民主崩溃的政治学》以及英文著作Politics of Democratic Breakdown (Routledge)等,作品先后入选“《新京报》2014年度社科书”、“第一财经2023年度图书”、“腾讯2023年人文社科十大原创好书”等。

March 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM UTC

对历史学家李约瑟的著名问题:“为什么拥有深厚科技优势的中华帝国未能早于欧洲发动自己的工业革命?”,黄亚生教授在其新作The Rise and Fall of the East (Yale University Press, 2023) 中通过实证研究表明,中国的创造力在汉隋间达到顶峰,“中国的第一波技术停滞与中国政治分裂的结束同时发生”,并认为伴随窒闷的科举制度的确立,中国衰落的种子早在隋代就已埋下了。 该书一经出版就名列亚马逊同类书目榜首,荣膺《外交》杂志2023年最佳图书之一,并在学界引起了热议,也触发了本期沙龙的研讨。请搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。

Climate Change: Views from the Global South

Nagraj Adve Member TEACHERS AGAINST THE CLIMATE CRISIS, INDIA Isabel Cavelier Adarve Co-Founder MUNDO COMUN, COLOMBIA Hamza Hamouchene Activist and Co-founder ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NORTH AFRICA North Africa Programme Coordinator TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE Bo LI Senior Consultant on China’s Environment, Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Shan Shui Conservation Center PEKING UNIVERSITY

March 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM UTC

International negotiations about climate change have long been anchored in frameworks of carbon emissions and net-zero targets. However, this framing has not necessarily captured the most meaningful goals for many parts of the world that are coping with some of the most intense effects of climate change. Their concerns…

Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road: A book talk by Dr. Grant Rhode

Dr. Grant Rhode (Boston University and US Naval War College)

March 20, 2024 at 9:00 PM UTC

Rhode's book Great Power Clashes Along the Maritime Silk Road (2023) asks what we can learn from historic Eurasian maritime geopolitical players and their interactions that will inform and enlighten today's international relations practitioners. It examines three seminal historical cases of maritime clashes in the Chin…

The Rise and Fall of Economic-Centered Coalitions in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Keren Zhu (India China Institute, The New School)

March 19, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era. However, questions remain — with regards to their implementation, why do megaprojects encounter such divergent responses — with some gaining local support…

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future

Speaker: Ian Johnson, Council on Foreign Relations Discussant: Orville Schell, Asia Society Moderator: Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Institution

March 18, 2024 at 11:00 PM UTC

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history. The past is a b…

大学沙龙第201期:和文凯 -- 比较历史研究与政治经济学理论视野中的《通向现代财政国家的路径》

主讲人:和文凯。香港科技大学社会科学部副教授。本科毕业于清华大学精密仪器系,麻省理工学院政治学系博士。2007-08年哈佛大学费正清中心王安博士后研究员。2016-17哈佛大学Radcliffe高等学术研究院和哈佛燕京学社访问学者。研究方向为国家形成、比较政治学、历史社会学和比较历史分析,尤其是早期现代英国、日本与中国的比较。著有Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 《通向现代财政国家的路径》(2013 Harvard University Press, 2020香港中文大学出版社)。 评议人:罗兆天。芝加哥大学政治学与政治经济学助理教授。本科毕业于对外经济贸易大学,2019年获纽约大学政治系博士学位。作为一位形式理论学者,对非民主国家的政治制度和政治经济学有着广泛的实质性兴趣。擅长运用博弈论模型来解释政治参与者之间的相互作用以及政治机构的基础和绩效。 主持人:林颖:西雅图华盛顿大学政治学博士,曾任教于香港科技大学社会科学部,后任职香港中文大学出版社,历任编辑部主任、助理社长、执行主编。

March 16, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

本次讲座从比较历史研究和政治经济学理论互动的角度,讨论《通向现代财政国家的路径》一书。该书详尽的比较历史研究背后的问题意识,是如何解释从旧制度均衡到现代财政国家的新制度均衡的复杂因果过程。在这一过程当中,现代财政国家制度只是可能出现的多个均衡中的一个,并非唯一的可能结果。比较历史研究能否为制度变迁提供一个非线形的因果解释?这一基于历史考察的因果解释有没有成为理论模型的可能?参与讲座的两位嘉宾,将从政治经济学研究的不同角度,展开批判性对话。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation

Dr. Weipin Tsai (University of London)

March 15, 2024 at 9:00 AM UTC

The Making of China’s Post Office traces the origins and early development of the country’s modern postal system. Sweeping in perspective, it goes beyond the bounds of institutional history to explore the political maneuverings, economic imperatives, and societal pressures both inhibiting and driving forward postal dev…

Blacky, Tramp, and Bobby: The Forgotten Dog Purge in Hong Kong’s Progressive Seventies

Professor Catherine Chan (Department of History, Lingnan University)

March 12, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention. The MacLehose administration, the longest in the history of British Hong Kong, introduced a series of social reforms—free education, more housing projects, better social welfare, etc.—to regain local support following…

Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2023-24) - Capturing Prestige: Human Trafficking in Tsushima’s Maritime Borderlands, c. 1350-1600

Professor Peter Shapinsky (Professor of East Asian history, Department of History, the University of Illinois, Springfield)

March 12, 2024 at 1:50 AM UTC

Abstract: From the perspective of the maritime borderlands centered on the island of Tsushima, late medieval Japanese transformations in commercialization, local lordship, and the integration of the archipelago into domestic and East Asian shipping circuits all depended on flows of enslaved peoples. The history of Tsus…

Book Talk: Taiwan Lives with Niki Alsford

Niki Alsford

March 6, 2024 at 11:30 PM UTC

On Wednesday, March 6 from 3:30 to 5pm in THO 317 and online, the UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the University of Washington Press as the first book in the Taiwan and the World book series supp…

Public Health, National Strength and Regime Legitimacy: China’s Patriotic Health Campaign

Elizabeth Perry (Harvard University)

March 5, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

Join us as Elizabeth Perry (Harvard University) explores China’s longest-lived mass movement: the Patriotic Health Campaign (PHC). Introduced by Mao Zedong in 1952 during the Korean War, the PHC continues even today, having recently played a role in Xi Jinping’s Zero-Covid effort. The talk will question the official ch…

New Books in Asian Studies: The Collapse of Nationalist China

Parks M. Coble is the James S. Sellers Professor of History, having joined the department in August 1976. He teaches surveys of general East Asian history, covering China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and specialized courses on modern China and Japan. Parks Coble’s research field is 20th century China with special emphasis on the political history of Republican China (1911-1949), the history of Chinese business in the 20th century, and Sino-Japanese interactions. Recent publications have included a study of Chinese businessmen living in occupied China during World War II, and of the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1930s. His current project examines the collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek government in China in 1949 by analyzing the tragic consequences of hyperinflation in China during the period from 1944 until 1949. The Japanese conquest of East China had isolated the Chiang stronghold in the interior and left the Chinese government with few financial resources. Chiang chose to simply print money which lead to disastrous consequences. After Japanese surrender there was no “peace dividend” so the erosion of the currency simply accelerated. New archival sources permit an in depth analysis of the decision making process within Chiang’s government.

March 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM UTC

When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing of the US. Yet less than four years later, he lost the China’s civil war against the communists. Offering an insightful chronological trea…

Ritual and Religion in Chinese History and Anthropology

Professor Michael Puett (Harvard University)

March 1, 2024 at 2:30 AM UTC

An exploration of ritual practices in Chinese history and anthropology, as well as indigenous ritual theory concerning these practices, opens up a number of interesting comparative issues concerning religion, belief, and, of course, ritual itself. This talk will discuss these themes and the larger implications these is…

Chinese Cinema Meets Digital Humanities: The Chinese Film Classics Project

Christopher Rea (Univ of British Columbia)

February 28, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

How can we use digital platforms—including social media—to enhance research and learning on modern China? How can we make the “obscure” (to non-specialists) discoverable? What are the expected and unexpected results of making an audiovisual archive public, as measured by views, comments, likes, or Google Analytics data…

Panel Discussion “A Decade of Cross-Cultural Collaboration: How Hawaii Inspired China's Children's Museum Development”

Moderator/Organizer: Dr. Ni Zhang, Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UHM Speakers and Panelists: Liane Usher, President of the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center, is a passionate educator and advocate for early childhood education. Since joining the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center in 2001, Liane has played a pivotal role in shaping the vision and mission of the organization. A graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, she received a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and Psychology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Ni Zhang, Associate Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UHM. Dr. Zhang was the founding director for two pilot children’s museums in China as well as CMRC at Beijing Normal University (BNU). As a pioneer in children’s museum development in China, she also serves as the Ambassador in China for the International Association for Children in Museums. She graduated from the master of education program at Teachers’ College, Columbia University and earned her Doctor of Education Degree from Johns Hopkins University. Xin Liu, the Executive Director of Children’s Museum Research Center (CMRC) at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. Since joining CMRC in 2013, Xin Liu has been instrumental in various children's museum projects, contributing his expertise throughout the planning, exhibition and program design, and operation phases. He led the drafting of the Guidance for Children’s Museums in China (2019) and the Practical Guidance for Children’s Museum Education in China (2021).

February 28, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

Over a decade ago, Chinese philanthropist Mr. NIU Gensheng had an unexpected visit to the Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center (HCDC). Following this eye-opening experience, he promptly met with HCDC's founder, Loretta Yajima, marking the beginning of a decade-long cross-cultural collaboration. Liane Usher, HCDC's curren…

Counter-History in China: Challenging the Headline Narratives, with Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

February 27, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

Newspaper headlines describe a China that is uniformly bleak: a slowing economy, tensions with the West, and a surveillance state that seems to have crushed all opposing voices. But in his new book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (2023), Ian Johnson presents a more nuanced picture…

The US-China Technology Rivalry and Its Global Implications

Yu Zhou Professor Department of Geography VASSAR COLLEGE Pranay Kotasthane Deputy Director Chair of the High-Tech Geopolitics Program TAKSHASHILA INSTITUTION Yujia He Assistant Professor Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

February 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM UTC

Much of the US-China strategic rivalry in the last few years has played out as a struggle for technological supremacy. The Trump years were characterized by an unabashed abandonment of the discourse of free trade and international cooperation in favour of the language of “decoupling” and nationalism. This was accompani…

Ukrainian factor in Chinese strategy: two years since the Russian invasion

Lu Xiaoyu - Assistant Professor at School of International Studies at Peking University Bartosz Kowalski - Senior Analyst, Center for Asian Affairs, the University of Lodz Vita Golod - Chair of the Board, Ukrainian Association of Sinologists Klaus Larres -Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill The moderator - Kaiser Kuo, Host and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast

February 22, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

Ukraine is heading into the third year of the full-scale war. In 2023, China was watching “the Ukrainian crisis”, building its peacemaking image, and benefiting from the chaos on the international markets. This round table will focus on “China’s Grand Strategy” in the context of the war in Ukraine, featuring experts op…

2024 Prospects for U.S. Ties with China: “Are we partners or are we adversaries?” - The View from President Xi Jinping

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. Governor Bob Holden is the current Chairman & President of the U.S. Heartland China Association. He served as Missouri’s 53rd Governor, 2001-2005. Prior to being elected Governor, Holden served two terms as Missouri State Treasurer and three terms as a Missouri State Representative. Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn is a Strategic Advisor for USHCA. He is President Emeritus for the World Food Prize Foundation. Amb. Quinn assumed the leadership of the World Food Prize Foundation on January 1, 2000, following his retirement from the State Department after a 32 year career in the Foreign Service. Amb. Quinn retired on January 3, 2020 from the Foundation. He now serves as a special consultant.

February 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM UTC

Three members of the USHCA's leadership had the honor to be invited to a small "old friends" reception to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on November 18, 2023, the same day that President Biden and President Xi met on the sidelines of the APEC meetings. Following that small gathering, the USHCA repre…

Renewing the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement. Can S&T Cooperation Coexist with Technology Decoupling?

Introduction: Hong Nong, Executive Director, ICAS Moderator: Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow & Head of ICAS Trade n’ Technology Program Panelists: - Caroline Wagner, Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University - Denis Simon, Distinguished Fellow, ICAS

February 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM UTC

In late-February 2024, the U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement will expire if it is not signed or extended. The first major agreement to be signed by the two governments following the normalization of ties in 1979, the STA was last renewed in 2018 (and temporarily extended in August 2023). In the ti…

大学沙龙200期:李忠杰——中国规划:理解中国式现代化

主讲人:李忠杰。中国中共党史学会副会长,中央马克思主义理论研究和建设工程咨询委员会委员,教授、博士生导师。曾于中共中央党校工作近20年,任校务委员会委员、学术委员会委员兼秘书长等职。2003-2015年任中共中央党史研究室副主任。长期从事马克思主义、中国特色社会主义、中共党史、党的建设、国际政治和国际共运、经济社会发展战略等领域的研究。著有《中国的国家发展战略》(中英文)《中国规划》《中国扶贫脱贫史》《中国共产党历史通览》《世界向何处去》《与世界对话——对外交流演讲答问实录》(中英文)等代表作。 评议人:夏文斌。哲学博士、教授、博士生导师。南方科技大学思想政治教育与研究中心讲席教授,兼任中国特色社会主义理论研究会副会长、教育部思想政治理论课教指委委员、商务部专家咨询委员会委员、国家社科基金项目评审专家、教育部学位论文评审专家。曾任石河子大学党委书记、对外经济贸易大学校长,国家社会科学基金重大项目首席主持人。在当代社会发展理论、公平正义理论、大学治理等方面多有建树,著有《当代中国的发展哲学》《走向正义之路》,先后在《哲学研究》《北京大学学报》《读书》等杂志发表文章百余篇,成果多次获教育部、北京市优秀成果奖。 主持人:李劲林。北京大学经济学博士。曾任哈佛大学访问学者(2018-2021)、哈佛肯尼迪学院与商学院博士后研究员(2021-2023)。清华五道口金融学院兼职研究员。研究方向为创业投资、产业政策与中美关系。

February 17, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

中国式现代化是世界现代化潮流中一个特殊的类型和样式,也是当下中国社会和学术界关注的焦点。中国式现代化最独特的地方在哪里?至少其中之一,是中国规划。中国规划是推进中国式现代化的抓手和平台。本讲座将系统介绍中国规划的由来、发展和变革,目前已经形成的庞大的规划体系,这种规划体系的特点,中国式现代化是怎样按照一个个规划向前推进的,中国共产党是如何运用规划方式治国理政的;怎样通过中国规划把握中国现代化的战略和进程。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Book Launch/Interdisciplinary & Interregional “Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution”

Speaker: Viren Murthy, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese, Japanese and Indian intellectual history. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness (Brill, 2011), The Politics of Time in China and Japan (Routledge, 2022) and Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution (University of Chicago, 2023). He is co-editor with Prasenjit Duara and Andrew Sartori of A Companion to Global Historical Thought (Blackwell, 2014), co-editor with Joyce Liu of East Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor with Max Ward and Fabian Schäfer of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Brill, 2017). He has published articles in Modern Intellectual History, Modern China, Frontiers of History in China, Positions: Asia Critique, Jewish Social Studies, Critical Historical Studies, and Journal of Labor and Society.

February 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

Book Launch/Interdisciplinary & Interregional “Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution” This book examines prominent twentieth-century Japanese and Chinese pan-Asianists to bring to the fore issues related to anti-imperialism, socialism, subjectivity, and the search for a different future. The author…

Japan’s Strategic Interests in Taiwan

Yuki Tatsumi , a senior fellow and co-director of the East Asia Program and director of the Japan Program at the Stimson Center. Before joining Stimson, Ms. Tatsumi worked as a research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and as the special assistant for political affairs at the Embassy of Japan in Washington. Recent publications include Balancing Between Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament: Views from the Next Generation (ed., 2018) and Lost in Translation? U.S. Defense Innovation and Northeast Asia (2017). She is a recipient of the 2009 Yasuhiro Nakasone Incentive Award. In 2012, she was awarded the Letter of Appreciation from the Ministry of National Policy of Japan for her contribution to advancing mutual understanding between the United States and Japan. Ms. Tatsumi holds a B.A. in liberal arts from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and an M.A. in international economics and Asian studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington.

February 14, 2024 at 12:30 AM UTC

China’s escalating coercion campaign against Taiwan is causing seismic shifts in strategic thinking across the region, perhaps nowhere more than in Japan. Although most discussions about the status and future of Taiwan focus on the China-Taiwan-US triangle, Japan arguably has as much or more at stake than the US. Japan…

Is Examination Success the Result of Geographical Luck? New Ming Provincial Examination Dataset and Its Macro Social and Historical Implications

Jiajun Zou

February 13, 2024 at 8:30 PM UTC

Emory University's Ph.D. Candidate in History, Jiajun Zou, introduces a fresh perspective to Ming dynasty studies with his pioneering dataset of 92,000 juren profiles. In his presentation, Zou will share his journey in assembling this comprehensive dataset, utilizing a mix of CBDB resources, computational techniques, a…

The Tokyo Olympics and Sports Governance in Japan

Professor Masayuki Tamaruya at University of Tokyo

February 9, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC

The 2021 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games were initially seen as a testament to resilience as the world recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. But this image was sullied by subsequent allegations of widespread bribery and price-fixing involving a director of the Organizing Committee, major sponsors, and contractors. P…

Protestantism and the Modernization of China, 19th to 20th Centuries

Se Yan, Peking University

February 8, 2024 at 10:30 PM UTC

We examine whether the spread of Protestantism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had a persistent impact on China’s recent economic growth and, if it did, what mechanisms were involved. Combining China’s county-level data on Protestant density before 1920 and socioeconomic indicators in 2000, we find…

IN PERSON | The Rise and Fall of Economic-Centered Coalitions in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Keren Zhu Postdoctoral Fellow Public Policy INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE AT THE NEW SCHOOL

February 8, 2024 at 9:00 PM UTC

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era. However, questions remain — with regards to their implementation, why do megaprojects encounter such divergent responses — with some gaining local support…

大学沙龙199期:高见泽磨——东亚近代法史时代划分——试图比较东亚近代法史

主讲人:高见泽磨,法学博士,日本东京大学东洋文化研究所教授。主要研究方向为中国法,包括法制史、近代法史和现代中国法。著有《中国法律概要》《现代中国的纠纷与法 》《现代中国法入门》《中国的法律是什么?从治理工具到公民权利》等数部著作,并发表150多篇学术论文。 评议人:李红海,法学博士,北京大学法学院教授。主要研究方向为英国法律史和英国普通法,主题涉及普通法的历史、基本理论、司法过程、判例法和宪政史等。著有《英国普通法概论》《普通法的历史解读》,译有《英格兰宪政史》《英国普通法的诞生》《英国律师职业阶层的起源》,并发表众多论文。 主持人:孙国栋,经济学博士,香港中文大学(深圳)国家发展与治理研究所助理所长,主要研究方向为奥地利经济学,货币金融及制度与空间经济学。

February 8, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

日本研究东亚近代法史具有重要的意义。首先,可以为自己的国家提供立法或解释的参照材料。日本在飞鸟时代到明治初期将中国法作为研究中心,并运用于其立法和解释。其次,研究外国法有助于外交、交易或调整家族关系的需要。此外,通过法律制度可以深入了解外国的社会文化。 本讲座试图概观近代法史,尝试将东亚(包括东南亚在内)近代时期划分为条约时期、万国公法时期(或一般国际法时期)、全面引进西方法制时期(继受或移植的时期)以及修改不平等条约后时期,阐述每个划分阶段代表国家的政策法律、具有代表性的法学者或政治人物、进而比较东亚近代法史。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。

Book Talk: One China, Many Taiwans with Ian Rowen

Ian Rowen

February 7, 2024 at 11:30 PM UTC

Join UW-TSP on Wednesday, February 7 at 3:30pm in THO 317 and online as we welcome Professor Ian Rowen to discuss his newly published book One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism. One China, Many Taiwans examines how tourism, one of several strategies employed by the PRC at exerting political c…

WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | CHINA IN MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS: OBJECTIVES AND ACTIONS | 7 FEBRUARY 2024 @ 3 P.M. IST | ZOOM WEBINAR

Amb. Asoke Mukerji is a Distinguished Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi; an elected member of the Governing Council of the United Service Institution (USI) for 2023-2025; and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), London. He served for over 37 years in the Indian Foreign Service, retiring as India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in December 2015. He represented India in the World Trade Organization in Geneva, where he chaired the WTO Committee on Special Commitments for Trade in Services. He headed India’s international inter-agency interactions on countering terrorism and on cyber issues during 2010-2012. On the bilateral front, he represented India in the UK (2007-2010), Kazakhstan (2005-2007), Russia (2001-2005), the UAE (1998-2001), and in Central Asia (1990-1992). In July 2018, the University of East Anglia (UK) awarded him a Doctorate in Civil Laws (honoris causa) degree for his contributions to diplomacy. He teaches diplomacy at the Diplo Foundation and writes and publishes regularly on international affairs in India and abroad. Among his eight published books is India and the United Nations: A Photo Journey 1945-2015 (2015). About the Chair Amb. Kishan S. Rana is an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. He was associated with the Indian Foreign Service for over 35 years, i.e., from 1960 to 1995. During his tenure, he has worked in the Indian Embassy, Beijing. He has served as the Ambassador and High Commissioner to Algeria, Czechoslovakia, Kenya, Mauritius, and Germany. He has also been posted as the Consul General in San Francisco. He has authored multiple books like Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal? (2022), Diplomacy at the Cutting Edge (2016), The Contemporary Embassy (2013), and Diplomacy of the 21st Century (2011).

February 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM UTC

China’s influential role in international affairs has been facilitated by China’s membership in multilateral institutions (UN/UNSC, IMF, World Bank, GATT/WTO) created after the Second World War. This has not precluded China’s more recent initiatives in creating new international institutions headquartered in China like…

Unveiling China's 'Muslim Diplomacy' in Indonesia: Strategies to Counter Criticism on Xinjiang

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat (China-Indonesia Desk at the Center of Economic and Law Studies) Yeta Purnama (China-Indonesia Desk at the Center of Economic and Law Studies)

February 6, 2024 at 6:00 AM UTC

This presentation explores China's engagement with Muslim-majority nations, with a specific focus on Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, in the context of its activities in Xinjiang. The talk aims to provide insights into China's strategic initiatives aimed at mitigating criticism and gaining suppor…

Webinar: Interdisciplinary and Interregional Book Launch “Betting on the Civil Service Examinations”

Speaker: Professor En Li is a historian of late imperial and modern China, with an emphasis on socio-cultural history of China and its overseas communities. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chinese History from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Her first book, Betting on the Civil Service Examinations: The Lottery in Late Qing China, was published by the Harvard University Asia Center in 2023. Prior to working at the University of Texas at Dallas, she was a tenured professor at Drake University and was honored with Drake’s Arts and Sciences “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” Award in 2021 and nominated for the University’s Madelyn M. Levitt Mentor of the Year Award in 2022. Discussants: Cameron Campbell, Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; project leader of the China Government Employee Database-Qing (CGED-Q). Annelise Heinz, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon, author of Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2021). Zachary Howlett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore (NUS); author of Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam in China (Cornell University Press, 2021). Moderator: Baoyan Cheng, UHM-Educational Foundation Department

January 31, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

Weixing, or “surname guessing,” was a highly organized lottery practice in China wherein money was bet on the surnames of which candidates would pass the civil and military examinations. Opening with a weixing-related examination scandal in 1885, En Li reconstructs the inner mechanisms of weixing and other lottery game…

From Comrades to Enemies: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Tangled Paths from the Pacific War to the Korean War and the Cold War

Dr. David Chang (Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

January 30, 2024 at 4:30 AM UTC

In the Second World War, the Chinese Nationalist government mobilized more than 4,000 Chinese college students as interpreters for the American and British Allied forces in the China-Burma-India theater. Discharged after V-J Day, most interpreters resumed and completed their education while China descended into civil w…

Challenging China: The Philippine Experience in the South China Sea

Jay L Batongbacal is a professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and director of the Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea of the U.P. Law Center. He has worked extensively on maritime affairs since 1997, carrying out research, consultancy work, and teaching, with numerous national and international publications to his credit. Professor Batongbacal was legal advisor to the Philippine delegation that successfully pursued the Philippines’ claim to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Benham Rise Region before the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, and the successful application before the International Maritime Organization for the designation of the Tubbataha Reef Natural Park Particularly Sensitive Sea Area. He holds degrees in political science and law from the University of the Philippines, as well as a master’s degree in marine management and JSD, both from Dalhousie University in Canada. In 2022, Professor Batongbacal was a fellow at Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan and a Fulbright Advanced Research and Lecturing Fellow at the US Naval War College in Rhode Island.

January 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC

An obscure reef in the South China Sea has become the latest flashpoint in China’s long-running campaign to dominate the South China Sea. Since last summer, the Chinese Coast Guard has repeatedly employed water cannons, lasers, and acoustic weapons and rammed Philippine Navy and Coast Guard vessels to prevent them from…

The BRI in National Peripheries: Gwadar and the Limits of Outsourced Development

Professsor Tayyab Safdar (The University of Virginia)

January 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is an important pilot project of China’s Belt & Road Initiative. Within CPEC, Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province enjoys a privileged position in the development imaginaries of both Chinese and Pakistani policymakers. Even though Gwadar is central to the discourse on CPEC…

BCCN Online Lecture Series #6: Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance (BCCN Online Lecture Series #6)

Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (Université du Québec à Montréal)

January 25, 2024 at 2:15 PM UTC

BCCN Online Lecture Series #6: Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance 25.01.2024 | 15:15 - 16:45 CET Ariane Ollier-Malaterre (Université du Québec à Montréal) Please register here: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/…

Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45

Dr. Vivian Kong (University of Bristol)

January 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM UTC

What does it mean to be British? To answer this, Multiracial Britishness takes us to an underexplored site of Britishness – the former British colony of Hong Kong. Vivian Kong asks how colonial hierarchies, the racial and cultural diversity of the British Empire, and global ideologies complicate the meaning of being Br…

Regulating AI in Japan and the United States

Hiroki Habuka, Research Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, and the CEO of Smart Governance Inc. Daniel Francis, Assistant Professor of Law at New York University School of Law

January 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM UTC

As interest in AI surges around the world, interest by governments in regulating it is also surging. Many nations have enacted or are considering a range of measures, including pursuing cross-border collaborations for a consistent approach. Concerns about the risks and harms of AI technology are wide-ranging, including…

WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | ‘SILK ROAD ECONOMIC BELT’ (2013) TO ‘COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE FOR MANKIND’ (2023): DECIPHERING XI JINPING’S WORLD VIEW | 24 JANUARY, 2024 @ 3 P.M. IST | ZOOM WEBINAR

Parimal Maya Sudhakar is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean-External Relations at the MIT School of Government (MIT-SOG). He has completed his Masters, MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His PhD thesis was on State and Society Relations in China in the Context of Globalization: 1989-2004. He has presented papers and thoughts at several national and international conferences and has travelled to mainland China, Hong Kong, The Netherlands, Italy, and the US for the same. He is a columnist on international relations focusing on China and India-China relations. About the Chair Jabin T. Jacob is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Himalayan Studies at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, NCR. He is also an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College, Goa, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. His research interests include Chinese domestic politics, China in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, Sino-Indian border areas, Indian and Chinese worldviews, and centre-province relations in China. His recent publications include China’s Search for ‘National Rejuvenation’: Domestic and Foreign Policies under Xi Jinping (2020) and How China Engages South Asia: Themes, Partners and Tools (2023).

January 24, 2024 at 9:30 AM UTC

Xi Jinping became President of PRC in the year 2013 and immediately began to roll out his vision of a China-led/China-centric world order. The announcement of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and its insertion into the Constitution and ideological framework of the Communist Party of China, was accompanied by a proc…

Selling to China: Stories of Success, Failure, and Constant Change

Ker Gibbs

January 24, 2024 at 2:00 AM UTC

As business with China reopens, more and more businesses and entrepreneurs are eager to tap into the vast and dynamic Chinese market. To kick off 2024, USHCA will partner with the Carter Center to invite Ker Gibbs to discuss his recent book "Selling to China: Stories of Success, Failure, and Constant Change". As past p…

大学沙龙198期:罗斯高(Scott Rozelle)—— 中国农村的共同富裕:城乡差距如何威胁中国的崛起

主讲人:罗斯高 (Scott Rozelle)。斯坦福大学海伦·法恩斯沃斯 (Helen Farnsworth) 讲席教授,弗里曼·斯波格利国际问题研究所 (FSI) 高级研究员,斯坦福大学中国经济与制度中心 (SCCEI) 联席主任。康奈尔大学博士。主要从事发展经济学研究。研究中国农村经济学近40年。目前,他的工作重点是人力资本和中国未来的增长和发展,包括农村健康、营养和教育问题,包括儿童早期发展。著有Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise等学术著作。 评议人:刘守英。长江学者特聘教授、中国人民大学经济学院院长,研究领域包括土地制度与经济发展、乡村振兴与城乡融合等,著有《中国乡村转型与现代化》《中国土地问题调查:土地权利的底层视角》《土地制度与中国发展》等专著,获第十九届孙冶方经济科学奖等奖项。加入中国人民大学前,在国务院发展研究中心(DRC)工作的三十年间,参与了国家土地政策设计和地方土地改革试验,DRC与世界银行的旗舰联合研究项目《中国2030》和《中国高效、包容、可持续城市化》重要参加者。曾为中共中央政治局讲解土地问题。毕业于复旦大学,曾任威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院的访问学者。 主持人:宋怡明 (Michael Szonyi)。哈佛大学东亚语言文明系教授,费正清中国研究中心前主任。研究领域:明清社会经济史;中国农村历史;历史人类学。擅长将传统文本研究和当代田野调查相结合。著有《被统治的艺术》,《实践中的宗族》等多部力作。

January 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM UTC

过去四十年,中国以惊人的速度增长。国家的长期计划是在未来15年继续稳定增长并达到高收入水平。然而,中国领导人充分了解这面临着一个众所周知的挑战,即中国的发展不均衡程度也属世界上最高之一。因此,政府推出了一项名为“共同富裕”的重大新政策。讲者相信,要在中国创造一个让所有居民都能享受国家正在走向富裕的环境,就必须在儿童早期发展(ECD)领域做出重大努力,重点关注农村人口。 本讲座主旨在于说明共同富裕应从解决中国最大的小人物(农村儿童)问题开始。讲座会运用文献与自采数据相结合来提供高质量的经验证据,并从以下五点展开。 首先,通过文献综述表明,拥有受过良好教育的劳动力对于帮助国家经济从中等收入迈向高收入至关重要。 其次,将证明中国的教育水平…

Attitudes about Gossip in Early China and Middle Egyptian

Dr Adam SCHWARTZ Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University

January 19, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

Lecture 15: Attitudes about Gossip in Early China and Middle Egyptian 2024/1/19│16:00–17:30 Dr Adam SCHWARTZ Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University - Abstract: This lecture shall make a comparative case study on attitudes about gossip from Early Chinese (Book of…

The Transformative Demographic Impact Of China’s Great Malthusian Campaign (1970-2021): The Minority Role Of One-Child Limits

Dr. Daniel Goodkind

January 19, 2024 at 4:00 AM UTC

Although debates continue over the demographic impact of China’s half century Malthusian campaign to control its population (1970-2021), the underlying disagreement concerns what to call it. The ubiquitous “one-child policy” label narrows attention to one-child limits imposed during a 35-year sub-era (1980-2015), a lon…

Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions

Speaker: Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Council on Foreign Relations Host: Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Institution Discussant: Eyck Freymann

January 18, 2024 at 8:00 PM UTC

No other country in history has so rapidly transformed its economy from being among the world's poorest and most isolated to the world's second largest economies, at the heart of the global supply chain, and a leading source of international investment capital. For the last two decades, China's sovereign funds have pla…

Governing Big Data: The Evolution of Policy Focus and Governance Structures in China (BCCN Online Lecture Series #5)

Xiang Gao (Zhejiang University)

January 18, 2024 at 1:15 PM UTC

BCCN Online Lecture Series #5: Governing Big Data: The Evolution of Policy Focus and Governance Structures in China 18.01.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45 CET Xiang Gao (Zhejiang University) Please register here: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/8df470e12e264f959533abfdd58bd646 Ab…

Book Talk: U.S.-Taiwan Relations with Bonnie Glaser

Bonnie Glaser

January 17, 2024 at 11:30 PM UTC

Join UW-TSP on Wednesday, January 17 at 3:30pm in HUB 340 and online as we welcome Bonnie Glaser (German Marshall Fund) to discuss her co-authored book with Richard Bush and Ryan Hass, U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? This book talk will address the rising Chinese military pressure and th…

Faculty Dialogue Building World-Class Undergraduate Education: A Quarter-Century Practice a Peking University

Dr. Dingbing JIN, PKU; Visiting Colleague, UHM Dr. Jin is a professor at PKU who earned his Ph.D. from PKU in 2002 and subsequently served as the Deputy Director of the Yuanpei Program, and as the Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office. Prof. Jin has played an important role in educational reform initiatives at PKU, actively contributing to the design and implementation of general education curriculum and interdisciplinary studies and to revisions of PKU’s student registration and course selection system.

January 17, 2024 at 10:00 PM UTC

This presentation explores Peking University (PKU)’s 25-year endeavor to create a world-class undergraduate education. The introduction of the Yuanpei Program in 2001 marked a pivotal transformation in undergraduate education. It granted students the autonomy to select courses and majors, emphasized general education,…

WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | CHINA AND INDIA – IMPONDERABLE BILATERAL | 17 JANUARY, 2024 @ 3 P.M. IST | ZOOM WEBINAR

Raviprasad Narayanan has been with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) since October 2015. His teaching and research interests focus on China, its foreign policy, economic reforms and pedagogies explaining China. International Relations and theories explaining state behaviour, motivate his research and publications. At JNU, he has taught MPhil/PhD and MA students. He was earlier an Associate Research Fellow / Associate Professor with the Institute of International Relations (IIR), National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan from 2009 to 2015. Prior to that, he was with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA, now MP-IDSA), New Delhi from 2003 to 2009. His book titled Decision-making in Foreign Policy India-China Bilateral Relations was published in 2022. About the Chair Vijay K Nambiar joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1967. He studied Chinese in Hong Kong, and served in China from 1970-72 and returned to South Block and Udyog Bhavan until 1976. He then served as First Secretary in Tito’s Yugoslavia. He was posted from 1979 to 1982 in the Indian Mission at the United Nations (UN) in New York and served in Delhi during the 1983 NAM Summit and after. From 1985 to 1987, he was India’s Ambassador to Algeria. He returned to Delhi as Joint Secretary (East Asia) in the MEA in 1987 and helped prepare for Rajiv Gandhi’s historic visit to China in 1988. Subsequently, he served as India’s Ambassador/ High Commissioner to Afghanistan (1990-1992), Malaysia (1993-1996), China (1996-2000), Pakistan (2000-2001) and Permanent Representative to the UN in New York (2002-2004). Post-retirement, he served as Deputy National Security Adviser of India (2004-2006). He was then deputed by the Government of India to serve in the United Nations Secretariat as Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2006-2007), then as Chef de Cabinet to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2007-2012) and later as Adviser on Myanmar (2012-2016).

January 17, 2024 at 9:30 AM UTC

International relations are an agglomerate of many geographical areas with their multi-spectral bilateral relations. China and India are exemplars of just one constant determinant - divergences. As states with the rubric of civilizational continuum, their Westphalian expressions have embedded characteristics of deep mi…

Digital Control and Emotions Under Autocracy (BCCN Online Lecture Series #4)

Danqi Guo and Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin)

January 11, 2024 at 1:15 PM UTC

BCCN Online Lecture Series #4: Digital Control and Emotions Under Autocracy 11.01.2024 | 14:15 - 15:45 CET Danqi Guo and Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin) Please register here: https://fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/8df470e12e264f959533abfdd58bd646 Abstract: Authoritar…

大学沙龙197期——史傅德:关于卡尔·马克思的未刊手稿(1840-1883 年)——其研究项目的持续与演变

主讲人:史傅德。曾任荷兰阿姆斯特丹国际社会史研究所(IISG)助理研究员和中欧研究主任、德国大众基金会历史地理部主任、巴黎第一大学历史系客座教授、巴黎第八大学历史学教授,退休后曾任复旦大学历史系特聘教授。柏林布兰登堡科学院新版《马恩全集》(MEGA2)编委员会创始人之一,直至2012年是编委会成员。力求从原始档案资料出发重新审视历史,发表过《复辟与革命: 卡尔·马克思的“1850-1858年手稿”》《莫斯科审讯》《奥古斯特·戈山与法国第三共和国》《民族国家之前的德意志》《论法国大革命的政治语义》《欧洲公民社会简史》等等专著及120多篇论文,即将出版《构建公民社会体系: 17-21世纪欧洲公民社会史》(两卷)。曾获斯宾诺莎奖(1985年)和法兰西学院道德与政治科学院奖(1992年)等荣誉奖项。 评议人:万毓泽。台湾中山大学社会学系教授兼主任、Innovation in the Social Sciences主编。主要学术兴趣为社会理论、社会科学哲学、政治社会学、当代欧陆政治与社会思想,著有《〈资本论〉完全使用手册》(联经,2018)、《你不知道的马克思》(木马文化,2018)、Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory (Ashgate, 2011)及多篇中外文论文,另有音频课程《理解马克思的关键八讲》(鲸选一刻,2019)及多部译作。 主持人:李双志。复旦大学德文系教授,本硕皆就读于北京大学,在柏林自由大学获文学博士学位,在哥廷根大学从事博士后研究,曾任教于南京大学。获德国学术交流中心格林兄弟青年学者奖,获亚历山大·洪堡基金会奖学金。发表德语专著一部,中文专著两部,《德意志悲苦剧的起源》等译著十余部。研究兴趣为德语现当代文学,中德文学关系,现代德国美学思潮。

January 7, 2024 at 12:30 PM UTC

《资本论》没有确定的版本。第一卷有七个不同的版本(1857年、1859年、1867年、1872年、1872- 75年、1883年、1887年)。对于马克思来说,第一卷从未完成。他解释过,第一卷只能根据第三卷来理解。对于这卷(1894年)的版本,恩格斯尽其所能,插入、“更正”或干脆删节了他认为错误或过于复杂的手稿。他还加入了马克思所反对的概念。因此是恩格斯,其次是伯恩斯坦和考茨基,为所谓“实证的”马克思主义政治经济学铺平了道路。他们没有考虑到马克思的大量重要研究素材,没有辨别出他对资本和公民(商业)社会的批判本质。本次讲座将对上述内容进行论证,并展示一些向公众免费开放的有关原始手稿。 由于涉及各种马克思的德语引文,讲座将以德语进行,并…

DAU9: Higher Education and the Changing Global Order

Prof. Rafael L. REIF Immediate Past President·MIT Prof. Rafael L. REIF is the immediate Past President of MIT from 2012 to 2022. Before that, he served as the Provost of the institute from 2005 to 2012. He sits on the boards of the World Economic Forum, the Carnegie Endowment, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Broad Institute. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Prof. SHI Yigong 施一公 Founding President·Westlake University 西湖大学创校校长 Prof. SHI Yigong is the Founding President of Westlake University, China's first private research university, and a leading figure in structural biology. Prior to his current role, he served as the Vice President of Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from the Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Tony F CHAN 陈繁昌 President·King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 阿卜杜拉国王科技大学校长,香港科技大学前校长 Prof. Tony F. CHAN became the President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2018, after nearly a decade as president of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He serves as a member of the Board of the Future Investment Initiative Institute; King Abdulaziz City of Science & Technology; the Biotechnology City Initiative of Riyadh among others. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Caltech.

January 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM UTC

In a period marked by historical technological shifts and geopolitical realignments, higher education stands at a critical crossroads fraught with both challenges and untapped opportunities. Is the traditional model of universities sustainable in this new global context? How are geopolitical tensions affecting academic…

Societal Conditions and Conditioning Associated with National Building Projects in Ancient Mesopotamia

Dr Yi Samuel CHEN

January 5, 2024 at 8:00 AM UTC

Connecting Europe and Asia, Recasting the Glory: Lecture series of Early Encounters between Europe and Asia Lecture 13: Societal Conditions and Conditioning Associated with National Building Projects in Ancient Mesopotamia 2024/1/5│16:00–17:30 Dr Yi Samuel CHEN A Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sc…