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大学沙龙线下系列2025年12月:唐晓玮、黄晟昱——从脑机创意到审美智能探索
主讲人: 唐晓玮|Xiaowei Tang 哈佛大学文理学院访问博士,中央美术学院博士生 黄晟昱|Dr. Shengyu Huang 哈佛大学文理学院博士后研究员,Nolibox.AI 联合创始人 主持人/评议人: 范敏 教授|Prof. Min Fan 麻省理工学院媒体实验室客座教授,中国传媒大学动画与数字艺术学院教授 张琴|Dr. Qin Zhang 哈佛大学CAMLab合作研究员,哈佛大学费正清中心合作研究员
December 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC
本讲座将从脑机接口的前沿创意出发,探讨人类感知、认知与审美之间的关系,结合人工智能的发展,解析“审美智能”的形成机制与未来应用前景。本次讲座为线下讲座。
Propaganda is Already Influencing Large Language Models: Evidence From Training Data, Audits, and Real-world Usage (BCCN Online Lecture Series #4)
Eddie Yang (Purdue University)
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a There has been a flurry of recent concern about the question of who directly controls large language models. We show through six studies that coordinated propaganda from p…
CHERN Book Launch | Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times
Ágota Révész, Daniela Caterina, Jelena Gledic, Magnus Feldmann & Steven Langendonk, Bart Dessein, Jasper Roctus & Duncan Freeman
December 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
Book Launch | Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times As geopolitical tensions rise, narratives have become more important than ever. WG4 of CHERN (“Public Diplomacy and Knowledge Production”) is delighted to invite you to the online launch of: Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times Révész, Á., Freeman, D.…
The Promise and Perils of China's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (BCCN Online Lecture Series #3)
Angela Huyue Zhang (University of Southern California)
December 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a In recent years, China has emerged as a pioneer in formulating some of the world’s earliest and most comprehensive regulations concerning artificial intelligence (A.I.) se…
CCS Fall 2025 Webinar Series: Emerging Voices in the Study of 20th Century China
Peiyu Yang is currently a term assistant professor of Arabic at George Mason University. Her monograph Triangular Translation: Gender, Politics, and the Making of the Postcolonial World between China, Europe, and the Middle East, 1880-1940 (2023, Legenda Press) investigates how intellectuals during the Nahda (the period known as the Arab cultural renaissance) turned their attention to Chinese culture and its own anti-colonial struggle, constitutional revolution, and women’s rights. Sandy Zhang is a scholar of contemporary Chinese literature and visual arts, with a special focus on Chinese Avant-garde literature and art of the 1980s. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Chinese at Southern Utah University. Her recent articles, published in Humanities, Chinese Literature and Thought Today, Third Text, Prism, etc, examine the intellectual, literary and artistic reforms of China's 1980s. Thomas Chan is an interdisciplinary historian of modern China specializing in the intertwined histories of medicine, cultural production, political violence, and state formation. I have special interests in drugs, violence, and popular culture. My current book project, From Users to Criminals: Creating, Pathologizing, and Killing ‘Drug Criminals’ in Twentieth Century China, analyzes how from 1906 to 1953 both governments dehumanized drug users and traffickers to encourage collective identity formation and promote state-building. Moderator: Jonathan Pettit, Associate Professor in the Department of Religions & Ancient Civilizations
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
CCS brings together three rising scholars whose research opens new windows into China’s global, literary, and social transformations. Peiyu Yang traces how Arab intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries imagined China during the Nahda, revealing surprising cross-cultural engagements with China’s anti-colo…
大学沙龙线下系列2025年12月:胡斯慧——天地悠悠:胡宗南將軍的戰亂情史
主讲人:胡斯慧 康乃爾大學博士,女性文学者、歷史學者、宋美龄研究專家。長期在波上顿大學教授文學寫作,包括莎士比亞、維多利亞文學、英美文學、中英文學翻譯等。胡教授亦曾在康乃爾大學及中原大學任教。自開始教授文學写作,已指導約1000位學生。於2005年波士顿大學擔任人文學科助理教授,目前亦為該校International History Institute, Pardee School of Global Studies之資深學者。亦参與哈佛大學 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies 之研究計畫。
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC
講座簡介:一個叙述戰亂時期一位少女和一位革命軍人十年苦戀的大時代故事,穿插著北伐、近百年國民革命史料。年代雖久遠 但故事的精神依然照亮人心!
Studying Elite Politics through Conversation Networks: Elite Conflicts and the Making of the Chinese Reform
Professor Zhang Yang (American University) Yang Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Inquiry at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC. Earning his PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Zhang’s research spans historical sociology, elite and contentious politics, and social and political theory. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Mobilization, among other outlets. Zhang has been recognized with the Charles Tilly Article Award from the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section and an Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, both from the American Sociological Association.
December 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
In this talk, I propose a new approach to studying elite politics by focusing on changes in network structures that emerge from elites’ informal conversations. I apply this method to solve two interrelated puzzles from China’s early reform era (1977-1992): on one hand, why did intense political conflicts frequently occ…
DuPont’s Departure: An Early Case of U.S.-China Decoupling, 1946-1951
Professor Juanjuan Peng (Georgia Southern University) Juanjuan Peng is a professor of history at Georgia Southern University with a primary research focus on Chinese business history. She is the author of The Yudahua Business Group in China’s Early Industrialization (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2020), which traces the trajectory of a major Chinese textile enterprise from the Self-Strengthening Movement of the Late Qing to the Socialist Transformation of the early People’s Republic.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
This article examines the experiences of the DuPont Company’s operations in Shanghai during the tumultuous period of China’s Communist Revolution, from the immediate post-World War II recovery to the outbreak of the Korean War. Drawing upon the DuPont Company archives at the Hagley Museum & Library, this research r…
Pākē ʻOhana: Tracking Chinese Ancestry in Hawaiʻi through Primary Sources, A Filmmaker’s Journey of Discovery
Robin Lung Award-winning Filmmaker and Producer of Finding KUKAN Her current project explores Chinese-Hawaiian histories through the Hawaiian-language press and personal archives. Discussants Professor Min Zhou (Virtual Participation) Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies Director, UCLA Asia Pacific Center Dr. Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio Dean, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, UH Mānoa Moderator Shana Brown Director, Honors Program Associate Professor, History Department, UH Mānoa
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
When filmmaker Robin Lung began research in 2022 for a new documentary about Hawaiian language newspapers (nūpepa), she set out to explore how the writings printed from 1834 to 1948 continue to influence today’s artists, scholars, and activists. She didn’t expect the journey to lead her home—to her own family’s story i…
From Virtual Assistants to Intimate Partners: Factors Driving Chatbot Adoption and How Users Develop Emotional Attachment to Chatbots (BCCN Online Lecture Series #2)
Hui Zhou & Genia Kostka (Freie Universität Berlin)
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT are gaining increasing popularity and importance against the backdrop of the AI revolution. Despite the plethora of chatbots on the mar…
Survival of the Strongest: How Iron Technology Led to the Founding of the First Unified Chinese Empire in 221 BCE
Mr Senhao Hu (The University of Hong Kong) Senhao Hu is a PhD student in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at The University of Hong Kong. He has a keen interest in understanding the relationship between violence and state-building in historic China.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
We analyze whether and how iron technology drove political consolidation in pre-imperial China (770–221 BCE) using the China Archaeological Database (CADB)—689,943 grave goods from 98,020 sites. Dividing the era into eleven 50-year subperiods, we construct a state-level proxy for its quantity of iron weapons and estima…
CCS Fall 2025 Webinar Series: China, Southeast Asia, and Geopolitical Dynamics in 2025 Lived Geopolitics in the South China Sea: China and Southeast Asia
Edyta Roszko is a Research Professor and social anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is leading the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea (TransOcean) that historicizes fishing communities in relation to and beyond the nation-state, security concerns and territorially bounded fisheries. Edyta’s newly awarded ERC Consolidator Grant project Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Ocean, Seas and Rivers combines anthropology, archaeology and geohydrology and contributes to the wider discussion on global Indigenous history and its relevance in the era of climate changes. Edyta is the author of Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam co-published by NIAS and the University of Hawai’i Press. Shaun Lin is Lecturer at NUS College of the National University of Singapore. Shaun's research interests are in political geography (particularly the geopolitics of Southeast Asia and China), border studies (land and maritime), environmental politics, and geography pedagogy. Shaun serves as Social Media Editor for Space and Polity, and Book Review Co-Editor for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Patricio N. Abinales retired from the Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, in 2025. He was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, from March to August 2025, where he was working on a book project on the University of the Philippines and the Marcos Dictatorship. Moderator: Petrice Flowers is the Professor and Director for the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
Nearly a decade after the South China Sea Arbitration ruling, the region continues to be a focal point of overlapping maritime claims, resource competition, and strategic maneuvering among regional and global powers. This webinar brings together three distinguished scholars to explore the lived, political, and economic…
Cooking the Barbarians, Conquering the Forest: Lanten Yao Spiritual Warfare at the Margins of Chinese and Tai Polities
Dr Joseba Estevez and Professor David Palmer (The University of Hong Kong) Joseba Estevez is a social anthropologist and Research Assistant Professor at the “Asian Religious Connections (ASIAR)” cluster of the HKIHSS, HKU. Building on more than a decade of immersive fieldwork among the Lanten Yao (Mun) communities in northern Laos’s Luang Namtha Province, Estevez’s research explores how Daoist cosmology and ritual shapes the social life of local communities. His recent research also investigates the local impacts of major infrastructure projects such as the Laos–China Railway, the development of Smart Cities, Special Economic Zones, and the broader dynamics of international cooperation agencies in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos and Thailand. David A Palmer (PhD, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) is a Professor of anthropology jointly appointed by the HKIHSS and the Department of Sociology of HKU. He is the President of the East Asian Society for the Social Scientific Study of Religion and convenor of the HKIHSS “Asian Religious Connections” research cluster. He currently coordinates collaborative research projects on Daoism among the Yao ethnic minority in the China-Vietnam-Laos borderland, and on religious and socio-cultural entanglements between China and countries of the Belt and Road Initiative.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
The Lanten Yao 藍靛瑤 of what is now northern Laos historically lived at the margins of three socio-political systems: the Chinese empire, Tai polities (müang), and the forest. As they migrated into the region, they engaged in cosmological warfare with the forest to conquer their land, a conquest that engaged a pantheon o…
How Daoism Became American: A Tale of Translation, Conservation, Immigration, Appropriation and Impersonation
Professor Elijah Siegler (Professor of Religious Studies at College of Charleston) Elijah Siegler is a professor of Religious Studies at College of Charleston, a public university in South Carolina. He is the leading expert in the field of American Daoism, and has lectured and published widely on that field, including the award-winning book Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and Predicament of Modern Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, 2017, co-authored with David A. Palmer).
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC
Daoism is the indigenous organized religion of China, with a two-thousand-year history, an enormous canon of sacred texts, and a complicated liturgy. However, until fairly recently, Daoism was best known in the West, if at all, as a quaint and exotic philosophy of quietism and mysticism. This was how Daoism was depicte…
大学沙龙线下系列2025年11月:李巨、赵选贺——跨界对话:AI与生命科学、材料科学的未来
主讲人:李巨 MIT索德伯格动力工程讲席教授,核科学与工程系/材料科学与工程系/施瓦茨曼计算学院教授 主讲人:赵选贺 MIT Uncas (1923)和 Helen Whitaker 讲席教授,机械工程系教授
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
人工智能正以前所未有的速度重塑科研的边界。从药物设计到新材料研发,AI正在成为科学家的新工具和新思维方式。本期大学沙龙邀请两位来自麻省理工学院(MIT)的顶尖教授,共同探讨AI如何推动生命科学与材料科学的未来。
Generation Xi: Youth Attitudes Toward Civic Engagement in China
Speaker: Jessica Teets, Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM UTC
Jessica Teets presents findings on how China’s “COVID generation,” youth who came of age during lockdowns, are reshaping civic engagement norms. Drawing on original survey data from the Civic Participation in China Surveys (2018-2024), she explores shifting attitudes toward volunteering, local governance, and state-soc…
大学沙龙第243期:丸川知雄——中国人工智能产业的发展现状
主讲人:丸川知雄 东京大学社会科学研究所教授。曾任日本亚洲经济研究所研究员、中国社会科学院工业经济研究所访问学者。自2023年起主持“中国学”研究项目。中山大学粤港澳发展研究院访问学者、清华大学公共管理学院访问学者。研究领域涵盖中国经济及产业经济,著有《劳动市场的地壳变动》《现代中国的产业》《现代中国经济》《大众资本家的中国梦》《中国的产业政策》等七部专著。 评议人:西村友作 对外经济贸大学经济学院教授。2002年就读于对外经济贸易大学国际经济贸易学院金融专业,2006年获得硕士学位,2010年获得博士学位,毕业后留校于国际经济研究院任职。2013年被评为副教授,2018年被评为教授、博士生导师,日本银行北京事务所客座研究员。 主持人:孙国栋 香港中文大学(深圳)发展与治理研究院助理院长,WorldViews中国首席代表。主要研究领域: 货币金融、奥地利经济学派空间与制度经济学、地缘政治经济。
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
人工智能是中美交锋的焦点之一。2025年8月中国国务院颁布了《关于深入实施“人工智能+”行动的意见》。从中央到地方、各级政府正在努力振兴人工智能的发展;而美国自2022年10月开始限制人工智能芯片的对华出口。本研究根据在中国各地的调研分析了人工智能在工业、教育、医疗 、社区管理等领域的应用情况,同时讨论了美国的限制措施对中国人工智能发展的影响和国产人工智能芯片的发展现状。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Sideline or Factory: Locating Socialist Flexibility in Export Lacemaking Industries
Dr Yuanxie Shi (University of Chicago) Yuanxie Shi is a historian of gender, labor, technology, and economics in modern China. After receiving her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in August 2025, she has joined the Social Science Division there as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor. Her dissertation, “Mao’s Clever Hands: Export Lacemaking and Socialist Flexibility in Cold War, 1949-1980s,” explores an uncharted history of socialist industrialization since 1949 and during the Cold War. Rather than focusing on mechanical manufacturing and factory settings, her research examines mass production through labor-intensive needlework by millions of Chinese women, specifically in rural Chaoshan region. This project reveals the subaltern status of rural women and bridges an overlooked social category in both the socialist hierarchy of values and the international division of labor.
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
This talk forms part of a larger project investigating the mechanisms of socialist learning and knowledge accumulation in foreign trade during the Maoist era, through a historical and comparative study of the export lacemaking industries in Fujian and Chaoshan (Guangdong). Drawing on archival sources, it examines how s…
CCS Fall 2025 Webinar Series Global China, Local Cultures: Cultural Interactions on the Belt and Road Initiative
David A. Palmer (Ph.D., Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) is Professor of Anthropology, jointly appointed by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. His award-winning books include Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China (Columbia University Press), The Religious Question in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, co- authored with V. Goossaert), and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with E. Siegler). His research focuses on the sociology and anthropology of religion and spirituality in China, civil society, and transnational interactions along China’s Belt and Road. Dr. Joseba Estévez is a social anthropologist and Research Assistant Professor at the “Asian Religious Connections” cluster, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. His research interests include ritual, cosmology, exchange, animism, Daoism, and social transformation in mainland Southeast Asia. He leads the YAO DAO Project and directs digital archiving and Smart Cities research initiatives in Laos and Southeast Asia. Dr. Rundong Ning is an RGC Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include work and labor, entrepreneurship, volunteerism, and the digital economy. His current research focuses on China-Kenya connections in the digital economy and entrepreneurship in Congo- Brazzaville. His publications appear in Current Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, African Studies Review, Africa, and other leading outlets.
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
The “Global China, Local Cultures” research team at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences has been assessing the nature and dynamics of localized cultural interactions on the BRI. This session will feature presentations by three members of the team: David A. Palmer will discuss The Religious Fa…
“Middle Women Rising (zhongnü jueqi)”: Framing Gendered Spiritual Empowerment in Contemporary China
Mr. Wang Yang (The University of Hong Kong) Wang Yang is a PhD student in Anthropology in the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests encompass urban anthropology, modern Buddhism, gender studies, and volunteerism. His previous works examine temple-centered urban redevelopments in mainland China. For his PhD project, he studies with volunteer communities within Buddhist temples and tries to understand the intricate intersection between gendered experiences in a broader societal context and the religious practices of female volunteers at these temples.
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
Beginning in late 2023 the notion of “nine purple li fire trend (jiuzi lihuo yun 九紫离火运)” started to emerge on various Chinese media platforms. The trend (yun 运) is a temporal unit of twenty years from 2024 to 2043 during which the Chinese world enters the final stage in the cosmic cycle of “Three Phases and Nine Trends…
Security Dilemma and US-China Generative AI race (BCCN Online Lecture Series #1)
Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM UTC
Online via Webex. Please register here: fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sites/fu-berlin/webinar/webinarSeries/register/4a9b46cc059949ec85b7360d963cca0a The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is not only transforming societies but also redefining the very foundations of international relations. Around the world, go…
大学沙龙线下活动(2025年11月):任焕宇——仰望的文明:天文摄影的文化、美学与社会变革
主讲人:任焕宇 麻省理工学院化学系博士研究生,星空摄影师/业余天文学家。主要研究方向为天体化学与分子转动光谱学。南京天文爱好者协会、南京天文高校联合会、MIT Kavli Institute Astrogazers成员。其星空摄影作品曾多次荣登国内最大天文分享平台“巡星客”的每日一图和作品精选,曾获第十八届“牧夫杯”天文摄影比赛第一名,曾在南京市图书馆参展天文摄影作品。其耕耘天文科普六年,天文科普课程曾获第五届全国大学生天文创新作品竞赛一等奖,研发出可用于天文与化学科普的模块化光谱仪发表于教育学核心期刊Jornal of Chemical Education。目前致力于建设MIT乃至全波士顿的华语天文科普生态圈。 主持人:杨泽霈 东北大学理学院博士候选人。主要研究方向为宇宙学-星系内在对齐(intrinsic alignment)。
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC
讲座内容:自古以来,人类以无数方式记录夜空。从《诗经》中“维天有汉”到敦煌星图与苏州石刻天文图,从伽利略的望远镜中的土星伴星到哈勃望远镜的超深场,我们不断用新的“纸笔”重新定义宇宙与自我。而天文摄影,是这一古老“仰望传统”在现代科技时代的延续与再创造。
大学沙龙第242期:贾瑞雪——考试帝国:教育、社会与国家的交织
主讲人:贾瑞雪 加州大学圣地亚哥分校全球政策与战略学院的经济学教授。现任《经济学与统计评论》( Review of Economics and Statistics )联合主编、中国数据实验室( China Data Lab) 联合主任、比较经济学会( ACES )执行秘书,以及中国经济暑期研究会( CESI) 联合主席。研究位于经济学、历史与政治的交汇处,探讨权力结构如何演变并塑造经济发展。近期侧重于思想形成与传播的政治经济学,特别关注国家、教育科学与技术之间的相互作用。 评议人: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水平的“中国实验室”、“印度实验室”和“东盟实验室”。著有《东方兴亡》(耶鲁大学出版社 ),《具有中国特色的资本主义》和《销售中国》等11部专著。 主持人兼主讲人:李宏彬 斯坦福大学中国经济与制度研究中心联席主任。斯坦福大学经济政策研究所和Freeman Spogli国际研究所的资深研究员,经济系的荣誉教授。2001年获得斯坦福大学经济学博士学位。曾任清华大学经济管理学院 C.V. Starr 经济学讲席教授,创立清华大学中国经济社会数据中心并把任常务副主任。曾任香港中文大学教授,创立香港中文大学中国经济研究中心并担任主任。担任比较经济学领域顶级期刊 Journal of Comparative Economics 的主编,研究领域包括中国的经济发展与转型、人口和教育,是研究中国经济引用率最高的经济学家之一。
November 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
中国的教育体系核心是考试体系。是什么让这一体系如此独特 ?《最高考试》追溯了它在帝制中国的起源,以及如何演变为今日的全国高考制度,揭示了考试如何深深嵌入国家治理、家庭生活与社会价值之中。作者结合亲身经历与统计证据,展示了个体命运如何与一个如同中央集权式等级竞赛的更大体系紧密相连。这一考试体系至今仍在定义中国的机会与合法性-并在当下美中竞争的格局中,愈发具有启示意义。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Professor KANG Youn Ok: The Influence of Chinese Characters on the Record-Keeping Culture of Confucian Thought of the Joseon Period (2025/10/30)
Professor KANG Youn Ok Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Myongji University
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
With the generous support from the Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology will organize a new lecture series “Encounters in the Old World, East and West: From a Transdisciplinary Perspective” from October 2025 to April 2026. The series will feature 15 lectures, focusing on early interaction…
Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2025-26) - 從王國初始到王朝氣象
Prof. Fang Hui, Shandong University
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM UTC
根據探源工程最新成果,我國在距今3800年前後由古國時代第三階段進入王國階段,其依據是“二里頭遺址中心區新發現進入王朝國家的最重要標誌”。毫無疑問,這也就意味著我國傳統的關於夏王朝建立的年代問題需要重新思考,或者對夏王朝早期的國家形態——究竟屬於古國時代還是王國時代——予以新的界定。本文結合夏代初年有關傳說文獻,結合相關考古發現進行剖析,希望有助於該問題的深入。
The Curse of Lu Ban: Rumors of Carpenter Sorcery, 1350–Present
Mr. Sun Jiayue (The University of Hong Kong) Sun Jiayue is a PhD candidate at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the anthropology of Chinese popular religion, ritual, and folk literature. His dissertation is titled “Apprentices of the Immortal Master: Ritual, Magic, and the Carpenters’ Cult of Lu Ban in South China.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
In 1375, Emperor Hongwu, sitting in a newly constructed hall, reportedly heard strange noises on the roof. Believing them to be the result of carpenter sorcery, he ordered the execution of all craftsmen involved. Since then, rumors of magic have circulated among both the elite and ordinary villagers. This talk examines…
大学沙龙线下活动(2025年10月):周其仁——大变局里的草根企业:若干观察与思考
主讲嘉宾:周其仁 北大博雅资深教授, 北京大学国家发展研究院。 1982年毕业于中国人民大学经济系,之后相继在中国社会科学院和国务院农村发展中心工作,从事改革与发展问题的经济研究。从1989年到英国牛津大学、美国科罗拉多大学、美国芝加哥大学访问。1991年入美国加州大学洛杉矶分校学习,后获经济学博士学位。 自1996年1月起在北京大学中国经济研究中心(现北京大学国家发展研究院)任教。研究领域侧重:产权与合约、经济制度变迁、企业与市场组织、货币与金融、土地制度与城市化,以及产业升级与技术创新 主持人:王开元 费正清中心研究员
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC
讲座提要:周其仁教授以其数十年深入经济一线的观察为基础,构建了一套理解中国经济的独特视角。本讲座将系统呈现他对于“草根企业”在这一“大变局”时代中的角色、智慧与未来的深刻思考。
From Importer to the Technological Frontier: China’s Automobile Industry
Dr. Yuan Jia Zheng (International University of Catalonia) Yuan Jia Zheng (Ph.D. in Economic History) is a Lecturer with Tenure Track at the International University of Catalonia in Spain. She was the Business History Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School, and was formerly Associate Lecturer at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on the development of the ecological and social responsibility of global business. She has looked in particular at the growth of EVs in China and the transfer of technology and knowledge. She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Business History Review and Business History.
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
This talk presents Dr Yuan Jia Zheng’s book project, The Transformation of China’s Automobile Industry since 1953: Multinationals, Technology Transfer, and Electric Vehicles, which explores the long-term evolution of China’s automobile sector from a technology importer to a global exporter and innovator. The project tr…
CCS Fall Webinar Series: Representing "Housewife" on Screen: From Eileen Chang's Long Live the Missus! to Cathay's Darling, Stay at Home
赵家琦,伦敦大学亚非学院硕士、台湾清华大学博士,现为台湾中兴大学中国文学系副教授。研究领域包括近现代上海文学及张爱玲1950年以后的创作。相关论文发表于《汉学研究》、《清华学报》与《人文中国学报》等期刊,以及《翻译史研究》等论文集。 Chia-chi Chao holds an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Ph.D. from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. Her research interests include modern Shanghai fiction and the post-1950s literature of Eileen Chang. She has published a number of articles on Chang’s works in journals such as Chinese Studies, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, and Journal of Chinese Humanities, as well as in edited volumes in both Chinese and English. 黄淑嫻,香港嶺南大學中文系副教授。她的研究興趣主要集中在香港文學与文化、文學与電影的比較研究,以及旅行文學。她著有《書寫书写:电 影、文學与日常生活》与《香港影像書寫:作家、文學與電影》。主要编辑作品包括「一九五O年代香港文學與文化叢書」(六冊)、《香港.一九六O年代》及《也斯的六O年代》。此外,她也发表随笔、小說与詩歌。她还是紀錄片《1918:刘以鬯》与《東西:也斯》的聯合監製。 Dr. Mary Shuk-Han WONG, Associate Professor at the Chinese Department, Hong Kong Lingnan University. Her research interest focuses on Hong Kong literature and culture, the comparative study of literature and cinema, and travel literature. She is the author of Feminine Writing: Cinema, Literature and Everyday Live and Hong Kong Cinema: Writer, literature and Cinema. Major edited works are ‘Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1950s series’ (6 volumes), Hong Kong :1960s and The 1960s of Leung Ping Kwan. She also publishes essays, stories and poems. She is the co-producer of the documentaries 1918: Liu Yichang and Boundary: Leung Ping Kwan. Moderator: 彭芸,夏威夷大学马诺阿分校东亚语言与文学系副教授,同时兼任该校中文旗舰项目的合作教师。她在明尼苏达大学获得比较文学博士学位。她 的研究兴趣包括中国现代文学、中国电影、文学批评与电影理论。目前,她的研究工作主要聚焦于当代中国独立纪录片。 Yun Peng, Associate Professor at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Affiliated Faculty of Chinese Flagship at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Minnesota. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, literary criticism, and film theory. Her current work focuses on contemporary Chinese independent documentaries.
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
本次研讨会以张爱玲剧作改编电影《太太万岁》为切入点,探赜该片聚焦家庭主妇的伦理叙事,及其与张早期影评的思想连系;并以香港电懋/国泰影业的同名电影为对照,论 析该片就「太太」故事的跨时代新诠与跨地域改造。藉由对读两部文本在角色设计与叙事经营上的异同,本讲座将管窥沪、港影艺发展的迁衍轨迹。 This talk examines the film Long Live the Missus! (1947), based on a screenplay by Eileen Chang for the Shanghai Wenhua Film Company. It explores the film’s domestic narrative,…
Professor CHUNG Joonkon: Towards a New Community: Its Necessity & Meaning (2025/10/22)
Professor CHUNG Joonkon Senior Researcher, Eurasia Foundation (from Aisa)
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
With the generous support from the Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), the Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology will organize a new lecture series “Encounters in the Old World, East and West: From a Transdisciplinary Perspective” from October 2025 to April 2026. The series will feature 15 lectures, focusing on early interaction…
Writing Christianity into Chinese History: Archaeology, Economic History, and Political Ideology
Professor Ji Li (The University of Hong Kong) Ji Li is an Associate Professor of History at the Department of History and Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong. Her research areas center on the social and religious history of late imperial and modern China, particularly the history of Christianity, religion and local society, women and gender, and cross-cultural studies. She has published books and articles in both English and Chinese. She is the author of God’s Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria (Washington 2015), Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and Chinese Society from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Brill 2021), and At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China (Oxford 2023).
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
In recent years, cultural archaeology has broadened its scope to include churches and seminaries, leading to groundbreaking discoveries in North China that uncover evidence of missionary activities and Christian communities. Church records — comprising extensive land and property deeds, along with economic and business…
大学沙龙第241期:陈志武——春秋战国中的强者生存:铁器技术何以让秦国胜出、统一中国?
主讲人 : 陈志武 香港大学人文社会研究所所长、量化历史研究中心主任、经管学院金融经济学讲席教授。耶鲁大学金融学博士,前耶鲁大学金融学教授 (1999-2017)。曾担任北京大学经济学院特聘教授、清华大学社会科学学院特聘教授。著有《金融的逻辑》《文明的逻辑》等著作。 评议人 : 秦晖 北京清华大学历史系退休教授,哈佛大学费正清中心客座研究员,哈佛燕京学社访问学者,台湾中国政治大学客座教授,香港中文大学兼任教授,东京大学客座研究员。近期著作有《秦汉史讲义》等。 主持人兼评议人:王裕华 哈佛大学政府系讲席教授。北京大学政府管理学院本科密歇根大学政治学博士。著作包括《中国法治的兴起》(剑桥大学出版社2015)和《帝制中国的兴衰》(普林斯顿大学出版社,2022)。
October 19, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
作为春秋战国时期的最新技术——铁器治炼,它真的改变了早期人类历史吗?本研究利用“中国考古数据库”考察铁制武器的采用是否推动了先秦中国 (公元前770年至前221年)的政治整合,并最终促成秦国的胜出。研究发现:1.铁器武器更多的国家更可能取胜、扩张版图并避免灭亡,该效应在控制农业生产力、地形、水利需求、人口与矿产等因素后依然稳健。2.拥有青铜武器(老技术) 越多的国家对其生存和扩张无益,而将新的制铁技术应用于农业越多的国家,对其与其它王国竞争的能力提升也无助,说明固守旧技术或仅在非军事领域应用新技术,并不能增强国家的竞争势力。3.铁器带来的资源动员与国家能力挑战,逼迫出制度改革(如郡县中央集权治理制度、商鞅变法等),增强了国家财政与动…
Status Recognition and Great Power Conflicts Today: US, China, and Russia
Speaker: T.V. Paul, Distinguished James McGill Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
The violent conflict in Ukraine triggered by Russia, China’s drift away from a “peaceful rise” strategy, and America’s near abandonment of liberal leadership have created deep uncertainty. This book project asks: Under what conditions do great powers abandon or significantly alter relatively peaceful grand strategies f…
Book Talk: 'Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formations', with lev Nachman
Lev Nachman is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Institute of National Development at National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine in 2021, and was previously the Hou Family Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard Fairbank Center. His work focuses on political participation in Taiwan and Hong Kong and US-Taiwan relations. His publications span both disciplinary and regional academic journals, including Asian Survey and Political Research Quarterly. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub and the National Bureau of Asian Research and regularly comments on contemporary Taiwanese politics. His work has been featured in various media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and Foreign Affairs.
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
Despite maintaining de facto sovereignty, states like Taiwan find themselves unrecognized in today’s international system because another power claims the state as part of their territory. This fraught status, in turn, significantly affects the domestic politics of these places. Contested Taiwan explores Taiwan’s polit…
Singapore’s Quick Rise as an International Arbitration Center
Lucy Reed
October 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC
About the event: Singapore now ranks with Paris and London among the top three venues for international arbitration, despite being much newer on the scene. Lucy Reed, president of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court (SIAC), a prominent arbitrator and international lawyer, will explore the reasons, whic…
Taiwan Legal: What Does International Law Say About Defending Taiwan?
Julian Ku
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM UTC
The United States and other countries that engage in friendly but unofficial relations with Taiwan generally maintain “strategic ambiguity” on the question of whether they would help Taiwan defend itself against a possible armed attack by China. Their decision would undoubtedly be affected by many factors, including ho…
Chinese Students in 1950s-60s Malaya: Activism, Translation, and the Making of a Multilingual Future
Dr Ying Xin SHOW
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC
In the mid-20th century, Nanyang University (Nantah) in Singapore became a powerful symbol of Chinese-language education outside China. Founded through grassroots support, it quickly grew into a vibrant hub of student activism, where young people imagined new futures for Malaya through literature, politics, and academi…
CCS Fall 2025 Webinar Series: The Chinese Dream and Law: The Third Surge of Utopianism
Shiping Hua is Calvin & Helen Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies, Director of Asian Studies Program, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville in the United States. He has published 4 solo-authored books and 12 edited books in English. He is the chief editor of a few book series, including “Routledge Studies in Comparative Asian Politics” and “Asia in the New Millennium” with University Press of Kentucky. Jeffrey E. Thomas , Associate Dean for International Programs & Professor of Law, University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. He is the Daniel L. Brenner Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law and Associate Dean at UMKC School of Law. He earned his BA from Loyola Marymount University and his JD from the University of California – Berkeley. His research focuses on law and culture, the rule of law, and insurance law. With his co-author Yan Dong he recently published the Empirical Study of the Role of Chinese Guiding Case System in Chinese Law in the Hong Kong Law Journal. Qiang Fang, professor of East Asian history at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He was President of Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences (2021-2024) and Chinese Historians in the United States (2017-2019). He is the editor of American Review of China Studies and “China from Revolution to Reform.” He has authored and coauthored many books including, among others, Who is Studying China: A Guideline of Overseas China Centers (2024), China Under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment (2024), and etc.
October 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
The Chinese Dream and Law situates the Chinese Dream in the modern utopianism discourse since the Late Qing, following Kang Youwei and Mao Zedong. As a tool to promote the Chinese Dream, the legal reforms during the period depart from the “thin constitutionalism” of the first three decades of the post-Mao era and resem…
Scottish Centre for China Research seminar series: The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Joseph Torigian is an associate professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington and a Center Associate of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover History Lab, a Visiting Fellow at the China in the World Program at Australian National University, a Stanton Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton-Harvard's China and the World Program, a Postdoctoral (and Predoctoral) Fellow at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Predoctoral Fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, an IREX scholar affiliated with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and a Fulbright Scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. His first book, "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao" was released with Yale University Press, and "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" was published by Stanford University Press in 2025.
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC
China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world―and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese…
Marketing Africa: Production of Knowledge about Africa by Businesspeople on Chinese Short-Video Platforms
Dr. Rundong Ning (The University of Hong Kong) Rundong Ning is an RGC Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include work and labor, entrepreneurship, volunteerism, and digital economy. His current research focuses on China-Kenya connections in the digital economy and entrepreneurship in Congo-Brazzaville. His publications appear in Current Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, African Studies Review, Africa, and other outlets.
September 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
In recent years, contents showing deep knowledge about African countries and people have been increasingly popular in Chinese social media, especially on short video platforms. Such knowledge often contains insider business information and cultural understandings of Africa that are difficult to get without living in Af…
International Law for Whom?
Jean-Marc Coicaud
September 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC
International law and the international order are currently challenged on two fronts: externally, by the Global South; and internally, by the United States under its own leadership. What does this mean for the future? In his new book, The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2025),…
大学沙龙第240期:李红海 —— 普通法与社会经济的发展
主讲嘉宾: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《英国普通法导论》《普通法的历史解读》等,译著包括《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》,并发表论文多篇。 主持嘉宾:孙国栋 经济学博士,香港中文大学(深圳)发展与治理研究院助理院长,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。
September 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
LLSV学派认为,良好的法律制度更有利于社会经济的发展。他们的经验研究表明,普通法世界在上世纪的某个时间段经历了比欧陆法国家更好的经济发展。他们在分析其原因时指出,这主要是因为普通法能更好地保护财产权,并倾向于限制公权力,因此能更好地保护民众的自由和创新精神。但他们并未从普通法本身的特点和技术角度来论证其结论,本讲座的目的在于从法律技术的角度来显示,普通法是否的确可以具备上述的功能,并产生他们所述的结果。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
Professor Selda Altan (Randolph College) Selda Altan is Associate Professor of History at Randolph College. She specializes in labor history, colonialism, and comparative empires. Her research examines the experiences of Chinese workers in transnational and imperial contexts, with a particular focus on labor markets, migration, and capitalist development.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
The Yunnan–Indochina Railway, a French investment in imperial China during the age of “railroad colonialism,” was designed to link French-colonized Indochina to Chinese markets and to stimulate cross-border trade in tin, silk, tea, and opium. Yet this ambitious project came at a devastating human cost: thousands of Chi…
CCS Fall 2025 Webinar Series: Religion Through Food and Family in Chinese Traditions
Vincent Goossaert is a historian of Chinese religions, with special focues on Taoism. He works mainly with texts (canonical sources, local histories, archives, inscriptions, vernacular literature), but always leaves room for fieldwork, using a historical anthropological approach. He has long focused on institutions and regulations, and is now giving greater attention to practices (spiritual exercises) and ideas (the history of eschatologies). After publishing works on the 20th century, he now focuses on the religious formation of early modern China (10th-14th centuries) and on literate spirituality at the end of the empire. Have a look at his monography "Making the Gods Speak" (Harvard University Press 2022). Barbara Ambros is a professor in East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research on Japanese Religions has focused on gender studies, human-animal relationships, and place and space. She has published in journals such as the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Religions, Monumenta Nipponica, Asian Ethnology, Material Religion, and Asian Cultural Studies. Her book publications include Le donne nell’ordine monastico buddhista (Myo Edizioni, 2019), Women in Japanese Religions (New York University Press, 2015), Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012), and Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Early Modern Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008). Natasha Heller is a cultural historian of Chinese Buddhism with research interests spanning the premodern period (primarily 10th through 14th c.) and the contemporary era. Her work seeks to find unexplored perspectives through which to understand religious history. Illusory Abiding: The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben, her first book, is a study of an eminent monk of the Yuan dynasty using poetry, calligraphy, and gong’an commentary to explore the social and cultural dimensions of Chan Buddhism. She continue to write frequently on Song and Yuan dynasty Buddhism and have authored or co-authored many book chapters and journal articles, including for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. The relationship between religion and literature is an ongoing concern in her research.
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC
The Beef Taboo in China explains how and why, around the turn of the second millennium, the Chinese determined that cattle should not be slaughtered or eaten. This taboo remained prevalent until the beginning of the twentieth century and is still observed by some today. Goossaert situates this prohibition within evolvi…
The Value of US-China Education Exchanges
Julia Chang Bloch Rosie Levine
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM UTC
About the event: As political and economic trust between the United States and China deteriorates year by year, some non-profits and scholars in both countries continue to swim against the tide, organizing exchange programs designed to build mutual understanding and trust. One of these is the U.S.-China Education Trust…
US Foreign Policy toward China and Sino-US Relations since the First Trump Administration
Zhou Qi
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
The first Trump administration's China policy represented a radical change in US policy since the 1970s. US policymakers began to label China and Russia "revisionist competitors," arguing that strategic competition between the US and China has become a primary concern for US national security. These assessments constit…
The Emergence of Logistics Networks and Financial Administration during the Qin Conquest (230–221 BCE)
Professor Chun Fung Tong (The University of Hong Kong) Chun Fung Tong is an assistant professor at the School of Chinese and Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong. He studied history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for his BA and MPhil degrees and received a PhD in Sinology from Heidelberg University. His research primarily focuses on social, political and institutional history in early China, early Chinese historiography, as well as writing culture in premodern China.
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM UTC
This talk explores the logistics networks of the Qin state during its war of unification between 230 and 221 BCE. First, the article investigates the Qin’s “assigned transfer” logistics system, which was comprised of two forms, namely, the transfer of resources among regional administrative units, and that between the…
大学沙龙第239期:彭凯平——幸福的方法: 积极心理学探索
主讲人:彭凯平 清华大学心理与认知科学系教授,清华大学全球产业研究院院长,国际积极心理联合会 (IPPA)以及国际积极教育联盟 (IPEN)中国理事,中国国际积极心理学大会执行主席。曾任清华大学社会科学学院院长,首任清华大学心理学系主任。自2015年连续10年入选爱思唯尔(EIsevier)“中国高被引学者心理学家榜单”。 主持人:倪子君 清华大学心理学博士。北京幸福公益基金会创始人、名誉理事长,厚德明心(北京)科技有限公司创始人、CEO。 CCTV《对话》《经济生活大调查》《心理访谈》特邀心理专家。引进出版、翻译《幸福的方法》《幸福的要素》《幸福超越完美》《选择幸福》等积极心理学畅销书。
September 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM UTC
讲座将深入探讨幸福的本质,解析为何幸福不仅是简单的快乐,更是一种有意义的积极体验。您将了解到基于实证研究的幸福提升方法,包括如何运用个人优势、培养积极情绪以及建立韧性,从而科学地提升个人幸福感与生活满意度。本讲座旨在为您提供实用的工具和视角,帮助您在日常生活中发现更多意义最终活出“心花怒放、福流澎湃”的美好状态。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
US–China Competition and the International Order
Speaker: Ryo Sahashi Moderator: Bruce Aronson
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM UTC
About the event Intensifying rivalry between the United States and China is reshaping the international order. The transactional diplomacy of the Trump administration is accelerating the erosion of established institutional guardrails. In this challenging moment, University of Tokyo Professor Ryo Sahashi says that Japa…
大学沙龙第238期:黄靖——特朗普再度执政: 美国政策大逆转与中美关系走向
主讲人: 黄靖 上海外国语大学特聘教授、博士生导师,上海区域与国别研究院美国与亚太研究所所长,北京临界战略咨询联合创始人。曾任北京语言大学特聘教授及国别和区域研究院学术院长,李光耀公共政策学院特聘讲席教授及亚洲与全球化研究所所长,布鲁金斯学会资深研究员。先后任教于哈佛大学、犹他州立大学(终身教授)、斯坦福大学。其专著《中共政治中的宗派主义》由剑桥大学出版社出版并获大平正芳奖。研究领域涵盖中国高层政治、发展战略、中美关系及亚太安全等。德国博思学院终身院士,四川大学英语文学学士,复旦大学历史学硕士,哈佛大学政治学博士。 评议人: 李巍 中国人民大学吴玉章特聘教授、博士生导师,国际关系学院副院长,区域国别研究院副院长,美国研究中心主任。担任多学术期刊编委及全国外交学研究会副会长。专长国际政治经济学、美国政治经济、经济外交与全球治理。曾任美国亚太安全研究中心、康奈尔大学、日本亚洲经济研究所和柏林自由大学访问学者。著有《制度之战:战略竞争时代的中美关系》《制衡美元:政治领导与货币崛起》等,论文发表于国内外主要学术期刊。 主持人: 夏立平 同济大学中国战略研究院副院长、政治与国际关系学院创始院长、博士生导师,历史学博士、法学硕士。兼任中共中央台办海峡两岸关系研究中心兼职研究员、国务院发展研究中心客座研究员及多家学会理事。曾任美国大西洋理事会高级研究员、蒙特雷国际研究学院客座研究员、斯德哥尔摩大学客座教授等。研究专长涵盖美国国家安全战略、亚太安全、国际核军备控制及中国对外战略。
August 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
特朗普二次上台后,抛弃了二战以来主导美国内外政策的威尔逊自由国际主义,回归杰克逊保守孤立主义。如此政策大逆转的原因何在?给中美关系已至整个世界格局带来了怎样的变化和影响?如何评估和判断当下的中美博弈和走向?搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
US-China Rivalry in the Asia-Pacific under Trump 2.0: China's Strategic Vision for Australia
Bo Ma
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
This presentation explores the escalating rivalry between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific region under the renewed Trump administration, with a particular focus on its implications for Australia. Drawing on recent Chinese scholarly and official analyses since 2025, the seminar critically assesses how Ch…
大学沙龙第237期:来自边缘的理论化:中国学者的全球关怀——李连江对话唐世平
主讲人: 唐世平 复旦大学教授,复旦大学复杂决策分析中心(CCDA)负责人。唐教授是亚洲最具影响力和创新性的社会科学家之一,是首位当选国际研究学会(ISA)副会长的中国学者。2024年,他与Barry Buzan和Cristina Rojas一起获全球国际关系学会(GIRS)杰出学者荣誉。唐教授的研究涵盖国际关系、比较政治、制度经济学等领域,已出版五部专著,包括The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development(Princeton University Press,2022)、On Social Evolution: Phenomenon and Paradigm(Routledge,2020)等。他的The Social Evolution of International Politics(Oxford University Press,2013)一书荣获ISA“年度最佳图书奖”,他是首位获得此奖的中国和亚洲学者(亦是首位非西方学者)。唐教授还是首位加入International Security(2021-)、International Studies Quarterly(2015-2020)、Security Studies(2015-)、International Relations(2021-)等国际关系领域领先期刊编辑委员会的中国学者。 与谈人: 李连江 香港大学理政学院(School of Governance and Policy)教授。著有Political Trust in China (University of Michigan Press,2025) and Rightful Resistance in Rural China (with Kevin O’Brien)(Cambridge University Press,2006)。中文著作包括《不发表就出局》《在学术界谋生存》《学者的术与道》。目前致力于两项主业,一是研究政治支持,二是讲授《学术写作与发表的技术要领》。
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM UTC
唐世平教授是中国大陆为数不多的、有多部英文著作、且关注世界话题超过中国话题的社会科学家。他的作品高度理论化,覆盖多个领域和学科,并运用不同的技术工具。本期对话将探讨他的世界关怀,以及曲折艰辛的心路历程,并且分享他的心得体会;以期展示新世纪拥有国际视野的中国学者的一个样本!搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Chinese and U.S. AI Applications in Public Administration: Lessons and Implications for Ukraine
- Dmytro Yefremov, Board Member, Ukrainian Association of Sinologists (Ukraine) - Guan Wang, Chairman, Learnable.ai (China) - Karman Lucero, Associate Research Scholar and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale University (the U.S.)
August 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
This timely event will explore how artificial intelligence is shaping governance in both the United States and China—and what practical lessons Ukraine can draw for its own public sector modernization.
Nuclear Safety and Security for Ukraine Amid US-China Rivalry
Nicholas Roth (Nuclear Threat Initiative) Mariana Budjeryn (Belfer Center, Harvard University) Yanliang Pan (James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute) Lili Voytovych (Hertie School, Germany Moderator: Kaiser Kuo
August 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM UTC
As global strategic competition heightens, Ukraine's nuclear safety is a pressing issue. This roundtable convenes experts from U.S., Europe, and China-focused platforms to delve into key questions: ◼️ Identifying Ukraine's current nuclear safety risks. ◼️ Contrasting U.S. and Chinese stances on nuclear deterrence, arms…
大学沙龙第236期:邹传伟——美元稳定币的政治经济学分析
主讲人: 邹传伟 江苏省金科数字与科技金融研究院院长。此前长期供职于中央汇金公司、中国投资公司、南湖金服和香港HashKey。北京大学统计学学士、经济学硕士,清华大学五道口金融学院经济学博士哈佛大学肯尼迪学院职业中期公共管理硕士。2015年获首届孙冶方金融创新奖和第五届中国软科学奖,2019年入选第一财经“年度机构首席经济学家”,2024年获第十二届金融图书“金羊奖”。兼任中国人民大学经济学院和法学院、北京师范大学经济与管理学院校外导师。 评议人 : 游杨 香港大学金融学助理教授。哈佛大学经济学博士,并清华大学数学与经济学双学士学位。现任香港金融管理局(HKMA)央行数字货币专家组委员,负责香港稳定币与央行数字货币的政策白皮书研究,香港促进Web3发展专责小组生态系统及基建分组委员会成员,领导香港大学深圳校区区块链与智能合约实验室。研究领域涵盖加密货币与智能合约、去中心化金融、发展经济学,研究成果发表于《经济研究评论》《金融经济学杂志》及《NBER宏观经济学年鉴》。 主持人: 陈晋 哈佛费正清中心关联研究员,曾任哈佛亚洲中心和费正清中心报告员,负责报导“中国面临的关键问题”讲座系列。哈佛大学东亚研究硕+(MA),波士顿学院商业管理硕士(MBA),Lewis& Clark Colleqe数学和经济学双学士学位(BA)。曾任财新传媒专栏作家,出版三册《哈佛经济学笔记》系列。授课北师大,人大和北大新闻与传播学院暑期课程,"宏观经济报导:理论、问题及评论”。
August 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
2025年7月18日,美国总统特朗普签署《指导与建立美国稳定币国家创新法案》( 简称GENIUS法案)后,美国即将建立首个稳定币联邦监管框架。稳定币USDC发行机构Circle公司的IPO在资本市场引起极大关注。稳定币究竟是什么?目前主要用在哪些场景 ?美元稳定币对美元地位和美国国债有什么影响 ?美国发展美元稳定币的目标是什么? 哪些目标是可能实现的,哪些目标主要是市场叙事?这折射了美国政治的何种现实? 搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Transnationalizing Transgender in Sinophone Hong Kong
Alvin K. Wong, University of Hong Kong
August 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
This talk demonstrates that studying queer Hong Kong requires an alternative framework of “queer globalities.” Conceptually, queer globalities illustrates the convergent dynamics of global queer rights discourses, local geopolitics, and so-called pink capitalism within the global modernities of queer Asia. The first pa…
大学沙龙线下系列:钟志清——《圣经》作为文学经典的翻译、阐释与接受
主讲人:钟志清 文学博士,毕业于北京师范大学中文系和以色列本-古里安大学希伯来文学系。中国社会科学院外国文学研究所研究员;中国社会科学院大学教授;北京大学东方文学研究中心兼职研究员;中国外国文学学会理事;中国外国文学学会东方文学研究分会副会长。曾为以色列特拉维夫大学、英国学术院、美国哈佛燕京学社与布兰代斯大学访问学者。现在哈佛燕京学社访学。 著有《希伯来叙事与民族认同研究》《变革中的 20世纪希伯来文学》《“把手指放在伤口上”:阅读希伯来文学与文化》《当代以色列作家研究》《希伯来经典学术史研究》(合),编选《希伯来经典研究文集》,译有《现代希伯来小说史》《希伯来文学的再生》(合)以及《我的米海尔》《爱与黑暗的故事》《乡村生活图景》《黑泽废墟》等十余部希伯来文学作品。 主持人:毛文芳 台湾师范大学中文博士,现为台湾中正大学中文系教授、东亚汉籍与儒学研究中心主任、台湾国家科学委员会人文处复审委员、《江苏师范大学学报》“珍稀文献研究”专栏特约主编。曾任中正大学中文系系主任、《中正汉学研究》(THCI)总编辑。曾受邀前往美国哈佛大学东亚系、莱斯大学、哈佛燕京图书馆、韩国高丽大学、英国伦敦大学、德国汉堡大学、海德堡大学、法国国家图书馆、越南汉喃研究院等机构担任访问教授。 主要研究领域为明清文学、题画文学、文学与图像、东亚汉学。曾获洪瑞焜学术出版奖、国科会甲种研究奖、香港大学学术论文奖、国科会人文专书出版奖。多次受邀为国内外大学与研究机构演讲。 著有:《董其昌之逸品观》《晚明闲赏美学》《物·性别·观看:明末清初文化书写新探》《图成行乐:明清文人画像题咏析论》(另有全韩文翻译出版)、《卷中小立亦百年:明清女性画像题咏探论》《读画·行乐:明清名流的画像题咏》《诗·画·游·赏:晚明文化及审美意涵》《盛世画廊:明清文人画像之多重观看与图文复调》等多种学术专著;主编:《哈佛大学哈佛燕京图书馆插图珍本提要图录》《东亚汉籍史与知识环流》《越南汉学论丛》《韩国汉学家论著选萃》《中国历代才媛诗选》等书;发表学术论文近百篇。
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC
哈罗德·布鲁姆在《西方正典》中曾经提及,每个人都会有或应该有一份荒岛书单。如果他只能有一本书,肯定会是莎士比亚全集;如果还能有第二种,那么就是《圣经》。《圣经》既是宗教经典,又是文学集成,包含了神话、诗歌、叙事文等多种文类。在《圣经》从东方到西方、再到东方的传播、阐释与接受过程中,翻译的作用不容小觑,翻译不仅完成了截然不同的语言体系之间的艺术交汇,而且在东西方文明与文化体系之间创造了联系。本讲座将从布鲁姆和卡尔维诺对经典的界定入手,结合一些经典案例,追述《圣经》在东、西方的阐释传统、翻译与研究历史。
The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Irvine Glenn Tiffert, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
July 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC
The Hoover Institution Program on the US, China, and the World invites you to The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, a book talk with the author, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, from Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in the Shultz Auditorium, George P. Shultz Building. In rec…
大学沙龙第235期: 舛友雄大——解剖“润日”现象:逃离中国、落脚日本的新移民潮
主讲人: 舛友雄大 精通日语、汉语、英语和印尼语的资深日本人记者专注于中国与东南亚事务,拥有美国加州大学圣地牙哥分校的国际关系硕士学位。2010年加入中国财经类媒体负责日本报导。2023年,创立了播客节目《亚洲前线》。在2025年出版《润日——跟踪逃往日本的中国富裕阶层》一书引起国内外关注。 评议人 : 松平德仁 神奈川大学法学部教授。东京大学法学部毕业、大学院法学政治学研究科博土课程、华盛顿大学亚洲法·比较法硕士。著有《宪法の尊》《帝国日本上植民地大学》《植民地主义上立宪主义の胡龋上共振》等图书《国家像左女<法廷斗争》《力者の自己言及》《立宪民主政D心技体》等学术论文。 主持人 : 张翃 美国印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校全球与国际研究学院助理教授。研究聚焦干中国的全球发展实践,关注其国内的政治经济制度安排如何塑造其外部的发展合作。博士毕业于乔治·梅森大学,并曾于哈佛大学、约翰斯-霍普金斯大学担任博士后研究员。
July 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
近年来,随着中国国内政治收紧、经济前景不明,社会变卷,越来越多中产与富裕阶层选择“润”出中国,寻求更安全、自由的生活环境。其中,日本因地理接近、性价比好 、签证容易获得等优势,成为他们首选目的地之一。这一现象被称为“润日”。本讲座将结合实地采访与案例研究,探讨润日”群体的背景、动机、在日生活情况,以及他们对日本房地产、教育等方面所带来的深远影响。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution
Linda Jaivin
July 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
The Cultural Revolution saw out the Mao era in China with a decade-long orgy of violence and cultural destruction. The suppression of historical truth-telling combined with the fact that many of the Cultural Revolution’s victims, perpetrators and witnesses are elderly or gone means that its memory is fading even as a k…
大学沙龙第234期:陈元通——21世纪以来电子产业跨国公司从中国向越南的生产迁移
主讲人 : 陈元通博士 岭南大学研究生院研究助理教授,并兼任该校中国与区域发展研究硕土课程总监。研究兴趣涵盖中国和东南亚的区域发展、全球化、数字化、产业转型、全球生产网络以及全球价值链,研究方法兼具定性和定量。 主讲人/主持人 : 杨春教授 香港浸会大学文学及社会科学院副院长、讲座教授 (人文地理)。研究涵盖经济地理、跨国公司与外资、区域发展、技术创新与治理,关注大中华(特别是粤港澳大湾区)和东盟地区。自榜单创立以来入选斯坦福大学“世界前2%科学家”,现任Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society编辑、及多个国际顶尖刊物编委。 评议人 : 吴木銮博士 新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院副教授、Public Administration and Development副主编。中国研究专家已发表50篇学术论文与专著章节,主持多项获新加坡教育部与香港研究资助局资助的研究项目。研究涉及公共部门改革、财政关系、腐败治理与社会保障等议题。进入学界前曾任中国媒体记者获多项新闻奖项。
July 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
自21世纪中期以来,电子产品生产逐步从中国向越南转移呈现出日益复杂的“中国产能+1”战略。这一趋势不仅受到跨国企北全球布局的推动,也反映了各国政府在全球生产网络中的角色重塑。本讲座将以陈元通与杨春两位学者的最新专著《将生产转移至东南亚: 21世纪以来电子跨国公司向越南转移》为基础,探讨在疫情与中美贸易战背景下,智能手机等电子产业如何从中国沿海扩展至越南。讲座将结合越南红河与湄公河三角洲的田野调查与企业案例,深入分析生产转移的趋势、全球贸易格局的变化以及在动荡的地缘政治局势下,地方如何在全球生产网络中实现策略性的耦合与去耦合。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙255期:黄征宇——重新思考中国
主讲人: 黄征宇 斯坦福大学工业工程、经济学与计算机科学学士,哈佛大学工商管理硕士。曾任奥巴马政府任内白宫学者、“百人会”主席。著有四部畅销著作,其中包括新近出版的《重新思考中国》。其公开演讲与政策交流活动影响广泛,有力推动了社会各界对当今一些核心国际关系议题的多维审视与深入思考。 评议人: 卓睿(Jacob Dreyer) 自然集团(Nature)旗下的出版公司Palarave的高级编辑·拥有威廉玛丽学院文化研究学士学位、伦敦大学人文硕士学位及纽约大学东亚研究硕士学位,研究聚焦中国发展议题,曾为《自然》《纽约时报》等媒体撰稿并担任《金融时报》中文版专栏作家。 主持人 : 王开元 哈佛大学费正清中心研究员,大学沙龙资深志愿者。
July 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC
放大的“安全困境”? 本期大学沙龙与中美印象网联合邀请到《重新思考中国》 (Rethinking China) 的作者、华裔学者黄征宇,与常驻上海的媒体人、《纽约时报》撰稿人卓睿(Jacob Drever) 同台对话。两位长期穿校于中美两国、拥有独特跨文化视角的学者,将带领我们超越传统“亲华”或“反华”的二元对立框架,用扎实的数据与一手观察,剖析复杂关系下的真实中国与美国。这不仅是一场关于如何看懂中国的研讨,更是一场关于在动荡时代如何保持理性、避免由恐惧而驱动战略误判的深刻思辨。搜索“大学沙龙”Youtube频道收看讲座。
U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement: Outlook for S&T Competition and Cooperation
Sourabh Gupta, Head of Trade 'n Technology Program, Institute for China-America Studies Kei Koizumi, Ex-Special Assistant to the President at Office of Science and Technology Policy Caroline S. Wagner, Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University William Hannas, Professor and Lead Analyst, Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University Denis Fred Simon, President, Alliance of Global Talent Organizations
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC
The U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement (STA), renewed by the Biden administration in late 2024, continues to provide a foundational framework for bilateral scientific cooperation and competition. The latest renewal introduces significant revisions aimed at addressing strategic concerns, particularly by restric…
Women As Vernacular Knowers In China’s Long Republic (1894-1954): What We Can Learn From Cheap Print
Professor Joan Judge (York University) Joan Judge is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto. A cultural historian of print and knowledge in modern China, her most recent publication is The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894-1954 which is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2025. She is also the author of Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015), The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China (Stanford University Press, 2008), and Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China (Stanford University Press, 1996). She is co-editor of The Sinosphere and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Joshua Fogel (DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), “Publishing for Daily Life in Early Modern East Asia,” (special issue of Lingua Franca: The History of the Book in Translation 6 [2020]), Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Global Twentieth Century: A Space of Their Own? (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History (University of California Press, 2011).
June 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC
Many of the knowledges we can classify as vernacular were enacted by women in spheres that were largely governed by women: whether household maintenance, family emergencies, or basic healthcare. Accessing this level of knowledge and penetrating women’s experience, however, poses significant methodological challenges. W…
From Yellow River to Yellow Sea: The Spatial Construction of the Qi State, c. 700–300 BCE
Dr. Christopher F. Kim (Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) Chris Kim is Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. His research examines statecraft, political economy, and the spatial dynamics of state power in Zhou China (1045–221 BCE) through paleographic, archaeological, and textual analysis. His current book project, Building the Qi State: Lineage, Economy, and Territorial Organization in Early China, investigates the development of territorial administration, bureaucratic officialdom, urban networks, and monetary zones in the state of Qi in Shandong during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. In addition, his research interests include the origins of coinage in China, Eastern Zhou kingship, and discovering innovative applications of GIS and other spatial analysis approaches to map the early Chinese world. He has previously published studies on salt in the Western Zhou state and on Bronze Age Chinese political economies. Chris received his PhD from Columbia University, MA from Harvard University, and BA from Brown University.
June 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC
Qi 齊 emerged as a powerful territorial state in Shandong, eastern China between the seventh and fourth centuries BCE. Over this period, a notable transformation occurred in the political and spatial organization of the Qi state whereby traditional lineage and kin-based power structures were replaced by centralized inst…
大学沙龙第233期:林晓东——失败必是成功之母吗?
主讲人:林晓东 哥伦比亚大学教育学院Cleveland E.Dodge认知科学讲席教授,科技与学习研究院院长,耐挫与创新教育中心主任Carnegie Scholar。曾为经济合作与发展组织首席专家,首创“耐挫教育”理念。三十余年专注研究挫败体验与学习成长机制主持建立国际领先的“耐挫力”培养体系。其研究成果广泛应用于青少年教育实践,被《纽约时报》《BBC》《科学》等国际主流媒体广泛报道,也曾屡获美国教育协会大奖。 与谈人: 俞立中 上海纽约大学首任校长,华东师范大学、上海师范大学前校长,英国利物浦大学博士。环境磁学与可持续发展专家,获多项国家级科学与教学奖。荣获法国荣誉军团骑土勋章等多项国际荣誉,现担任多项教育与科普机构重要职务。 主持人:王开元哈佛大学费正清中心研究员,大学沙龙资深志愿者。
June 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
“失败是成功之母”早已成为我们耳熟能详的信条。这句话是人生真理,还是一种自我安慰?在硅谷,甚至流行着“快速失败,经常失败”(Fail fast fail often)的口号,仿佛失败是通往成功的捷径与创新秘钥。但如果失败确为成功之母,为何我们鲜少真正欢迎“她”降临于生活和职场 ?为何我们甚至不愿接纳一位“失败的继母”?为何当失败“敲门”时,我们的本能反应是逃避、焦虑乃至恐惧? 本讲座将基于三十余年的研究与实证数据,探讨失败与成功之间的真实关系: 失败必然导向成长与成功吗 ?只要努力不放弃、心态端正就一定能成功吗?科学研究是否支持这些信念? 最关键的是:作为个体、家长、教育者、领导者一我们该如何应对失败,避免被其击垮,反而翻身成为成功…
DHEAC: Annual International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics
Multiple speakers
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
The “International Conference on Digital Humanities for East Asia Classics” has previously been held three times, in Seoul (Korea) and Hangzhou (China), advancing the integration of East Asian classics and digital humanities while fostering international collaboration among scholars. Organized by the Research Center fo…
Power Cast in Bronze: A Social Network Analysis of Noble Families in Early China, 1600–256 BCE
Dr. Yuqi Chen (PhD Graduate, Peking University) Yuqi Chen is a PhD graduate of Peking University, where she also received her Bachelor’s degree. She is actively engaged in the fields of Digital Humanities and Quantitative History. Her research focuses on integrating AI and computational methods with humanities research, especially Early China history and archaeology, aiming to uncover new insights through innovative interdisciplinary approaches. She serves as a reviewer for prestigious journals such as Nature Human Behaviour, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, among others. She has also published her work in journals including International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, as well as at conferences such as the Digital Humanities (DH) Conference and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
June 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
Due to the relative scarcity of transmitted texts, bronze inscriptions have become one of the principal sources for investigating key issues in early Chinese history—particularly during the Shang and Zhou periods—such as the formation of clan system and kin-based political communities. A wide variety of records were ca…
大学沙龙第232期:郝景芳——以科幻视角审视当前社会与人类未来
主讲人:郝景芳 小说作者,经济研究员,童行书院、芳景科幻创始人。2002年获第四届新概念作文大赛一等奖,2006年毕业于清华大学物理系,2013年清华大学经管学院博士毕业,2013年至2018年就职于中国发展研究基金会研究一部;2016年凭短篇小说《北京折叠》获第74届世界科幻大会雨果奖,被评选为《人物》《南方人物周刊》“十大年度人物”。2018年哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院访问学者,同年被世界经济论坛评选为2018年“全球青年领袖”。主要著作有《孤独深处》《流浪苍穹》《人之彼岸》《去远方》《孩子,愿你一生勇敢,心中有光》《宇宙跃迁者》《中国前沿:不如问问科学家吧》等。 评议人:祁晓亮 斯坦福大学物理系教授,清华大学高等研究院博士,AI初创企业Path Integral Technology联合创始人。主要研究方向包括凝聚态物理,量子信息,量子引力和人工智能。曾获得物理学新视野奖等奖项。 主持人:段鸣镝 鸣镝科普基金会创始人。前中央电视台科教中心首席导演,最佳金鸡奖、华表奖科教片导演。中国视协纪录片学术委员会理事。中国传媒大学杰出校友,客座讲师。自媒体《老鸣TV》节目制作者,作品集《花与科学的彼岸》为今日头条科普公开课收视第3名。
June 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
当前国际局势风云变幻、新兴科技带来社会变革,人类未来何去何从?科幻小说提供对于未来的思想实验,不一定成为现实,但一定可以提供逻辑严谨的、未来可能性的探讨。在科幻世界中,我们可以自由讨论AI对劳动力的取代、AI的社会影响、元宇宙的经济模式和对社会结构的冲击、国际战争对人类文明的打击、人类面向宇宙的希望与威胁,等等等等。探讨科幻文学的推演合理性,以及当前国际局势的未来思考。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Deep-Seabed Mining: Legal Challenges and Geostrategic Competition
Marie Bourrel-McKinnon, Former Chief of Staff & Head of Strategic Planning Unite, International Seabed Authority Edwin Egede, Professor, Cardiff University Zhang Dan, Research, China Institute for Maritime Affairs Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
June 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
On Tuesday, June 10, ICAS, in collaboration with the Institute for China-Europe Studies (ICES), will host a webinar on the legal challenges and geostrategic competition of deep-seabed mining. This event will feature former ISA official Marie Bourrel-McKinnon, ICAS Senior Fellow Sourabh Gupta, Zhang Dan from the China I…
Trump 2.0 and His “America First”: A Greater Opportunity for China?
Vita Golod – Board Member, Ukrainian Association of Sinologists Finbarr Bermingham – Europe Correspondent, South China Morning Post David Firestein – President and CEO, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Ning Leng – Assistant Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Rebecca Kohler – Project Director, SAFEMed, USAID-funded project in Ukraine Moderator: Kaiser Kuo – Host and Co-founder, Sinica Podcast
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
This roundtable will examine how the Trump 2.0 administration’s approach to conflict resolution in Ukraine diverges from previous U.S. strategies, and how Kyiv, European capitals, and Beijing are recalibrating their policies in response.
UW Taiwan Spring Colloquia
Huiyu Lin, Ph.D., College of Education, UW Euchari Majors, M.A. Student, International Studies, UW Ting-Chieh (David) Ouyang, Ph.D. Candidate, History, UW Dr. Cheng-shan (Frank) Liu, Fulbright Scholar, OSU Political Science, and Professor, Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU)
May 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM UTC
Please join us for our annual Spring Colloquium, where we celebrate the end of a busy academic year with research presentations from graduating M.A. and Ph.D. students as well as visiting scholars of the Taiwan Studies Program. We will have the following presenters: Huiyu Lin, Ph.D., College of Education Euchari Majors…
Minerals Deal as a New Diplomatic Tool: Ukraine, China, the EU, and the U.S.
Ivan Us – Chief Consultant, Center for Foreign Policy, National Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine) Xu Qinduo – Journalist at CGTN, Senior Fellow at the Pangoal Institution (China) Jim Mullinax – Senior Foreign Service Officer, Diplomatic Fellow (United States) Grzegorz Stec – Head of Brussels Office, Senior Analyst at MERICS (European Union)
May 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC
This timely online discussion will explore how strategic mineral agreements are reshaping global diplomacy, particularly amid shifting geopolitical alignments. Experts from Ukraine, China, the U.S., and the EU will offer perspectives on resource security, trade dynamics, and diplomatic strategy.
The Mo Clan and Hà Tiên in the Chinese Century of Maritime East Asia, 1650-1800
Professor Xing Hang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Xing Hang is Associate Professor of History at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His interests include early modern maritime East Asia, Eurasian comparative history, and overseas Chinese. He has written two books and several articles and reviews, and is a recipient of many grants and awards, including from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation.
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
For much of the eighteenth century, Hà Tiên, situated on the present-day Vietnam-Cambodia border, was one of the most important entrepôts in maritime East Asia. Under the governance of the Chinese creole Mo (Mạc) clan, it prospered as a transhipment point between Northeast, mainland Southeast, and island Southeast Asia…
In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan, James Lin, University of Washington
James Lin
May 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought these practices to the developing world. In the Glob…
Britain and China’s Redemption of the Canton–Hankow Railway, 1898–1905
Shuge Wei
May 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
This research argues that Britain played an important role in China’s redemption of the Canton-Hankow railway contract from the American-China Development Company. Despite appearing as a non-participant, Britain influenced the development of this Sino-US contention at various stages. During the dispute, Britain exercis…
A New Documentary History of Hong Kong book talk
Florence Mok (Nanyang Technological University), Adonis M. Y. Li (University of Lincoln), Allan T. F. Pang (University of Bristol) and Matthew Hurst (University of York) chaired by David Clayton (University of York).
May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC
In its 14 chapters, A New Documentary History of Hong Kong examines a range of themes spanning politics, economics, society and culture through reproduced primary sources, diagrams and images. This event welcomes four of the volume’s contributors to talk about their chapters and the project of bringing Hong Kong’s hist…
大学沙龙第231期:马兆远——科学、艺术与工程
主讲人:马兆远。现任南方科技大学工学院/商学院双聘教授、英国物理学会会士、高丽大学荣誉教授。牛津大学物理学博士。曾任清华大学、英国谢菲尔德大学教授,中国科学院百人计划研究员。为中国空间站“天宫四号”设计了世界第一个空间冷原子实验平台。著有《量子大唠嗑》 《人工智能之不能》 《智造中国》 《世界的逻辑》。 评议人:朱嘉明。经济学家,横琴数链数字金融研究院学术与技术委员会主席。中国社会科学院博士,麻省理工学院MBA。“改革四君子”之一,“莫于山会议”主要发起人。曾任国务院技术经济研究中心中信(CITIC)等机构负责人,哈佛大学等校访问学者,联合国工发组织经济学家。曾执教维也纳大学、台湾大学。近年钻研货币史数字货币、区块链与前沿科技。代表作包括《从自由到垄断:中国货币经济两千年》《未来决定现在:区块链、数字货币与数字经济》 《元宇宙与数字经济》 《历史不能熔断》 《第三种存在:从通用人工智能到超级人工智能》等。 主持人:彭瑞文。星际元·未来科探学院(波士顿)负责人。清华大学设计 学博士。前清华大学终身学习实验室副主任。专注创新教育研究与实践,力推“玩中学、做中学、创中学”的跨学科学习体验设计,促进青少年创新能力与未来素养的发展。著有《艺术可以这么玩》,译有《学习可以很快乐:丹麦的幸福教育是如何成功的》。
May 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM UTC
科学、艺术与工程是人类认知世界的三大支柱。本次讲座由南方科技大学马兆远教授主讲,探讨理性如何在科学与艺术中交织,并推动工程创新。讲座还将揭示理性主义的理想与局限,以及教育如何培养对话能力——与AI、自然、心灵及未来对话。科学不仅是真理的探索,更是人类最宏大的行为艺术。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Land Mania! The Hong Kong Housing Bubble of the 1880s
Dr. William R. Kelson (Society of Fellows, The University of Hong Kong) William R. Kelson (he/him) is a historian of modern China and its place in the world economy. He was educated at Emerson College, Boston College, the University of Georgia, the Taipei Language Institute, and IUP Tsinghua. His research has been supported by the Luce Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the John E. Rovensky Fellowships in International Business & Economic History, and the Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong and a Junior Fellow at its Society of Fellows in the Humanities. There he is turning his PhD dissertation—a wide-ranging history of the Chinese financial crisis of the 1880s—into a book manuscript. That study, researched at archives in Shanghai, Taipei, and London, explores the ways in which China’s integration into global capitalism in the late-nineteenth century made the late-Qing financial system increasingly fragile, as well as the consequences of that financial fragility for Qing society writ large.
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
In October 1881, an overheated Hong Kong housing market collapsed. Property values fell by 50% or more, financial institutions that had lent money against real estate collateral went bankrupt, construction of tong lau and other urban structures ground to a halt, indebted compradors at foreign banks disappeared, and lan…
Situating Animal Kin in Urban Infrastructures: Three Stories of the Amis’ Lifeworld and their Entangled Indigeneity
Yi-tze Lee received his Ph.D. of Anthropology from University of Pittsburgh in 2012. He teaches at Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, where he served as the departmental chair (2021-2024), and currently a visiting Fulbright scholar at University of Washington. He has been doing fieldwork among the indigenous peoples in Taiwan, especially with the Amis people. His research interests cover indigenous revitalization and resilience, including agricultural transition, food sovereignty, ritual performance, infrastructure/landscape building, and multispecies networking.
May 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
Yi-tze Lee, National Dong Hwa University gives his final talk of his Fulbright scholar time with the Taiwan Studies Program May 8, at 3:30 – 5PM in Thomson Hall 317. This talk explores the experiences of the Indigenous Amis people within urban infrastructures, with a focus on their everyday interactions with animal kin…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Presentations and Panel Discussions: Entrepreneurship in China
Adam K. Frost is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. His research draws upon novel historical sources and original datasets to explore the history of entrepreneurship and innovation in 20th century China. His work has examined the socio-spatial dimensions of technological diffusion in the cotton industry of Republican China, the entrepreneurial production of space in contemporary Xi’an, and the coevolution of statecraft and informal entrepreneurial ecosystems in Maoist China. Leksa Lee is an anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Global Commerce at Denison University. Her research is focused on the rise of China, postsocialist capitalism, and the design of the built environment. Her book project is an ethnography of a design firm in China that builds new museums, theme parks, and tourism developments for local governments. The book examines the complex politics of the government contracting process, and how designers and local government officials negotiate conflicting priorities to ultimately portray history and culture in public space amid the tightening cultural politics of the Xi Jinping era.
May 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC
Please join us for a webinar exploring how entrepreneurship has taken root in unexpected ways across vastly different periods of Chinese history. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at Copenhagen Business School, Adam Frost will uncover the hidden world of informal labor brokering in Maoist China, reveal…
Taiwan Legal: What Does PRC Law Say about Taiwan
Bing Ling
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC
Military drills by the People’s Republic of China around self-ruled Taiwan are larger and more frequent than ever. Chinese warplanes, drones, balloons, and naval ships now enter Taiwan’s airspace and waters on a daily basis. At the United Nations and other international venues, Chinese authorities never overlook an opp…
Digital Fireside Series: The Ripple Effect of Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs
Sourabh Gupta, Head of Trade 'n Technology Program, Institute for China-America Studies Patrick Leblond, Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa Enrique Dussel Peters Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Randall Morck Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance, University of Alberta's Alberta School of Business Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research Georgy Egorov James Farley/Booz, Allen & Hamilton Research Professor Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Director, Ford Center James Harrigan Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC
April 2, President Trump announced a fresh round of tariffs aimed atreshaping international trade relationships, particularly with North American partners. This policy move, framed as a response to what the administration perceives as unfair practices, has introduced new tension into an already complex economic environ…
Parental Dictates: Marriage Sorting and Social Mobility in Imperial China, 1614-1854
Dr. Xizi Luo (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Research and Economic History Society University of Oxford) Xizi Luo is a scholar of economic history with broad interests in institutions, inequality, culture and ideas, political economy, and development economics. She earned her PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics in August 2024. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and Economic History Society, based at the University of Oxford (2024–2025). Her doctoral dissertation explored the interaction between social mobility and institutions in shaping inequality in premodern Chinese society. Her current research investigates the long-term political and economic impact of Wang Yangming’s philosophy, contributing to interdisciplinary debates on the role of ideas in institutional and developmental trajectories.
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
This study explores marriage dynamics in Qing-era China (1614-1854) using a unique nationwide dataset derived from civil examination records. The findings indicate an increase in female bargaining power and a pattern of women ”marrying up” due to an unbalanced sex ratio driven by son preference, discouraged remarriage,…
A Micro-Demographic Analysis of Fertility from Chinese Genealogies
Professor Sijie Hu (Assistant Professor, School of Economics at Renmin University of China) Sijie Hu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University of China. She holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on Chinese historical demography and economic history, with an emphasis on understanding micro-demographic dynamics in traditional China using large-scale individual-level data. She was awarded the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for the best article in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (2023), won First Prize for Best Research Paper at the 7th International Symposium on Quantitative History, and was a finalist for the Best Dissertation Award at the 19th World Economic History Congress. As Principal Investigator, she has received a Youth Scholar Grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
The increasing availability of historical microdata offers new opportunities to explore demographic patterns in the past. This research uses genealogical records of 23,449 males and their spouses from six Chinese lineages spanning 1300–1920 to examine the intergenerational transmission of fertility and human capital. T…
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China
Professor Micah S. Muscolino (University of California, San Diego) Micah S. Muscolino is professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California San Diego. His publications include The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938—1950.
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People explores how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and how the comm…
Joker: The Flip Side of Ancient Chinese Cosmology and Science in Hecun
Nie Youping (PhD candidate in Anthropology at CUHK) Nie Youping is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at CUHK. My research interests include landscape, cosmology, state governance, and rural China. My dissertation, A Geography of Uncertainty: Weather, Technology, and Cosmology in South-central China, explores the entanglement of state technocratic projects and local cosmology, i.e., local spiritual beliefs, in understanding and acting upon the concept of “uncertainty” associated with weather patterns in a Chinese village. This village is situated in the Dongting Lake basin, a region prone to extreme climate fluctuations between drought and flooding.
April 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
Drawing on 16 months of fieldwork and historical material on Fu (符) rituals, this talk explores the distinctions between Fu activities and other local sacrificial practices that involve approaching spiritual powers with offerings, beseeching or begging for assistance. I pseudonymize my field village located in south-ce…
大学沙龙第230期:王笛—— 美国与五四运动
主讲人:王笛。澳门大学历史系讲席教授,美国约翰斯霍普金斯大学历史学博士。曾任美国得克萨斯A&M大学历史系教授。 研究领域包括中国社会史、城市史、新文化史、日常生活史和微观史。学术代表作有《袍哥》《茶馆》《街头文化》等。 《中国记事1912—1928》为其最新历史非虚构作品。 曾两度荣获美国城市史学会(UHA)最佳著作奖,并获得多项文学奖。 与谈人:徐国琦。香港大学张学艺中国史讲席教授和香港大学跨国史研究院创院院长。 长期致力于跨国史与共有历史研究。 主要著作包括《中国与大战》《 奥林匹克之梦:中国与体育 》《美国外交政策史 》《 边缘人偶记 》等多部中英文作品。 主持人兼与谈人:张济顺。华东师范大学思勉人文高等研究院研究员、历史学教授。 美国哈佛大学费正清中心访问学者。 主要研究领域为中国当代史、上海史。出版著作《中国知识分子的美国观,1943-1953》 《远去的都市:1950年代的上海》。
April 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
本讲座将围绕王笛教授新著《中国记事1912–1928》第十六章的核心内容展开。 五四运动爆发于1919年巴黎和会中国外交受挫之际,美国媒体敏锐捕捉到这一事件的深远意义,并持续关注中国民众的觉醒。 时任美国驻华公使芮恩施、哲学家杜威等人皆充分意识到其长远影响 ,认为运动不仅是政治抗争, 更开启了思想启蒙的新篇章 。 日本指控美国煽动学生运动,芮恩施予以否认。尽管美国民间团体积极声援中国,政府却保持谨慎态度,折射出美国在“道义支持”与“地缘利益”间的摇摆。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
20th Anniversary Symposium Invite | India China Institute
Multiple speakers
April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC
The India China Institute (ICI) will mark the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2004-2005 with a convening of panels featuring leading thinkers and experts on India, China, and the United States. The purpose of this symposium is to reflect on the current moment of domestic and international transformations in each co…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Inter-Regional Panel Discussions: Early 20th century history of Manchuria
Jungsun Kim: a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Purdue University. Her research focuses on Korean churches and missionaries in early 20th-century Manchuria, examining how Christianity shaped identity, mobility, and resistance under colonial rule. She has led multidisciplinary, grant-funded projects on religiosity, intercultural development, and transnational history. Drawing from history, religious studies, and education, her work highlights the role of faith-based networks in shaping inter-Asian connections and sheds light on the cultural dynamics of empire in East Asia. Karli Shimizu: An affiliated researcher at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication of Hokkaido University, Japan. Recent publications include “The Legacy of Shinto Shrines at the Borders of Imperial Japan” in Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific (2023, Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, eds.) and the monograph Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire (2022). Her research interests lie in the legacy of Shrine shrines located outside of Japan and the construction of colonial and postcolonial secularisms. Ziyi Zhang: Born in Beijing, China, and is currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program at the University of Tokyo, specializing in the history of the relationship between religions and state in modern Japan. My research focuses particularly on how state and individual relationships are expressed through "Shinto rituals." I am specifically interested in the process of formulating the shrine system and the institutional connections between overseas and Japanese shrines.
April 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
Join us for an engaging webinar exploring the intersections of religion, state power, and missionary activity in the early 20th century history of Manchuria. This webinar brings together three papers that explore the contested history of Manchuria in the early twentieth century from Korean, Japanese, and Chinese perspe…
Volkswagen and China’s Early Reform Era, 1978-1991
Professor Chen Tao (Tongji University) Chen Tao is Associate Professor of German Studies at Tongji University, Shanghai. He received a PhD in history in 2014 and was visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Institute für Zeitgeschichte Berlin, Potsdamer Zentrum für Forschung der Zeitgeschichte, Universität Göttingen, and National Chengchi University at Taipei. Chen is the author of two books and the co-editor of Economic Alliance, Economic Split (Routledge, 2025). Chen’s research appeared in Journal of Contemporary History, Cold War History, European Review of History, The International History Review, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, and The China Review, etc. His current research focuses on Chinese and East Asian Business History as well as Sino-German/European relations since 1945.
April 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
“VW’s destiny will be shaped by the Chinese market,” predicted Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group, in early 2019 amidst escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West. As the largest automobile company in Europe, VW has implemented a series of measures and initiatives to…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series - Seminar Presentation Lunar Cycles and Policy Impact: Insights into China's Capital and Corporate Landscape
Qianqiu Liu 刘千秋:Shidler College Distinguished Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He specializes in empirical asset pricing, financial econometrics, international finance, market microstructure, and personal financial planning. Dr. Liu has been published in leading finance journals, including Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Empirical Finance, among others. He earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Yifan Chen 陈逸凡:Assistant Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her primary research interest is in the area of real estate finance and economics. Her work has been published in Real Estate Economics, Journal of Regional Science and Economic modelling. She was awarded the Trepp CRE Future Leader Award. Dr. Chen earned her Ph.D. in Finance and Real Estate from the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. Wei (Victor) Huang 黄巍:Professor of Finance at the Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing, investment management, international finance, Chinese financial markets and corporate governance. Dr. Huang's work has been published in leading finance journals, including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Georgia Institute of Technology.
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
This webinar explores two key dimensions of China’s capital markets and corporate governance, offering fresh insights into the influence of cultural, behavioral, and regulatory factors on market dynamics. Dr. Liu investigates the January effect in China’s A-share market, revealing a striking anomaly that aligns with th…
Borders of Identities: Second Generation, Multiculturalism, and Geopolitics in Taiwan
Pei-Chia Lan
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
The influx of marriage migrants and their children of mixed heritages has transformed the ethnic landscape and multicultural policies in East Asia. In Taiwan, the evolving policy regime—what Lan terms “geopolitical multiculturalism”—has linked Southeast Asian immigrants and their children to geopolitical interests and…
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China (book talk)
Shitong Qiao is a professor of law and the Ken Young-Gak Yun and Jinah Park Yun Research Scholar at Duke University. He previously taught property and comparative law at the University of Hong Kong and New York University and was a law and public affairs fellow at Princeton University. Professor Qiao employs mixed methods to explore the relationship between political power, law, and private ordering. He has published numerous articles in top Chinese and US law journals and a prize-winning book about law and marketization, Chinese Small Property: The Co-Evolution of Law and Social Norms (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
April 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM UTC
Since the Chinese government carried out full-scale privatization of the urban housing market nearly three decades ago, private home ownership in cities has soared and tens of millions of home-owning Chinese have joined home ownership associations. In his new book, The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratizatio…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Scholarly Dialogue: Transparency and Projection in Medieval Buddhist Sculpture
Kate A. Lingley: Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, with a particular interest in the social history of religious art in medieval China. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the lives of Buddhist women in medieval China, as seen through the votive monuments they dedicated, and an edited collection on the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in early Buddhism across Asia. Michael Norton: PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He earned his MA from Tsinghua University (2019), where he studied Chinese Buddhist art and archaeology of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. He received his BA in Chinese Language and Asian Studies with a minor in Art History from Vassar College (2014). His research addresses Buddhist cosmological imagery, ecological themes in sculpture and painting, and visual depictions of sound and acoustic motifs.
April 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
The early phases of Buddhist art in China are characterized by a process of appropriation and experimentation. The earliest artists hewed closely to models of Buddhist imagemaking imported from Gandhara and Mathura and from Central Asia. As Buddhism took root in China, artists began to explore the possibilities of visu…
Deconstructing “Clan Cemeteries”: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections on Late Shang Mortuary Archaeology
Yuwei Zhou (PhD Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
April 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
Initially excavated in 1928 as China’s first archaeological investigation, the Bronze Age settlement of Anyang in Henan province remains one of the most significant discoveries in Chinese archaeology. In 1979, a report on the Western Locus cemetery established an influential paradigm for late Shang mortuary studies: to…
The Apple in my eyes: Chinese leaders’ key phrases defining Sino-Russian Relations (1991-present)
Ziheng Wang (PhD candidate in History at Queens University at Belfast)
April 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM UTC
The preseatation is about an analysis of the evolution of Sino-Russian relations through political discourse. Diplomatic language is a powerful tool, and by examining key phrases used by China’s leadership over the past three decades, we can gain deeper insights into China’s evolving strategy toward Russia. The preseat…
Taiwan Legal: What Does ROC Law Say about Taiwan?
Yu-Jie Chen
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM UTC
Taiwan’s status as a state is often challenged not because it fails to meet the criteria for statehood, but because of its ambiguous legal relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). We continue our “Taiwan Legal” speaker series by asking how Taiwan, functioning as the Republic of China (ROC), defines its r…
Is Wealth Management Localized: A China Comparison 財富管理是否存在地域性: 中國為案例
Ms Siyan Chen 陳思言女士 (Founder, Promise Family Office) Ms. Siyan Chen is an outstanding elite in the insurance industry and the philanthropic sector. She has a rich educational background, having graduated from Kennesaw State University, Georgia State University, and Sichuan University. She is also an alumnus of the CKGSB and HKU, and is currently pursuing an EMBA degree at the National University of Singapore.In July 2009, Ms. Chen moved from the United States to Hong Kong. Transitioning from a registered nurse in cardiology, she joined Prudential Insurance at the end of December 2012. With her exceptional business acumen and management skills, she has made a remarkable impact in the insurance industry, becoming a legendary figure in Hong Kong's insurance sector. She currently serves as the Regional Director of Prudential, leading a team of over a hundred members.In 2017, Ms. Chen founded the Promise Charity Foundation, which serves grassroots residents in Sham Shui Po and has benefited over 10,000 individuals. In 2018, she established the Promise Family Office, providing comprehensive wealth management and lifestyle concierge services to nearly a thousand high-net-worth clients. In 2023, she founded Promise Education Consulting Co., Ltd., offering education and study abroad planning services for mid-to-high-end clients.
April 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC
Many Chinese families have prospered since the country’s economic reform 40 years ago, and many of them are now thinking about how to maintain and transfer their wealth. Wealth management is not merely an investment decision; it is a comprehensive financial service solution and a systematic process. Its aim is to assis…
Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2024-25) - Louis Chan and His Hong Kong Kaleidoscope
Professor Kuiyi Shen, University of California, San Diego
April 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
This talk will examine Luis Chan (Chen Fushan; 1905 – 1995), a Hong Kong artist renowned for his unique artistic vision. It was he who had the most profound contemporary consciousness among Hong Kong artists at the time. Over the course of his career, he worked in various realms of painting and also devoted himself to…
大学沙龙第229期:松平德仁——一个法学者从战后日本看现在的大小两岸
主讲人:松平德仁。神奈川大学法学部教授。东京大学法学部毕业、大学院法学政治学研究科博士课程华盛顿大学亚洲法・比较法硕士。著有《宪法の尊厳》《帝国日本と植民地大学》《植民地主义と立宪主义の龃龉と共振》等图书,《国家像をめぐる法廷斗争》《権力者の自己言及》《立宪民主政の心技体》等学术论文。 评议人:林泉忠。日本东京大学法学博士,历任中研院近史所副研究员、琉球大学国际关系学系准教授,哈佛大学费正清东亚研究中心傅尔布莱特学者,武汉大学国际问题研究院教授、东京大学东洋文化研究所特任研究员、《明报》主笔等。主要研究领域为东亚国际关系及身份认同,侧重两岸三地关系、中日台关系、琉球研究、东海南海研究等。 主持人:吴蔚。国立政治大学历史学系博士生,研究方向包括民族主义、集体受害者叙事与共同体建构等思想史议题。北京大学考古文博学院文物修复专业学士;美国罗杰·威廉斯大学建筑学院硕士。
March 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
本次沙龙讲座,松平德仁教授将从战后日本宪法学的视角,分析大陆与台湾之间的历史与现状(亦即大小两岸)的复杂交互影响。将深入解析宪法原理如何在国际与国内的历史背景下反映社会矛盾,并批判性地检视自由民主宪法与当代地缘政治的冲突。讲座亦涵盖美中对立、台海问题、战后日本角色等多层议题,探讨其对亚洲乃至全球秩序的意涵,但不会评论両岸内部事务。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
"The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: The Global Limits of Capitalism"
Teemu Ruskola, University of Pennsylvania
March 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM UTC
This talk draws on a book project by the same title. It seeks to offer a structural account of the remarkable political and economic transformation of the Chinese working class since 1949. My title is a deliberate reference to E.P. Thompson’s classic Making of the English Working Class. The English working class consti…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series: Islam in China: Religion, Mobility, and State Power
Ruslan Yusupov: A sociocultural anthropologist interested in understanding how Muslim communities find a place for themselves and their Islam in Chinese modernity. Ruslan is currently completing his first book manuscript project which is tentatively title “Rectifying Multiculturalism: Islam, Development and Securitization in Contemporary China” and which explores how the securitizing measures today other and racialize the past development, progress and modernization of Sinophone Muslims. Ruslan obtained his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and he is currently based at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard. Yuting Wang: Professor of Sociology at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research focuses on Islam and Muslims in China, the Chinese diaspora in the Arab Gulf, and China’s soft power in the MENA region. She has published extensively, including two monographs: Between Islam and the American Dream: An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America (Routledge, 2014) and Chinese in Dubai: Money, Pride, and Soul-Searching (Brill, 2020). Susan McCarthy: Professor of political science at Providence College in Rhode Island. Her research examines the politics of ethnicity and religion in China. Among the questions animating her work is how minority ethnic and religious groups seize opportunities created by CCP policies to pursue cultural and religious objectives, often in ways that support regime goals. She is the author of Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China (2009), along with articles and book chapters on these topics.
March 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
This webinar explores the evolving landscape of Islam in China, examining how Chinese Muslims navigate state policies, economic transformations, and transnational connections. Three scholars will present their research on distinct yet interconnected aspects of this dynamic religious sphere. Yuting Wang delves into the…
God, Whale, and Steamship: Western Missionary Almanacs in Late Qing China
Professor Yuanchong Wang (University of Delaware) Yuanchong Wang is an associate professor specializing in late imperial and modern China and East Asia in the Department of History at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Remaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911 (Cornell University Press, 2018) and the Chinese-language book Zhong Mei Xiangyu: Daguo waijiao yu Wanqing xingshuai, 1784–1911 (“The Meeting of China and the United States: Power Diplomacy and the Rise and Fall of Late Qing”; Wenhui chubanshe, 2021). He is currently working on a book manuscript exploring state building in modern China, alongside several other research projects on late imperial China and East Asia. Since July 2024 he has been serving as editor-in-chief of The Chinese Historical Review.
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
As European East India companies and American merchants engaged in a growing volume of business in Guangzhou (Canton) in the early nineteenth century before the First Opium War, many European and American missionaries arrived in Macau, which had been leased and de facto colonized by the Portuguese since 1557, where the…
大学沙龙第228期:吴思——中国市场和产权的构造与逻辑
主讲人: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。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》《顶残:中国市场和产权的构造及逻辑》《我想重新解释历史》等书。 评议人:洪朝辉。美国纽约福坦莫大学(Fordham University)经济史终身教授。主要研究领域侧重经济史和经济思想史,代表性专著有: The Price of China's Economic Development; Introduction to Propriety Economics; Exploring China's Religious Sites: Digital and Spatial Insights;《适度经济学导论》等。 主持人:陶然。现任香港中文大学(深圳)人文社科学院校长讲座教授,发展与治理学科部主任,发展与治理研究院院长,研究专注于中国经济转型与发展的多个相关领域。
March 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
从古到今,中国市场和产权的构造形同玛雅金字塔,呈品级结构。面对来自上层权力的侵犯,所有市场和经济主体都缺乏抵御能力和救济手段,这种特征可谓“顶残”。追溯品级市场和产权的历史演化,可以提炼出各种制度的建构逻辑。这些逻辑最后归结为“一个公式三个定律”:品级利权建构公式和官控经济三定律。遵循这套逻辑主导品级市场和产权制度建构的官家集团,其内部利益结构,好比俄罗斯套娃,套娃之变与市场和产权结构之变互动。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
The Counterparty to Chinese Business: The Upper Yangtze Steam Navigation Scheme and the Opening of Chungking
Dr. Zigui Li (Sun Yat-sen University) Zigui Li is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of History at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou. With a Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Dr. Li’s dissertation focused on the historical significance of the North-China Herald newspaper company from 1850 to 1900. Research interests include the mechanisms of Sino-foreign information exchange and the societal transformations associated with it, particularly through the lens of printing, publishing, and the newspaper industry in late imperial China. Contributions to peer-reviewed journals encompass analyses of news distribution systems in late Qing Shanghai and the influence of foreign companies on Sino-British diplomacy and public discourse. Dr. Li has received several competitive grants, including the National Social Science Fund of China’s Young Scholar Project. Dr. Li engages with diverse historical sources, especially English manuscripts in the 19th century.
March 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
The treaty port system has undergone continuous expansion since the Opium War, with an increase in the number of treaty ports and a gradual extension of their geographical locations from the south-eastern coast to the western inland regions. In 1888, a British merchant secured funding of the Upper Yangtze steam navigat…
Hostile Takeovers and Economic Growth in Japan
Bruce Aronson is senior advisor to the Japan Center of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. He has been a tenured professor of law at universities in the United States (Creighton University) and Japan (Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo). Before beginning his academic career, he was a corporate partner at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York. He also served as an independent director at Eisai Co., Ltd., a listed Japanese pharmaceutical company. Professor Aronson twice received Fulbright grants to be a senior research scholar at the University of Tokyo and at Waseda University, and was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan. His main area of research is comparative corporate governance with a focus on Japan and Asia. Publications include a textbook, Corporate Governance in Asia: A Comparative Approach (with J. Kim, Cambridge University Press, 2019). His recent publication Designing a New Framework to Regulate Hostile Takeovers in a Changing Japan is available here. Andrew McDermott is the founder and president of Mission Value Partners, which manages a global equity portfolio that is currently 100% invested in Japan. His journey in finance began after he graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history and worked at NEC Logistics in Tokyo. In 1994 he joined JPMorgan, where he engaged with a wide array of financial services from infrastructure finance in China to tech IPOs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. He founded Mission Value Partners in 2010.
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Japan's regulatory system for hostile takeovers remains incomplete, complicated, and uncertain. As the government seeks to reignite economic growth and attract foreign investment, there is new urgency to promote best market practices and reform the system for adjudicating hostile takeover bids. Bruce Aronson, an adjunc…
Cold War, China, and the Future of the Dollar Hegemony
Ho-fung Hung
March 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC
Since Nixon ended the USD's gold convertibility in 1971, predictions of the imminent fall of USD hegemony in the global economy have persisted. These predictions peaked in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and again when U.S. sanctions on Russia intensified Russia and China's calls for de-dollarization.…
Allied Victory: Western Aviators and the WWII Battlefields of China
Melinda Liu - Beijing-based journalist and daughter of Tung-Sheng Liu, an Honorary Doolittle Raider Alan Babington-Smith - founder of the Royal Asiatic Society Beijing (RASBJ) Mei Zhang - founder of WildChina
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in the Pacific Theater, WildChina and Royal Asiatic Society Beijing invite you to a special webinar that brings to life the extraordinary stories of courage, sacrifice, and partnership between Chinese people and Western aviators. History comes alive wh…
Sun Yat-sen Cetennial Death Anniversary Symposium
Xiaowei ZHENG, Associate Professor, History department, UC Santa Barbara (In-person) John ROSA, Associate Professor of History, University of Hawaii (In-person) Lorenz GONSCHOR, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Affairs, University of the South Pacific (Online) 罗敏 Min LUO, Professor, Department of History, Peking University (Online) 张金超 Jinchao ZHANG, Deputy Director, Institute of History, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences (Online)
March 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM UTC
Before Dr. Sun Yan-sen changed China, Hawai‘i changed him. Join us for a special event commemorating the centennial of Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s passing, as we explore the profound influence of Hawai‘i on his revolutionary vision and its pivotal role in shaping modern China. Through engaging discussions and historical insights…
Protecting Human Rights in Supply Chains
Noor Hamadeh is advocacy counsel at the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) where she focuses on advancing US legal safeguards against corporate abuse in United States supply chains, including through strengthening existing forced labor and human rights enforcement mechanisms and advocating for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation. Prior to joining ICAR, Noor founded and headed the Human Rights & Business Unit at the Syrian Legal Development Programme. She was also a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, where she contributed to policy advocacy around business and human rights in the Middle East. Hideaki Roy Umetsu is managing partner of the New York office of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. He specializes in cross-border M&A and investment and has extensive experience in advising Japanese companies about business and human rights issues. He has advised a number of Japanese clients on establishing appropriate global compliance programs and conducing or assisting internal investigations and implementing preventive measures. Kazuko Ito is founder and vice president of Human Rights Now, president of Human Rights Now New York, and an attorney at law. She serves as chair of the Gender Equality Committee of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and is a board member of the Gender Law Society and International Human Rights Law Society in Japan. Ms. Ito has written numerous books and articles on human rights issues, including “Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice Reform in Japan” in the University of Cincinnati Law Review and a chapter in the book “The Global Me Too Movement: How Social Media Propelled a Historic Movement and How the Law Responded” (2020). She has an LL.B from Waseda University and is currently a doctoral researcher there. Ms. Ito was a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law in 2005. Akiko Sato is a Japanese lawyer and business and human rights specialist currently based in Bangkok. She is a member of the steering committee of the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Network Japan and the Business and Human Rights Working Group of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and has participated in projects of the UNDP and Human Rights Now. She holds an MA in development studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a JD from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.
March 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
The promulgation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 helped focus attention on the need for companies to develop responsible and sustainable approaches to business activities, including their distant supply chains. More than a decade later, severe human rights violations such as forced lab…
Rediscovering Ni Kwei Tseng and the Rise of the 'Soong Dynasty' in the Republican Era
Dr. Annie Hongping Nie (Faith and Global Engagement Research Fellow) Before becoming Faith and Global Engagement Research Fellow, Dr. Annie Hongping Nie was Teaching Associate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Research Associate at the University of Oxford China Centre, and China Head at Oxford Analytica, an Oxford-based consulting firm. She also served as Chair of Examiners at the Joint Programme of the MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies and the MPhil in Modern China Studies operated by the Oxford School of Global and Areas Studies and the Faculty of Africa and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She has been a core member of the Leverhulme programme of the Persistence of Conflict: China’s War with Japan and Its Impact, Memory, and Legacy: 1931 to the Present, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. She is the author of the award-winning book The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty (Bodleian Library, 2019). Dr Nie’s current research focuses on the history of Christianity in China, especially the role of Christian women and their contribution to modern Chinese society.
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM UTC
Even though her husband, son, and daughters as well as their husbands were significant personalities in Chinese modern history and heroines of many academic and popular books, she hardly received any attention. The wife of Charlie Soong, mother of T.V. Soong, the ‘Soong Sisters’, and mother-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, Chian…
Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Early “Reform and Opening” in China (1978-1989): A Transnational History of Intellectual Exchanges
Felix Wemheuer
March 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM UTC
Following Mao Zedong's passing, Chinese policymakers and economists embarked on intense debates regarding the overhaul of the country’s centralized planned economy. Past experiments with decentralization and the rural household responsibility system were influential, yet Eastern Europe's economic reforms served as sign…
Prof. Chang Chuen Memorial Public Lecture Series (2024-25) - The Invention of Zhang Baozai (張保仔), the Pirate
Prof. Robert Antony
March 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
Undoubtedly Zhang Baozai 張保仔 is the most famous, or notorious, Cantonese pirate in Chinese history. Everyone in Hong Kong and Macau seems to know some story about him. But for all that has been written and said about him, the fact is we know very little about the real Zhang Baozai. What we know for sure is that he was…
Cultivating diversity at the onset of agriculture: insights from the Yangtze valley in the 10th millennium BP
Dr. Ting An (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Zhejiang University)
March 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
The Middle and Lower Yangtze valley is recognized as the earliest centre of rice agriculture. Rice cultivation, alongside the utilization of various starchy plants, has persisted over millennia since the early Neolithic. While previous discussions have extensively explored the use of nuts, tubers, and large-grain grass…
大学沙龙第227期:傅国涌——二十世纪中国的转型曲线:以商务印书馆和大公报为例
主讲人:傅国涌。独立历史学者,生于1967年,主要关注近代以来的中国转型,特别是言论史、企业史、教育史、知识分子的命运史,已出版的主要著作有《1949年:中国知识分子的私人记录》《百年辛亥:亲历者的私人记录》《金庸传》《叶公超传》《百年寻梦》《追寻失去的传统》《笔底波澜:百年中国言论简史》《文人的底气》《大商人:影响近代中国的实业家们》《民国商人:追寻中国工商业的传统》《新学记:中国现代教育起源八讲》《一报一馆一大学》等,编有《过去的中学》《过去的小学》《林昭之死》《追寻律师的传统》等。 评议人:谢泳。1961年出生,山西榆次人,1983年山西晋中师专英语科毕业。曾在山西省作协工作,2007年调厦门大学人文学院任教,已退休。主要研究方向为中国现代知识分子问题及中国现代文学史,著有《储安平与<观察>》《西南联大与中国现代知识分子》《中国现代文学史研究法》等书。 主持人:张立宪。又称“老六”,生于1969年,1991年毕业于中国人民大学新闻学院。《读库》创始人、主编。出版有个人作品《闪开让我歌唱八十年代》。
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC
自十九世纪以来,中国开始艰难的转型,以商务印书馆代表的出版业、以大公报代表的新闻业都是古老帝国的崭新事业,在从帝国转向民国、进而被党国架空的过程中,从事出版、新闻事业的个体做了最大限度的努力。重建他们再造文明的史实,讲清楚近世以来中国转型的曲线,不仅仅是回望历史,今天依然处于历史的过程中。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
"Niche Tanks and Coastal Sprawl: Species, Technology, and Economics of Shrimp Aquaculture in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand"
Lijing Jiang, Johns Hopkins University
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM UTC
In recent years, large coastal shrimp farms in Southeast Asia, once celebrated symbols for the Blue Revolution, have become a stand-in culprit for massive mangrove destruction and coastal pollution. Media reports have frequently blamed a large scale or the associated intensive aquaculture technology for causing environ…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series - Panel Discussion: Water, Land, and Crops: Agricultures in China's Core and Peripheries (17th - 20th centuries)
王悠 Wáng Yōu: Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Her current book project, Collaboration amidst Conflict: Rural Communities and the Making of a Sustainable Waterscape in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1500-1850, examines everyday human-environment interactions in China’s economic and cultural center through hydraulic institutions, agricultural knowledge production, and gendered labor regimes. She will begin her new role as Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Georgetown University this August. 彭依芸 Yiyun Peng: Assistant professor of History and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. She works on the history of science and technology, environmental history, and economic history in late imperial and modern China. Her current book project, A Herbaceous Revolution: How Crop-Based Handicraft Industries Transformed Upland Southeast China, 1500-1970, explores how the production of crop-based commodities—indigo dye, ramie (fiber plant) cloth, tobacco, and bamboo paper—in upland Southeast China sparked a prolonged transformation of the region’s environment, economy, and society. 高原 Yuan Gao: A postdoc associate at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale and the incoming Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Case Western Reserve University. She is an environmental historian of northwestern China and Central Eurasia. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Tigers and Locusts: State Governance and Environmental Changes in Qing China's Arid Land, which studies the social and environmental history of rural societies in late Qing Xinjiang.
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
Rather than a monolithic system, agriculture encompassed diverse practices, infrastructures, and local adaptations across its vast and varied landscapes. Through the interplay between water, land, and crops, this webinar panel examines agricultural production in China’s core and peripheries, as well as the underlying e…
大学沙龙第226期:高旭东——中国发展新阶段的创新与创业
主讲人:高旭东。清华大学经管学院教授,清华大学技术创新研究中心副主任,工业和信息化部信息通信经济专家委员会委员。毕业于哈工大、人民大学、MIT。研究方向为公司战略、技术战略、技术能力培养。所著《中国经济发展的新阶段》(2022,清华大学出版社)一书探讨了经济发展新阶段的重大理论问题和实践问题,包括科技自立自强、经济政策选择、企业战略选择等。研究发表 Research Policy,Telecommunications Policy等杂志。 评议人:柳卸林。中国科学院大学和上海科学技术大学二级教授,《科学学与科学技术管理》杂志主编。国家教育部科技进步一等奖、首届中国技术经济学会杰出贡献奖。在Research Policy, Technovation, Journal of Management Studies, 《经济研究》《管理世界》发表论文180篇。英文著作7部,中文著作和报告40部。主编出版《中国区域创新能力评价报告》。 评议人:王砚波。香港大学商学院战略学副教授,麻省理工管理学博士。研究领域为技术创新与创业。他于中国创新的研究发表在 Science, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science等国际杂志。香港大学战略与管理领域博士项目主任同时为Organization Science杂志资深编委。 主持人:张一梅。哈佛大学访问学者,华北电力大学环境科学与工程学院教授。全国巾帼建功标兵、教育部科技进步奖二等奖。研究方向为CO2封存和利用、环境修复、企业创新与ESG可持续发展战略优化。研究发表在Energy, Waste Management,Resources, Conservation and Recycling。
February 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM UTC
中国发展新阶段的创新与创业 中国经济发展已经进入一个全新的发展阶段,其主要特征是以创新为基础的创业正在进入一个新的阶段,新一代创业者正在迅速崛起。这对今后中国经济发展和世界经济发展具有重要影响。我们将分析世界领先的创新是如何产生的,新一代企业家是如何成长的,以及中国经济的未来走向。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
大学沙龙第225期:归泳涛——大国竞争时代的中美日关系
主讲人: 归泳涛。北京大学国际关系学院副院长、国际战略研究院副院长,长聘副教授。北京大学、早稻田大学联合培养国际关系博士,主要研究领域为东亚国际关系。近年发表多篇论文,著有《 美日经济安全同盟:构建“集体韧性”体系 》《中美日关系:变局与逻辑》《经济方略、经济安全政策与美日对华战略新动向 》等。 评议人: 张望。日本早稻田大学国际学术院国际教养学部准教授,早稻田大学国际关系学博士。《Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies》编委。香港《明报》「日本内望」专栏作家。 研究领域涵盖中日关系、日本外交与安全、国际关系理论。主要著作有《「政治生存」与日本对华关系中的靖国神社问题》《军国主义复活了吗?解读中日关系和日本安全》。 主持人: 李汉松。任教于美利坚大学国际服务学院,兼任哈佛大学国际事务中心和南亚所研究员,关注政治哲学与思想史、国际关系与国际法。
February 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
随着2009年以来中美关系恶化,竞争取代合作成为亚太地区大国关系主调。在此过程中, 中美日三边关系呈现复杂变化趋势。 日本与美国虽是盟国,却担忧对方在外交上与中国接近,导致自身被排斥或被抛弃。日本尤其对中美一度达成的构筑“新型大国关系”的共识感到不安。 当中日之间发生争端时,美国一方面给予日本支持,另一方面不愿被卷入中日冲突,并试图敦促中日两国平息纷争。当美国全面推进针对中国的竞争战略时,日本一方面积极配合美国制衡中国,另一方面担心美国单边主义和保护主义政策造成的损害,试图维持与中国的稳定关系。本报告聚焦2009年以来中美日三边关系的演变过程,分析美日两国对华政策的差异及其背后的逻辑。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频道收看讲座。
Pro Bono as Political Control: Public Legal Services in China
Hualing Fu
February 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM UTC
China’s legal service sector is growing rapidly, including not only commercial law offices but publicly funded legal aid and innovative free legal advice platforms. At the same time, the regime has largely suppressed the country’s human rights lawyers. What is going on? Hualing Fu, dean of the law faculty at the Univer…
Martin Kern, "Material History: Ancient Manuscripts and the Rewriting of the Ancient Chinese Past", Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture
Professor Martin Kern (Asian Studies, Princeton University)
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Over the past fifty years, an ever-increasing number of ancient Chinese manuscripts on bamboo, wood and (rarely) silk have been discovered. Found in waterlogged tombs and wells in south central China as well as in above-ground ruins in the arid Central Asian northwest, these manuscripts date from the fourth century BCE…
China’s Strategy in Global Power Transitions: Challenges in a Turbulent World
Klaus Larres, Distinguished Professor of History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the U.S. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Director of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, Latvia Qiang Liu, Secretary-General of Global Forum on Energy Security, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the P.R.C. Dmytro Yefremov, Board Member, Ukrainian Association of Sinologists, Ukraine Moderator: Host and co-founder of the Sinica Podcast
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
As global power dynamics shift, China faces growing uncertainties in navigating its strategic position. This discussion will explore the risks posed by a potential second Trump presidency on smaller states caught between U.S.-China tensions, the evolving impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Beijing’s key partnerships,…
Book Talk: Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010
Panelists Include Branko Milanovic, Research Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York; Anupama Rao, Professor of History and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and South African Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; Carl Riskin, Professor Emeritus at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Mark Frazier, ICI Co-Director and Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, will moderate the panel.
February 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
Join us for a panel discussion of Vamsi Vakulabharanam’s book, Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010, published in 2024 with Oxford University Press as part of its India-China series. China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed 50% of the worl…
Taiwan Legal: What does the United Nations say about Taiwan?
Jacques deLisle
February 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM UTC
We continue our “Taiwan Legal” speaker series by examining the United Nations’ position on the legal status of Taiwan. In 1971, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 2758 declaring that the “representatives of the Government of the People’s Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the Unite…
A preliminary study of the early life history of the ancestors in the Zhengzhou area during the late Yangshao culture from the perspective of stable isotopes
Dr. Shuai Lei (Postdoctoral Fellow, Fudan University)
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM UTC
After the agricultural revolution, a unique pattern of human life history was established, and the early childhood life history is biologically and culturally important as the most crucial part of an individual's life history. The unique cultural and biological attributes of the Central Plains populations, which were d…
What the US-China Trade War Means for Partners in Asia
Christina L. Davis is the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics in the Department of Government and director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. During the 2024-25 academic year she is on leave at Oxford University (affiliated to Queen's College) as the Centenary Visiting Professor in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Her research interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the study of international organizations, with a focus on trade policy. She is the author of Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations (Princeton University Press, 2023), Food Fights Over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization (Princeton University Press 2003), and Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012, winner of the international law best book award of the International Studies Association, Ohira Memorial Prize, and co-winner of Chadwick Alger Prize). Professor Davis holds an AB in East Asian studies and Ph.D. in political science, both from Harvard. Pasha Hsieh is professor of law at Singapore Management University and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in EU-ASEAN Law and Relations. His teaching and research focus on international economic law, public international law, EU-ASEAN law, and Asian legal studies. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, he is the author of New Asian Regionalism in International Economic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and co-editor of ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms (Cambridge University Press 2019). Professor Hsieh holds an LL.B from National Chengchi University in Taiwan and LL.M and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. in political science is from the Free University of Brussels. He began his career as an attorney in a New York law firm and has served as a legal affairs officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat.
February 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, the trade war that he began has not only continued under President Biden but accelerated. The complexity of US export, import, investment, and sanctions regimes, each with distinct but overlapping rules, is not only hard for American companies to follow but increasingly relie…
Unbounded by East or West—My Art and Design Journey – A Book Talk by Dazhou Wang
Dazhou Wang, Honorary President and Professor, School of Design, East China Normal University
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM UTC
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. Registering will generate an email with a QR code which must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either 116 Street & Broadway or 116 Street & Ams…
Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century
Dr. Fletcher Coleman, Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, The University of Texas at Arlington; Dr. Yukio Lippit, Chambers and Okamura Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Dr. Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Ann Phong, Professor of Painting, CalPoly-Pomona; Louie Palu, conflict photojournalist and documentarian
February 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM UTC
Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century For information on the exhibition and events, visit https://solaceinpainting.com/ The Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington, Feb. 3-March 29, 2025 UNO Gallery, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Sept. 2-Oct. 31, 2025 Contemporary art discourse is often dri…
CCS Spring 2025 Webinar Series - Panel Discussion: Culinary History of China
Jin Feng 冯进: Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. She has published five English monographs: The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2004), The Making of a Family Saga (2009), Romancing the Internet (2013), Tasting Paradise on Earth (2019), and The Transpacific Flow (2024); three Chinese books such as A Book for Foodies 吃货之书 (2020); and numerous articles in English and Chinese. Thomas DuBois: A historian of modern China and professor at Beijing Normal University. After two decades (and three books) on the topic of religion, he decided to study China’s food systems, a topic which has taken him from cattle ranches to cooking school. His new book, China in Seven Banquets: A Flavourful History was published by Reaktion books in 2024 and is set for release in Chinese and Japanese translations.
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC
In recent years, Food Studies has emerged as a dynamic interdisciplinary field, blending insights from multiple disciplines in exploring the pivotal role of food in shaping societies. The upcoming CCS webinar offers an opportunity to delve into how food culture has both historically and contemporarily operated in China…
Challenges to Constitutional Courts in Korea and Taiwan
Chaihark Hahm is a professor of law at Yonsei Law School. His research has focused on comparative constitutional law, democratic political theory, Confucian philosophy, and Korean legal culture and history. His works in English have appeared in the Journal of Democracy, American Journal of Comparative Law, and I•CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law, among others. He is author of The Constitution of South Korea: A Contextual Analysis (Hart, 2024) and co-author of Making We the People: Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and South Korea (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He holds law degrees from Seoul National University, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School, as well as a master’s degree from Yale Divinity School. Jiunn-rong Yeh is the National Taiwan University Chair Professor at the College of Law of National Taiwan University in Taipei. He writes and teaches about constitutional law including comparative constitutional law, environmental policy, and administrative law. Between 2002 and 2018, Professor Yeh served as minister without portfolio (in charge of inter-ministerial coordination), minister of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission (overseeing government functions in the Cabinet), member and secretary-general of the National Assembly, minister of the interior, and minister of education. He is author of The Constitution of Taiwan: A Contextual Analysis (Hart, 2016) and co-editor of Asian Courts in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
February 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM UTC
The Constitutional Courts of South Korea and Taiwan have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks as they are asked to arbitrate bitter power struggles between the elected branches – power struggles in which the justices themselves have been targeted. In Korea, the Constitutional Court is hearing arguments over w…
大学沙龙第224期:路江涌——给家庭和企业的桌游管理课
主讲人: 路江涌 北京大学光华管理学院组织与战略管理系教授,北京大学博雅特聘教授。先后入选“教育部长江青年学者”和“教育部长江特聘教授”计划,获“国家自然科学杰出青年基金”资助,2020-2022年入选爱思唯尔中国高被引学者榜单,2019-2022年入选全球前2%顶尖科学家“年度影响力”榜单。研究专注于创新创业、企业成长、企业生态、组织协同、公司创投。出版《共演战略》《共演战略观》《共演战略画布》《危机共存》《图解创新管理经典》《图解企业成长经典》《科幻中的战略思维》《给企业的桌游战略课》等图书。 评议人兼主持人:周中华 现任北京颉腾文化传媒有限公司董事长,具有丰富的出版与数字内容服务经验。自2005年起,周中华先生曾担任华章公司董事总经理,并在2016年至2020年间,担任机工业出版副社长,兼任互动出版网络副董事长等职务。他不仅是著名的出版行业专家,还是多个文化和创新项目的创始人与投资人。
January 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC
人工智能时代带来的不仅是福祉,也有焦虑。作为碳基生命,人类应如何应对国际文明带来的挑战?路江涌教授从人工智能带来的挑战入手,以“觉而时行知”为理念,以“桌面游戏”为媒介,构造了一个适合企业和家庭的互动学习体系。通过对桌面游戏的系统研究和测试,路江涌教授从中选出了近百个系列桌游,并从管理学和教育学的角度入手,整理出“给企业的桌游管理课”和“给家庭的桌游亲子课”系列游戏,前者包括战略、组织、创新等系列,后者按孩子年龄分为4-6岁、7-9岁、10-12岁、13岁+等系列。系列丛书即将由颉腾文化出版,特邀请颉腾文化董事长周中华先生和路江涌交流共谈桌游、教育和管理,让各位网友在与家人共度的桌游时光中有更多收获。搜索“大学沙龙”YouTube频…
Preventative Healthcare for Rural Communities: A U.S.-China Best Practice Dialogue
1. Gordon G. LIU, PhD. Dean of PKU Institute for Global Health and Development PKU BOYA Distinguished Professor of Economics MOE Yangtze River Scholar Professor of Economics at PKU National School of Development Director of PKU China Center for Health Economic Research Peking University 2. Yingyao Chen, PhD. Professor of Health Technology Assessment Director of the National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment Fudan University 3. Lizheng Shi, PhD., MsPharm, MA Director, Health Systems Analytics Research Center Tulane University 4. Kim D. French, MHSA, CAPPM, FCCP Vice President Lung Programs for Ascension Health System in Chicago 5. Susan Garwood, MD National Physician Director for Pulmonary Disease HCA Healthcare 6. Moderator - Scott Tackett Vice President of Global Market Access, Value & Economics Intuitive Board Member U.S. Heartland China Association
January 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Join us on January 21st for a special webinar, Preventative Healthcare for Rural Communities, the first of a new series of programs around healthcare collaboration and best practice sharing between the U.S. and China. A panel of leading public health professionals, healthcare practitioners, and administrators from the…
Dharma and Difference in Dar es Salaam: An Ethnography of the First Chinese Buddhist Mission in Tanzania
Theo Stapleton PhD Candidate, Cambridge University Social Anthropology Department
January 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM UTC
Tanhua Temple is the first Chinese Buddhist mission in East Africa, and part of an emerging Buddhist missionary movement on the continent. This talk draws on over 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork as a volunteer driver and translator at Tanhua Temple in Dar es Salaam. My own interest in Tanhua Temple was stimulated b…
4th HICCS Education Symposium Keynote - The Global Impact of Chinese Education: Wisdom and Global Vision
Xudong Zhu
January 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM UTC
Education Symposium Keynote - 4th Hawaii International Conference on Chinese Studies The Global Impact of Chinese Education: Wisdom and Global Vision Speaker: Xudong Zhu Professor Xudong Zhu holds the esteemed position of Dean at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. In addition, he fulfills the role of…
4th HICCS Keynote - Stitching Fragments Together: On Reconstructing the Lost Paintings by Chinese Women Artists
Dr. Lara C. W. Blanchard
January 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM UTC
Lara C. W. Blanchard is Luce Professor of East Asian Art at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York. Her interdisciplinary research interests include Chinese arts and literature, particularly gendered images, women artists, women patrons, text-image relationships, and theories of representation. She has pub…