Join us for a talk with Xu Jilin, Professor of History at East China Normal University on October 14, 2026. Over the past four decades, China has witnessed a shift in its public sphere, transitioning from a period of flourishing to one of decline. Conversely, the realms of culture, arts, and private life have remained

Join us for a book talk with University of Washington Dau-lin Hsu Endowed Professor of History and International Studies Matthew Mosca on May 27, 2026. The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the Unicorn (Harvard

Please join the China Studies Program for a special colloquium with Yidi Wu, O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Thursday, May 14, 2026 Noon – 1:30 PM Why do liberal arts colleges no longer exist in China today? The answer to this question lies in the Communist reform of higher education in 1952. In Chinese,

Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China In her new book, ‘Illiberal Law and Development: Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China’ (Cambridge University Press 2026) Susan Whiting, University of Washington Department of Political Science, advances institutional economic theory with original survey and fieldwork data  by addressing two puzzles in

Join us for an engaging talk with Professor Lin Yu-ju titled “Commercial Resilience between the Cracks of Empires: A Leading Seafood Merchant in Southern Taiwan” on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 3:30-5:00 p.m., at Tateuchi East Asia Library 2M Seminar Room.  This talk focuses on Wang Ruzhen 王汝禎 (1880–1953), who came from a family of civil servants,

Join us for a lunchtime talk with Nianshen Song Monday, March 16 at 12:00 – 1:20 PM. What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been

Join us on March 9 for a lunchtime talk with Professor Ben Hillman, Director of Australian National University’s Australian Centre on China in the World and Editor of The China Journal. REGISTER HERE During the past decade China’s leaders have asserted more centralized control over the PRC’s vast bureaucracy through stricter discipline and accountability mechanisms,

March 2, 2026 SPECIAL LECTURE brought by the UW Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. What is the best way to live a flourishing life? How does one make ethical choices? And what should we concretely do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of philosophical

On February 5, University of Washington professor of literature Ping Wang, will give a book talk on her first monograph The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun : Literary Expression and the Natural World (University Press 2025). Professor Wang will be joined by Wendy Swartz, Chair and Professor of Chinese literature at Rutgers University for this talk. During

Join us Thursday, January 8 3:30 – 5 PM for ‘Reforms and Education Policies on Migrant Children in China‘ with Chen Yuanyuan, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Alongside China’s rapid economic growth and urbanization, the country has witnessed an unprecedented wave of rural-to-urban migration. Educating this large population poses considerable challenges to the nation’s household