Program Start Date: May 14 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
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,
Program Start Date: Mar 16 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
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
Program Start Date: Mar 9 2026
Location: East Asia Library, Room 2M
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,
Program Start Date: Feb 5 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
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
Program Start Date: Jan 8 2026
Location: Thomson Hall 317
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
Program Start Date: Oct 27 2017
James Green Office of the United States Trade Representative, Chinese Embassy Friday, October 27th 2pm Thomson Hall 317 Trade tension continue to simmer between the world’s two largest economies and Beijing is tightening up on foreign participation in many parts of the technology sector as the Chinese Communist Party prepares for its 19th Congress that will pick
Program Start Date: Oct 13 2017
Hui-shu Lee Chinese Art, University of California Los Angeles Friday, October 13th 2pm Thomson Hall 317 By focusing on a lengthy painting titled Panorama of Hangzhou on West Lake in the collection of the Freer Gallery, a detailed visual documentation of the splendor of the Southern Song (1126-1279) imperial capital Lin’an (present-day Hangzhou) as seen
Program Start Date: Nov 15 2016
Location: Thomson Hall 317
Tobie Meyer-Fong Professor, John Hopkins University Tuesday November 15th, 2016 Thomson 317 3:30pm In this talk Professor Meyer-Fong disscuses her book “What remains: coming to terms with civil war in 19th century China”. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and
Program Start Date: Oct 21 2016
Location: Thomson 317
What is the impact of climate change on specialty crop quality? How can agroecological management practices mitigate climatic risk in food system? In this seminar, Dr. Selena Ahmed, explored these questions using tea as a case study. Climate change is impacting agro-ecosystems, crops, and farmer livelihoods in communities worldwide. While it is well understood that
Program Start Date: Oct 10 2016
Location: East Asia Library, Room 2M
Christopher Rea Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia Monday October 10, 2016 12:00pm East Asia Library, Room 2M China’s entry in modernity was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing last dynasty fell, prominent writers compiled jokes to form collections called “histories of laughter.” In the first years of
