From Empire to Nation-State: War, Emulation, and National Identity in China

Peng Peng, Assistant Professor of Political Science & Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Professor Peng examines when, why, and how national identity emerged in China. She argues that war acted as a catalyst for two distinct psychological mechanisms: enmity (humiliation and other negative emotions) and…

The developmental benefits and emerging contradictions of Chinese migration to Ghana

Joseph Awetori Yaro, Professor of Human Geography, University of Ghana

Migration has historically shaped the development of new landscapes, yet discussions on migration’s role in development often emphasize remittances to sending regions rather than the contributions migrants make to…

The Role of Industrial Firms in China’s Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change

Valerie Karplus, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University

China’s climate change pledge targets carbon neutrality by 2060. Policies and plans have begun to support decarbonization domestically while at the same time the country is becoming an increasingly important supplier…

Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects

Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, Oxford University

Theodore Roosevelt once wrote “comparison is the thief of joy.” Nowhere may this be more apparent than in the US-China relationship. Whether it’s the size of economies or navies, Olympic gold medal count, box office…

Geopolitics from Below: State-Diaspora Interplay and the Social Origins of Global China

Jiaqi Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University

This talk expands the study of state-society relations into the global arena by examining how migrant-sending states, particularly China, engage with their diasporas. Drawing on Migdal’s “state-in-society” theory, it…

Value-Form Queer Theory

Petrus Liu, Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University

Co-sponsored by Theorizing Colloquium Series of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, with special thanks to…

Examining US-China Strategic Competition: The Case of China’s Global Initiatives in the United Nations System

Courtney J. Fung, Associate Professor of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University, Australia

China’s well-reported multilateral rise is presumed to challenge US leadership a Western-dominated United Nations system. Amongst China’s many multilateral contributions are its advance of ‘Global Initiatives,’ which…

How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control: Agency, Cognition, and the Politics of Information

Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

In this book talk, Dali Yang, author of Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control(…

Whither the U.S. One China Policy? Perceptions, Interests, and Tensions over the Taiwan Strait

Dalei Jie, Associate Professor of International Studies, Peking University

In recent years, China has accused the U.S. of “hollowing out” its own one China policy, while the Biden administration has insisted that its one China policy has not changed. The talk establishes an analytical…

Disorienting Politics: Chimerican Media and Transpacific Entanglements

Fan Yang, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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