Beethoven in Beijing
Movie Screening
Please join Co-directors Sharon Mullally and Jennifer Lin for a pre-screening discussion of the award-winning documentary Beethoven in Beijing.
Beethoven in Beijing…
Taiwan and the United Nations: Fifty Years After the ROC’s Expulsion
On October 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758, which “restored” the People’s Republic of China to the Chinese seat at the UN and “expelled” the Republic of China (Taiwan). Since…
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
Judith and Marshall Meyer Lectures on China’s Economy
Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Professor Scott Rozelle discusses his most recent book Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise…
National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2021
CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria will be the featured speaker for the National Committee on US-China Relations CHINA Town Hall 2021, a webcast national conversation on how the U.S.-…
The World Today presents: Civil Liberties in China: The Uyghur Crisis
Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, are facing increasingly severe human rights abuses by President Xi Jinping’s government. They are subjected to intense surveillance, arbitrary…
Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains
Trang (Mae) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
This talk is based on Professor Nguyen's recent article: Norm Assembly in Global Value Chains (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?…
Has the EAST Risen, Again? Lessons and Experiences from History
Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management.
This talk is based on Prof.Huang's ongoing book project Has the EAST Risen, Again? He will discuss four factors that have shaped Chinese development both historically and during the contemporary period.…
Land and the Origins of Contemporary Politics in Asia: Taiwan, Mainland China, Indonesia, and Malaysia since 1945
William Hurst, Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University
Free and open to the public.
Rural Development in China and East Asia
Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
This talk addresses the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East Asia’s political economy that challenges the developmental state paradigm. Through a comparison…
Triumphalism and the Inconvenient Truth: Correcting Inflated National Self-Images in a Rising Power
Haifeng Huang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced
Do people in a rising authoritarian power with pervasive propaganda and information control overestimate their country’s power and popularity in the world? This is an important question since inflated national self-…
