Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
Rongbin Han, Assistant Professor of International Affairs, University of Georgia
The talk will be focusing on the struggles over online expression in China in order to answering the following question: Why has the rise of Internet thus far failed to disrupt the Chinese party-state, as many have…
China and the 'Responsibility to Protect' in International Law
Professor James Li, Tsinghua University Law School
Professor Li Zhaojie (James Li) received his LL.B. from Peking University, both his LL.M. and Master in Information and Library Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his S.J.D.…
Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins
Scott Moore, Ph.D., Director, Penn Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania
Scott Moore offers the first book-length treatment of the distinctive problem of subnational…
Preservation and Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Modern China
Dr. Guolong Lai, University of Floria & Getty Research Institute
Center for Ancient Studies 2018-2019 Lunchtime Seminar Series "The Usage of Antiquity in Modern Times"
Spiritual Ecologies: Sustainability and Transcendence in Contemporary Asia
ICEA Colloquium
Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University
The crisis of global modernity has been produced by human overreach that was founded upon a paradigm of national modernization. Today, three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental…
2018 China and International Relations Graduate Research Workshop
This workshop brings together advanced graduate students from around the country conducting research on China and international relations. The objective is to create a forum of mutual exchange for developing cutting…
The Political Beliefs of Chinese Officials
Greg Distelhorst, Mitsubishi Career Development Professor in International Management, MIT
What are the stated beliefs of officials in China’s single-party regime? Can they express different views on policy, and if so, do their disagreements reflect deeper ideological orientations? We study these questions…
Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China
Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Although China is a global manufacturing titan, the "made in China" model has begun to wane. Starting in the 2000s, China shifted from attracting foreign investment to promoting domestic firms. This shift led…
(CANCELLED) Migration, Social Institutions, and Popular Resistance in Rural China
Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
How does migration shape collective resistance in migrant-sending communities (rural China)? This study integrates perspectives from social movements and migration to develop a framework in which migration…
2018 CHINA Town Hall
U.S.-China Relations: Can We Avoid Calamity?
The Honorable Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State and Former National Security Advisor; Douglas Spelman, Senior Advisor, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Join communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive national webcast at 6pm with former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor…
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