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| Class of '55 Seminar Room (Room 241) of Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
This paper is the first in a series of investigations dealing with the link between moral taboo, censorship, scholarly bias, and the preservation of Chinese books and magazines from the Republican period (1911-1949…
"The term 'comfort women' is a euphemism for enforced sex slaves for the Japanese military during their 15-year war in 1931-1945, which overlapped with WWII in Asia. Eighty percent of the 200,000 enslaved women were…
In November 2013 China's ruling Communist Party, headed by Xi Jinping, held a widely anticipated meeting of its central committee. This plenary session approved a sixty point decision outlining a new wave of reforms…
Starting with a revenue collection funtion, Customs has evolved its mission to include a contribution to economic competitiveness by improving transparency and efficiency of supply chain while protecting health,…
Talk abstract: The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) was one of a constellation of successor states to emerge out the collapse of the Mongol empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Polities and peoples in much of…
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| Annenberg School for Communication, Room 500, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
For more than 30 years, the annual variety show on Chinese Central Television (CCTV) called Spring Festival Gala (Chunwan) has been a state-sponsored enactment of the Chinese nation. For its 2014 installment, some…
