As the Chinese Communist Party nears the one hundredth anniversary of its founding and moves toward Xi Jinping extending his tenure beyond the (fragile) norm of a decade in the top Party (and state) posts, there are…
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Mara Hvistendahl is an investigative journalist and the author of the book The Scientist and The Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage (Riverhead 2020), which The Washington Post called “a…
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The COVID-19 pandemic that has transformed life around the world began in Wuhan, China in late 2019. What does the public health crisis’s emergence in China, and the Chinese regime’s response to it reveal about…
As both the Chinese Communist Party and the U.S. government have bungled their responses to the outbreak and blamed each other for the growing pandemic, what will COVID-19 mean for U.S.-China relations and what…
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| Yingchun Ji, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University
CSCC Conference Room, Perelman 418, 133 S. 36th St.
This is a theoretically and empirically balanced study regarding new family dynamics in contemporary China. Drawing insights from the empirical investigation of the modern practice and emerging norm of daughters…
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The world’s two superpowers are locked in an intensifying rivalry and the people of both nations appear increasingly disillusioned with the government of the other. Many Chinese see the election of Donald Trump…
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| Stiteler Hall B6
Oleg Benesch, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of York Ran Zwigenberg, Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University Nathan Hopson, Associate Professor of Japanese and East Asian history at Nagoya University
[Please be advised this event has been cancelled and postponed to a later date TBD]
Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace
