The Ideograph and a Cantonese Pun, with Eugenia Lean
Speaker: Eugenia Lean, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University By examining two early legal cases featuring the all...
16 Jan 20221h 26min
Shaping China’s Narratives: How Journalists Report on China in the World
China is constantly in the global media limelight due to its growing presence and influence throughout the world. Journalists reporting on this rising superpower play a crucial role in explaining the ...
11 Jan 20221h 19min
China's Mundane Revolution, with Joan Judge
Speaker: Joan Judge, Professor, Department of History, York University What can we learn from intellectual detritus? Focusing on cheap print, vernacular daily-use knowledge, and common readers in the...
7 Jan 20221h 18min
Early Childhood Development in Rural China, with Scott Rozelle
Speaker: Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow and the co-director of the Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Stanford University Scott Rozelle is the Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fe...
7 Jan 20221h 16min
Literature and Censorship in China since 1979, with Michel Hockx
Speaker: Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Notre Dame On July 30, 1979, Deng Xiaoping addressed the fourth national conference of Chinese writers and artists. Towards the e...
7 Jan 20221h 30min
China-funded Education Programs in US Schools, with Naima Green-Riley
Speaker: Naima Green-Riley, Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University; Former Consular Officer, US. Consulate General, Guangzhou, China This event is par...
7 Jan 20221h 14min
Connecting the World-Island | What Will China’s PEACE Cable Bring To Pakistan And East Africa?
China’s Hengtong Group—leading a consortium of telecom companies from Hong Kong, Pakistan, and East Africa—will soon complete installation of the Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) cable. ...
16 Nov 20211h 16min
The Stone and the Wireless, with Ma Shaoling
The Stone and the Wireless: Lyrical Media and Bad Models of the Feeling Women Ma Shaoling is an Assistant Professor of Humanities (Literature) at Yale-NUS College. She was born in Taiwan, grew up in ...
10 Nov 20211h 28min
