Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series
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To create a forum for scholars, researchers and students with interests in any aspect of contemporary China, the East Asia Program launched the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative in Fall 2014. In response to widely expressed needs and interests related to contemporary China across and beyond Cornell campus, CCCI invites excellent speakers to the university to give talks on an array of interdisciplinary issues about contemporary Chinese economy, politics and society. CCCI expands EAP’s intellectual engagement with a wide range of Cornell faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students, including those in the professional schools and STEM fields, in an active endeavor to reach across colleges and disciplinary boundaries and interact with a broader constituency at the university.
See http://eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/cornell-contemporary-china-initiative.
Recent Submissions
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The Idological Foundations of the Qing Fiscal State
Zhang, Taisu (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-04-15)Taisu Zhang, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School - Professor Zhang provides a new account of Qing fiscal legislation and policymaking that focuses on the interplay between political ideology and state institutions. ... -
The Urbanization of People: Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
Friedman, Eli (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-02-18)Eli Friedman, International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University - This talk is centrally concerned with identifying the mechanisms that China’s megacities have used to manage the flow of people, investigating the ... -
How China Sees Trump: Past Lessons and Future Prospects for US-China Relations
Weiss, Jessica Chen (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-03-20)Jessica Chen Weiss, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University - So far the Chinese government has taken a relatively restrained response to Trump, preferring to wait and see what his administration’s policies ... -
Governing the Airpocalypse - Insights from China's "War on Smog"
Ahlers, Anna (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-03-09)Anna L. Ahlers, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science - For about a decade now air pollution is probably the most hotly debated environmental problem in Chinese society. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and ... -
The Pork Fix: African Swine Fever and the Opportunity of Crisis in China's Pork Industry
Schneider, Mindi (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-02-17)Mindi Schneider, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University - The year 2019 left no question about the importance of pork in Chinese politics and society, and in the operation of the ... -
Transforming More-than-human Economies in Southwest China
Hathaway, Michael (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-02-10)Michael Hathaway, Anthropology, Simon Fraser University - Since the 1980s, the trade in one of the world’s most valuable wild fungi, the matsutake mushroom, has fostered tremendous social change for people in Southwest ... -
Upwardly Mobile Women in Urban China: Negotiating Gender Norms and Class
Gaetano, Arianne (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-09-30)Arriane Gaetanao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Women’s Studies Program, Auburn University - China’s economic growth and urbanization have created new social mobility opportunities for women through ... -
Rural Communities, Incipient Urbanism, and Environmental Consequences in Early Anthropocene China (5000 to 2000 years BP)
Kidder, T.R. (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-09-09)T.R. Kidder, Edward S. and Tedi Macias Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of Geoarchaeology Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis - The ancient Chinese were rivaling ... -
“Social” Money and Working-class Subjectivities: Digital Money and Migrant Labour in Shenzhen, China
McDonald, Tom (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-11-04)Tom McDonald, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hong Kong University - Scholars of Chinese society have predominantly regarded the region’s money to represent an unusually “social” artefact. The dramatic proliferation of ... -
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market
Chuang, Julia (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019-10-07)Julia Chuang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Morrissey College - This talk examines the institutions that facilitated both China’s success in labor-intensive production and its current moment of construction over-capacity. ...