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Browsing Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series by Issue Date
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Tiantian Zheng: "Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China"
(2015-08)CCCI Lecture Series: Professor Tiantian Zheng (Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Cortland) - "Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Postsocialist China" February 23, 2015 Based on ethnographic research ... -
Zachary Howlett: "China's National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) as a Fateful Rite of Passage: 'A Great Army Crossing a Narrow Plank Bridge'"
(2016-02)Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series: Zachary Howlett (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University) - "China's National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) as Fateful Rite of Passage: 'A Great Army ... -
The Memory Project: "Knocking on Memory’s Door with a Video Camera"
(2016-11)CCCI Lecture Series: Filmmakers from The Memory Project at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing - "Knocking on Memory's Door with a Video Camera" November 7, 2016 We are walking down Memory Lane. We are continuing to remember. ... -
"Economic Integration and Spatial Wage Differences: How Valuable Is Market Access to Workers in China?"
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-02-13)Mary Lovely, Professor of Economics, Syracuse University - New economic geography (NEG) models predict that costly transport and the spatial distribution of demand affect the profits firms can earn in different locations, ... -
To Speak Is to Blunder but I Venture
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-02-27)Yiyun Li, Professor of English, UC Davis - Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, the first nonfiction book by novelist and short story writer Yiyun Li, explores a life lived in reading and writing, with a ... -
Masculinities and Media in China's Na Communities
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-03-06)Professor Tami Blumenfield, James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Furman University - This presentation explores men's roles in Na communities of southwest China through a series of images and documentary ... -
Globalization and Market Governance: Chinese Capitalism in Comparative Perspective
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-03-13)Professor Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University - Scholars debate how and why China’s globalization and development trajectory varies from India and Russia, other developing countries ... -
How China Sees Trump: Past Lessons and Future Prospects for US-China Relations
(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 ... -
The Shenzhen Condition: An Anthropology of the Intercultural
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-03-27)Mary Ann O'Donnell, Ethnographer based in Shenzhen, China - The place name “Shenzhen” glosses ongoing efforts to intervene in world history. This turn, the dominant agent is the Chinese state, which has used Shenzhen to ... -
China's Encounter with Global Hollywood: Cultural Policy, Film Industry, and Soft Power, 1994-2016
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-04-10)Professor Wendy Su, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside - In recent years, the film industry in the People’s Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world ... -
Comparative Postcolonial Theory and the Question of Chinese Empire
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-04-17)Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies, UCLA - The emergence of Sinophone studies in the last decade is altering the landscape of postcolonial theory ... -
The Rise of “National Heritage” in Modern China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-09-11)Guolong Lai, Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology, University of Florida - As a national cultural policy, heritage preservation was introduced into China from the West as part of the modernizing efforts under ... -
China's dairy century - making, drinking and dreaming of milk
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-09-18)Thomas DuBois, Historian of Chinese Religion and Society, Australian National University - China’s dairy industry has of late become big news. A country that few would have instinctively associated with milk has emerged ... -
The Rise of Neo-Familism in Contemporary China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-09-25)Professor Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Social Anthropology, UCLA - Based on evidence drawn from longitudinal fieldwork over three decades and secondary literature, the present study unpacks the complex connections among the ... -
Nationalizing the Diaspora Identity in the China Rising Century
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-10-16)Wasana Wongsurat, Assistant Professor of History, Chulalongkorn University - The status of the ethnic Chinese in Thailand has seen enormous transformations over the past thirty years. From a severely persecuted minority ... -
Urbanization as Environmental Change: Planning and Dispossession in Contemporary China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-10-22)Jia-Ching Chen, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara - China's unprecedented urban growth has captured the attention of international media and scholars alike. However, contrary to widespread dystopian ... -
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-10-23)Professor Howard French, Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School - Professor French will discuss how patterns of Chinese interactions with nearby cultures throughout the long dynastic era have shaped present-day ... -
Cultivating A Therapeutic Self in Urban China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-11-06)Professor Li Zhang, Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis - Facing intensified market competition and rapid social change, many Chinese are experiencing increased mental distress. In this talk, professor Zhang examines how ... -
Reimagining the Real China: Dilemmas (and Solutions) of Han-ness and Tradition in China Today
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2017-11-13)Kevin Carrico, Lecturer of Chinese Studies, Macquarie University - What, when, and where is the “real China”? According to a growing group of young people in cities across the country, the real China is not to be found in ... -
Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band Concert Documentary
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2018-03-19)World renowned pipa player Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band performed in concert on March 19, 2018 at Cornell's Barnes Hall. This short documentary provides a glimpse behind the scenes with interviews with Wu Man, ...
