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East Asia Program (EAP): Recent submissions
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Why Is My Milk Blue?: China's Food Safety Crisis and Scale Politics
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2015-03-16)China's food safety -
China's 'Leftover' Women and the End of the One-Child Policy
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-03-07)Professor Leta Hong Fincher, Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asia Languages and Culture, Columbia University. Author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Leta Hong Fincher critiques ... -
Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China's College Entrance Exam
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-10-31)Professor Ruixue Jia, Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Global Policy & Strategy, UC San Diego. This talk examines the returns to elite education and their implications on elite formation and social mobility, ... -
TV Tears Made of Fear: Anatomy of the Spectacle of Power on Display in China's Forced Confessions
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-11-14)Professor Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University. After years of building a new system of courts of law, and after many solemn declarations to prohibit police torture and forced ... -
Environmental Challenges and Policy Options in China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-11-21)Professor Shanjun Li, Associate Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management, Cornell University. The talk will first broadly discuss the important environmental and energy challenges in China. Then the ... -
Hukou and Suzhi as Technologies of Governing Citizenship and Migration in China
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2021-03-08)Chenchen Zhang, Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University, Belfast. Abstract: This talk looks at the genealogy and contemporary configuration of two key concepts that ... -
Natural Infrastructure in China’s Era of Ecological Civilization
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2021-10-19)Speaker: Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder Abstract: Although infrastructure is conventionally thought of in reference to human-designed systems such as railroads, pipelines, ... -
How Contemporary Chinese Art Became Global: Artists, Exhibitions, Markets, Mediators 1985-2015
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-04-25)CCCI Lecture Series: Philip Tinari (Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing) - "How Contemporary Chinese Art Became Global: Artists, Exhibitions, Markets, Mediators 1985-2015" April 25, 2016 Philip ... -
China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2016-09-19)The Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series, featuring interdisciplinary talks by scholars on issues in China today, runs every Monday this semester. Professor Matthew Erie - Associate Professor of Modern ... -
Chairman Mao’s Children: Politics, Generation, and China’s Difficult Memory
(East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2020-10-26)Speaker: Bin Xu, Sociology, Emory University October 26, 2020, Cornell University East Asia Program In the 1960s and 1970s, about 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to the rural ...
