http://www.international.ucla.edu/china Facilitate cutting-edge research about China at UCLA en-us The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=112360Lectures, Colloquia, and an Open House!http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=112189Broadway Elementary School (Venice, California) to open a Mandarin Academyhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=111639Delivering the inaugural lecture for the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies speaker series "Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future," Wang Gungwu of the National University of Singapore shows how China's image of and role in globalization have changed as the country has become less closed off and more of an active participant in world affairs.http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=105952A conference on January 30, analyzing the most pressing challenges facing the Obama administration as it formulates its China policy -- from politics and security to energy, the environment, and the economy. http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=104563Calla Wiemer is a visiting scholar at the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, a research associate at the National University of Singapore East Asian Institute and a consultant to the Asian Development Bank. This op-ed was recently published in the Wall Street Journal Asia.http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=104545Several speakers at a conference on U.S.-China relations, cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the Burkle Center, observed that economic interdependence underlies good diplomatic relations between the two powers and argued that new U.S. trade restrictions on China would be counterproductive.http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=104185A talk by Dafydd Fell (SOAS)http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=100953May 3-6, 2009http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=100441Now a professor of anthropology and co-director of Chinese studies at UCLA, Yan Yunxiang has returned many times to northeastern China to conduct fieldwork in Xiajia, where he lived for seven years as an ordinary farmer.http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/beta/article.asp?parentid=98316