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Maura Dykstra - Doctoral Student
Maura Dykstra talks about why and how she founded the Chinese Studies Colloquium, a forum entirely organized and run by graduate students.
Posted: 6/23/2010
Zhang Li - Visiting Scholar
Zhang Li, a visiting PhD student from Peking University since September 2009, speaks about what brought her to UCLA and what she has discovered here.
Posted: 6/23/2010
East-West Collaboration Brings Top Chinese Health Official to Campus
Chinese Vice Minister of Health Dr. Wang Guoqiang and a six-person delegation on a four-day U.S. trip chose UCLA as the only academic medical center to visit to learn how traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine are practiced as a new health care model in this country.
Posted: 6/17/2010
The 3rd US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit
Hosted by PKU-UCLA JRI, June 14-15 2010, and jointly sponsored by National Science Foundation and National Natural Science Foundation of China
Posted: 6/17/2010
Questions on China for John Podesta
In keynote remarks delivered at a May conference at UCLA on relations between China and the rest of the world, former White House Chief of Staff and Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta reflects on China's foreign relations with regard to environmental and other issues.
Posted: 6/16/2010
Stephen Krasner: What Could End Cooperation with China?
The history of power transitions and conventional theories of international relations don't tell us much about the systemic effects of China's rise. Too much has changed, explains Stephen Krasner of Stanford University. Krasner gave opening remarks at a May conference at UCLA on relations between China and the rest of the world.
Posted: 6/16/2010
Grants in Taiwan Studies Announced
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies announces the awarding of research grants in Taiwan Studies for 2010-11. Congratulations to awardees IRENA CRONIN (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) and ANTHONY ESTES (Department of Anthropology).
Posted: 6/4/2010
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia, and China Compared
A public lecture by Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, Sociology.
Posted: 6/3/2010
Scholars Debate: Is China Becoming a Responsible World Leader?
The fundamental question of whether China is on the path to becoming a responsible stakeholder in world affairs or acting as a revisionist superpower was put to a prestigious group of China scholars from universities and think tanks across the country. Watch video of the keynote address by John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.
Posted: 5/27/2010
The First JRI Annual Symposium
The first annual mini-symposium of the UCLA-Peking University Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering (JRI) was held in CNSI, UCLA on May 6-7, 2010.
Posted: 5/6/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Richard Baum's China Tales
On Sunday, April 25, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Richard Baum will participate in a discussion on "China: The Next Super Power? with three other panelists. Baum is the author, most recently, of "China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom" (University of Washington, 2010). The discussion on Sunday will take place at noon in Young Hall CS 50.
Posted: 4/13/2010
The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China
2009 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art delivered by James A. Benn,McMaster University.
Posted: 4/2/2010
Author Hits 'Reset' on Story of China in Africa
To write a sweeping new study of China's ramped-up engagement with African governments, "The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa," Deborah Brautigam of American University had to set aside most of what Chinese and Western media said on the subject.
Posted: 1/27/2010
Don't Revalue the Yuan Yet
Without measures to stimulate consumption in China, such a move won't help, writes Calla Wiemer, who is a visiting scholar at UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies and a visiting associate professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College.
Posted: 1/8/2010
History Student Studies Chinese Merchant Associations in Shanghai
Maura Dykstra received a pre-dissertation fellowship from the Asia Institute in 2008 to study in Shanghai through the UCLA-East China National University (ECNU) graduate exchange program.
Posted: 12/1/2009
Many Modernities Ahead
China's rise as a global power will change world politics and culture, not just the economy, argues Martin Jacques in a new book. To look ahead, start by understanding the difference between a nation-state and a civilization-state.
Posted: 11/30/2009
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Podcast of public lecture by Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Posted: 10/30/2009
Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution
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.
Posted: 10/7/2009
Grad Students Hone Chinese Translation Skills in Shanghai
Fudan Scholarly Translation Workshop in Shanghai was sponsored by the UCLA Confucius Institute and was designed to teach the general principles of translation and to help students with their graduate research.
Posted: 8/28/2009
K-6 Students to Learn Chinese at Broadway Elementary School
Broadway Elementary School (Venice, California) to open a Mandarin Academy
Posted: 8/20/2009
From Red Guard to Red Carpet
UCLA alumna Anna Chi became a filmmaker after an initial love of literature and writing was curtailed by an order from China's Communist Party for her to work as a film editor and after friends coaxed her to move to the United States, a country she was taught as China's enemy.
Posted: 7/7/2009
New Answers to Big Questions in Chinese History
For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.
Posted: 6/30/2009
Survivor of Tiananmen Square Reaches Her Goal, a Ph.D.
Chaohua Wang will participate in the June 11 Ph.D. hooding ceremony for UCLA's Graduate Division, after completing graduate studies that were unexpectedly interrupted by the uprising that held China's, and the world's, attention for a month and a half.
Posted: 6/3/2009
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