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Past Events: public talk
The Stanford University Ho Center for Buddhist Studies will host Ester Bianchi for the talk Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Chinese on behalf of Mañjusri: The case of the Larung gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy in Sertar.
The American Mandarin Society presents a lecture and discussion on the legal status of China’s South China Sea maritime reclamation activities.
In this talk from Shorenstein APARC, Evan Feigenbaum will explore China’s changing role in South Asia but especially the complex interaction there among four big powers (“Asia’s new strategic quadrangle”) — India, China, the United States, and Japan.
This talk addresses the Chinese phenomenon of guan xinbing “officials’ heartache,” with particular emphasis on the media’s representations of “officials’ suicides” since 2009.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang and Dr. Desmond Thio will discuss the intersections between health, climate change, environment, and economic interests. As China grapples with these challenges, what are the implications for the United States and the rest of the world?
Based on 8 months of fieldwork in Shenzhen, a Special Economic Zone in China, this talk will describe female sex workers’ mental health challenges in the context of stigma, economic development, and gender. The logistical, methodological, and ethical issues that arise when doing global fieldwork will also be discussed.
Please join the Kissinger Institute for a discussion with writer and former Washington Post correspondent John Pomfret on his new book, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present.
The Stanford Center for East Asian Studies will host the event, The U.S. and China in the Era of Donald Trump.
Undoubtedly, a rapprochement between Washington and Moscow that mitigates or even eradicates the sense of a “New Cold War” would impact on the other key lattices of the classic strategic triangle: both Russia-China relations as well as the all-important US-China relationship. This talk will draw on unique Chinese and Russian source material to evaluate the prospects for such a major tectonic geopolitical shift.
Columbia Law School will host Orville Schell to discuss US-China policy recommendations for the new administration.