Past Events
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute presents "Cautious Accommodations or Escalating Rivalry: America's Stark Choices about China", a lecture with guest lecturer, Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies, Australian National University and moderator Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University.
Economic growth in the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been slowing down since the onset of the global financial crisis. Does this represent the start of a new and downward growth trend? Can the PRC maintain a growth rate of eight percent in the near future? Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank, Dr. Guanghua Wan will outline major challenges facing the PRC today and discuss growth potential of the Chinese economy for the next 5-10 years. In spite of three decades of rising income inequality in the PRC, which is eroding social and political stability, Dr. Wan will offer a cautiously optimistic view of the PRC economy.
Asia Society presents a discussion with renowned strategist Edward Luttwak on international strategy in regards to China's growing military and economic power.
The UC Berkeley Institute for East Asian Studies presents a talk by Emmanuel Saez of UC Berkeley. He will present evidence on income inequality and discuss the role of technology and globalization, government regulations, and tax progressivity in explaining those empirical findings.
This cross-disciplinary seminar series will feature speakers tackling social science questions with big data and cutting-edge computation, data analysis, and inference techniques.
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) exhibition Perspectives 180 – Unfinished Country: New Video from China presents a cross-section of work by a new generation of artists from China working in video and video installation.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a talk with Professor Aida Yuen Wong on the art of Fu Baoshi.
UCI is going to hold a gathering this Saturday afternoon (with a
reception in the evening) to take advantage of Ken Pomeranz's last days as a regular in the area by holding a workshop in which he will give a keynote presentation and there will also be papers by two of his former students (Kate Merkel-Hess and Wang Wensheng) and from two faculty members here in fields other than
Chinese studies whose work has intersected with his and who have been inspired by him in various ways.
The Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies presents a lecture on major monuments and art objects from the Mustang region and also introduces Mustang's colorful history and landscape.
The Freer Gallery of Art features an exhibition of Buddhist Sculpture, ranging from gilt bronze images to stone figures in cave temples.