Past Events
World-renowned tea expert David Lee Hoffman explores some of the most remote regions of China in search of the best handmade teas in the world.
Susan Shirk, Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California, San Diego.
Professor Yang Ye explores the arts of poetry and calligraphy in a traditional Chinese garden.
An exhibition and publication that documents the exceptionally private warrior monks of the 1500 year old Shaolin Temple in the Henan province of China, renowned for its association with Zen Buddhism and martial arts.
University of Denver's Suisheng Zhao addresses concerns regarding China's rise to great power status and the implications this has for Chinese foreign policy.
Can we apply a standard periodization scheme across East Asia? Historians of China, Japan, and Korea examine economic and cultural networks, environmental patterns, intellectual trends, state structures and practices, and contemporary debates on "the nation".
Directors Duan Jinchuan and Jiang Yue's 2005 documentary "The Hurricane" provides personal accounts of the communist Land Reform (1946-1953).
In The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression, author James Mann examines the evolution of American policy toward China and asks, "What are our ideas and hidden assumptions about China?"
University of Michigan's Mary Gallagher focuses on labor and law.
David M. Finkelstein, Director of the China Studies Center & Project Asia at the CNA Corporation.