Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Conference: Urban Chinese Living, 1600 - Present
The Institute of East Asian Studies hosts experts on Urban Chinese Living.
Where
Doctoral Projects:
Built Environment: Wen-hsin Yeh, Chair
12:00–1:15pm:
Jennifer Choo, Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
“Going Global and Yet Remaining Local: An Analysis of China’s Real Estate Industry”
Cecilia Chu, Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
“Speculative Urbanism: The Garden City Movement and Suburban Development in Colonial Hong Kong, 1912–1925”
Corey Byrnes, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
“The Aesthetics of Demolition in the Three Gorges Work of Jia Zhangke and Yun-fei Ji”
On Space and People: Kevin O’Brien, Chair
1:30–2:45 pm:
Nicolas Tackett, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley
“Urban-based Marriage Networks in the Late Tang Capital Cities”
Kevin O’Brien, Professor, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
“Local People’s Congresses and Governance”
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley
“The Printer, the Camera, and the City”
Emerging Research at the Academia Sinica: Max Ko-Wu Huang, Chair
3:00–4:15 pm:
Max Ko-Wu Huang, Director, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Hsi-yuan Chen, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Huei-min Sun, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Keynote Address:
4:30–6:00 pm: Sherman Cochran, Professor, History, Cornell University
“Making Comparisons in Chinese Urban Studies”
Featured Articles
We note the passing of many prominent individuals who played some role in U.S.-China affairs, whether in politics, economics or in helping people in one place understand the other.
Events
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?