Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
Labor
Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness: Workers and Change in China
The USC U.S.-China Institute presents a discussion with Manfred Elfstrom on the growing wave of labor unrest in China, the state's response, and the the long-term implications for both activists and the government.
Hong Kong Today – the Special Administrative Region at 10
USC panel discussion marks changes in Hong Kong since the creation of the Special Administrative Region in 1997.
Strikes in Vietnam and China: The Impact of the State on Workers' Struggles for Their Rights
The Institute for the Study of Social Change presents a talk with China expert Anita Chan.
Changes in the World’s Workshop: How new laws, more demanding workers, and activist trade unions are transforming the Chinese workplace
The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and Economy hosts a lecture on labor laws and worker's rights in China.
Massive Unemployment and Worker Protests: So Why Were Workers More Restive in China than in France and Mexico?
UC Berkeley's Center for Chinese studies presents a discussion by Dorothy Solinger on the increasing number of worker protests in China compared to that in France and Mexico.
The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
Part of the China Business Seminar series.
Harry Wu, "In the Mouth of the Dragon: U.S. and China Relations in the 21st Century"
Harry Wu, a former Chinese political prisoner and later a human rights activist, will discuss U.S.-China relations in a speech called "In the Mouth of the Dragon: U.S. and China Relations in the 21st Century."
Screening: American Factory
The film takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans.
China's Strike Wave and the Prospects for Labor Relations Reform
Liu Cheng from Shanghai Normal University will give a talk on labor relations in China at UCLA.
Citizenship and Skill in Twentieth-Century China
Professor Jacob Eyferth discusses the historical labor trends in China before the middle and twentieth century.
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Events
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 4:00pm
Join us for a book talk with Suisheng Zhao on how Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping each conceived and executed radically different approaches to China's relations with others.