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Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk "Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China" by Nicholas Lardy on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 12:30pm to 1:50pm.
Organized Knowledge and State Socialism, 1949-1978
UC Berkeley presents a workshop investigating knowledge production during the Maoist period (1949-1978) of the People's Republic of China.
The Kronos Quartet and Wu Man, pipa
UC Berkeley presents the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man's pipa performance.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Is Lying Contagious? Spatial Diffusion of Agricultural “Satellites” During China’s Great Leap Forward
The University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Hongwei Xu on Agricultural Satellites during the Great Leap Forward.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series ~ Is It Possible to “De-Maoify” the Cultural Revolution?
The University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk by Yiching Wu on the role of Mao in the Cultural Revolution.
The Life of a Slogan: Maoism, Gender, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
A discussion by professor Emily Honig on the impact of the Cultural Revolution on state feminism in China.
MAO to NOW
Fowler Museum at UCLA opens a new exhibit on the photography of Stephen Verona that captured China in 1980 and then recaptured it in 2014.
Legal Education in Republican and Maoist China
Part of the Long Institute Lecture Series on Chinese Law, Business, and Society, Glenn D. Tiffert provides an overview of modern legal education in China.
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk by Guobin Yang. The first part of the book offers a new explanation of factional violence in the Red Guard movement and the second part of the book chronicles the de-sacralization of that revolutionary culture throughout the 1970s and the rise of a new wave of protest that inaugurated the democratic movements of the reform era.
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January 4, 2024
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
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 4:00pm PST
Ying Zhu looks at new developments for Chinese and global streaming services.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:00pm
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?