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Women
Writing Colonial Culture: Chinese Women and the Japanese Occupation of Manchuria
Harvard University presents a discussion with Professor Norman Smith on Chinese women during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.
Modern Women in Local Tibetan History: The View from Biographical Sources
Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosts a talk by Sarah Jacoby on the representation of women in Tibetan history.
Creative Women in China Today: Hong Huang
Asia Society presents a conversation with publisher and media maven, Hong Huang.
Gender Boundaries in Poetry during the Ming-Qing Transition
Professor Wai-Yee Li will discuss the writings produced by women that challenged gender boundaries during the Ming-Qing dynasty transition.
Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian-American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism
The USC Center for Transpacific Studies hosts a presentation by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu on the role of Asian-American women in feminism
Reading the Female Body in Late Tang Daoism
Stanford University will host Stephen Bokenkamp to give a talk on the female body in late Tang Daoism.
Rural Women and China's Disappearing Collective Past
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies presents Gail Hershatter. In this talk, she explores changes in the lives of women in rural Shaanxi province during the early decades of state socialism, the 1950s and 1960s, comparing them to the lives of women in contemporary rural China.
Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in China
Stanford University's Asia Health Policy Program presents a talk by Profesor Hai Fang, who will speak on China's one-child policy.
China's 'Leftover' Women and the End of the One-Child Policy
Cornell University East Asia Program hosts a talk with Leta Hong Fincher about her new book on state-sponsored gender inequality in China.
China Onscreen Biennial: Sauna On Moon (嫦娥) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial (银幕中国双年展)project, the fantastical factory that is the sauna becomes a vortex of ironies, prompting both scopophilic pleasure and an uncanny catalog of the effects of China's economic divides.
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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?