In this illustrated presentation, Prof. Wasserstrom puts events since the 1997 Handover and particularly since the 2014 Umbrella Movement into comparative and historical perspective.
Video: Yawei Liu on Chinese Views of Trump
Professor Yawei Liu examines Chinese perceptions of America's 2016 presidential election and Trump's China policies.
Yawei Liu (刘亚伟) joined The Carter Center in 1998 and has been the director of its China Program since 2005. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2014, the associate director of the China Research Center in Atlanta, and an adjunct professor of Political Science at Emory University. He co-authored Obama: The Man Who Will Change America (Chinese language, 2008).
He is the founding editor of www.chinaelections.org, www.uscnpm.org, and www.chinatransparency.org. Since 2012, he has organized an annual forum on U.S.-China relations.
Yawei earned his B.A in English literature from Xian Foreign Languages Institute (1982), M.A. in recent Chinese history from the University of Hawaii (1989) and Ph. D. in American History from Emory University (1996).
This video is also available on the USCI YouTube Channel.
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Events
March 2, 2020 - 5:00pm
Los Angeles, California
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a talk with Teng Biao, a legal scholar and well-known human rights activist.
April 9, 2020 - 4:00pm
Los Angeles, California
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a talk with Julia Strauss on her new book, which focuses on the period 1949 to 1954 and compares how the Communist Party in China and the Nationalist Party in Taiwan sought to consolidate their authority and foster economic development.