From the Countryside to the City, Life Today in Chengdu
February 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Speaker: Ning Yuan, writer, founder of a clothing brand, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2024-2025)
Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Ning Yuan is the author of several widely circulated works of fiction, owns a bookstore in Chengdu, has a clothing line made of natural fibers, and has led in the redevelopment of a village in Sichuan that was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ning Yuan will introduce her various activities as described above and relate them to her observations on Chinese society, especially in Chengdu and environs.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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