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February 2025
Unbounded by East or West—My Art and Design Journey – A Book Talk by Dazhou Wang
Speaker: Dazhou Wang, Honorary President and Professor, School of Design, East China Normal University Discussant: Dake Zhu, Professor Emeritus, College of Humanities, Tongji University Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work In his new book, Chinese-American artist Dazhou Wang recounts his decades-long journey, tracing his experiences from youth in China to his education, life, and artistic creations after moving to the United States in the 1980s. As both a personal biography and a motivational…
Find out more »Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau – A Book Talk by Shannon Ward
Speaker: Shannon Ward, Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture & Global Studies, University of British Columbia Moderator: Lauran Hartley, Associate Research Scholar and Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, WEAI; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Based on fifteen months of field research in Amdo, Tibet, this talk examines the forces leading to language shift to Mandarin in a region historically characterized by linguistic diversity. The talk analyzes oral histories from the region alongside children's everyday talk to demonstrate…
Find out more »From the Countryside to the City, Life Today in Chengdu
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…
Find out more »Left to Live and Die: Resource Security and the Biopolitics of Land Stockpiling in China
Speaker: Ross Doll, Lecturer, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies Program, Architecture Department, Urban Studies, Barnard College Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work Beginning in 2007 the Chinese state used liberalizing policy and funding to encourage the expansion of large-scale grain farming. Despite this support, many of the new farms have financially struggled and folded. Drawing on…
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