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March 2025
Precarious Geographies: Migrant Labor in China’s Network Production
Speaker: Na Fu, Postdoctoral Associate, the China Initiative and the Watson Institution for International and Public Affairs, Brown University Moderator: Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies Program, Architecture Department, Urban Studies, Barnard College As industrial production decentralizes, rural China has become a new hub for networked manufacturing, blurring the boundaries between factory and home. Migrant workers like Mrs. Wang are returning to their hometowns to set up workshop-style facilities, driven by labor shortages, infrastructure improvements, and digital connectivity.…
Find out more »The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism – A Book Talk by Jack Neubauer
Speaker: Jack Neubauer, historian and author Moderator: Eugenia Lean, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Columbia University The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story. Analyzing how the “adoption plan” for international child sponsorship became one of the most popular fundraising strategies for humanitarian work in China and across the world, Jack Neubauer shows how the globalization…
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