Past Events

China is of growing importance to the United Nations. Like other states, Beijing aims to exert influence at the world body to legitimize and disseminate its foreign policy values and interests. This talk contextualizes China’s growing presence at the United Nations by examining publicly available data on four metrics that gauge Beijing’s success in shaping the body. Those metrics are: funding for UN departments, programs, and initiatives; staffing of executive-level personnel positions; voting in the UN General Assembly and UN…

Speaker: Shuang Lu, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Central Florida Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work Urbanization has prompted worldwide family migration. This study examines the psychosocial impact of rural-to-urban migration on youth in China, a fast-urbanizing country with 268 million rural migrant workers and 103 million migrant youth. Using a multisystemic resilience framework, this talk discusses how risks and resilience are embodied in the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and…

Speaker: John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (Seoul); Chair of International Studies, Yonsei Underwood International College; Director, Yonsei Centre on Oceania Studies Moderator: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia; Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on…

Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Art and Technology: Early “Animal Style” Gold Artifacts Found in Northwest China and the Eurasian steppes” Speaker: Yan (Fiona) Liu, Columbia University / Northwestern Polytechnical University (China) Time: March 3, 2023 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. **Please see Seminar Safety Guidelines for attendance information. Precious metals recently discovered from the Dongtalede cemetery in the Xinjiang Altai region and other burial sites in northwest…

Immerse yourself in the Chinese language this summer! Join the Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement and head instructors from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures on Monday, March 6th, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM as we discuss this virtual Summer 2023 program. This intensive virtual Chinese language program offers all levels of Chinese, from elementary to advanced. Classes will be taught by the faculty from the Columbia Chinese Language Program, who will offer live, highly interactive instruction.…

REGISTER The Center on Global Economy and Govenrance, the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program (CWP), and the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute will host Simon Commander (Altura Partners and IE Business School in Madrid) and Saul Estrin (LSE) for a discussion of their book, The Connections World: The Future of Asian Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Asia’s development model has depended on industrial policy to support new sectors along with a common reliance on large and powerful business groups. These groups use close and…