• Assignment China: Mike Chinoy & “Follow the Money”

    Skiles Classroom Bldg., Room 002 - Georgia Tech Atlanta, GA, United States

    How do we know what we know about China? The images most Americans hold of China were shaped by news coverage. Our multipart documentary series Assignment: China focuses on the journalists who have described the remarkable changes in China since the 1940s.  More information can be found here. Mike Chinoy, the distinguished former CNN Asia […]

  • Emory Colloquium: Dr. Tonio Andrade – “Gunpowder Warfare in Global History”

    Emory University, Modern Languages Room 201 GA, United States

    The Confucius Institute at Emory and the Russian & East Asian Language & Culture, and East Asian Studies present the 2016 Distinguished China Speaker and Colloquium Series: The Colloquium begins February 19th, with six more to follow throughout the spring semester.  See the flyer for the full schedule: Emory Spring 2016 Distinguished China Speakers February […]

  • Emory Colloquium Series: Keith Knapp “Filial Piety Tales in Pre-Modern China”

    Emory University Campus, White Hall room 111 GA, United States

    The Confucius Institute at Emory and the Russian & East Asian Language & Culture, and East Asian Studies present the 2016 Distinguished China Speaker and Colloquium Series: The Colloquium runs from February 19th until April 21, 2016.  See the flyer for the full schedule: Emory Spring 2016 Distinguished China Speakers Keith Knapp, Citadel Military College, […]

  • China Research Center 2016 Annual Lecture: Dr. William Kirby, Harvard University

    Gordy Room at the William C. Wardlaw Jr. Center on Georgia Tech Campus Atlanta, GA, United States

    China Research Center 2016 Annual Lecture Presented by Dr. William C. Kirby, Harvard University Title: “Can China Lead? Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, and Education in the 21st Century” If England and Germany set global standards in the 19th century, and the United States for much of the 20th century, what then are the prospects for Chinese leadership […]

  • U.S. China Policy under Trump

    Steven C. Hall Building 215 Bobby Dodd Way. Room 102, Atlanta, GA, United States

    A Risen China is an unprecedented challenge to American power and principles. Any president would have a hard time responding effectively to Beijing’s ambitions. The difficulty is compounded by the current political crisis, in which the post-WWII consensus about the interests and values that drive American foreign policy has been lost. China is taking advantage […]

  • Uneven Urbanization in China: Causes and Consequences

    Georgia Tech Bill Moore Student Success Center 225 North Ave. NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

    Forty years ago, China was “under urbanized’; less than 20% of the population lived in towns or cites and that percentage had not shifted for many decades. Today the majority of Chinese citizens live and work in urban settlements and China has more than 160 cities with a population of over one million. Market forces […]

  • Signs of the Times: Streetside Posters in Kunming, China, With John Israel

    Bullock Science Center at Agnes Scott College Teasley Lecture Hall | 298 E Dougherty St., Decatur, GA, United States

    John Israel, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1955) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard (1957, 1963).  His scholarly writing has focused upon students and higher education in 20th century China.  His magnum opus is Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution […]

  • The U.S.-China Rivalry: Is Trade War the Prelude of a New Cold War?

    Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, United States

    How to understand the current trade war between the PRC and the USA? How to assess the four decades old American policy of engaging and changing China? Is the Sino­ American relationship heading from trade war towards a new Cold War? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the rising Chinese power? This public lecture by […]

  • China’s Great Gamble: Can the Chinese Government Create a Technological Superpower?

    Georgia Tech Bill Moore Student Success Center 225 North Ave. NW, Atlanta, GA, United States

    Join for the China Research Center's Annual Lecture by Dr. Barry Naughton on January 24th. China’s Great Gamble: Can the Chinese Government Create a Technological Superpower? In its effort to maintain high-speed growth, China has stepped up government steerage and investment in high-tech industry. Increasingly, this has meant gambling on a new wave of untested […]

  • “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism”

    Webinar

    Presented by Dexter Roberts Moderated by Dr. John McIntyre Professor of Management & Founding Director of the Georgia Tech CIBER "The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The worker, the factory and the future of the world"  Abstract: As discussed in his new book The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Dexter Roberts will describe how surging income inequality, an unfair […]

  • 2020 China Breakfast Briefing

    Online

    The China Research Center, the Georgia State University Office of International Initiatives, and the Tennessee China Network invite you to join the 2020 China Breakfast Briefing.   Panelists will share updates on the business environment, with insights into the current social, economic, and political situations on the ground. Penelope Prime – Moderator Founding Director, China […]

  • Revitalizing the US-China Science Relationship in a New Administration

    Online

    The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs is hosting a virtual talk on January 15, 2021 from 10:00-11:15 am. Dr. Deborah Seligsohn from Villanova University will be speaking on “Revitalizing the US-China Relationship in a New Administration.” Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing will follow with remarks on science diplomacy in the US-China relationship.

  • China’s Digital Currency: Understanding its implications

    Virtual

    China's Digital Currency: Understanding its implications Learn about China’s launching of its digital yuan: How the digital yuan differs from cryptocurrency and other forms of electronic payments Motivations behind the development of China’s digital currency Ways the digital yuan may influence China’s financial development and global role How the new currency will affect business opportunities, […]

  • Virtual Event: The war in Ukraine: What it means for China

    Virtual event

    Virtual Event: The war in Ukraine: What it means for China   Moderator: Katherine Peavy, Editor, Export Compliance Manager Journal Panelists: Dr. Yawei Liu, Senior Advisor on China, The Carter Center, and Associate Director of the China Research Center Dr. John Wagner Givens, Associate Professor of International Studies, Spelman College, and Associate of the China Research […]

  • The Ladder of Success in Xi’s China: Competence? Connections? Virtue? A Hybrid Event

    Sweet Auburn Room, Exhibition Hall and Online

    Join China Research Center for the CRC Annual Lecture with Professor Melanie Manion, Duke University.A reception will be held before the presentation.  This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, The Carter Center, and the Nunn School Program in Global Development. Professor Manion is the Vor […]

  • China’s Challenge and America’s Response

    Buckhead Room, Exhibition Hall, Georgia Tech 460 Fourth Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia

    Fei-Ling Wang will discuss his new book The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders, which analyzes the global competition for power and leadership between the US-led West and the People’s Republic of China. Examining the nature, aims, means, accomplishments, pitfalls and failures of Beijing’s foreign policy and the state of and developments in Sinology and the […]

  • Zhou Enlai and His Times

    Kirkwood Room, Exhibition Hall, Georgia Institute of Technology 460 4th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia

    A Talk with Dr. Chen Jian Dr. Chen Jian is Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, New York University and NYU-Shanghai. He also holds Hu Shih Professor of History Emeritus at Cornell University and Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His most recent book is Zhou Enlai: A Life (Harvard University Press, 2024). […]

  • From Enemies to “Tacit Allies:” Zhou Enlai and Sino-American Relations

    Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum 453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway, NE, Atlanta, Georgia

    A Book Talk with Dr. Chen Jian Dr. CHEN Jian is the Director of the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy and Culture, Distinguished Global Network Professor of History at NYU Shanghai and NYU, Hu Shih Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, Zijiang Distinguished Visiting Professor at East China Normal University, and Global Fellow at […]