Events

Past Events

Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything (Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago)

Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything (Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago)

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Thursday, October 23, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Religion and Rutgers Global. This talk will also be available for Zoom streaming. Click here to register. Abstract : Buddha-nature, according to
Repression Beyond Repressive Measures: Digital Authoritarianism in China as a Collaborated Project (Zhifan Luo, McMaster University, Canada)

Repression Beyond Repressive Measures: Digital Authoritarianism in China as a Collaborated Project (Zhifan Luo, McMaster University, Canada)

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Friday, October 17, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Zoom (registration required)
Event Type: China Lunch Hour
This is an online event through Zoom. Everybody is welcome, but registration is required. Click here to register. Abstract To date, studies on the resilience of digital authoritarianism in China
Placing Racial Capitalism: South African Genealogies, Chinese Difference (Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College)

Placing Racial Capitalism: South African Genealogies, Chinese Difference (Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College)

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Friday, October 10, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Tillet Hall, Room 246, Livingston Campus

RCCS is co-sponsoring this talk which is hosted by the Department of Geography. Abstract : Since the turn of the millennium, the return of the People’s Republic of China to

C. T. Hsia’s English Essays During His Yale Years (Ji Jin, Soochow University, China)

C. T. Hsia’s English Essays During His Yale Years (Ji Jin, Soochow University, China)

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Thursday, October 9, 2025
5:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Academic Building West Room 5140
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RCCS is co-sponsoring this talk, organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures . Abstract This lecture examines twenty-four newly uncovered English essays by C. T. Hsia during his
Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 (1130–1200) Theory of Emotions (Ya ZUO, University of California Santa Barbara)

Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 (1130–1200) Theory of Emotions (Ya ZUO, University of California Santa Barbara)

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Thursday, October 2, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. Everybody is welcome. Abstract Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200), celebrated as a prominent synthesizer of Neo-Confucianism, is well known for developing a theory that
Literary Northeast and South China: Geography, Topography, Cartography

Literary Northeast and South China: Geography, Topography, Cartography

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Monday, September 29, 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 4052
Event Type: Workshops

RCCS is co-sponsoring this workshop hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Workshop-Literary_Northeast_and_South_China.pdf

Dominant Strategies of Individuals and Organizations and their Social Contexts (Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago)

Dominant Strategies of Individuals and Organizations and their Social Contexts (Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago)

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Thursday, September 25, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work and Employment and Rutgers Global. Abstract : This talk introduces an important theory in evolutionary biology: the r/K strategy theory.
Religious Change in Post-Mao China (Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University, China)

Religious Change in Post-Mao China (Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University, China)

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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 4052
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RCCS is co-sponsoring this talk hosted by the Department of Religion. Abstract : This talk presents insights from a forthcoming book that synthesizes two decades of ethnographic, archival, and historical
How Not to Interpret a Text: in Classical China, for example (Michael Puett, Harvard University)

How Not to Interpret a Text: in Classical China, for example (Michael Puett, Harvard University)

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Thursday, September 18, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 4052

This talk is organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures . Michael_Puett_9.18_Lecture_Flyer.pdf

The Human Factor: Work as Science in Modern China (Victor Seow, Harvard University)

The Human Factor: Work as Science in Modern China (Victor Seow, Harvard University)

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Friday, May 9, 2025
11:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Academic Building-West, Room 4052
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RCCS is a co-sponsor of the talk. Everybody is welcome. Abstract In 1935, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely
Borderland as Literature (David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University)

Borderland as Literature (David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University)

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Monday, May 5, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Building-West, Room 4052
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RCCS is co-sponsoring the talk hosted by the Department of Asian languages and Cultures . Abstract This lecture seeks to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a geopolitical
Roundtable on Education, Social Location and Mobility: Insights from China and the US

Roundtable on Education, Social Location and Mobility: Insights from China and the US

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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Graduate School of Education, 10 Seminary Place, Room 124
Event Type: China Lunch Hour

This event is co-sponsored by Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and Rutgers Global. Lunch will be served. Description Moderator: Louisa Schein, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and

Confucian Power as Responsibility (Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong)

Confucian Power as Responsibility (Sungmoon Kim, City University of Hong Kong)

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West 6010
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This hybrid talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. Registration is required for Zoom streaming. Click here to register . Abstract Confucianism is commonly understood as a philosophical, ethical, and political
Two Lectures on Modern Chinese Literary Culture (in Chinese)

Two Lectures on Modern Chinese Literary Culture (in Chinese)

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Thursday, April 24, 2025
5:40 PM - 11:59 PM
Academic Building West Room 4052
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RCCS is co-sponsoring the following event hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Abstracts Talk One: The Interactive Relationship Between Modern Chinese Scholarship and Modern Literature —— Wang
16th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop

16th Annual Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop

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Saturday, April 19, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building W Room 6051
Event Type: Workshops
This workshop, founded and organized by Professor Wendy Swartz and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation, is a major academic forum for the exchange of ideas and the advancement
Left Melancholy: A Dialogue between Chen Yingzhen and Wang Anyi (Hang Tu, National University of Singapore)

Left Melancholy: A Dialogue between Chen Yingzhen and Wang Anyi (Hang Tu, National University of Singapore)

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
5:50 PM - 7:00 PM
Zoom
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RCCS is co-sponsoring the following talk on Zoom, hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Zoom link can be found in the following. Abstract This talk explores the
Seventh Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy

Seventh Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy

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Thursday, April 10, 2025
8:20 AM - 5:00 PM
Hageman Hall Conference Room at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Event Type: Workshops

The 7th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP) will take place in person on April 10-11, 2025. The theme this year is "Moral Conflict in Early Chinese Philosophy ." Scholars

7th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy

7th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Hageman Hall Conference Room at NBTS
Event Type: Workshops
We are grateful for the generosity of the Department of Religion which has provided most of the funding for this year's conference. We'd also like to express our gratitude to
Youth Unemployment and Underemployment in China and Its Political Implications (Yao LU, Columbia University)

Youth Unemployment and Underemployment in China and Its Political Implications (Yao LU, Columbia University)

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Work & Employment and Rutgers Global. Abstract: Youth unemployment and underemployment, especially among college graduates, have surged to unprecedented levels in
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Zheng He and the Chinese Overseas (Tansen Sen, NYU Shanghai/IAS)

Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Zheng He and the Chinese Overseas (Tansen Sen, NYU Shanghai/IAS)

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Thursday, March 27, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Academic Building West Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. It is open to the public. Abstract Zheng He (1371–1433) is the only eunuch to have been deified and venerated by the Chinese.