The Birth of Century: Chinese Thought at the Dawn of the Pacific Twentieth Century (WANG Hui, Tsinghua University)

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Thursday, April 18, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Academic Building West Room 4050
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures , China Research Project, Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, and

Experiencing China's Energy Transition with Jia Zhangke's Miner Characters (Xingming Wang, Rutgers University)

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Monday, April 15, 2024
4:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Ruth Adams Building 207 (Douglass Campus)
Event Type: China Classroom
This is part of Lissa Crane's class, "Anthropology of China." The talk is open to the public. Everybody is welcome. It is generously co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. Abstract From Platform

Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Christopher Marquis, University of Cambridge, UK)

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Rutgers Academic Building West Room 5050
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This hybrid talk is funded by Center for Global Work & Employment. It is open to the public. Registration is not required for in-person attendance. Registration is required for Zoom

Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (Jesse Rodenbiker, Rutgers)

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Monday, April 8, 2024
4:00 PM - 11:59 PM
Ruth Adams Building, room 207
Event Type: China Classroom
This talk is part of Lissa Crane's class, "Anthropology of China." It is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global and is open to the public. Abstract Ecological States examines ecological policies in

The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Chris Suh, Emory University)

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Friday, March 29, 2024
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Academic Building-West, Room 6051

This event is organized by Global Asias: A School of Arts and Sciences Initiative with the Cold War Asias Graduate Student Working Group, and co-sponsored by the Department of History,

Chinese Music and Theatre in the Americas--Chinese Diaspora in Cuba and the Caribbean (Rutgers faculty in dialogue with a guest speaker)

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
4:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Zoom webinar (registration required)

This is Part I of for the Year of Languages - Languages of the Arts series of conversations on the interdisciplinary potential of thinking through languages, area studies, and the

Essay contest due

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Sunday, March 17, 2024
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

We are inviting Rutgers students, both graduate and undergraduate, to submit your paper to our first essay contest. There are several awards for the best papers: $300 for 1st prize,

Slavery and Its Medieval Abolitionisms: China Contrasted to Europe (Don Wyatt, Middlebury College)

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
4:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Academic Building-West, Room 6051

RCCS is co-hosting this talk with Global Medieval Studies . Description During the age of their intersecting eras of medievalism, from approximately the years 500 to 1500 of the Common

Common Prosperity for Rural China: How the Rural-Urban Divide Threatens China’s Rise (Scott Rozelle, Stanford University)

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Monday, March 4, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rutgers Academic Building West Wing Room 6051
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This hybrid talk is co-sponsored by Center for Global Work & Employment, Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics, and Rutgers Global. It is open to the public. Click here

An Archaeological Approach to Collaboration and Competition in Hunter Gatherer Societies: Chinese Sites (Ilaria Patania, Rutgers University)

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Monday, March 4, 2024
2:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Ruth Adams Building 207 (Douglass Campus)
Event Type: China Classroom
This is part of Lissa Crane's class, "Anthropology of China." The talk is open to the public. Everybody is welcome. It is generously co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. Abstract In this

Spatiocide as Spectacle: The Symbolic Violence of Development in Xinjiang (Lauren Restrepo, Bryn Mawr College)

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Monday, February 26, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Ruth Adams Building 207 (Douglass Campus)
Event Type: China Classroom
This is part of Lissa Crane's class, "Anthropology of China." The talk is open to the public. Everybody is welcome. It is generously co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. Abstract This talk

Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea (Shuchen Xiang, Xidian University 西电大学, China)

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Thursday, February 22, 2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Zoom (registration required)
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This Zoom talk is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register. Abstract : This talk is based on Shuchen Xiang's (项舒晨) recently published book Chinese

Photography blog contribution due

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Monday, February 12, 2024
4:30 PM - 11:59 PM

RCCS is soliciting pictures from Rutgers students, undergraduate and graduate, on memorable moments when you traveled to China or other Chinese-speaking world in Asia or anywhere else within the last

The Philosophy of Reading: Interpretation and Hermeneutics in Classical China (Michael Puett, Harvard University)

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Thursday, February 1, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Academic Building-West, Room 6051

This talk is organized by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures . Description Over the course of the classical Chinese tradition, an extraordinarily complex set of debates developed around

The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China (Ya-Wen Lei, Harvard University)

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Zoom (registration not required)
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
Update : due to unexpected train delay, this talk will now be online, at the same time. Click here for the Zoom link . No registration required. We apologize for

Bridging Chinese History and Latin American History in Cold War Studies: Past and Present (Jian Ren, Rutgers History)

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
1:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Van Dyck Hall Room 301, CAC
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This event is hosted by Center for Latin American Studies . Lunch will be provided. Here's the link to register . Abstract Over the past decade, the study of ties

Ecological States: A Book Forum

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Friday, October 27, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Zoom (registration required)
Event Type: China Lunch Hour
This forum is co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, Global Asias Initiative, and Rutgers Global. It's open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register . Abstract

Global China and Infrastructure Power: The techno-politics of the ‘China Model’ of development (Timothy Oakes, University of Colorado Boulder)

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Lucy Stone Hall B-120 (LSH-B120, LIV), Livingston Campus
Event Type: "Speaking of China" Lecture
This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global and the Department of Geography. It is open to the public and light lunch will be provided to all attendees. Abstract China’s expansive

Chinese-English Keywords Project Workshop

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Rutgers Academic Building West Wing Room 6051

This event is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global. It is by invitation only. Participants need to be bilingual (English and Chinese). Dinner will be provided. If you are interested, please contact

Terror Capitalism: Producing the "Terrorist-Worker" in Northwest China (Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University, Canada)

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Thursday, October 19, 2023
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom (registration not needed)
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RCCS is co-sponsoring this Zoom talk, hosted by the Department of Anthropology. Registration is NOT needed. Click here for the Zoom link (Meeting ID: 311 249 3330; Password: 011884). Abstract