Videos

In this talk, Joseph Harroff presents Zhao Tingyang's creative readaptation of the "All-Under-Heavens" (tianxia 天下) ideal of a ritually federated, world-inclusive order. It was recorded on Nov. 18, 2020.

In this presentation, Yifeng Troy Can (Brown University) talks about the complex and unexpected ways sex, money, and social norms play in the lives of a certain segment of gays in Shanghai. The Zoom talk, moderated by Louisa Schein (Rutgers Anthropology and Women's & Gender Studies), was recorded on Nov. 11, 2020. Here is a recap of the talk.

In this talk, Yao LIN (Yale Law School) examines the puzzling phenomenon that many Chinese liberal intellectuals fervently idolize Donald Trump and embrace the alt-right ideologies he epitomizes. This Zoom talk was held on Oct. 30, 2020.

In this talk, Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma) discusses the sensibilities informing the early Confucian commitment to li, a body of practices that include what we call manners and civility. She focuses especially on ways that Confucian treatments of li can be adapted to understand current civic and community struggles. This Zoom talk was held on Oct. 22, 2020.

In this talk, Avery Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania) offered an informative analysis of the underlying structural challenges facing the US-China relations and provided a sobering assessment of its trajectory. The presentation was followed by Q&A from the audience. Xian HUANG (Political Science, Rutgers) moderated the Zoom talk which was held on Oct. 14, 2020. Here is a recap of the talk.  

In this talk, Tongdong BAI (Fudan University, China) offers a critique of the one-person-one-vote ideal in democracy and tries to make the case for a hybrid regime that contains both democratic and meritocratic elements from a Confucian perspective. The Zoom talk was held on Oct. 8, 2020.

In this talk, held on Oct. 1, 2020, David Goodman (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China) examines the social backgrounds of China's political and economic elites and suggests that contemporary China remains far from a system dominated by capitalists. The questions are fielded by Louisa Schein (Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies). Click here for a recap of the talk.  

In a conversation on September 25, 2020, facilitated by Tao Jiang (RCCS director, Religion Department) and Tanja Sargent (Graduate School of Education), Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer-Prize winner and one of the most prominent Western journalists on China, talked about the many facets of his life and experience as a journalist in China over 20 years. Click here for a recap of the conversation.