Event report on “Between Families and Institutions: Rethinking Mental Health Governance and Building Peer Support in China”
By Feifei Luo, Class of 2027 On September 15th, 2025, the Cluster for Gender and Global China hosted a guest lecture by Dr. Zhiying Ma from the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice at the University of Chicago, bringing together DKU faculty and students to discuss her new book, Between Families and […]
Sweet Summer Finale at Yangcheng Lake
By Johann Asmus León, Class of 2026, Co-Founder and Beekeeper of the DKU Hive Minds Beekeeping Club Before the summer heat finally slips away, a group of 14 DKU students made one last trip out to Yangcheng Lake to visit our favorite beekeeper, Aping. The day hit 30 degrees, but the bees didn’t seem to […]
Global Frontier Nexus Field Trip
On Friday September 5th, 2025, Computational Microeconomics and Machine Learning for Social Science Prof. Luyao Zhang and Global Media and Communication Prof. Fan Liang converged their classes (COMSCI/ECON 206, STATS 201, and MEDIA 203) for a field trip titled Global Frontier Nexus Field Trip. The field trip addressed salient topics in all three classes, all […]
Event Recap: Dr. Yi Zhang on Regulatory and Safety Challenges of LLMs in Chinese Hospitals
By Nguyen Yen Vy Le, Class of 2026 | Edited by Chi Zhang On 5 September 2025, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, in collaboration with the Digital Innovation Research Center, hosted a guest lecture by Yi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Health Law at Tsinghua University’s Vanke School of Public Health. Prof. Zhang, […]
Event Recap: Dr. Yu Sun on Environmental Data as a Relational Mediator of Contentious Publicness
By Zihan Chen, Class of 2026 On August 19, 2025, the Center for the Study of Contemporary China hosted Dr. Yu Sun for an insightful lecture on the strategic application of data technologies such as software, data hacking, visualization and crowdsourcing, to advance social justice. The main part of the talk was about the Institute […]
Featured Faculty: Kim Hunter Gordon
By Violet Nguyen, Class of 2028 Prof. Kim Hunter Gordon is an Assistant Professor of Chinese and Performance Studies at Duke Kunshan University. He has over a decade of experience in stage translation for Kunqu and actively participates in the avocational singing circuit in China. At DKU, he currently leads two CSCC-funded projects: “Kunqu in […]
Featured Student: Hannah McGee
Interviewed and Edited by Chi Zhang & Shanshan Wu, Class of 2026 Hannah McGee, an undergraduate student from Dartmouth College, spent the Spring 2025 semester at Duke Kunshan University as a visiting research student. From March to May, she worked closely with Professor Fan Liang, lead of the CSCC Digital Technology and Society Cluster, contributing […]
Featured Faculty: Sajida Tuxun
Sajida Tuxun is a Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University and a member of the CSCC Meanings, Identities, and Communities Cluster. Her research focuses on the intersection of food, ethics, and consumerism in urban China, with broader interests in globalization, gender, ethnicity, and mobility. Through the lens of food anthropology, her work examines […]
Event Recap | A Cross-Border Dialogue on Governance
By Jiayi Wei, Class of 2026 On June 21, the Governance in China and Beyond Conference was successfully held on the DKU campus. Co-hosted by two academic clusters under the Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC)—Governing China and China and the Global South—the forum brought together eight distinguished scholars from leading institutions including […]
Featured Student: Wanlin Bai
Editors: Chi Zhang & Shanshan Wu, Class of 2026 Wanlin Bai is an economics student at Duke Kunshan University with a strong passion for poverty alleviation and rural development. She is dedicated to promoting technological adoption among elderly individuals in rural areas and has been recognized as a “changemaker,” aspiring to bring positive transformation to […]
