Featured Faculty | Annemieke van den Dool
Edited by Jiaxin Shi & Jiangxuan Zhuge, Class of 2025 Chickens, viruses, and politics… Blizzard as the combination may be, it is exactly what we have right now. For centuries, live poultry has been a regular in the local markets of China. However, given the potential threat to public health, health experts have proposed to […]
Announcing the 2022 Fall CSCC Student Research Grant Recipients
CSCC is pleased to announce the accepted proposals for the Call for Applications: 2022 Fall CSCC Student Research Grant (submission deadline: September 30, 2022). The grant recipients are listed as below: Fan Liang Algorithmic Sovereignty and Data Localization ⋙⋘ Jiahua Yue & Mia Meier Diversionary Diplomacy? The Weight of US-China Relations in the 2022 US […]
Featured Student | Xiao(Anne) Liu
Xiao(Anne) Liu is a senior student majoring in Media and Arts in the Art History track. Starting from the Summer of 2020, Ben Van Overmeire, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at DKU, proposed a research project titled Zen and the Art of Detection. With funding obtained firstly from the UG Office and later from the […]
Student Report | Ascension 登楼叹: Documentary Screening with Filmmaker
By Zishuo Wu, Class of 2024 This article was originally published on the HRC website on October 2, 2022. Tonight’s first screening in this academic year, Ascension (Kingdon, 2021) is an Oscar-nominated American documentary depicting class inequality in China. After screening the splendid realistic observational documentary, the producer of Ascension, Maggie Li, was invited to […]
Featured Student | Yongkang Chen
Yongkang Chen is a senior student majoring in GCULS in the World Literature track. As a student researcher, he has been working closely with Prof. Yitzhak Lewis on his CSCC student research project 100 Years of Yiddish Literature in China. The project is an edited collection of Chinese writings about Jewish literature over the past […]
Congratulations to Dr. Jason Douglas Todd for the publication of award-winning article in American Political Science Review
Our very best congratulations to Dr. Jason Douglas Todd, on his recently published paper titled Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam in American Political Science Review! This paper, coauthored with Dr. Edmund Malesky of Duke University and Dr. Anh Tran of Indiana University, has also won the 2021 Best […]
Congratulations to Dr. Yachao Sun for His Recently Published Paper in Language Teaching Research
Congratulations to Dr. Yachao Sun on his recent publication in Language Teaching Research. Title: Implementation of translingual pedagogies in EAL writing: A systematic review Abstract Translingual pedagogies have been proposed and implemented to respond to the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in today’s classrooms. However, the findings of translingual pedagogies on English as an additional […]
Student Report | Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
By Maya Peak, Class of 2025 The Center for the Study of Contemporary China was honored to co-host Assistant Professor Victor Seow from Harvard University’s History of Science Department for the Carbon Technocracy seminar on September 8. During his presentation, Seow introduced three main interventions: energy transitions and the modern state, imperial industrialization and the […]
Student Report: Freshman Orientation to Social Science
By Yiwei Zhang & Zhenshan Zhang, Class of 2026 The Fifth Annual Freshman Orientation to Social Science was given by three professors who are experts in various fields of social science, respectively focusing on fieldwork, big data, surveys. Organized by the Center for the Study of Contemporary China yearly , the event aims to provide […]
Call for Papers: Mysticism Colloqium
In Orientalism and Religion, Richard King provides a genealogy of the term “mysticism,” arguing that this term is both “socially constructed” and “the conceptual site of a historical struggle for power and authority” (9). The label of “mysticism” has been applied to many practices and movements (religious or not) across many social and historical contexts. […]
