Announcing the 2024 Fall CSCC Research Grant Recipients
CSCC is pleased to announce the accepted proposals for the 2024-2025 CSCC Research Grants (Submission deadline: November 1, 2024). Please see below the list of grant recipients: Community Service Project Grant Faculty Research & Creative Activity Grant
Featured Student: Nicolás Velasco Pérez
Nicolás (Nico) Velasco Pérez is a Class of 2025 Political Economy student from Medellín, Colombia. In November 15-16, 2024, he attended the US-China Hong Kong Forum co-hosted by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) in partnership with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE). Nico spoke at the forum’s first-ever “Spotlight on Youth” Keynote […]
Featured Faculty: Yu Wang
Editors: Chi Zhang & Jingxuan Zhuge, Class of 2025 Dr. Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Duke Kunshan University. She was one of the founding co-directors of the CSCC and is currently a co-lead for the CSCC Care and Gender Cluster. Dr. Wang has a rich academic background, with her research focusing […]
Sino-International Collegiate Moot Court League – Get Involved!
Background & Purpose:The Sino-International Collegiate Moot Court League is a student-led initiative that builds on the successful launch of the First Sino-International Collegiate Moot Court at Duke Kunshan University in Spring 2024. This effort, spearheaded by the DKU Pre-Law Society in collaboration with Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), aims to foster intellectual exchange and cross-campus collaboration among Sino-international universities […]
Electric China: The Origins of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1937
On the 28th of October, the Meanings, Identities and Communities Cluster were honored to have hosted Dr Ghasssan Moazzin and his talk “Electric China: The Origins of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1937.” Dr Moazzin is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Humanities […]
Featured Student: Juntian Shen
Juntian Shen, a Global Health major from Duke Kunshan University’s Class of 2025, is one of the student leaders of the CSCC Faculty-Student Collaborative Project titled “Management of Multimorbidity among Community Residents with Hypertension and Diabetes in China”. Under the guidance of Prof. Lijing Yan, Juntian is dedicated to addressing critical health issues in China. […]
Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital Center
By Zu (Zuo Rui) Gan, Class of 2025 On the 9th of October, the CSCC Meanings, Identities and Communities cluster were privileged to have hosted “Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital Center”. The talk was done over Zoom by Professor Harriet Evans. Professor Evans is a Professor Emerita of Chinese Cultural […]
Gift to the CSCC
Dr. Baozhen Maggie Luo-Hermanson 罗宝珍 has gifted the artwork Mountains beyond Mountains 山外有山 by Chinese Zen Ink and Wash Artist Moxuanzi 墨轩子(本名严家祥)to the Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC) as she concludes her co-directorship between May 2022 and December 2024. Dr. Luo-Hermanson’s key contributions include articulating the “China Center Within China” identity, establishing […]
Event Recap: CSCC Open House Event
By Yue Zhang, Jingxuan Zhuge, Shanshan Wu & Chi Zhang The Center for the Study of Contemporary China successfully held its first Open House on October 10 in IB3021, its recently revamped community space. The event gathered scholars and students who share research interests in China-related studies. It featured insightful presentations from the center’s six […]
Featured Faculty: Nellie Chu
By Yue Zhang, Class of 2025 Dr. Nellie Chu is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University, where her extensive scholarship in cultural anthropology focuses on the interstices of labor, gender, and transnational capitalism. As an active member of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, she co-leads the Care and Gender […]