Anthropologist Rose From Outcast to Academic
Now a professor of anthropology and co-director of Chinese studies at UCLA, Yan Yunxiang has returned many times to northeastern China to conduct fieldwork in Xiajia, where he lived for seven years as an ordinary farmer.
Posted: 10/1/2008
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
A talk by Rebecca Morse (Assistant Curator, MOCA) **
May 28, 2008 **
2 - 3:30 pm
Posted: 5/18/2008
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music & Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Posted: 4/4/2008
UCLA Faculty Research on China: Hongyin Tao
Professor Tao is doing pathbreaking work in Chinese linguistics and language teaching
Posted: 2/29/2008
UCLA Faculty Research on China: Professor Virginia C. Li
"Going to China is for testing methodologies, not just for projects"
Posted: 2/21/2008
China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution & Pitfalls of Reform
A talk by Mark Selden
Posted: 2/15/2008
Chinese Villagers Kept a World Apart
Even after reforms, China's policies put rural people in the position of second-class citizens, explains Mark Selden.
Posted: 2/14/2008
UCLA Faculty Research on China: Professor C. Cindy Fan
Professor Fan (Department of Geography) explores internal migration in China
Posted: 2/1/2008
"The Hurricane": First screening in the Chinese Independent Documentary Film Series
"The Hurricane" is a reinvestigation of the communist Land Reform (1946-1953). This documentary, in the form of a grassroots oral history, presents villages in Northeast China, who speak from memory, giving accounts of manipulation, injustice, and cruelty.
Posted: 1/18/2008
Eugenia Lean, UCLA Alumna, Wins Prize for Best Book in East Asian History
Professor Lean's book explores the role of the media and public sympathy in a sensational murder case
Posted: 12/27/2007
China's Long-Term Approach to Africa
A South African scholar shares her perspective on China's investments in the continent.
Posted: 11/12/2007
China's Information Revolution
A talk by Kate Zhou (University of Hawaii)
Posted: 11/8/2007
Bringing Public Health to Qinghai
A profile of graduate student Kunchok Gyaltsen
Posted: 6/21/2007
Visuality & Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific
Professor Shu-mei Shih's new, pathbreaking book
Posted: 6/20/2007
Engendering a New Working Class: Social Trauma and Labor Resistance in China
A talk by Pun Ngai
Posted: 5/24/2007
