Podcasts

27th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Every Rock a Universe - The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2015

How to Commit to the Traumatic Past: Knowledge and Book Space in Ding Yaokang’s A Sequel to Plum in the Golden Vase
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015

When Urban Mass Transit is More than a Means of Transportation: Cultural Intimacy, Civility, and Identity on Taiwan’s MRTs
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015

China’s First National Critique: The 1954 Campaign to “Discuss the Draft Constitution”
Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2015

Innovation and Invention: Transformations in the Art of Tang Poetry
Posted: Monday, December 01, 2014

Umbrellas and Sunflowers: Student Movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan
Posted: Monday, November 17, 2014

Rural Women and China's Disappearing Collective Past
Posted: Monday, November 17, 2014

What is Necessary for Civility to Develop? A Comparative Study of Taiwan and the PRC
Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014

Two Types of Moral Instruction in Taiwan
Posted: Thursday, November 13, 2014

2014 Sammy Lee Lecture Seminar
Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2014

27th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Posted: Thursday, November 06, 2014

The End(s) of Compassion? Buddhist Charity and the State in Taiwan
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2014

Veils of Global Health: the Visual Politics of the Cigarette Industry in and outside of China
Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Global Religious Changes and Social Life in China and Taiwan
Posted: Monday, October 13, 2014

Capital Redefined: Beijing as the Center of Time and Space and Its Imagined Other
Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality
Posted: Friday, May 23, 2014

"Assignment China: Tiananmen Square" and “25 Years since Tiananmen: Then and Now”
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014

The Late Tang Geography of Power
Posted: Friday, May 16, 2014

Chinese Ancient Faience and Glass Beads
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2014

Film Stars in the Perspective of Performance Studies: Play, Liminality, and Alteration in Chinese Cinema
Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sailing from China: Recentering World Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2014

Fans and their Audiences in Late 19th century Shanghai: The Urban Bird-and-Flower Fan Paintings of Ren Bonian (1840-1896)
Posted: Tuesday, April 15, 2014

China's New Demographic Reality: Learning from the 2010 Census
Lecture by Yong Cai, University of North Carolina
Posted: Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Chemical Compositions: Industrial Anxiety, Epistemological Uncertainty, and the Question of Authenticity in Modern China
Talk by Eugenia Lean, Columbia University
Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Environmental Protection and the Rule of Law in China
Talk by Alex Wang, UCLA Law School
Posted: Monday, March 03, 2014

Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1971
Talk by Andrew G. Walder, Stanford University
Posted: Friday, February 28, 2014

A Brief Look at Taiwan Films: History, Identity and Recent Development
Lecture by Peggy Chiao, Taipei National University of the Arts
Posted: Friday, February 28, 2014

Round Table With Director Arvin Chen
Discussion with Arvin Chen
Posted: Friday, February 28, 2014

Human Kinds and Animal Species in Early Modern China
Talk by Yuming He, UC Davis
Posted: Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Traditional Taiwanese Opera Demonstration and Discussion
Lecture and Performance by Ms. Liao Chiung-chih
Posted: Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Farewell Speech of King Wen of the Zhou: A New Discussion of the "Baoxun" Text Among the Bamboo Manuscripts in the Collections of Tsinghua University ???????:?????????«??»???
Talk by Professor Lin Zhipeng, Fudan University
Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The "Taoist School" of the Warring States Period: A Framework and Outline for Its Study ??????“??”:????????
Talk by Professor Lin Zhipeng, Fudan University
Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014

The Social Influence of Chinese Lawyers and Its Development in the Last Three Decades
Talk by Mr. Peng Xuefeng, Chairman and Founder of Dacheng Law Offices
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Buddhism in the Writings of Tao Hongjing (456-536)
Lecture by Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Arizona State University
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A Counterhistory of Chinese Money
Talk by Tamara Chin, Associate Professor of Literature, Yale-NUS, beginning 2014
Posted: Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Repression Backfires: Tactical Radicalization and Protest Spectacle in Rural China
Talk by Kevin O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013

From Political Theory to Administrative Reality: Researching Late Imperial Chinese Official Handbooks and Working Aids
Lecture by Pierre-Étienne Will, Chair of History of Modern China, Collège de France
Posted: Friday, November 08, 2013

Late Imperial Chinese Official Handbooks and Working Aids: The Legal Dimension
Lecture by Pierre-Étienne Will, Chair of History of Modern China, Collège de France
Posted: Friday, November 08, 2013

26th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Yuan: Chinese Architecture, Mongol Patrons, Asian Archaeology
Posted: Monday, November 04, 2013

Between the Eagle and the Dragon: Economics and Security in Australia in the new millennium
Talk by David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Posted: Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Inner and Outer Aspects of Daoist Visual Culture
Talk by Shih-shan Susan Huang, Rice University
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The China Fallacy : How the U.S. Can Benefit from China's Rise and Avoid Another Cold War
Book talk by Donald Gross, Senior Associate of Pacific Forum CSIS
Posted: Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Music of Guqin
Lecture and Performance of Guqin by Dai Wei, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013

Flowers, Fragrance, and Porcelain Wares in the Cultural History of Song China ?????????
A Talk by Yang Zhishui ??? on 05/28/2013 Presented in Chinese
Posted: Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Unfolding the Principle of Color Decoration in Yingzao Fashi, a 12th Century’s Chinese Imperial Building Standard
A talk by Luke Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing on May 20th, 2013.
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Public Lecture by Leading Scholar of Ancient Chinese Culture, Professor Li Ling
This talk is part of the “China Beyond the Headlines” lecture series, generously supported by Mr. Stephen Lesser on May 21st, 2013.
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013

Double Feature Lecture: Prof. Feng Shi and Prof. Miao Zhe
Natural Color and Philosophical Color: A Study on the Origin of the Theory of the Relation between Colors and Directions in China by Feng Shi (Institute of Archaeology, CASS) From the Lingguang Palace to the Wu Liang Shrine Some Traces of the Imperial Art from the Late Western Han and Early Eastern Han Periods by Miao Zhe (Zhejiang University)
Posted: Thursday, March 14, 2013

The Rights Movement and Civic Engagement in China Today: A Conversation with Teng Biao
This podcast is presented in Chinese. In 2003 Teng Biao was one of the “Three Doctors of Law” who complained to the National People’s Congress about unconstitutional detentions of internal migrants in the widely known “Sun Zhigang Case.”
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Archaeological Landscapes of the Lu City: Memory and Landscape Transformation in Early China
A talk on the results from the archaeological survey project on Lu City by Li Min.
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay
The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text––perhaps the first written document in human history––and was originally used exclusively as an oracle. Three thousand years old, the I Ching is one of the most revered books in Chinese literature, and it has inspired the most eminent Chinese scholars throughout history.
Posted: Friday, November 16, 2012

Low Carbon Development in China: Fitting Global Climate Norms to National Policymaking Institutions
A podcast talk by Eric Zusman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), on climate change reform policy efforts in China.
Posted: Friday, November 16, 2012

How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
A public lecture by Dr. Michael Lackner. The presentation will shed some light on possible precedents of this new form of diagrams and give an introduction into the multi-faceted functioning of diagrams on the basis of selected material.
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012

The New People in the People’s Republic: Protesters in Housing Disputes in Urban China, 1980-2010
Professor Qin SHAO examines urban protestors and their evolving identities by exploring what was demolished in old neighborhoods and what, besides highrises, has risen in their ruins.
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2012

Commerce and Classics: Sino-Japanese Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century
A podcast of a presentation given December 12, 2007, by Benjamin Elman, on the intellectual impact of late imperial Chinese classicism, medicine and science in Tokugawa Japan by way of reconsidering early modern Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1700-1850.
Posted: Sunday, January 20, 2008

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