The Graduate Student presentations will have a duration of 40 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Attendance is open and does not require registration. This is an in-person event.
Jing Zhou's research on ancient Chinese glass mainly focused on glass from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty. Jing Zhou proposed that the objects inlaid with glass beads during the Warring States period represented the high level of craftsmanship in the pre-Qin period.
In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s.
A cyclical model of the communist system was put forward by Myron Rush in his research on the USSR. Rush proposed that the political system of the USSR comprised a mix of dictatorship and “collective leadership,” or, between personal rule and oligarchy.
Thomas Gold was a member of the first group of American government-sponsored exchange students to China from February 1979 through February 1980. This was just months after the Chinese Communist Party reoriented its work to economic development and opening to the outside world.
China is becoming the first country since the USSR that could challenge the US-dominated world order. China spends a huge amount on public diplomacy to influence international opinions, as much as $8 billion per year on direct outreach or four times the figure of the US.
