The intense campaign of internment, imprisonment, surveillance, birth suppression, forced labor and cultural erasure by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang since 2017 has drawn international attention to the plight of Uyghurs and other non-Han natives of Xinjiang and brought on international
Construction workers in both Beijing and Delhi face challenging working and living conditions. In my ethnographic study, I find that Beijing workers are more likely and able to self-organize and fight against precarious conditions.
Biography: Ke Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. Her research focuses on law, legal professions, courts, and contentious politics, and women’s rights in contemporary China.
Abstract: In 1959, Taiwan dispatched its first overseas agricultural assistance mission to the Republic of Vietnam. Consisting of highly decorated agricultural scientists and young farmers recruited from rural Taiwan, the Taiwanese development teams planted demonstrati
In this symposium, a panel of experts will discuss how Hong Kong’s civil society organizations, mass media, and the diaspora have adapted and transformed in the wake of the National Security Law.
Xu Bing is a visual artist internationally recognized for his experiments with written script in a wide variety of media. Xu has received the MacArthur Fellowship, Fukuoka Asian Culture Award, Artes Mundi Prize and the U.S. State Department Medal of Arts.
The highly acclaimed Chinese artist Xu Bing created the movie Dragonfly Eyes out of thousands of hours of footage from surveillance cameras and live-streaming sites.
EAS is happy to welcome Dr. Yang Hu from Lancaster University, UK to present his talk titled, "(Un)making occupational gender segregation: Parents' occupational characteristics and adolescents' gendered occupational aspirations in China."
Dr. Emily Hannum (UPenn) presents her talk titled, "Gender, Multi-Context Childhood Poverty, and Long-term Educational Attainment in China's Rural Northwest".
