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舛友雄大（Takehiro Masutomo）
November 23 - 潤日：習政權下中國人「RUN」到日本的直擊調查報告｜Run-Ri: Chinese Migration and Japan’s Changing Attitudes
一股被稱為「潤日族」的新興中國中產與專業移民浪潮，正悄然改變日本。他們追求穩定、安全與教育自由，積極投資東京的高端房產、私校與初創企業。這一現象既引發欽佩，也帶來焦慮——反移民情緒與嚴格政策隨之上升。本次講座將探討「潤日」如何重塑日本的經濟與社會，並揭示全球不確定時代下的身份、不平等與自由議題。
A new wave of affluent and professional Chinese migrants—known as the “Run-Ri”—is quietly transforming Japan. Distinct from earlier generations, they seek stability, safety, and educational freedom while investing heavily in Tokyo’s luxury properties, private schools, and start-up ventures. Their growing presence has fueled both admiration and anxiety, leading to rising anti-immigration sentiment and tighter visa and property regulations. This talk explores how the “Run-Ri” phenomenon is reshaping Japan’s economy, society, and even its politics—revealing deeper questions about identity, inequality, and freedom of movement.
舛友雄大（Takehiro Masutomo），記者、早稻田大學兼職研究員，著有暢銷書《潤日》。曾任新加坡國立大學李光耀公共政策學院研究員，長期關注日本及東亞時事，為NHK廣播節目撰稿，並創辦播客節目《亞洲前線》。
Takehiro Masutomo is a quadrilingual journalist and adjunct researcher at Waseda University. He is the author of the bestseller Run Ri. He holds a Master’s in International Relations from UC San Diego, covered Japan-focused international news at Caixin, served at NUS’s Lee Kuan Yew School, contributes to NHK Radio’s My Asa!, and founded the podcast Asia Frontline.
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Shibani Mahtani & Timothy McLaughlin
November 20 - Among the Braves: the story of Hong Kong's democracy movement
This talk focuses on Among the Braves, a powerful chronicle of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement told through the eyes of two frontline journalists. Centered on four key activists, the book traces Hong Kong’s journey from the 1997 handover and the promise of “One Country, Two Systems” to the mass protests of 2019 and Beijing’s subsequent crackdown. Through intimate stories of courage, sacrifice, and resilience, it captures the spirit of a movement and asks what Hong Kong’s struggle means for the future of global democracy.
Shibani Mahtani is an international investigative correspondent for The Washington Post, covering the Asia-Pacific with a focus on human rights and government accountability. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal. Timothy McLaughlin is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek, The Nation, and Wired; a former Reuters reporter, he has received multiple awards for his coverage of Hong Kong.
Moderator for this talk, Can, is a cultural organizer based in D.C. He previously lived in Hong Kong and contributed commentary to independent outlets, including Stand News, Citizen News, and InMediaHK, focusing on the city’s political transformation and social movements.
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Rushan Abbas
November 19 - Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom
Join Rushan Abbas as she discusses her powerful memoir tracing her journey from student life in Ürümchi to global human rights advocacy. Interwoven with excerpts from her late father’s unpublished memoir, the book spans three generations of Uyghurs striving for freedom and dignity. Through personal testimony, Abbas exposes China’s authoritarian agenda and its global threat to democracy—revealing both the human cost of repression and the enduring pursuit of justice.
Rushan Abbas is the Founder and Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) and a leading advocate for Uyghur rights. After her sister’s unjust detention in 2018, she became a global voice for Uyghur freedom, briefing lawmakers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and EU. Her work has earned the Freedom Fighter Award (2019) and Huntington Her Hero Lifetime Achievement Award (2024). Under her leadership, CFU received the World Democracy Courage Tribute (2021) and Nobel Peace Prize nominations (2022, 2025).
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Alex Capri
November 14 - The Great Reorganization: How the U.S.-China tech-war is fragmenting and permanently reshaping the global economy
The world isn’t deglobalizing—it’s being reshaped by U.S.–China great power rivalry. At the center of this competition lies the AI–semiconductor nexus, the foundation for 21st-century industries from biotech and quantum communications to intelligent robotics. This is the age of techno-nationalism—when nations tie technological prowess to security, economic strength, and social stability. This talk examines how the weaponization of supply chains, data, and talent is transforming global trade, diplomacy, and society, reorganising our world.
Alex Capri is a trade scholar and former U.S. Treasury Department official with over 20 years of experience in Asia, leading KPMG’s regional Trade & Customs practice. He teaches at the National University of Singapore. His analysis has appeared in The Economist, Financial Times, and Forbes.
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Claire Jia & Emily Feng
November 12 - Wanting and Belonging: Writing Modern China
Join novelist Claire Jia, author of Wanting, and NPR journalist Emily Feng for a conversation on modern China through fiction and reportage. In Wanting, Jia captures the desires and dislocations of friendship, love, and ambition across Beijing and California. Feng’s reporting adds stories of public struggle and endurance. Together, they illuminate a China both intimate and vast—where the search for freedom, belonging, and dignity continues.
Claire Jia is a writer from Chicago whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, and more; she also writes for television and video games, including the Peabody Award–winning We Are OFK. Emily Feng is an award-winning international correspondent for NPR and a frequent contributor to NPR and BBC programs, previously based in Beijing.
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裴敏欣（Minxin Pei）
November 9 - 破碎的中國夢：經濟改革如何使極權主義復辟
在習近平的統治下，中國於過去十多年裡出現了全面的大倒退。鄧小平所謂的「新權威主義」模式，已被習近平的新極權主義所取代。多數人認為，習的路線與鄧的「改革開放」國策水火不容。然而，縱觀毛澤東時代以後中國的政治發展，回歸極權主義統治，其實是中共在鄧小平一黨制現代化戰略下的一個高度可能的結局。
裴敏欣，美國加州克萊蒙特·麥肯納學院政治系教授。生於上海，1991年獲哈佛大學政治學博士。著有《從改良到革命》《中國陷入陷阱的轉型》《中國的裙帶資本主義》《哨兵國家》等。
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王家新（Jiaxin Wang）& 羅靚、孫紅梅
November 7 - 與此同時：中國詩人王家新詩歌分享會
《與此同時》（At the Same Time）是中國著名詩人王家新的第二部英譯詩選，由約翰·巴爾科姆（John Balcom）翻譯、波士頓阿羅史密斯出版社出版。詩集以詩人近年的新作為主，以廣闊的國際視野與深刻的藝術思考，探討記憶、流放與存在的主題。美國詩人珍·赫斯菲爾德稱其「在言語的迷霧中帶來真實的光亮」，展現出一位世界性詩人的獨特聲音與精神深度。
王家新，中國著名詩人、評論家、譯者，出版詩集、詩論隨筆與譯著近五十種，其作品被譯為多種語言。長期任教於中國人民大學文學院，現旅居紐約，其詩以清晰、堅韌而富有哲思的語言，探問個人與歷史、命運與文化的關係。
羅靚為喬治梅森大學中國研究教授兼系主任；孫紅梅教授任教於喬治梅森大學。
Vivian Ling & Michael Laris
October 30th - Interview with Vivian Ling on Love Without Borders – a Sino-US Collaborated Book About International Adoptions of Chinese Orphans
30 years ago, China and the US were in a honeymoon. It was a good time for Americans to be in China, whether they were businessmen, consultants, journalists, scholars, or tourists. Meanwhile, China’s internal one-child policy brought on an unintended consequence – a surge in orphans, mostly girls. Many were adopted abroad, over half of them by Americans. Eventually, about 86,000 Chinese children joined American families. Today, US-China relations has taken a 180-degree turn, international adoption has become controversial, and China has terminated the adoption program. In the current era of geopolitical tension, an American academic collaborated with a Chinese author to produce Love Without Borders, to shine a light on a bright spot in US-China relations. The book is unique in presenting both the Chinese and Western perspectives.
Vivian Ling was born in wartime China, educated in the U.S., and had an academic career in the US and China. Through her Chinese language teaching and management of language/cultural immersion programs for American students in China, she devoted herself to building bridges of dialogue between the peoples of the world’s two superpowers. Love Without Borders exemplifies a candid conversation between people on two sides of a divide about a controversial, sensitive, and highly personal topic.
The event was moderated by Washington Post journalist Michael Laris.
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Kenneth P. Wilcox
October 23rd - How to succeed in China, and how to fail
This talk offers an unvarnished look at the realities of doing business in China, beyond headlines and policy debates. Drawing from firsthand experience, Wilcox explores how business ethics and practices in China have remained remarkably consistent since the 1980s, shaped by the enduring influence of the Chinese Communist Party. While the global context continues to shift, Western approaches to China often remain rooted in naivete and misplaced optimism. The book challenges common assumptions, urging readers to confront the complexities of “de-risking,” the opacity of Chinese business networks, and the cultural and historical logic behind how the game is played in the PRC.
Ken Wilcox was the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from 2001 to 2011, then the CEO of SVB's joint venture with Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB-SVB) in Shanghai until 2015, followed by four years as its Vice Chairman. He currently serves on the boards of the Asia Society of Northern California, the Asian Art Museum, and UC San Diego's 21st Century China Center, as well as Columbia Lake Partners. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Fudan University School of Management in Shanghai and an Adjunct Professor at U.C. Berkeley.
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Andrew Lam 
October 17th - Stories from the Edge of the Sea
At times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreak through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband’s death through frantic Facebook postings, and a writer enters an old lover’s home and sees a ghost at twilight. Together the stories chart a vast terrain of the human heart.
Andrew Lam and his family fled Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war at age 11 and resettled in the Bay Area where he grew up. His books include the PEN Award–winning memoir Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres, Birds of Paradise Lost (Josephine Miles Literary Award), and this latest collection.
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Terry Lautz & Vincent Ni
October 15th - Chinese Encounters with America
Chinese Encounters with America tells the stories of twelve women and men whose American experiences transformed their lives and influenced China’s quest for modernization. Their professions range from diplomacy, business and science to sports, education and the arts. At a time when US-China relations are contentious, this book shows that personal encounters have been instrumental in finding common ground between the two countries.
Terry Lautz is co-editor of Chinese Encounters with America. He is a former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation and has served as board chair of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Lingnan Foundation, and Yale-China Association. He later taught at Syracuse University and is currently a fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
The event was moderated by Vincent Ni, Asia Editor at NPR.
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Chenggang Xu (许成钢)
October 10th - Understanding China’s Political Economy from Its Persistent Institutions
This talk introduces Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism and analyzes China’s political economy through its framework. By presenting the concept of Institutional Genes (IGs), it shows how a durable totalitarian regime with Chinese characteristics emerged from the fusion of Soviet and Chinese imperial IGs. The book explains how this hybrid produced a Regionally Administered Totalitarian (RADT) system that enabled rapid development, preserved CCP rule, and transformed China into a totalitarian superpower—while also driving political and economic reversals.
Chenggang Xu is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, a Board Member of the Ronald Coase Institute, and a Research Fellow at CEPR. His research focuses on political economy, institutional economics, law and economics, and the Chinese political economy. He received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University and is a recipient of the Sun Yefang Prize and the inaugural Chinese Economics Prize.
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Scott D. Seligman
October 9th - Murder in Manchuria: The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat, and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China
In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos of northeast China before World War II. Semyon Kaspé, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father’s wealth. When local authorities obstruct the search, a young French diplomat launches his own investigation. Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the book also tells the larger story of the twenty thousand Jews of Harbin and their hasty exodus. It won the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the American Bookfest 20th Annual Best Book Awards.
Scott D. Seligman (苏思纲) is a national award-winning writer of narrative nonfiction and biography with interests in Chinese and Jewish history. He headed the Beijing office of the U.S.-China Business Council shortly after normalization of U.S.-China relations, and has also served as a congressional legislative assistant, managed a multinational PR agency in China, and worked as communications director for a Fortune 50 company. He holds a history degree from Princeton and a master’s from Harvard.
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Stephen R. MacKinnon
October 8th - HISTORY AS BIOGRAPHY: LIFE AND TIMES OF CHEN HANSHENG, China's Last Romantic Revolutionary
The presentation is framed as a defense (捍卫 hanwei) of zhuanji/biography as serious history when the subject is viewed in historical context. Chen Hansheng (1897–2004) was a major public intellectual, political activist, social scientist, and international figure whose life encompassed the entire 20th century. Examining his life and times sheds new light on the political, economic, and social history of twentieth-century China—including the often neglected international dimension of the Chinese revolution.
Stephen R. MacKinnon is an emeritus professor of 20th century Chinese history and former director of the Center for Asian Studies at Arizona State University. China has been the focus of his work since the early 1960s, and he often lived in China, having last visited for two months this summer.
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Kenneth Roth
October 3rd - Righting Wrongs: Lessons for China from Three Decades of Battling Abusive Governments
Ken Roth spent nearly three decades directing Human Rights Watch and building it into a powerful global institution with a staff of more than 500 working regularly in some 100 countries. His first book, Righting Wrongs, is part memoir and part history of Human Rights Watch and its role in the human rights movement. At a time of rising autocrats and abusive wars, Roth offers an insider’s view of how a relatively small group of people, through persistence and creativity, can move even the most powerful governments. Time: 6:00PM–7:30PM.
Kenneth Roth is the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Until August 2022, he served for nearly three decades as the executive director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations.
The event was moderated by human rights advocate Yaqiu Wang.
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James M. Zimmerman & Phelim Kine
9/25/2025 - The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
The Peking Express is a true story about China's great train robbery of 1923 and full of banditry, political intrigue, heroism, and a reflection of the excesses of the Warlord Era in early 20th century China. The crisis - covered extensively in newspapers around the world - lasted for six weeks while the bandits moved the hostages across the Shandong countryside with the Chinese army in pursuit.
James M. Zimmerman is a Beijing-based author and lawyer who has lived and worked in China for more than 25 years. He is among China's leading foreign lawyers and represents companies and individuals confronted with the political and legal complexities of doing business in Mainland China. He is the former four-term chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
The event was be moderated by POLITICO's Washington-based China correspondent Phelim Kine who writes on Indo-Pacific-related news for the Global Security team and is host of the weekly China Watcher newsletter.
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Eric Yan-ho Lai
9/16/2025 - Lawyers’ Awakening Amid Political Crisis: Book Talk onLegal Resistance under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong
Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism traces the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law since the 1997 handover, long before the 2020 National Security Law. Drawing on fieldwork from the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-extradition Bill Movement, Eric Yan-ho Lai reveals how a critical minority of legal professionals resisted authoritarian encroachment. This study not only highlights their role in defending Hong Kong’s legal system but also shows the city’s unique place in global struggles against authoritarianism.
Dr. Eric Yan-ho Lai（黎恩灝）, Senior Fellow of Center for Asian Law, Georgetown University. He studies and writes on law and society, judicial politics, human rights and national security in hybrid and authoritarian regimes. His recent works include Resistance Through the Cracks: Resistance through the Cracks: Understanding Hong Kong’s Rule by Law and Resistance in the Courtroom in Comparative Perspective (2024, author) and Hong Kong's 2019 Protests Amid A Half-Century's Struggle: An Oral History (2025, Co-editor). Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism is his third book and first research monograph.
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Eva Dou
9/12/2025 - Huawei and the Long Rise of China's Tech
Industry
In House of Huawei, Washington Post technology reporter Eva Dou pieces together a remarkable portrait of Huawei's reclusive founder, Ren Zhengfei, and how he built a sprawling corporate empire--one whose rise Western policymakers have become increasingly obsessed with halting. Based on wide-ranging interviews and painstaking archival research, House of Huawei dissects the global web of power, money, influence, surveillance, bloodshed, and national glory that Huawei helped to build--and that has also ensnared it.
Eva Dou is an award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C., writing about technology policy for The Washington Post. She was previously a foreign correspondent in Beijing from 2015-20 for the Wall Street Journal, and later for The Post. Much of her work focuses on the intersection of technology and geopolitics.
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Kyle Chan, Carl Minzner, Elsa Kania, Yingyi Ma
9/10/2025 - "New Perspectives on U.S.-China Policy: National Security, Climate, Human Rights, Education"
—featuring Fellows of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations
The fellows are tasked with developing recommendations for U.S. policy toward China rooted in their areas of specialized expertise.
Kyle Chan is a postdoc researcher in sociology at Princeton University and an adjunct researcher at RAND Corporation. His work examines industrial policy, clean technology, and infrastructure in China and India. He has contributed to the UN Industrial Development Organization's "Future of Industrialization" project.
Carl Minzner is Professor of Law at Fordham University and Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of End of an Era (2018). He previously served as senior counsel at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and as a Fulbright Scholar.
Elsa Kania is a PhD candidate in Harvard's Department of Government and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She researches China's military power, defense innovation, and emerging technologies.
Yingyi Ma is Professor of Sociology and Director of Asian/Asian American Studies at Syracuse University, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings. She studies education and migration in the U.S. and China. She is the author of Ambitious and Anxious (2020).
Perry Link
9/5/2025 - How the Anaconda in the Chandelier Induces Self-Censorship — Both Inside China and in the West
The Anaconda in the Chandelier is Perry Link’s metaphor for authoritarian rule: a giant snake coils above your head. It does not strike directly, but its very presence keeps people in constant fear, leading them to censor themselves. Since the 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party has employed this method domestically, and after the 1980s it extended outward globally, inducing self-restraint in overseas academia, media, and even governments. This lecture will draw on history, language, and contemporary observations to analyze the operating logic of this “Anaconda Effect.”
「吊燈裡的巨蟒」是林培瑞對極權統治的一種隱喻：頭頂上盤踞著一條巨蟒，雖然不會直接咬人，但它的存在足以讓人隨時感到恐懼，進而自我審查。中共自上世紀四〇年代起便在中國內部運用這種手法，八〇年代後更延伸到全球，使海外學界、媒體與政府也逐漸習慣於自我約束。本場演講將結合歷史、語言與當代觀察，剖析「巨蟒效應」的運作邏輯。
Perry Link (林培瑞) is Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and retired as the Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside. A renowned scholar of modern Chinese literature and politics, he has published widely and contributed frequently to The New York Review of Books. He has been banned from traveling to China since 1996.
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Dan Wang
8/29/2025 - Dan Wang on Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Author Dan Wang discusses his new book Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, driven by a few simple ideas: that Americans and Chinese are fundamentally alike—restless, eager for shortcuts, ultimately driving most of the world’s big changes. That their rivalry should not be reasoned through with worn-out terms from the past century like socialist, democratic, or neoliberal. And that both countries are tangles of imperfection, delivering—through competition—self-inflicted wounds beyond the wildest dreams of the other.
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover History Lab. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center and lived in China from 2017 to 2023 as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics. His essays have been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, New York Magazine, and more.
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Nan Z. Da
8/29/2025 - On Telling the Story of Maoism
The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear uses Shakespeare's cruelest play to retell the story of Maoism from its beginnings to its near-end. At the near-end—in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the author was a child—1.1 billion people sought escape from the horrors they inflicted on themselves and others, a struggle that continues today. King Lear captures every layer of this tragedy: empty flattery, the persecution of victims, history's distortions, and the fragility of memory. Nan Da's book draws these parallels to show how literary criticism can help those still unable to speak or process modern Chinese history.
Nan Z. Da is a professor in the Departments of English Literature and East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Intransitive Encounters: Sino-US Literatures and the Limits of Exchange.
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Evan Osnos & Edward Wong
8/18/2025 - Gilded Ages in the U.S. and China
How does the current generation of tycoons shape America and China? In a session titled "Gilded Ages in the U.S. and China," National Book Award winner Evan Osnos, author of The Haves and the Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich, joins Edward Wong, New York Times correspondent, to dissect wealth, inequality, historical echoes, and the self-mythologies powering both superpowers today.
Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for seventeen years. In addition, he is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-host of The New Yorker's Political Scene podcast. His coverage ranges from politics and foreign affairs to white-collar crime and espionage. Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he was on teams that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and 2008.
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times. He has reported for the Times for 25 years, working for 13 of those as a correspondent and bureau chief from China, Iraq.
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Qin Sun Stubis 
8/15/2025 - Once Our Lives: Life, Death and Love in the Middle Kingdom
Once Our Lives tells the true story of four generations of Chinese women who endured a century of war, political upheaval, and cultural change. Through poverty, displacement, and tragedy, they preserved strength, resilience, and deep family bonds. An Amazon #1 New Release, it was named a Best Read by Ms. Magazine, Glamour UK, and Readers' Favorite, and won the Nellie Bly Award for Journalistic Nonfiction.
Qin Sun Stubis was born in a Shanghai shantytown during a time of great social and political change. After moving to the U.S., she became a newspaper columnist, poet, and author, publishing over 200 works on history, memory, and human connection. Once Our Lives is her debut book.
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Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Laurel Victoria Gray
8/7/2025 - Laurel Victoria Gray & Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Dance Journeys – Two Authors, Three Books
Join two acclaimed figures in the world of dance as they reflect on choreography as cultural dialogue. From Central Asia to Washington D.C., their books trace how movement articulates identity, politics, and transnational memory.
Laurel Victoria Gray is a celebrated choreographer, performer, and costume designer with expertise in Silk Road dance traditions. With academic roots in history and decades of field research, her work bridges cultural preservation and embodied storytelling. She received Uzbekistan’s Friendship of the Peoples medal in 2021 for her contributions to cultural diplomacy.
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顧艷 & 解芳
8/2/2025 - “她們”的故事：異質文化語境下的女性書寫
當女性以書寫回應漂泊、身份與記憶，“她們”的故事便超越了個人經驗，成為穿梭于語言、文化間的見證。在《唐人街上的女人們》中， 我們看到北美華人社群中女性的沉默與抗爭。在《越過群山與海：海外華語女作家小說選》裡，則彙聚了旅居不同國度的“她們”，用文字建構屬於自己的空間。這場新書分享會，將邀請讀者一同走進“她們”的世界，傾聽那些穿越語言邊界、文化夾縫與世代縫隙的低語與呐喊，在她鄉里尋找共鳴。
顧艷，中國一級作家，九〇年代女性主義寫作代表之一。畢業於浙江大學中文系，著有《杭州女人》《唐人街上的女人們》等三十餘部作品，發表於《人民文學》《花城》等刊物，並有譯作於海外出版。曾獲「浙江五十位傑出作家」等稱號，現為北美作家協會理事，学术部主任。
解芳，文學博士，畢業於史丹福大學東亞系，現任美國維吉尼亞軍事學院副教授，曾獲該校傑出教授獎。研究領域包括傳統戲劇、華語文學與當代表演藝術，出版《早安，寫作》等著作，主編《越過群山與海》，並在中英文核心期刊發表數十篇學術論文。
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Edward Luce
7/31/2025 - Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a key strategist behind the Soviet Union's fall, helped reshape the post-Cold War world. Born in Poland's "bloodlands", he turned personal history into geopolitical vision-challenging empires, mentoring presidents, and influencing generations. Neither hawk nor dove, Brzezinski defied partisan lines and foresaw many of today's global tensions. His life story mirrors the arc of American power in the 20th century.
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Edward Lee
7/26/2025 - A Conversation with Chef Edward Lee: On Memory, Resistance, and the Future of Food
Chef Edward Lee shares his journey from Buttermilk Graffiti to his new D.C. restaurant SHIA. In this conversation, he explores food as cultural resistance, storytelling, and the soul of a new American identity—rooted in migration, memory, and bold reinvention. Edward Lee is a James Beard Award-winning chef and author. His restaurants span Louisville to Washington, D.C., and he co-founded The LEE Initiative to promote equity in the culinary world. He recently starred in Culinary Class War on Netflix.
知名DC主廚Edward Lee分享他的移民故事、料理哲學與文化轉譯——從《ButterMilk》到韓裔美式餐廳SHIA，展現食物背後的歷史與未來。
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Robert Daly 戴博
7/25/2025 - 言辭、交易與事實：如何分析與預測川普對華政策的方向
隨著川普總統第二任期開啟，美中關係再陷不確定與對抗：從貿易摩擦到台海緊張，國際秩序重塑與制度對立愈發明顯。川普政府對華政策強硬卻帶有臨時性與交易性，令真實意圖難以捉摸。如何解讀雙方傳遞的真正信號，成為掌握未來中美關係的關鍵。
As President Trump begins his second term, U.S.-China relations enter another phase of uncertainty and confrontation — from trade tensions to Taiwan Strait crises, the reshaping of global order, and deepening ideological divides. The Trump administration's China policy is increasingly tough yet ad hoc and transactional, making its true intentions harder to discern. Understanding the real signals behind official messages is key to anticipating the future of U.S.-China relations.
戴博曾任美國外交官及駐北京文化交流官，三十多年來深耕美中關係領域。他曾擔任約翰霍普金斯一南京大學中美文化研究中心美方主任，並在馬里蘭大學與雪城大學主持相關項目。他也曾參中國電視劇《北京人在紐約》，推動語言與文化節目。戴博中文流利，曾為江澤民與基辛格等領導人擔任翻譯。
Robert Daly is a former U.S. diplomat and Cultural Exchanges Officer in Beijing, he has worked for over three decades in U.S.-China relations. Daly has served as American Director of the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center and led programs at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University. He has also worked on television（北京人在紐約），producing language and cultural programs. Fluent in Chinese, Daly has interpreted for leaders including Jiang Zemin and Henry Kissinger.
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Susan Blumberg-Kason
7/18/2025 - An Evening of Old Shanghai: a Conversation with Susan Blumberg-Kason
Step back into the artistic heyday of 1930s Shanghai with author Susan Blumberg-Kason. She will discuss her new book, Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old Shanghai, and how Jewish salon host Bernardine Szold Fritz brought together Chinese and foreigners through the arts in 1930s Shanghai. Her talk will also touch on Art Deco architecture and design, the many personalities of Old Shanghai, and much more!
Susan Blumberg-Kason is the author of Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the History Lover. She is also the author of Good Chinese Wife: A Love Affair with China Gone Wrong and When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago's Chinese American Service League. Shi is the co-editor of Hong Kong Noir and a regular contributor to the Asian Review of Books, Cha: An Asian Literary Review and World Literature Today.
秦暉 Qin Hui
7/13/2025 - 利維坦的成長與變形：權力、社會與國家的再思考
The Growth and Transformation of Leviathan: Rethinking Power, Society, and the State
本次講座圍繞歷史學者秦暉三部重要著作：《秦漢史講義》《娜拉出走以後》《拯救德先生》展開，追溯中國特色專制體制（「秦制」或「利維坦」）的發生、發展與異化，及其在現代轉型中的複雜命運。從古代羅馬與秦漢制度的對比，到女性解放的異化路徑，再到全球第三波民主化的困局，秦暉嘗試勾勒出一條理解中國權力邏輯、社會結構及其與全球化相互影響的清晰主線。
This talk explores historian Qin Hui’s three key works — Lectures on Qin and Han History, After Nora Walks Out, and Saving Mr. Democracy — to trace the rise and transformation of China’s autocratic system ("Qin system" or "Leviathan"). Through comparisons with Roman institutions, critiques of distorted feminism, and reflections on global democratic crises, Qin outlines a framework for understanding China’s power structure and its entanglement with globalization.
秦暉是當代中國最具历史学深度和批判精神的学者之一。他退休前為清華大學教授，現為日本明治大學客座教授，北海道大學客座研究員。專長中國社會史、農民問題與制度史研究，長期關注中國傳統政治文化的深層結構及其在現代的變形與延續。
Qin Hui is one of contemporary China’s most historically insightful and critically minded scholars. Before retiring, he was a professor at Tsinghua University and is currently a visiting professor at Meiji University in Japan and a visiting researcher at Hokkaido University. His expertise lies in Chinese social history, agrarian issues, and institutional history. He has long focused on the deep structures of traditional Chinese political culture and their transformations and continuities in the modern era.
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Zhang Er 張耳, Leonard Schwartz
7/2/2025 - Ecopoetics of Language
The Ecopoetics of Language explores the intricate interconnections between Chinese and American English, poetry, and ecology. This talk considers how language like an ecosystem shapes and is shaped by cultural, linguistic, and poetic forces, offering new ways to think about translation, relation, and resonance.
Zhang Er is a Beijing-born poet, translator, and opera librettist. Her poetry collections include Sea Volts and Bullets Twirl, with English selections from Zephyr Press. She has translated John Ashbery and co-edited Chinese poetry anthologies. Her libretto Tacoma Method (2023) was recently performed in the U.S.
Leonard Schwartz is a poet and essayist whose work spans poetics, philosophy, and cultural exchange. His books include Flacofolio and The New Babel. He co-translated Cine-Poems and Others by Benjamin Fondane and hosted the radio show Cross Cultural Poetics (2003-2018).
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Stephen R. Platt（裴士鋒）
6/17/2025 - The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II
The Raider is the first authoritative biography of Evans Carlson FDR‘s secret confidant, founder of America’s first modern special forces unit, and one of the WW ll‘s most decorated and controversial officers.
Spanning the U.S., China, and the Pacific, the book uncovers Carlson’s forgotten legacy and sheds light on the historical roots of today‘s U.S.-China tensions, as well as the rift between Chinese communists and nationalists.
Stephen R. Platt is an award-winning historian of China and the West. He is the author of Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Cundill Prize winner) and Imperial Twilight (Baillie Gifford Prize finalist). He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and holds a PhD in History from Yale.
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Joseph Torigian (唐志學)
6/13/2025 - The Party's Interests Come First:
The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Joseph Torigian is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, an associate professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, and a Center Associate of the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His first book, Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao was released with Yale University Press, and 'The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of XiZhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping was published by Stanford University Press in 2025.
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David Shambaugh (沈大偉)
6/12/2025 - Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America
For over five decades beginning in the 1970s the United States pursued a strategy of "engagement" towards China but over the past decade the American approach towards China has radically changed. Why? In his important new study and book launch lecture, Professor David Shambaugh describes the reasons for, and consequences of, the shift from engagement to disengagement and comprehensive competition.
David Shambaugh is an award-winning author and internationally recognized scholar of contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. He is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University, and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom 
6/10/2025 - THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
Wasserstrom looks at the current landscape of protest in East Asia. Pro-democracy activists throughout Southeast Asia are reacting to authoritarian actions by their governments and standing up for regular citizens and learning tactics from one another, enabled by the internet and social media. Wasserstrom sketches out the actions and tactics of the democracy movements in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma, and explains how interconnected these movements are, despite their diverse cultures and circumstances.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in law and literary journalism. He is the author of six previous books, including Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports).
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Mark Parascandola 
6/5/2025 - Once Upon a Time in Shanghai: Behind the Scenes of China's Film Industry
China is home to an expansive state-supported movie and television industry. On an unparalleled scale, entire towns have been built around making movies. Given film censorship codes in China, period films provide a safe and familiar format to tell stories based around "official" narratives. The movie sets, rivaling real-world cities and monuments in their scale, have themselves become tourist destinations. Photographer Mark Parascandola shares images and stories from five years researching and documenting the evolving film industry in China.
Mark Parascandola is a documentary fine-art photographer based in Washington, D.C. An epidemiologist by training, he draws on methods of historical and social science research in his work.
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何曉清 Rowena He 
6/3/2025 - Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong
Based on over 20 years of fieldwork, this talk explores China's forbidden past, where state-imposed history clashes with independent scholarship. Drawing from personal accounts and experiences with Chinese students during Hong Kong's social movement, Dr. Rowena He reveals how memory acts as resistance, highlighting the power of the powerless.
Dr. Rowena He(何曉清) is a China specialist and historian of modern China, focusing on history, memory, and power. Her work connects academic freedom, human rights, and nationalism, with support from Harvard, IAS Princeton, and other institutions.
劉致昕
6/1/2025 - 資訊高牆下的故事使者們：德國、烏克蘭、巴勒斯坦的真實故事
在真相製造的時代，相逢在網路與社群媒體的我們，究竟是更容易溝通、融合、化解歧見；還是彼此誤解、仇視，甚而分崩離析？
五年、横跨八國，一個臺灣記者來自前線的第手採訪與關鍵實錄，透過講者的真實訪談，理解劇場、博物館、音樂節、插畫家，如何用不同的作品、計畫、創意，在社群網路時代的情緒與科技層之中，讓故事穿梭，讓人們相遇。
In an age of manufactured truths, does social media bring us closer—or drive us apart? Over five years and across eight countries, Taiwanese journalist Chih-Hsin Liu captures powerful firsthand stories. Through interviews with artists, performers, and curators, this book explores how creativity helps stories cross digital and emotional barriers.
Barbara Demick & Edward Wong
5/31/2025 - Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick speaks of her reporting in the seldom-seen borderlands of China - From the Tibetan plateau to the North Korean border, and now the latest. She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her latest publication goes deep into the mountains of Hunan Province to tell of rural families whose daughters were stolen to supply the lucrative adoption market. And one family with identical twins.
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times. He has reported for the Times for 25 years, working for 13 of those as a correspondent and bureau chief from China and Iraq.
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Alec Ash & Emily Feng
5/30/2025 - The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China
Alec Ash, a British writer who lived in China from 2008-2022, authored Wish Lanterns and The Mountains Are High. He has written for the New York Review of Books and The Atlantic, and served as a Beijing stringer for the Economist. Currently he is the editor of the China Books Review at the Asia Society in New York.
Emily Feng is an award-winning international correspondent for NPR. She's a regular contributor to NPR podcasts and member stations and is also a frequent guest on the U.S. and BBC radio and television
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Flora Qian
5/22/2025 - South of the Yangtze - A Tale of Migration, Language, and China's Only-Child Generation
Born and raised in Shanghai, Flora Qian left home in her early twenties and has spent most of her time in Hong Kong. Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, Asia Literary Review, Eastlit and a few anthologies.
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Yasheng Huang & Marcus Brauchli
5/21/2025 - The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliated faculty member in the MIT Department of Political Science. Holding a PhD from Harvard University, he is the author of numerous books in both Chinese and English, including Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State; Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era.
Marcus Brauchli is now the managing partner of North Base Media, an investment firm the builds media companies around the world, and chairman of TNL Mediagene. He is formerly the editor in chief of Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
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Nanfu Wang 王男栿 
5/19/2025 - One Child Nation Documentary Screening
Nanfu Wang is an acclaimed filmmaker and a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius Grant" celebrated for her bold documentaries that examine the tension between state power and individual freedom. Her hims have been repeatedly shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
He Xin 賀欣
5/16/2025 - The Judicial System of China
賀欣是香港大學的Mok Sau-King法學教授。他獲得了北京大學的法學學士學位和Stanford大學的法學博士學位。他與Kwai Ng 合著的專著Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision Making in China曾榮獲多個圖書獎項。他的研究興趣包括法律與社會以及中國法律制度。
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Bao Gangsheng 包剛升 
5/6/2025 - 先秦危機及其解決之道：儒法道的政治理論
包剛升，復旦大學國際關系與公共事務學院教授、斯坦福大學Skyline Scholar（2005），主要研究領域為政治理論、比較政治與政治史，著有中文圖書《儒法道：早期中國的政治想象》、《民主崩潰的政治學》、《抵達：壹部政治演化史》、《大國的命運》及英文圖書Pol-itics of Democratic Breakdown （Routledge,2022） 等。
Annie Jieping Zhang 張潔平 
5/3/2025 - 松茸作為一種方法—在帝國、機器與極權的夾縫裡，非標準、小規模、韌性社會與生活之可能
張潔平，記者、專欄作家、創業者，社群平台Matters Lab創辦人、獨立書店「飛地Nowhere」創辦人，曾任《端傳媒》總編輯，哈佛尼曼學者。
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