Previous Speakers and Talks 過往季風講者
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.
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
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。
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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