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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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《Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan: Legacy of the Silk Road》
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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