Book Talk

"Is China Really Taking Off?"
James Fallows, Correspondent for the Atlantic and author of "China Airborne"
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
4 Columbus Circle (58th St. and Eighth Avenue)
Tickets required
Co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of New York

Weatherhead Forum in Taipei

"Audacious Fraud or Masterful Imitation? Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Copycats and the Global Trademark Regime"
Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Columbia University
Moderated by Chang Chia-feng, Associate Professor of History, National Taiwan University
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Conference Room, Department of History, Second Floor, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
No. 21, Hsu-chow Road, Chung-Cheng District, Taipei, Taiwan
Registration required. Refreshments will be served.
Please note that this lecture will be in Chinese.
For more information, please click here or contact ntuccs@ntu.edu.tw
Co-sponsored by the Center for China Studies and the Department of History at National Taiwan University

Weatherhead Forum in Taipei

"The Stone Phenomenon: Grand Prospect Garden and Its Visual Representations, 1791-1919"
Wei Shang, Du Family Chair of Chinese Culture; de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities, Columbia University
Moderated by Tsao Shu-chuan, Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Conference Room, Department of Chinese Literature, Second Floor, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
No. 21, Hsu-chow Road, Chung-Cheng District, Taipei, Taiwan
No registration required.
Please note that this lecture will be in Chinese.
For more information, please click here or contact lintm@ntu.edu.tw
Co-sponsored by the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University

Weatherhead Forum in Taipei

"How Should We Read Jinpingmei Cihua (The Plum in the Golden Vase)"
Wei Shang, Du Family Chair of Chinese Culture; de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities, Columbia University
Moderated by Kang Yun-mei, Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Conference Room, Department of Chinese Literature, Second Floor, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
No. 21, Hsu-chow Road, Chung-Cheng District, Taipei, Taiwan
No registraion required.
Please note that this lecture will be in Chinese.
For more information, please click here or contact lintm@ntu.edu.tw
Co-sponsored by the Department of Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University

Weatherhead Forum in Beijing

"American Democracy: Transformative Processes"
Edwin Winckler, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Moderated by Zhongying Pang, Professor of International Relations, School of International Studies, Renmin University
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Columbia Global Centers︱East Asia
No. 26, 1F Core Plaza, No. 1 Shanyuan Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian, Beijing, PRC
Registration required.
For more information, please contact mf2597@columbia.edu

Weatherhead Forum in Beijing

"Environment and Urbanization in China"
Jennifer Holdaway, Program Director, China Environment and Health Inititiative, Social Science Research Council
Li Bo, Secretary General, Friends of Nature
Shi Zengzhi, Professor of Journalism and Communication, Peking University
Wang Yongchen, Senior Environment Reporter, China National Radio; Founder, Green Earth Volunteers
Moderated by Guobin Yang, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Columbia Global Centers︱East Asia
No. 26, 1F Core Plaza, No. 1 Shanyuan Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian, Beijing, PRC
Registration required