Professor Ezra Vogel on Deng Xiaoping’s role in China U.S Relations
Speaker: Professor Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University. Host: Dr. Victor Fung, Vice- Chairman of the China United States Exchange Foundation Date:...
View ArticlePros and cons of soft power
Chinese college students love American films and TV dramas but are also aware of the US’ hegemonic and seamy side. In this era of well-developed technology, it is possible to change our stereotype view...
View ArticleChina-US Relations—It Is Not A Game
The Summer Olympic Games are over. The XXXth Olympiad is in the record books. The symbolism of the “games” should not be lost on anyone. Soft power was being flexed along with bulging muscles. At the...
View ArticleMaturing Together: Growing Up With China
What has transpired in China over its 5,000-year history is mind boggling. The last thirty years have been both remarkable and universally acknowledged. There once was a time when what happened in...
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China’s Precious “Exports” Flood The World
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.” — Deng Xiaoping China is exporting more than cheap “stuff” to America. Increasingly, the...
View ArticleUS-China Education Exchanges Present Opportunities and Challenges
As the balance of trade continues to widen between the US and China, education collaboration increasingly becomes a shining light. Based on the latest data from the US Department of Commerce,...
View ArticleRenewal of the Chinese Nation or Nationalism?
I often begin my classes on Chinese history by asking a question: What is China? The question is often laughed off, at first. Many students dismiss the challenge of defining China, confident in the...
View ArticleRolling out the Red Carpet: Why is Hollywood kowtowing to China?
In the 1997 international political thriller Red Corner, Chinese officials in Beijing entrap an American lawyer for murder. Richard Gere, a noted disciple of the Dalai Lama, China’s public enemy No. 1,...
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A Resolution for the Lunar New Year: Increased Cultural Dialogue Between...
Snake has succeeded dragon to knock at the door of Chinese families, ushering in the spring of the lunar Year, or the Year of the Snake, and bringing a fortune more of intelligence than of power....
View ArticleIn China, Executives Flock Back to School for Unfinished Business
Wang Jianhua, the president of Shandong Gold Mining, is part of a new generation of middle-age Chinese executives going back to school. Once a month, he travels four hours by train from Shandong...
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Chinese Demand for US High School Education on the Rise
The following is the second article in a series by Dr. James P. Cross on educational exchanges between the US and China. For Dr. Cross’ initial thoughts on the importance of this cross-cultural...
View ArticleThe Effect of China’s First Lady, Sweeping the Nation
Donning a light blue scarf, dark coat, and a black leather bag, Ms. Peng Liyuan, China’s beautiful First Lady, attracted even more lens and flashbulbs than her husband during their first state visit to...
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Building World-Class Educational Bridges With China: Why It Matters
A true game changer took place recently with a bang that was reminiscent of Napoleon’s famous quote, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world.” Tom Watkins The big bang was an...
View ArticleShashoujian: A Strategic Revelation or Simply an Idiom?
This is the story of a word: how it emerged, was selectively interpreted and then exploited in US-Sino policy discourse. The Chinese term shashoujian firstappeared in American policy literature in...
View ArticleWhen Filial Piety Is the Law
China’s revised law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Elderly People took effect last Monday. A clause now stipulates: “Family members living apart from the elderly should frequently...
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A Tale of Two Political Systems
I was born in Shanghai. Not the glittering metropolis we know, but the Shanghai at the height of the Cultural Revolution. My grandmother tells me that she heard the sound of gunfire along with my first...
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China’s Long Road to Prosperity
“You’ve come a long way, baby,” words made famous by cigarette maker Virginia Slims, were marketed directly to women in the 1970s. However, this campaign would have also served China’s transformation...
View ArticleTootle Goes to China: Red Flags Real and Imagined
In a classic American children’s book, Tootle is a baby locomotive attending train school. He is taught to stay on the rails no matter what. He must pay no attention to the interesting meadows along...
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Let’s All Go To The Movies, In China
On its opening weekend, the movie “Gravity” grossed $55.8 million, the highest October opening ever. While its Chinese release remains unconfirmed, clearly the producers had the Chinese market in mind,...
View ArticleThe World’s Wartime Debt to China
At the same time that China has stated its desire for peace in Asia, the country has been making assertive claims over waters in the East and South China Seas. The confrontational rhetoric suggests,...
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