Are you an international student studying in Canada? You got an invitation! Florin Timish from the Education Psychology at the University of Victoria is looking for participants for her study about international students’ adjustments to studying in Canada. This study attempts to identify the dynamics of the cultural fit in international students, in regard to academic […]

Translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke & Michael S. Duke, this book reveals a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries with a new approach that offers a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper […]

The Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford (FACES) Annual U.S.-China Summit is now open for registration. Students and staff (aged 20-28) are welcomed to apply. The application is closing on July 8th, 2018. Over the last two decades, the FACES Annual Summit has brought together forty exceptional student scholars from across the globe to engage […]

In much of its history from the 19th century to the last decade of the 20th, comparative literature remains largely Euro-centered, and the rise of world literature today offers an opportunity to transcend Eurocentrism and introduce many of the yet unknown canonical works from non-Western and “minor” European literature to a global readership. We need a […]

In this talk, Dr. Hanser described an emerging culture of intensive mothering among middle-class, urban Chinese women that focuses on infant feeding. Based upon interviews with new mothers in urban Shanghai, she described the intense efforts and commitment by these women to provide their babies with breast milk and described the complexities of their attempts […]

The talk used a wide range of historical statistics to classify these problems according to a heuristic “solvability index” based on the biophysical and sociopolitical tractability of these problems, as well as on the histories of how they have been addressed in countries that have faced them earlier: Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea.  In […]