CCR is pleased to share the news of two courses opening in the upcoming academic year. Dr. Timothy Cheek is giving a new course  “HIST 104D: Topics in World History: Communism and After: A Global History” in the 2018 winter session. Dr. Xiaojun Li is offering a new course “POLI 379: China in the World” in the 2018 winter session. […]

The Schwarzman Scholars application for the 2019-2020 academic year is now available. Schwarzman Scholars was conceptualized in order to help future leaders better understand China, providing them with the firsthand knowledge and relationships necessary to foster collaboration and cooperation between nations. The program is open to candidates between the ages of 18 and 28 years old, […]

The full schedule for the Scaling the Ming conference is now available. Please RSVP if you would like to attend. The conference has been generously sponsored by the Society for Ming Studies, the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, and UBC’s History Department, Department of Asian Studies, and Centre for Chinese Research. […]

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 […]

The Party-State’s institutional and legislative reforms since the beginning of the Reform and Opening era reflect certain principles of order, fairness, and legality connected to the idea of a normative state. Yet, in recent years, there has been a marked expansion of a ‘prerogative-state’ system for the use of terror and violence in order to […]