Scholarships for Canadian academics, students and professionals: Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program, 2019-2020 Global Affairs Canada and the Chinese Ministry of Education are offering short-term scholarships to Canadians wishing to study abroad in China. Scholarships are awarded for studies, research, language studies or a combination of studies and language studies at participating Chinese institutions. Program name: Canada-China […]

A message from the executive committee: The Modern Language Association forum in pre-14th Century Chinese Literature is currently welcoming suggestions for thematic panels to be proposed for the 2020 MLA convention in Seattle. We will need to make formal proposals to the MLA in early 2019, so we would welcome informal suggestions from interested scholars now […]

Here is an opportunity for The University of British Columbia students to earn a graduate certificate or master’s degree in China, advance their Mandarin language skills, and gain a multidisciplinary foundation in international affairs and China studies at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Students with Mandarin proficiency at the intermediate to advanced level with an interest in studying in […]

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 […]