9-11 3:15pm Rick Carew (UVA), Charles Laughlin (UVA)

The Great Firewall: How China Divided the Global Internet

Hand in Hand (2011): Art and Politics in Taiwanese Documentary Film

9-18 3:15 pm Kerem Cosar (UVA)

The Geopolitics of International Trade in Southeast Asia

Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt and Road Initiative" Project

9-25 3:15 pm Bob Davis (Wall Street Journal), Lingling Wei (Wall Street Journal)

Book launch: China and the U.S. -- A Superpower Showdown (Could Relations Get Any Worse?)

10-2 3:15pm Evan Feigenbaum (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace & UVA)

China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground

Co-sponsored with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

10-9 3:15 pm Ezra Vogel (Harvard University, Emeritus)

China-Japan: 1895-2010, The Interim of Japan on Top

Coughlin Lecture on East Asia

10-16 3:15pm Graham Odell (California State University, Long Beach)

Book launch: State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa

10-23 3:15pm Emma Teng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Learning from the Hidden Histories of Transpacific Mixed Families between China & the US

Co-sponsored with the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality

10-29 (Thursday) 5:00pm Sonya Lee (University of Southern California)

Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China

11-6 3:15pm David Boyd (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Dialogue and Dialect in Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs

11-13 3:15pm Eddy U (University of California, Davis)

Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification

11-20 12:00pm (TBD) Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham)

Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics

Co-sponsored with the Medieval Studies Program