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China
The Future of Market Communist China: Guns, Better Trade and Hegemony
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesAs part of Carolina Asia Center's China Speaker Series, Professor Steven Rosefielde of the Economics department at UNC will present on "The Future of Market Communist China: Guns, Better Trade and Hegemony." He will discuss contemporary China with a focus … Read more
Tea Tasting
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesFighting for the Dream: Voices of Chinese American Veterans from WWII to Afghanistan
Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Room Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesWhen people think of American veterans, individuals of Asian descent rarely come to mind. It’s been all but forgotten that up to 20,000 Chinese Americans (about a quarter of the Chinese American population at the time) served in World War … Read more
*NEW DATE* Lunch with Foreign Service Officer Justin Walls ’03
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesInterested in a career in foreign service? Come and talk to Justin Walls (Foreign Service Officer) about his experience as a foreign service officer currently stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China, and learn all about the Foreign Service … Read more
Pay-It-Forward Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Testing for Gay Men in China
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur final China Speaker Series will feature Joseph Tucker, Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC Chapel Hill and director of UNC Project-China. Is kindness contagious among gay men in China? We designed a quasi-experimental study to … Read more
Fashioning The Pacific Trade: Silk Production & Consumption in China and New Spain with Xiaolin Duan
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesStarting from 1573, silk textiles from China traveled not only to Europe but also eastward to New Spain via the Manila Galleons. This foreign trade was dependent on and fueled the development of sericulture and silk manufacturing. The extensive wearing … Read more
Lantern Festival Event
FedEx Global Education Center Atrium Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesChinese Lantern Festival is coming up. As usual, Friendship Association Of Chinese Students And Scholars is honored to hold a Lantern Festival Fair at Fedex Global Education Center atrium on Thursday, February 21 from 6:45-8:00PM. The fair is a free … Read more
Maineland (2017) Documentary Screening, Q&A with director Miao Wang
Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., MAINELAND is a multi-layered coming-of-age tale that follows two affluent and cosmopolitan teenagers as they settle into a boarding school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the enormous wave of "parachute … Read more
Early Childhood Development in Rural China: Evidence from the Qinling Cohort Study
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003 Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesA growing body of cross-disciplinary research suggests that human capital deficits in early life negatively affect later life outcomes and that interventions in early childhood can substantially improve health and productivity in adulthood. Given this evidence – and growing recognition … Read more
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