Past Events Browse through our past events to view information on our guest speakers and recordings of these past events. May 5 "Living U.S.-China Relations" with Dr. David M. Lampton, Leading China Expert, and Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins University 1:00pm - 2:00pm Recording: https://youtu.be/YPRBfPH4gmI Apr 28 "Curry Rice and Li Ang’s Crafting of Transcultural Hybridity," a lecture and discussion with Dr. Yenna Wu (UC Riverside, Dept of Comparative Literature and Languages) 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom and in person, SB-210 Apr 15 A Conversation with Guardian senior China Correspondent, Amy Hawkins, and UC Irvine Professor of History, Jeffrey Wasserstrom 5:00pm - 6:00pm Recording Link: https://youtu.be/5MJwUYNJW50 Apr 14 "Beyond Vietnamese and Chinese: Ethnic Identities Among the 'Boat People' Who Resettled in the United States," with Dr. Lisa Tran (History, CSU Fullerton) 10:30am - 11:30am Hybrid event: Zoom and in person, PL-217 Mar 24 "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong," in conversation with author, Katie Gee Salisbury 1:00pm - 2:00pm Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7iLyr5WZ6M Mar 3 "Li Dazhao: China's First Communist," a book talk, with Dr. Patrick Shan (History, Grand Valley State University, Michigan) 1:00pm - 2:00pm Recording Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlmdxOuwZm8 Feb 24 "Pollution Revolution: Maoism, Environmentalism, and the Consequences of Industrialization in Modern China" with Dr. Brian Spivey 1:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom and in person, SB-210 Feb 19 "Decolonizing Transgender History: Eunuchs, Renyao, and Adju," with Dr. Howard Chiang (UC Santa Barbara) 10:30am - 11:30am Zoom and in person, PL-217, and on Zoom https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Oct 17 Book Talk, "Cosmopolitan Love: Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang," with Dr. Sijia Yao (Soka University) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnuKPV1K5Fw Oct 7 Chinese American Scientists and US-China Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Cold War to the China Initiative, with Dr. Zuoyue Wang (History, California Polytechnic University, Pomona) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Faculty Center for Excellence (FCE, Pfau Library, 4th Floor) and on Zoom https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 May 8 In Conversation with Art Historian, Dr. Jane Chin Davidson 2:30pm - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, SB-357 Apr 19 Emotional Subjects: Citizenship, Identity and the Emotional World of Disability in China, with Prof. Sarah Dauncey 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAjhSYpEew Mar 20 In Conversation with Dr. Perry Link about his recent book, "I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo" 2:30pm - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, CSUSB, PL-5005 and https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Mar 6 In Conversation with Dr. William Fleming (UC Santa Barbara) 2:30pm - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, CSUSB, SB-210 and https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Feb 26 In Conversation with Gisela Perez Kusakawa (Asian-American Scholar Forum, director) 12:00pm - 1:15pm Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPAkfQrqgoU Feb 26 In Conversation with Professor Hugh White (Australian National University) 2:30am - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, CSUSB, SB-210 and https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Feb 21 "Taiwan's Democracy: A Report Card," in conversation with Taiwan expert, Dr. Shelley Rigger (Davidson College) 2:30pm - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, CSUSB, SB-210 and https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Feb 7 Chinese Claims in the South China Sea: A Hundred-Year Struggle from Bird Poop (Guano) to Battlestations, with Dr. Daria Ho (University of Waterloo) 2:30pm - 3:45pm Zoom and In Person, CSUSB, SB-210 and https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 19 Chinese State Media and Its Global Audience, In Conversation with Yale's Dr. Daniel Mattingly (Assistant Professor, Political Science) 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 17 Gender and Agency in Hong Kong Activism, with Trinity University's Dr. Gina Tam (Associate Professor, History) 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Nov 2 Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45, with Dr. Andres Rodriguez 4:00pm - 5:15pm Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Oct 19 Policing China: Street Level Cops in the Shadow of Protest, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Suzanne Scoggins (Clark University) 1:00pm - 2:15pm Zoom link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/97960458784 Oct 10 Hong Kong: Global China's Restive Frontier, with Dr. Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA) Lecture and Discussion 11:00am - 12:15pm Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Sep 19 Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi, with Dr. Victor Shih (UCSD) 11:00am - 12:15pm Zoom Link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 May 4 Law and Racial Translation: Marriage Fraud Amendments, Gender-Based Violence, and Chinese American Woman, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Lee Ann S. Wang 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link, https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 27 Ethnic River: Borderland Ecology and Rice Farming Stories around the Tumen River, a lecture and discussion with Dr. June Hee Kwon (CSU Sacramento) 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 25 The Manchu Queue: A Complex Symbol in Chinese Identity a lecture and discussion with CSUSB MA Student, Alexander Serrano 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 21 Mate Choice and Marriage in the Chinese Communist Border Areas: Three Perspectives from 1941-42, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Allan Barr (Pomona College) 3:00pm - 4:14pm Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 18 Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System 10:45am - 11:45am Zoom at this link: https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 13 Born with Royal Blood: Manchu Noblemen in Transition in Mid-Qing, with Professor Shuo Wang (CSU Stanislaus) 10:30am - 11:45am Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbQHkuza_s Apr 11 Disability as Performance: Translating Chinese Crip Poetry, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Hangping Xu 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Apr 6 Labor Camps, Hotels, and "Slums": Tracing Asian American History through the Built Environment, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Megan Asaka 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Mar 21 The Suicide of Miss Xi: A “Crime of Economics?” with Professor Bryna Goodman (U. of Oregon) 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Mar 14 Necropolitics in Modern China, a lecture and discussion with Dr. Linh Vu (Arizona State U.) 10:30am - 11:45am Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTrsCIWRVyc Mar 7 The Barbers of Beijing: Hairstyles and the Political Economy of the Great Leap Forward, with Professor Fabio Lanza (U. of Arizona) 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Feb 9 The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire, with Professor Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) 11:00am - 12:15pm Zoom at this link https://csusb.zoom.us/j/388207496 Oct 27 Podcasting China: A Conversation with the Prolific Hosts of the China History Podcast and the Chinese Literature Podcast 10:30am - 11:45am Zoom May 13 Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial China a lecture and discussion with Dr. Jenny Huangfu Day 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom May 6 Connecting the Dots in PRC Agriculture and Politics: Systems Thinking in the Mao and Reform Eras 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom May 4 Big Questions about Chinese History 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Apr 29 Hollywood in China and China in Hollywood: Will It Be Back to Business-as-Usual Post- Pandemic, or Have the Relationships Changed? 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Apr 22 Expanding Historical Empathy: How the Holocaust is helping Chinese remember atrocities of the Mao era 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Apr 15 Jade Mountains & Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China 1:30pm - 3:30pm Zoom Apr 13 Multicultural History in a Multi-Party Taiwan: The National Museum of Taiwan History 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Apr 6 Unveiling China's Surveillance State: How a dictatorship maintains power? 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 25 What the World Owes the Comfort Women 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 23 A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 11 Why Do Chinese Dissidents Support Trump? 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 9 China’s Environmental Challenges in a Long-term Historical Context 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 2 CHINA’S GOOD WAR : HOW WORLD WAR II IS SHAPING A NEW NATIONALISM 10:00am - 12:00pm Zoom Mar 1 “True Masters”: Total Security and Colonial Continuities in Hong Kong Under the NSL 5:30pm - 6:45pm Zoom Feb 22 A Lecture and Discussion with Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Ian Johnson (The New York Times) 2:00pm - 4:00pm Zoom Nov 25 To Embrace or Escape from the Communists, or Seek a Third Way? 5:30pm - 7:30pm Zoom Nov 17 Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940 5:30pm - 7:30pm Zoom Nov 9 The Compensations of Plunder: How China lost its treasures 12:00pm - 1:00pm Zoom May 26 Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform & Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China 12:00pm - 2:00pm Zoom Mar 2 State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 19 Hollywood Chinese: A Book and Film Presentation with Oscar®-nominated Filmmaker/Author Arthur Dong 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 28 A Frenchman's View of Chinese Opera 12:00pm - 2:00pm University Hall 106 May 23 When History Matters Little: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, 1000-2000 AD 2:00pm - 4:00pm John H. Pfau Library PL-4005 Apr 19 How Not to Write History: Teaching Methodology through Aliens, Conspiracies, and the Chinese Discovery of America 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Mar 1 Asylums and the Insane in Early Twentieth-Century China 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library 4005 May 17 Building the Marital Bond in Qing Dynasty China 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 16 Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan: Barbarian Conquerors or Agents of Global Interactions with Dr. Morris Rossabi (Columbia University and Queens College) 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. PFau Library Feb 2 The Dark World in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty with Dr. Sarah Schneewind (UC San Diego) 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M> Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 18 China Town Hall 4:10pm - 5:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Oct 30 The Cultural Revolution and “Diasporic Trauma” in Hong Kong A Lecture with Dr. Angelina Chin (Pomona College) 12:30pm - 2:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-5005 Oct 24 China Town Hall 3:50pm - 5:45pm John M. Pfau Library PL-5005 May 25 What do you think? 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Apr 20 Sympathetic Views of Japan in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Cafe Lumiere & Zhang Yimou's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2:00pm - 4:00pm John. M Pfau Library PL-4005 Apr 18 What is the Chinese Cultural Revolution? 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 27 Translating Yu Hua 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 8 The Origins and Dynamics of Crony Capitalism in China: Insights from 260 Cases of Collusive Corruption 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 28 From Mao to Yao: Culture, Media, and Black Life in China 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 3 Policing Madness in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Oct 18 China Town Hall 4:00pm - 6:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-5005 Oct 6 The Butcher, the Baker, and the Carpenter: Chinese in Fujian and the Spanish Philippines, 16th-18th Centuries 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 May 17 The 1911 Revolution and The Making of Modern Chinese Politics 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 May 12 50 Years After China's Cultural Revolution 10:00am - 11:30am John M. Pfau Library PL-5005 Apr 22 ''Tearing Open the Gates of Hell'': PLA Air Force Commander Fan Yuanyan's Defection to Taiwan, 1977 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Mar 23 China’s Changing Waste-Scapes A Guest Lecture with Dr. Joshua Goldstein 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 24 CHINA AND THE GHOSTS OF 1900: THE BRUTAL BOXER RISING AND THE CIVILIZED WORLD'S SAVAGE REVENGE 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Jan 29 Race and Relation: China and the Global 60s 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Oct 22 Intergenerational Intimacy: A Redefinition of Filial Piety and Descending Familism in Rural North China 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 May 20 Confucian and Buddhist Wisdom for Daily Life 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 May 14-28 A three-part modern china film series 12:00pm - 2:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-5005 Feb 2 The Mysteries of Sanxingdui: China’s Lost Civilization 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Jan 23 China Under Xi Jinping: The Return to Strong Man Leadership 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 13 Consuming Revolution: The Museum and the Gallery in Post-Socialist Beijing 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 4 Dr. Perry Link: The Thought of Liu Xiaobo, China’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Oct 16 The Chinese Economy with Dr. Barry Naughton (UCSD) A Brownbag Q&A 12:00pm - 1:30pm Social and Behavioral Science SB-302B Aug 6 Teaching English and Traveling in China 10:00am - 11:00am Social and Behavioral Sciences SB-302 Jun 6 Changes for More Innovative, Collaborative & Sustainable Business in China: Personal Experience and Observation 12:00pm - 2:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Jun 4 Twenty-Five Years After Tiananmen Square: A CSUSB Campus and Community Conversation 12:30pm - 2:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 May 7 From Roads to Routers: China, Africa, and International Security 12:30pm - 2:30pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Apr 18 Constructive Postmodernism in China Today 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Apr 15 The End of the China Model 12:00pm - 2:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 24 Will China Rescue The World? 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Feb 10 The Tangled Dynamics of Independent Filmmaking in Contemporary China 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Jan 29 Silk Road Journey of the Eurasian Lute 11:00am - 1:00pm John M. Pfau Library PL-4005 Nov 21 China: The Revolution is Dead; Long Lives the Revolution 2:00pm - 4:00pm John M. Pfau Library, PL 5005 Nov 18 China's Middle East Pivot: Between Baghdad and Beijing 3:00pm - 5:00pm John M. Pfau Library, PL 5005