Universities, exchange programmes, students and educational reform. 19 articles from 2003 to 2020.
In January 2020, Charles Lieber, the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was led into a federal court in Boston in a yellow jumpsuit and handcuffs. Lieber, whose...
My six-year-old daughter learned about grading during my year-long sabbatical in Beijing. Grades and testing had been a foreign concept in her short educational experience in the U.S. The only tests she and...
Dr. Deborah Davis is the China Research Center’s 2018 annual lecturer. Dr. Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai as...
Review of Parama Sinha Palit, Analyzing China ’ s Soft Power Strategy and Comparative Indian Initiatives , Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, SAGE, 2017. Because India is situated at the very geographic center of...
The following is an address Dr. Bullock prepared for the third annual Young Scholars Forum at Nanjing University. The forum, held on September 21-22, 2016, was sponsored by The Global Times and the Carter...
China has amazed the world once again, not with economic growth, but with the closing of its education gap. There has been tremendous transformation in Chinese education over the past three decades. With the...
The new documentary film “The Land of Many Palaces” examines planned urbanization in China from the vantage point of Ordos in Inner Mongolia. Ordos is a vast, newly built city populated by people who have...
Education reform in China has reached a new and crucial stage. The driving force is the need to produce an increasingly knowledgeable workforce equipped to handle the challenges of an economy that is not only...
In 2000, a meeting at a prominent Atlanta school about the possibility of starting a Chinese language program concluded with a question about the need to study “Red China.” Additional questions followed, about...
We are all used to reading about tension and controversy between China and the United States. It seems a product made in China is recalled almost every day. Then there are disputes over intellectual property...
With world leaders acknowledging that innovation will be the well-spring of economic development in the 21st Century, over one hundred participants from places as distant as New Delhi, Beijing, and Jerusalem...
It seems axiomatic that vibrant economies are driven by innovation and that innovation can be taught and nurtured in schools and colleges. Certainly, world leaders have embraced these notions. Early in 2006...
Not long ago, Georgia students had to look far afield to get to China for short study courses. No more. Georgia's state and private universities now have numerous programs with a wealth of subject choices for...
The Summer Study in China-General Studies Program is sponsored by the Asia Council of theUniversity System of Georgia (USG). The program will be conducted over four weeks beginning in mid-May at Zhengzhou...
The Summer Study in China--Chinese Language Program is sponsored by the Asia Council ofthe University System of Georgia (USG). It is an intensive six-week language program, which offers three courses with 9...
Georgia Tech will offer a new broad based Shanghai Summer Program in 2005. The program willbegin on May 23, and end on July 23, 2005. The location-Shanghai, China-is a dynamic metropolis. The program is...
On-line Chinese is designed for students who want to learn Chinese on a flexible schedule. All course materials are delivered online. In addition to working on the online materials at students' own...
The China Data Center at the University of Michigan is dedicated to providing official data on China for scholars, practitioners and students around the world. The Center disseminates official statistics for...
Less than a month after retiring, former Georgia Tech environmental scientist C.S. Kiang was named dean of the newly established College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University, one of China's most...
Quarterly essays on greater China by scholars who study the region closely, plus notice of our Atlanta events. Published continuously since 2002.