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The Carter Center China Focus, the China Research Center of Atlanta, and the Department of Political Science at Emory University are pleased to share that Jia Qingguo (贾庆国), Professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University and Payne Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, will speak at Emory University at 4:00 PM on November 28, 2022. A leading political scientist from the People’s Republic of China, Professor Jia received his Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University in 1988. Throughout his distinguished career, he has published extensively on U.S.-China relations and Chinese foreign policy.

Professor Jia will speak about the past, present, and future of U.S.-China relations. His remarks will be followed by a moderated discussion with Professor Holli Semetko (Emory University), Dr. Penelope Prime (China Research Center of Atlanta), and Professor Philip Fei-Ling Wang (Georgia Tech).

This event is hybrid and open to the public. The event will be hosted on the Emory University campus: 240 Atwood Chemistry Center, 1515 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322.

Register here: https://uscnpm.org/2022/10/27/special-event-professor-jia-qingguo-on-us-china-relations/ 

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Adam Zhuo Chen, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, University of Georgia

Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives

George Fu Gao, PhD, Former Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Senior Strategic Advisor for CHAMPS, Principal Investigator for IANPHI, and the Global Health Institute-China Tobacco Control Partnership

Guoen Liu, PhD, BOYA Distinguished Professor of Economics, Peking University; Dean, PKU Institute for Global Health and Development; and Director, PKU China Center for Health Economic Research (CCHER)

Zhijie Zheng, MD, PhD, Director, China Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Sponsored by the China Research Center and the US-China Perception Monitor

Moderator: James Schiffman, Editor, China Currents; Panelists: Dr. Yawei Liu, Senior Advisor on China, The Carter Center, and Associate Director of the China Research Center; Dr. John Wagner Givens, Associate Professor of International Studies, Spelman College; and Associate of the China Research Center Dr. Andy Wedeman, Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University, and Associate of the China Research Center.

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This is the first book in the China Research Center’s newly launched memoir series. The Center helps to publish China-related memoirs by scholars around the world.

John W. Garver, professor emeritus in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, discusses his memoir Crossing Borders: The Making of an American Asian Specialist, a thought-provoking and personal account of his life that lead to him becoming an expert on China’s foreign relations. Garver’s memoir traces his evolution from a 1960s Student for a Democratic Society radical committed to socialist revolution to an American patriot trying to understand and explain China’s quest for wealth and power. Several years of encounters with variants of dictatorship in the USSR and Eastern Europe, China including both Taiwan and Mainland China, and Burma, shaped his rethinking of United States global containment. Over a career of 30 years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Garver evolved from a revolutionary activist surveilled by the FBI to a leading academic authority on China’s foreign relations, including Sino-Soviet/Russian, Sino-Indian, and Sino-Iranian relations.

Garver’s book brings to light the shifting geopolitics throughout recent history that have shaped China’s position within the global political landscape through the lens of one who has traveled and studied in much of Asia to gain firsthand knowledge.

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You are cordially invited to our Chinese Day: Interactive Chinese Dance Workshop from 3–5 pm on February 17, hosted at Exhibition Hall Midtown. We will watch a 30-minute traditional and classical Chinese dance performance, learn about its history and rich cultural meanings, try conventional props, and practice a few moves with the artist!

Please be sure to RSVP here so we can prepare snacks and drinks for you.

We look forward to celebrating, eating, and dancing with you!

Chinese Day: Chinese Dance Workshop
https://modlangs.gatech.edu/events/item/665200/chinese-chinese-dance-workshop

A lecture by Wai-yee Li

1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

The taste of water is an important component of tea connoisseurship, and discussions of the taste of water are especially prevalent in Ming and Qing writings on tea. Using an exchange on the taste of water in the eighteenth- century masterpiece The Story of the Stone as a starting point, the lecture will explore the genealogy of taste metaphors in the Chinese tradition. While vision claims a preeminent place in the Greek tradition and truth is understood in terms of hearing in the Jewish tradition, metaphors of taste play a major role in Chinese thought. Is the promise of taste metaphors fulfilled in scenes about taste or about other senses? What does the representation of taste and other senses in The Story of the Stone tell us about desire, enlightenment, and the boundaries of the self?

Emory University
Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Building, Suite 270
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322

Speaker: Weihua An, Emory University

Abstract: Fueled by recent advances in statistical modeling and the rapid growth of network data, social network analysis has become increasingly popular in sociology and related disciplines. However, a significant amount of work in the field has been descriptive and correlational, which prevents the findings from being more rigorously translated into practices and policies. This talk provides a review of the popular models and methods for network analysis, with a focus on causal inference threats (such as measurement error, missing data, network endogeneity, contextual confounding, simultaneity, and collinearity), potential solutions (such as instrumental variables, specialized experiments, and leveraging longitudinal data), and future directions for causal network analysis. [Related Paper]

Learn how dialogue can help stabilize U.S.-China Competition over High Technology

Speaker: Jun Xu, Ball State University

Abstract: Once portrayed as a heretical paradigm and subjective doctrine, Bayesian inference has emerged from this abject oblivion to a tidal wave to sweep through the world of statistics and data science. This talk begins with the origin of Bayesian statistics, the Bayes theorem, and recounts how and (possibly) why this framework was created.  Formerlly called the inverse probability approach, and probably more appropriately—Laplacian statistics—Bayesian statistics has undergone the nadir and zenith of its practice, due in part to its computational inconvenience and subjective assignment of priors. With the computational breakthroughs, especially those in the 1980s and early 1990s, several seemingly unrelated dots were connected to create the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. This has completely changed the landscape in the field and revolutionized the estimation methods for Bayesian statistics. Unlike the classical frequentist statistics with the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), Bayesian statistics usually uses Bayes factors, probabilities (not the confusing and problematic p-values), and credible intervals (not confidence intervals) to make inferences. Along with prior information integrated into the current iteration of estimation, the Bayesian approach dovetails well with how information is processed and updated epistemologically. This talk is based on the introductory sections of this recently published book.