China Breakfast Briefing 2023

Breakfast, networking and China updates With China sealed off during the pandemic and de-coupling and de-risking dominating discussions on recalibrating the relationship, it may be tempting to think that U.S.-China business has ground to a halt. The reality is more nuanced: Despite tough talk, trade wars and a slowing economy, China remains Georgia’s largest trading...

What Does China Want?

The question of what Xi Jinping’s China wants — the scope of its ambitions, the short- and long-term goals that it has set, the vision that guides its ruling elites — is at once the most foundational, most intractably difficult, and most hotly contested question that outside observers and Chinese elites themselves are asking. How...

Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Sex & Reproductive Politics in Modern China

Join us for a guest presentation at Spelman College by Sarah Mellors Rodriguez   Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at Missouri State University. Dr. Rodriguez earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge University Press,...

Panel discussion on Taiwan as a factor in US-China relations

Please Join us for a panel discussion on Taiwan as a factor in US-China relations Panelists: Mao Lin, Georgia Southern University John Wagner Givens, Spelman College Yawei Liu, The Carter Center   Cosby Auditorium Thursday, November 16th, 2023 from 2:30pm-3:30pm EST   Parking is available in the Spelman College Parking Deck 350 Spelman Ln SW, Atlanta,...

Text Analysis for Social Science

Speaker: Ana Macanovic, Utrecht University  Abstract: The emergence of big data and computational tools has introduced new possibilities for using large-scale textual sources in social science research. We discuss five computational text analysis methods that can help researchers analyze large quantities of textual data and discuss exemplary applications in recently published research. First, we show...

Commemorating the 45th Anniversary of U.S.-China Relations

Join the Carter Center for its Forum in Honor of Jimmy Carter and the 45th Anniversary of the Normalization of U.S.-China Relations About the Event Dedicated to waging peace and fighting disease in his post-presidency, the legacy of Jimmy Carter will no doubt endure. However, current tensions between the U.S and China threaten one of...

China’s Challenge and America’s Response

Please join the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the China Research Center for a discussion of "China's Challenge and America's Response." Speakers: Fei-Ling Wang, Professor, Nunn School of International Affairs and author of The China Race: Global Competition for Alternative World Orders (SUNY Press, 2024). Peter Harrel, Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for...

Dr. Hanchao Lu, 解放妇女劳动力和城市街道集体事业, 1958-1978 Rhetoric Versus Reality: Women’s Liberation and Urban Neighborhood Workshops in Mao’s China

The History Matters Series 解放妇女劳动力和城市街道集体事业, 1958-1978 Rhetoric Versus Reality: Women’s Liberation and Urban Neighborhood Workshops in Mao’s China Part of the New Book Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) Speaker: Dr. Hanchao Lu, 卢汉超教授 Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Dr. Qin Shao, 邵勤教授 The College of...

Sensitivity Analysis for Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inference

Speaker: Ken Frank, Michigan State University Abstract: Social scientists seeking to inform policy or public action must carefully consider how to identify effects and express inferences because actions based on invalid inferences will not yield the intended results. Recognizing the complexities and uncertainties of social science, we seek to inform inevitable debates about causal inferences...