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  • Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise

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    China’s economic transformation of the last few decades has depended on an unskilled and poorly educated workforce; what will happen if the demands of the changing economic environment require better education and greater skills?

  • How Can Diplomacy Avert a New Cold War with China?

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    Retired American diplomats Susan Thornton and Beatrice Camp reflected on the role of diplomacy in the escalating war of words between the United States and China.

  • China’s "Reverse Migration" Strategies under Attack: A Case Study of the 1000 Talents Plan

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    Professor David Zweig examined China’s efforts to promote “reverse migration,” focusing on the Thousand Talents Plan, and discussed American responses.

  • Subnational Initiatives

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    The U.S.-China Subnational Symposium brings together state officials from across the country who work on China issues in the areas of trade and investment, education, culture, agriculture, and development. In this time of heightened tensions in the bilateral relationship, the symposium seeks to educate, foster coordination, and develop best practices among participants.

  • Hong Kong's Shifting Status, 1997-2019

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    What does the future hold for Hong Kong? Will it become just another Chinese city that makes up the Greater Bay Area? The speakers, who have been tracking issues relating to higher education, journalism, protest, and the arts, address Hong Kong's future under Chinese rule.

  • Out of the Gobi

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    Dr. Weijian Shan recounts his life story, which took him from a childhood in Beijing to a decade in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, and then on to graduate school in the United States, in an extraordinary new memoir.

  • Repression in the China Field

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    Professors Rory Truex and Benjamin Liebman discuss challenges faced by American China scholars amid allegations of censorship and self-censorship.  

  • China's Students in the U.S. and Challenges Returning Home

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    Peggy Blumenthal and David Zweig discuss the impact of Chinese students on American academic institutions and what happens when the students return to China.

  • China's Universities and the Belt and Road

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    Gerard Postiglione discusses China's higher education model and its global ambitions in the Belt and Road era. 

  • Duke Kunshan University: A Case Study in Internationalizing Higher Education

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    Mary Brown Bullock, founding executive vice chancellor of DKU, discussed Duke Kunshan University in the context of the globalization of higher education.

  • Stepping Forth into the World: Edward Rhoads

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    Some 130,000 students from China now study a variety of fields in colleges and universities around the United States. What about the first Chinese students in this country? In a lecture and discussion at the Luce Foundation offices in New York, Edward Rhoads shared stories and research from his new book Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81, which examines the individual and collective histories of the first 120 Chinese students in the United States.

  • Master Teachers China Seminar

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    The Master Teacher China Seminar is a half-day of China programming for some of the top educators in the country.

  • Fulbright - Hays Seminars Abroad

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    Administered by the Committee from 1981 to 2015, the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program sent American pre-collegiate and college-level educators to several cities in China for 4-5 weeks each summer. It offered an opportunity to gain valuable, first-hand insights into a country that has become an important element in American education across the curriculum. Through the intensive program of briefings and site visits, educators enhanced their ability to teach about Chinese culture, history, politics, economics, and other areas.

  • U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program

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    Between 1996 and 2014, the U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program, established with funding from the Freeman Foundation, sent American K-12 teachers to China and brought Chinese secondary school teachers to the United States. Since the program began, 116 American teachers taught in Chinese secondary schools, and 332 Chinese teachers taught in American elementary, middle, and high schools.

  • Time Warner Internship

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    The National Committee's Time Warner Internship Program enabled fourth-year Fudan University students with an interest in journalism and media to participate in a three-month internship at various Time Warner entities in the United States. Over the course of the program's nine year span, a total of 39 students were given the opportunity to work at Time and Fortune magazines, CNN, Warner Bros. Studios, HBO, and Warner Music, among other divisions.

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