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The China Center welcomed Dr. Deborah Brautigam, director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, to present the annual Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture on “China, the U.S., and Global Debt: Why Cooperate?”

In this presentation, Yong Zhao offers an entertaining, provocative insider’s account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both "the best and worst" in the world.

Three graduate students from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering were awarded Hsiao Shaw-Lundquist Fellowship scholarships, including Mingfeng Shi, Shi’An Wang, and Hu Chen. 

Yawei Liu explores what has happened to the U.S.-China relationship since President Nixon visited China 50 years ago and provides a few ideas on how to stabilize the bilateral relationship.

When film arrived in China in the early twentieth century, it was seen as embodying the imported aesthetic of realism, which was associated with modern, progressive ideas of science and objectivity. Throughout subsequent Chinese film history, various claims to realism were made by filmmakers, critics, and policymakers, from the critical realism of the 1930s leftwing film movement, to the revolutionary realism of the Mao era, to the documentary-style neorealism of contemporary independent cinema.

Through personal stories, from past to present, of individuals whose lives straddled a divided world and were squeezed by geopolitics, this talk explores the porous and shifting bounds of Chinese-ness, the human cost of a hardened border, and the power and limitations of individual agency against the forces of the state.

Haiyan Wang, assistant director of the China Center, appeared on "A Nation of Immigrants" to share her life story, professional career, and reflections on cross-cultural communications and collaboration.

Students from the U.S. and China joined together to find solutions to challenges faced by the two countries in the China Center’s China Bridge Challenge. The winning team proposed creating a U.S.-China Media, Language, and Society program.

Professor Ning Ma presents an overview of the martial arts tradition in Chinese literature and culture across history, from Sima Qian’s Biographies of Assassin-Retainers to 21st-century blockbusters including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; and Kung Fu Hustle.

The Chinese New Year Celebration proved an experience the sold-out crowd won’t soon forget, with music from Rui Du, Hanna Kim, Gao Hong, Zhengang Xie, and Mei Hu.