How can we explain worsening attitudes toward China in many corners of the globe? What concepts, ideas, and events form the basis for this declining public approval? And have China’s efforts to project soft power been effective?
Some 200 participants from around the globe gathered online on Feb 27 to grapple…
The interns of the China Impact Project took a tour of the local wildlife and fauna at the Billie Johnson Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve. The China Impact Project is designed to understand how the public in other countries view China via sociological/computational methods. The student interns are from Tsinghua University and Princeton…
A huge congratulations from the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China goes to CCC Advisory Council member and Princeton alumnus James Mi for ranking #12 on Forbes' 2019 Midas List!
Produced in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners, the Midas List recognizes those investors who’ve built leading…
The Mr. and Mrs. Yan Huo *94*95 Graduate Fellowship, administered by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), will award funding to qualified Princeton Ph.D. students who are conducting field work outside the United States for at least a semester, especially in or related to China, during the 2019-2020 academic year.
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Lynn T. White III on his newly published book Rural Roots of Reform before China's Conservative Change. Professor White explains:
The argument is that China’s “rise” began in local polities in the early 1970s (long before 1978) after new agronomy and the Cultural Revolution allowed…
The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China would like to congratulate Center alumn Dr. Matthew Erie, Associate Professor of the University of Oxford’s Oriental Institute, on receiving a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of €1.5 million for his project, ‘Illiberal Law & Development: China and the World.' This is a…
The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China is thrilled to announce Fengming Lu as one of four new Postdoctoral Research Associates arriving to Princeton University this upcoming Fall Semester.
Fengming Lu is a Ph.D. Candidate in political science at Duke University. He earned his BA in Political Science from the…
Fudan University and Princeton University established a joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Fudan-Princeton Postdoctoral Program (FPPP), aimed at training highly-qualified, early-career postdoctoral researchers in studies of Chinese economics and society problems using big data so that they are positioned to become leaders in their…
Princeton University alumnus and Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China Advisory Council member James Mi has recently accepted an award by Forbes' The Midas List as one of the best venture capital investors in the world. James was also