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The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China (CCC) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral, or more senior research associate, for the 2022-2023 academic year. One postdoctoral
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?
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.
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!
Kijan Maxam, PIIRS Graduate Fellow, 2015-2016
Mr. and Mrs. Yan Huo *94*95 Graduate Fellowship Call for Applications: 2019-20 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 Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China would like to congratulate Center alumn Dr.
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.
Within the framework of their Memorandum of Understanding, Fudan University and Princeton University have 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 s
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015
Family class labels assigned by the Chinese Communist government in 1950 still affected levels of schooling and job status in 1996, even though the labels were abolished in 1979, Donald Treiman argued in a lecture on Monday.
Tuesday, Oct 20, 2015
CCC Director Yu Xie and PIIRS Director Mark Beissinger sat down with the staff of the Daily Princetonian to share their vision for the new center and upcoming plans for courses centered around China, including a new Global Seminar in Beijing planned for Summer 2016. Full article here.
Monday, Oct 5, 2015
On October 19, at 4:30 pm in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1, Professor Don Treiman of UCLA will give a talk entitled "The Consequences of Political Class Background (Jiating Chushen) in the People’s Republic of China."
Monday, Oct 5, 2015
The Nobel Prize for medicine has been jointly awarded this year to three scientists for their work on parasitic diseases. Half of the award goes to Ireland's William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura, who discovered a new drug to treat infections caused by roundworm parasites.
Monday, Sep 14, 2015
The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate. This is a full time, 12-month appointment with a preferred start date of September 1, 2016, with a possibility for reappointment based on satisfactory...
Tuesday, Sep 8, 2015
Beginning in Fall 2015, Yu Xie will run an informal workshop for graduate students who are interested in quantitative sociology.
More about the Graduate Student Seminar
Friday, Sep 4, 2015
Yu Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor ofSociology and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), has been named the inaugural director of the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton...
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