The Resurgence of China’s Criminal Underworld: Assessment and Explanation

Based upon a database compiled by the author, this presentation provides an overview of the development of China’s criminal underworld during the past two decades and a quantitative assessment of its current state. Through examining the organized criminal groups, this presentation assesses the hardcore of China’s criminal underworld mafia-style criminal syndicates and its greater base, … Read more

Experiencing China and Chinese Culture: CUNY Study Abroad in China

This lecture will talk about unique features of CUNY-Asian-faculty-led study abroad in China program. In particular, the lecture will discuss various educational benefits of the program while students and faculty have real experience of China’s society, the people, the language, and culture. Topics: how the trip is organized prominent and unique features of the program … Read more

Guarding the Dead: Tomb Figurines of Medieval China

This talk will examine figurines from tombs of the Chinese “medieval period” (c. 220-750 A.D.), a turbulent but seminal period in Chinese art after the fall of the Han Empire (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Influences from Central Asia, ancient Persia, India, Northern Steppes, and the Byzantium Empire are evident on the art made for the service … Read more

Bible and Gun: Christianity in Modern China

This lecture is based on a book that Dr. Lee has recently published ‘The Bible and the Gun: Christianity in South China, 1860-1900’ (2003). Drawing on unpublished Chinese archival materials and ethnographic data collected by him at several Christian villages in Guangdong Province, he argues that Christianity became far more indigenous in China than has … Read more

Rethinking US Labor’s Policy Toward China and Its Union

Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Rethinking US Labor’s Policy Toward China and Its Union Date: Friday, December 13, 2002 Time: 9:30AM to 10:15AM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan What does China’s economic boom and political transformation mean for workers and unions? … Read more

Tsai Yuen Pei and Education in Modern China

Chinese modern education refers to one hundred and ten years of education in China from 1840 to 1949. Within this 110 years, under foreign influences and subjecting to the practical needs of China’s social transformation, there was a tremendous change in Chinese education. An orientation to look outward began to take shape in Chinese education, … Read more