The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (www.cecc.gov) is offering paid internships to qualified undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates this coming spring in Washington, D.C. Interns must be U.S. citizens. The application deadline is December 1, 2009 for the Spring 2010 internship that runs from February to May 2010. Spring internships are part-time; interns can expect to work about 15 to 20 plus hours per week. See application instructions below.

CECC internships provide significant educational and professional experience for undergraduates, graduate students, or recent graduates with a background in Chinese politics, law, and society, and strong Chinese language skills.

Interns work closely with the Commission and its staff on the full array of issues concerning human rights, the rule of law, and governance in China (including criminal justice, democratic governance institutions, environmental problems, religious freedom, freedom of expression, ethnic minority rights, women's rights, etc.).

Interns perform important research support tasks (often in Chinese), attend seminars, meet Members of Congress and experts from the United States and abroad, and draft Commission analyses. Click here for CECC analysis of recent developments in the rule of law and human rights in China. Interns may also be trained to work with the Commission's Political Prisoner Database, which has been accessible by the public since its launch in November 2004 (click here to begin a search).

The CECC staff is committed to interns’ professional development, and holds regular roundtables for interns on important China-related issues.

Spring 2010 interns will be paid $10/hour. Those unable to apply for Spring 2010 internships may apply for the Summer (June-August) or Fall (September-December). Further details are available on the Commission's Web site at http://www.cecc.gov/pages/general/employ.php.

Application Instructions for Spring 2010:
Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information for two references, to the CECC via e-mail to Judy Wright, Director of Administration at judy.wright@mail.house.gov by December 1, 2009. Applications must be received by our office no later than 11:59 P.M. Eastern Time on December 1. Please discuss in your cover letter how your professional goals, interests, and background relate to the Commission's legislative mandate regarding human rights and the rule of law in China.

Please visit http://chinadataonline.org/ for more details. Please contact chinadata@umich.edu or 734-647-9610 if there is any question or suggestion.

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The live streaming of the Shanghai town hall concluded at around 1:10am EST, November 16. 2009. The event in its entirety can be watched below.

As President Barack Obama prepares to embark on his first trip to China from November 15 to November 18, 2009, Kenneth Lieberthal, Professor Emeritus and director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, took questions about the president's trip in a recent edition of the Brookings Scouting Report.

After reading the complete transcript, you are invited to contribute comments here.

2009 CCS Photo Competition Results

Student Competition:
First place: Marilyn Mai – "Beijing’s B-boys"
Second place: Brett Linowes – "Gossip Girls"
Third place: Elizabeth Yarina – "Construction Tags"
Honorable mention:
• Jennifer Dai – "Colonel Sanders in the Mountains of Yangshuo"
• Elaine Denny – "Yak Milk Tea and Satellite TV"
• Lai Sze Tso – "Family Planning"

Open Competition:
First place: Thomas Talhelm – "Living Protest"
Second place:
• Cameron Campbell – "Bar in a Hutong Neighborhood"
• Marilyn Mai – "Human Dignity and the Future of the Country"
Third place:
• Xuezhao Lan – "The Streets of Old Dali"
• Wei Ping Teoh – "Wuzhen: The Past in the Present"
• Lingyun Xu – "Mao: Serve the People"
Honorable mention:
• Mike Anderson – "The View from Mt. Emei"
• Marilyn Mai – "This Used to be Home"
• Mary Ann Ray – "Huang Rui and Mao Mao"

All entries in the final round of the competition, including the winnings ones, can now be viewed online in the CCS Press Room.

10am, Thursday, November 5, 2009
China, Coal, and Climate Change

Guest host: Susan Page

China has become the world's leading producer of greenhouse gasses – in large part from burning coal. An update on collaborative efforts between the U.S. and China to reduce coal plant emissions and why they could be key to addressing global climate change.

Guests:

Kenneth Lieberthal, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution; Former senior director for Asia at the National Security Council.

Orville Schell, Director, Center on U.S. - China Relations, Asia Society

Bruce Stokes, National Journal, international economics columnist German Marshall Fund, fellow

6:30pm, Thursday November 12, 2009
Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker Road
Dexter, MI 48130

Dr. Zhao serves as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education. His areas of research are in global education, world languages, and educational technology, including computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education. For more information on Dr. Zhao, please visit his website here.

This event is open and free to the public. For more information, please contact Dexter High School at (734) 424-4240.

Location: Vermont, United States
Fellowship Deadline: February 1, 2010

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace: Investing in the Study of Critical Languages

Full Scholarships Available for Intensive Language Study at the Middlebury Summer Language Schools

Middlebury Language Schools are pleased to announce the continuation of the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace for the fourth year in a row. The fellowship will cover the full cost of one summer of language study from the beginner to the graduate level in any of the following six languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian.

For more
information, please visit
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm.

For complete information on all Language Schools programs and to apply online, visit http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/.

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace
Middlebury College Language Schools
Middlebury College
Sunderland Language Center
356 College Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
802.443.5510
Email: languages@middlebury.edu
Visit the website at
http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/fellowships_scholarships/kwd.htm

Present a lecture by

Yiqun Zhou
Stanford University

Women, Religion, and Sociability in Ancient China and Greece

4pm, Monday, November 16, 2009
1022 Thayer Building (First Floor)

This talk examines the role of religion in shaping two distinctive patterns of female sociability in ancient China and Greece (c. 10th-4th centuries BCE). Comparisons and contrasts will be drawn between the forms, spaces, and ideologies of the religious festivities—from household feasts to public festivals—in which women participated in the two ancient societies. Whereas the sacrificial banquet in honor of patrilineal ancestors epitomized the ideal Chinese familial and sociopolitical order, festivals that featured competitive homosocial activities were at the center of Greek religious life. The talk will focus on how religion served crucial but different functions in defining women's identities and forming their social ties in the two influential classical traditions.