December 03, 2009
6:00pm: Reception in 4th floor Rackham Assembly Hall
7:00pm: Talk in 4th floor Rackham Amphitheater

Though often treated as exceptional and isolated from the broader developments of Eurasian history, China is and has always been linked to the rest of Eurasia more closely than is often thought. From contacts with Indo-European- and Altaic-speaking peoples and trans-continental exchanges of ideas and things, to imperial expansion deep into Central Eurasia, to today's tightening economic and political ties with Central Asia, the continental dimension of China's international relations has been and continues to be highly significant to China, the world, and China's position in the world — in ways often neglected when China is framed as an isolated civilization or exclusively as part of "East Asia." In his talk, Professor Millward will consider what China's historical relationship with continental Eurasia means both for our understanding of China's past and with regard to China today and in the future.

Part of the CCS co-sponsored conference on "The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility - from 1789 to 2009."

Henderson Room, Michigan League

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.

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

我们需要改变企业治理结构，加强监管，让企业以长期健康发展为目的，摒弃追逐短期利润的恶习。

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.