China Forum is a monthly series of lectures focused on various aspects of Chinese culture and society, especially contemporary China, such as the economy, social reforms, foreign policy, urban affairs, education, environmental issues, pop culture and films, and cultural tradition.
Past lectures of the China Forum included:
- Professor Sanjiu Yan (East China Normal University): Internet Development in China: Its Impact on Public Opinion
- Professor Pingqiu An (Peking University): Wine Culture of China: An Important Aesthetic Tradition (Cancelled)
- Dr. Jianguo Chen: Hard Landing? Soft Landing? A Country of Two Tales — China’s Economic Growth and Its Impact on the World (as part of the IEW lectures)
- Dr. G. Dennis O’Brien (Economist and Entrepreneur): Reform amid Transition: New Challenges for China’s Economy
- Ha Jin (Boston University): Transnational Encounters
- Dr. Kang Liu (Duke University): China Model, Universalism, and Asian Values
- Professor Zhong Yang (Peking University): China’s Imperial Examination: An Important Cultural Tradition
- Professor Bauruei Duh (National Taiwan University): Introduction to the Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Dr. David Pong: China’s First Railway: A Lesson in International Relations and China’s Modernization
- Dr. Peter Hershock (University of Hawaii): China, Climate and Compassion: Buddhist Contribution to an Ethics of Intergenerational Justice
- Professor Ying He (Southwest University of Finance and Economics): Chinese Painting, an aged but vibrant Art Form
- Dr. McKay Jenkins (University of Delaware): Yin-Yang: China and the United States as a Complementary Pair of Environmental Polluters
- Professor Peimin Ni (Grand Valley State University): A Gongfu Interpretation of Confucianism and Its Significance Beyond
- Dr. Jiancheng Zhao (Beijing Wanguo Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital): Chinese Medicine
- Dr. Robert Magliola (Assumption University of Thailand & National Taiwan University): Ways of Doing, Thinking and Non-thinking: Buddhist Wisdom for Western Dialogists
- Dr. Zhendong Zou (Xiamen University): Studies in Public Opinion: the ‘Principle of the Weak’ in Contemporary China
- Dr. Zhangcan Cheng (Nanjing University): Culture Image of Nanjing in Historical Perspective – The Royal Aura of Jinling
- Dr. Xingwu Xu (Nanjing University): City and Gardens: Yangzhou’s Cultural Development During the Qing Dynasty
- Mrs. Feihong Song (Peking Opera Performing Artist): Glamour of Peking Opera-the Stories of Me and Peking Opera