Programming on Law, Rights, and Governance in China: The Ford Foundation Experience in Different Times

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Ira Belkin, Senior Research Fellow and former Executive Director, US-Asia Law Institute; and Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Phyllis Chang, Founder and former President, China Law and Development (CLD), Beijing; and Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Mark Sidel

How Chinese Must a Chinese be? Identities of Chinese Indonesian Asylum Seekers On Trial in the US

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ChorSwang Ngin, Professor of Anthropology and former Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program, California State University Los Angeles

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Diane Young Spitzer, Deputy Director and General Counsel, Massachusetts Securities Division

Not so Insular: The Influence of Other Languages and Dialects on Mandarin

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Neil Kubler, Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Williams College

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Lisa Chang Ahnert, former Director of Asian Studies at Southern Methodist University and former Director of Chinese Studies at Hong Kong International School

Tiger Zash!

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China - US Relations: A Sino-Optimist's View - Past Present and Future

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Priscilla Hoffman-Stowe, United States Department of State (Ret.). Retired as Senior Economic Analyst and Deputy Director, Office of Economic Policy, Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Now working at State as a Senior Management Consultant, Freedom of Information Requests.

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Debi Carter, Former Senior Director of Customer Success, Salesforce

How an Accidental Art Historian Found Her Way to China and Tea

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Katharine Burnett, Professor, Chinese Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of California Davis and Founding Director, Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and Science

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Betsy Glans Langberg, Former Vice President of Student Exchanges, Institute of International Education, New York

What’s in a name: The origin of place names (地 名)in ancient China and their role in the imperial system

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Jim Hargett, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, State University of New York at Albany

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Cynthia Chennault, Emerita, Chinese Literature, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida

Fire, Water, Earth, Wood, Metal — How Hong Kong Lost its Quest for Democracy

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Presenter/Panelists

Edith Terry, Managing Director of Cotton Tree Advisors, Hong Kong

Moderator

Vivian Lin