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The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
Online via Zoom
Yan Long is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and incoming Co-Director of Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies. She is a political sociologist whose research examines how globalization and China co-constitute one another, with a focus on public health, urban governance, international organizations, gender, and technology. Her scholarship has been widely recognized, earning 13 national and international awards including the 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize. READ MORE...
Diasporic Returning: On Chinese Dreams beyond China
Room 4502 (Lift 25-26), HKUST
Abstract: This talk features the theme of return in Chinese diasporic narratives since the late 1970s when China began its post-socialist transformation. Ranging from films, autobiographies, and fictions written by diasporic Chinese authors, including Peter Wang’s 1986 film A Great Wall, Maxine Hong Kingston’s 2011 memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, and Gish Jen’s 2022 collection of stories Thank You, Mr. Nixon, among others, these narratives present and embody a complex structure of feeling about the opening of China, about being Chinese overseas in the era of China’s rise, and about diverse and sometimes conflicting aspirations for and experiences of returning to China. Against the campaign to tell the China Story well, these stories of diasporic returning--with an emphasis on the problematic of trans/national relations--offer a different approach to the discussion of Global China by shedding new light on how the China Dream is understood beyond China. READ MORE...