Discussions

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What US Air Force Re-Optimization Means for Taiwan
By: Eric Chan

At the 2024 “Two Sessions” in Beijing, China Talks Tough on Taiwan
By: Amrita Jash

Decoding Beijing’s Gray Zone Tactics: China Coast Guard Activities and the Redefinition of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait
By: Sze-fung Lee

The Nexus of Cybersecurity and National Security: Taiwan’s Imperatives Amidst Escalating Cyber Threats
By: Enescan Lorci

China’s New Civil Flight Routes

The American Institute for Lankan Studies Colombo is holding zoom seminars on two new books on Sri Lanka:

March 27th, 2024: Neena Mahadev, Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Charles Hallisey.

April 3rd, 2024: Alexander McKinley, Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri Lanka. Chair and Discussant: Anne M. Blackburn.

All events are at 9:00--10:00 PM in Sri Lanka (11:30 AM--12:30 PM EDT).

REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND MORE DETAILS ARE AT https://www.aisls.org/virtual-events/

GTI is accepting applications for internships this Summer. Please find below the job description for our internship program.

The Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) is a private, non-profit policy incubator located in the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. Our vision is to raise awareness, deepen affinity, and create opportunities for strengthening the relationship between Taiwan and the international community, and especially Taiwan’s relationship with the United States. We do this through policy research and programs that promote better public understanding about Taiwan and its people.

GTI accepts

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Global China Local Cultures Lecture Series
The Rise and Fall of Economic-Centered Coalitions in China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Date/Time: March 19, 2024 ,10:00 – 11:30 (HK time)
Language: English
Venue: Via ZOOM (Registration is required.)
Registration link: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvf-ugqDsvE9dYqrfjctB29XAk1pICz_zc#/registration

ABSTRACT
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era. However, questions remain

The new issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 10.2 (November 2023) is now available in print and online. All articles are ready to be downloaded via Duke University Press Journals Online (subscription needed) or Project MUSE (available soon).

Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture  Volume 10 Issue 2   November 2023

Editors Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai

Table of Contents

The Philosophical Proposition “A Piercing Glance Elevates the Mind” and the Buddhist Thought in Zong Bing’s “A Preface to the Painting of Landscape”

ZONG-QI CAI and STEPHEN RODDY

Horse Language and Improvised

Hello,

Julia Schneider's blog post on the topic and her scholarship stay at Staatsbibiothek zu Berlin has been posted end of January 2024: https://blog.crossasia.org/forbidden-books-the-censorship-of-chinese-books-under-the-manchu-qing-dynasty-1770s-1780s/

Enjoy!

Best,

Martina
PS: Sorry again for the typo in the time zone :(

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KMT Ramps Up Dialogue with CCP with Vice Chairman’s Seventh China Visit—While DPP Appears to Float Trial Balloons
By: Russell Hsiao

The Philippines’ Renewed “Hard Balancing” Policy toward China: Has the Time Come for De Facto Philippine-Taiwan Security Relations?
By: Renato Cruz De Castro

Media Literacy Education: Taiwan’s Key to Combating Disinformation
By: Willian Hung

TSMC Opens Its First Production Facility in Kumamoto, Japan
By: Erik

Greetings,

In the French translation of a Chinese letter (not available) dated 1 Feb. 1862 (Tongzhi 1 nian, 1 yue, 3 ri), reference is made to land in Zhili province valued at “1587 grandes sapèques.”  

Sapèque is the French for a single (small) copper cash/coin as distinguished from a large copper (daqian  大钱 ) one.

During the late Xianfeng period, daqian came in different "denominations" such as shitong daqian and higher (wushi, yibai, and yiqian).

I hope to determine the value of a single "shitong daqian" (a 10 value big copper coin) in regular single copper coins or taels or even in francs or

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Chinese Business History Webinar Series
The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation

Dr. Weipin Tsai
University of London

Date and Time: March 15, 2024 (Fri) 5:00-6:00 pm HKT (March 15, 2024 | 9:00-10:00 am GMT)
Register now: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k-7QhOm-Suq94qmhUp6o5A

Abstract
The Making of China’s Post Office traces the origins and early development of the country’s modern postal system. Sweeping in perspective, it goes beyond the bounds of institutional history to explore