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Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (ET) (9:00 PM – 10:30 PM Taipei and Manila)
Webcast Only
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the schedule for the upcoming From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection online conference. The FROGBEAR project has now concluded field research and would like to share and discuss the results of the research and training activities.
This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-9-issue-6/)
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
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce a hybrid lecture by Ester Bianchi (University of Perugia) entitled “Mindful China: Embracing Early Meditation and Vipassanā Practices in Search for Awakening, and Secular Well-being” for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series, with Ngar-sze Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong) as discussant.
Time: Thursday March 28, 2024, 4:00 pm Vancouver / 7:00 pm New York / Friday March 29, 2024 7:00 am Beijing & Taipei
Venue: University of British Columbia, Asian Centre, Room 604
Barbieri-Low, Anthony J.. The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 360 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780295750224. 
Reviewed by
Glenda Chao (Ursinus College)
Published on
H-Asia (January, 2024)
Commissioned by
Jenny H. Day (Skidmore College)
Moazzin, Ghassan. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xviii + 334 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781316517031.$34.99 (e-book), ISBN 9781009037891.
Greene, J. Megan. Building a Nation at War: Transnational Knowledge Networks and the Development of China during and after World War II (Harvard East Asian Monographs). Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022. xiv + 319 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780674278318.
Berry, Michael, ed.. The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan. Global Chinese Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 312 pp. $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231197465.$35.00 (paper), ISBN 9780231197472.
This issue was originally published on the Global Taiwan Institute's website and the full articles are available at: https://globaltaiwan.org/issues/vol-9-issue-6/)
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