Compass: International Profile | Pandemic Edition (Spring 2021)

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During the past year, the co-directors of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues have begun to implement a new strategic vision and continue to carry out the institute’s core activities while adapting to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The co-directors organized two timely seminars, including one of the first public events on COVID-19 in the country: “Understanding the Coronavirus Crisis: Its Causes, China’s Response, and Implications,” with a panel including Nelson Agudelo-Higuita, Robert Andrew, Miriam Gross, Bo Kong and Thomas Zhang, on Feb. 4, 2020. Additionally, the institute hosted a webinar,

Photo from the Institute's Feb. 4, 2020 panel on the Coronavirus.

“China’s Belt, Road, and Beyond: Political Mobilization and Fragmented Implementation,”

collaboration with China’s Poetry Society, which

with Associate Professor Min Ye of Boston University, on Nov. 11, 2020. The Institute’s affiliated faculty also gave online lectures on a

institute received five nominees for the Newman

wide variety of topics throughout the academic year.

received extensive media coverage in China. The Prize for Chinese Literature, and the winning juror, Eric Abrahamsen, successfully nominated Yan Lianke, who was celebrated in March 2021 at an inperson ceremony in Beijing and a Zoom ceremony hosted by the institute. Further, the institute continued to expand its international ties by extending the Newman Prize for English Jueju to the UK. On the research front, the institute achieved two major accomplishments, publishing another volume of its peer-reviewed academic journal

Institute co-directors Jonathan Stalling (left), Newman Chair of U.S.-China Issues, and Bo Kong, ConocoPhilips Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies

Chinese Literature Today and conducting a successful international search for the inaugural Newman Post-Doctoral Fellow in U.S.-China

While postponing the 2020 U.S.-China Poetry

Issues. The fellowship was awarded to Zhu Zhang

Dialogue, the institute created a COVID-19

of Tulane University, who will join the institute in

U.S.-China children’s poetry exchange in

fall 2021.

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