China

Bo Bian, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

Jennifer Tsien, Fall 2024 CGII Center Grant Research

Shining Wang, Fall 2024 CGII GGR Research

This project studies the interaction between ethnopolitics in Yanbian, the ethnic Korean enclave in the China-North Korea borderland, and the international relationship between the two newly-emerged communist states.

Concerted efforts to study China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the University began with the major conference, “Complementing and Competing Visions of China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” held on March 2, 2019.

This project studies the domestic and international roots of the ethnopolitical transformation in Yanbian, the Korean autonomous region along the Chinese-North Korean border, as a unique case of China’s modern territoriality change and state building in its frontiers.

The findings have the potential to inform theoretical understandings of diverse sexual identities as well as critical cultural ideologies and laws and policies regarding Chinese women's increasing transnational migrations.

This project investigates the construct of contemporary Chinese architecture in exhibitionary representations under hegemonic transnational cultural exchange by looking into a series of German exhibitions on contemporary Chinese architects from 2001 onwards.

China continues to consolidate its emerging position as a global power in a post-Covid world.

The CGII grant will support the final stage of my dissertation research, which entails examines how Tibetan communities on the margins of the Sinosphere use supplemental education programs to navigate Chinese hegemony exerted through mainstream schooling.