Wisconsin China Resource

Happy Summer!

Highlight events about China from the 2024-25 academic year:

Mon Mar 10 @ Union South. “Chinese Badgers/Badgers in China: A student panel presentation on the history of Chinese student athletes at UW-Madison.” The third annual spring workshop on the stories of early Chinese Badgers focused on athletes and athletics: 

• Economics Major Rowan Bickett presented Hsueh Hai Hsieh 薛学海, Class of 1919, a star sprinter on the UW track team, member of the Artus economics fraternity and vice president of the Midwest Chinese Students’ Association.
• Chinese Studies Major Declan Halloran discussed Abby Shaw Mayhew 梅爱培, UW professor of physical training from 1903-1912, who founded the YWCA Physical education Normal School in Shanghai in 1915.
• History Major Xiner Wu presented Hwei Lan Chang 张汇兰, Class of 1926, a lifelong advocate for increasing women’s participation in sports, who was awarded a medal of honor in 1987 as the “mother of women’s modern physical education in China.
• Alum Serena Shi 史欣, a member of the 2nd of three cohorts in the Chinese Champions program, a partnership with Beijing Sports University from 2010-12, discussed her swimming career and current work as coach of the Mad City Aqua Stars, Madison’s only synchronized swimming team.
• Student athlete Chloe Chan 陳婥兒, a geography major from Hong Kong, spoke about her sports background and experience as a member of the 2024-25 Wisconsin Women’s Golf Team.

Thu Oct 24 @ Godfrey & Kahn Hall (Rm 2260), Law School. “China’s Rise and Economic Conflict with the United States” by

Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., and a UW alum (’68 BA Economics), spoke at a packed lecture hall in the law school. Dr. Lardy began his comments by noting that “I got my start at UW, studying political science, economics, and Chinese here.” He then presented his perspective on China’s economic reforms since the 1970s, the rise of China’s private sector, and the current sources of friction between the U.S. and China.  Dr. Lardy concluded that we are in “a period of deteriorating economic relations that I fear will persist.” Moderator Mike Knetter, Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association CEO, described Dr. Lardy’s lecture as “a great example of a Wisconsin education.” The talk was sponsored by CEAS, the East Asian Legal Studies Center, the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership, and the Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy.