The year 2024 has been book-ended by public lectures on China’s economy featuring speakers who are not only well-regarded experts, they are also Badgers returning to Madison to speak to their alma mater: In April, …
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April 8 event celebrates history of Chinese students at UW
MADISON — The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and UW–Madison Libraries at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will host an event Monday, April 8, at 4 p.m. in Memorial Union that will feature the stories …
The film poet Sun Yu 电影诗人孙瑜
by Lihao “Billy” Yuan. Sun Yu (B.A. 1925, under the name “Cheng Yu Sun” in the Badger yearbook) came to Wisconsin from Sichuan Province, a province closely associated with the great Tang Dynasty romantic poet …
A famous trio of Badger activists from China’s Jiangxi Province
by Lihao “Billy” Yuan (UW-Madison history major). Anfu County in China’s Jiangxi Province was home to three Badgers—Lung Chi Lo, Tsao Shih Wang and Wenying Peng—who trained in political science at UW-Madison in the 1920s …
Jinjin Li’s path through Madison to a legal career in the U.S.
by Laurie Dennis News of immigration attorney Jinjin “Jim” Li’s murder March 14, 2022, at his office in New York City was shocking not only to Chinese legal circles, but also to those who knew …
Remembering ‘Red Cap’ China lecture series founder and former WCI board chair Wade Fetzer
Wade Fetzer III, former chair of the Wisconsin China Initiative (WCI) External Advisory Board and a tireless champion of UW-Madison engagement with China, died August 20, 2020, at his home in Glencoe, Illinois. Mr. Fetzer, …