A 10-member delegation of hockey coaches and administrators from the United States will be traveling to China in June for a sports diplomacy exchange, the second half of a two-way International Sports Programming Initiative (ISPI) …
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Badger alums Yao Yang and Nicholas Lardy address US-China economic tensions in 2024 campus talks
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, …
Inspiring stories of early 1900s Chinese Badgers draw large audience of students…and family members
by Laurie Dennis An activist, an economist, an astronomer and an ambassador. The stories of these four Badgers were the focus of an April 8, 2024, symposium at Memorial Union on the history of the …
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 …
Pharmacy archives reveal stories of early students from China
by Laurie Dennis A combination of serendipity and knowing what to look for led history of science graduate student J.J. Strange to a treasure trove of materials about some of the first students from China …
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 …
Nienhauser receives “Special Book Award of China” honor
Among the cohort of 15 writers, translators and publishers honored with the 2020 Special Book Award of China was one American: UW-Madison’s Halls-Bascom Professor of Chinese Literature William H. Nienhauser, Jr. The annual award celebrates …
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, …