Wendy Matsumura is Associate Professor of History at UC San Diego. Following the publication of her first book, The Limits of Okinawa in 2015, she has been working on a project that examines the relationship between oikonomics, imperialism, and...

By the late 1950s, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC) stood as exemplars of success for both "revolutionary" and "conservative" variants of the modern state.

However, in 1949, these two regimes had an...

As China has grown in power and stature as the second-largest economy in the world, a dominant trading partner, and a world power, its interests have also grown global. Many issues of Chinese domestic politics are now also truly issues of global...

In 2016, the miraculous film Grüsse aus Fukushima was released in Germany and appeared at various international film festivals. It expresses the essence of anxiety and hope seen in ordinary people's everyday lives around Fukushima Nuclear Plant...

Arpeggio is an annual graduate-student organized interdisciplinary conference of AAHVS department. This year, with the overarching theme of "Spaces of Translation," Arpeggio invites scholars and students to explore the relationship between the...

In 2018, China's State Council estimated nearly a quarter of Chinese citizens would be age 60 or more by 2030, up from 13.3% of the population in 2010. This looming demographic shift will create challenges for the country's social security system...

During this AP Forum Ruoyao Pan will present her MA capstone project and Xuehao Ma will present perliminary findings from his research supported by an APSI summer research grant. The presentation titles are listed below. Lunch will be provided...

Speaker: Nicole Barnes, Assistant Professor of History, Duke University

This will be a talk about Barnes’ book, Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945. When China’s War of Resistance against...

Xi Jinping's Third Revolution and the Future of U.S.-China Relations