Event Recap – Asian Americans Making an Imprint on Film Industry

On February 8, the US-China Education Trust (USCET) hosted a lively discussion featuring distinguished film trailblazers Shirley Sun, Felicia Lowe, and Robin Lung. The three shared their own experiences, and highlighted the larger issue of Asians making an imprint on the American film industry.  This was the seventh episode of USCET’s Asian Women Trailblazers Series,…

Students Finding Common Ground

The US-China Education Trust, in cooperation with Tsinghua University and George Washington University, has launched a new project to bring American and Chinese students together, working on areas where US-China cooperation is urgently needed in an era of competition and tension between the two countries. Students Finding Common Ground—US China Collaborative Projects in An Era…

Event Recap- Increasing US Student Mobility to China: US-China University Workshop

On Thursday evening, January 11 (January 12 in China), the US-China Education Trust (USCET) and the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) co-hosted a workshop on increasing opportunities for Americans to study in China. The number of American students in China has dropped dramatically in recent years, and is climbing only slowly post-pandemic.  An issue of…

Event Recap – The Role of Chinese Students in America

On December 5, USCET hosted a webinar on The Role of Chinese Students in America, featuring four distinguished Americans who arrived in the US as Chinese international students and hosted by USCET President Madelyn Ross. The discussion highlighted themes that emerged from USCET’s recently published report, Three Decades of Chinese Students in America, 1991-2021, developed in partnership…

Honors for USCET’s Advisory Council Members

The US-China Education Trust congratulates Advisory Council members Peter McPherson and Thomas Pickering for receiving honors and accolades for their distinguished service and contributions to diplomacy and international affairs. Peter McPherson The American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) honored Peter McPherson at its Thirty-Fourth Annual Diplomatic Awards Luncheon on November 9th, 2023, presenting him the Henrietta…

China Town Hall 2023

The National Committee on US-China Relations hosted its annual CHINA Town Hall event on October 11, 2023, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects American communities. This year’s event featured current U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, as the national speaker. More than eighty venues around the country hosted “Local Town Halls” on the same night. USCET President Madelyn Ross was a featured…

Three Decades of Chinese Students in America, 1991-2021

Click Here to View the Chinese Webpage (Translation courtesy of Zhang Juan. Special thanks to our partner, The Carter Center, and their publication, 美中故事汇). As a new academic year begins, student flows between the U.S. and China remain far below pre-Covid levels of 2019-2020, while lingering issues and tense U.S.-China relations cloud the prospects for…

Event Recap – A Portrait of the Self as Nation: Poetry and Diaspora

On September 26th, USCET hosted a webinar discussion on how poetry addresses contemporary socio-political issues. The discussion featured two speakers: Marilyn Chin, an acclaimed poet and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and King-Kok Cheung, USCET’s Special Advisor, a renowned literary critic and Professor of English at UCLA. The conversation was moderated by Wai…