The American Studies Network (ASN) Professor Mei Renyi American Studies Essay Competition 2016 Announcing the Winners Beijing Foreign Studies University and the US-China Education Trust are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural ASN Professor Mei Renyi American Studies Essay Competition. We would like to congratulate all the winners. The top prize winner…
USCET successfully organized the Central Party School (CPS) 2016 Fall Elections Institute in partnership with American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) and the United States Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC). Professor Jianfei Liu, Acting Director of the CPS Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS), led a delegation of eight CPS…
USCET partnered with the Institute for International Strategic Studies (IISS) of the Central Party School to host the symposium, “New Model of Major Power Relations: Next Generation Voices” in June 2015 in Beijing. This event marked the fifth in a series of symposiums that have been organized together with IISS since 2006. The event was…
Yao Guigui, Director for the Center of American Culture Studies at Jianghan University, Wuhan, China, was USCET’s first American Studies Fellowship recipient under the programming for American Society and Culture. She conducted research on gender and religion as a visiting scholar at Yale University during the fall 2012 semester under the mentorship of American Studies…
Three publications have been created as a result of excellent paper submissions from ASN Conferences (2006, 2007) and a women and diplomacy conference (2003). Click here to access the recently posted H-Diplo Roundtable Review, a peer-review of all three publications. The conferences and their respective volumes are as follows: Bridging the Sino-American Divide: American Studies…
USCET held an elections expert briefing – featuring Dr. James Thurber of American University, Dr. Bill Schneider of Third Way, and Mr. James Grimaldi of the Wall Street Journal – at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 25, 2012. Minister-Counselor Liu Weimin opened the event to a room of almost 100 Chinese…
USCET is pleased to provide an English translation to a recent interview with Professor Wang Jisi, published in the American Studies journal on occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of American Studies under Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Professor Wang is dean of the School of International Studies, Peking University,…
The School of English and International Studies (SEIS) at Beijing Foreign Studies University is proud to announce the launch of the American Studies Faculty Development Program, which will be held from July 16-27, 2012. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the U.S.-China Education Trust, this two-week intensive program aims to train qualified college faculty…
USCET is pleased to announce a grant from the US Embassy in Beijing to collaborate with Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) in establishing an American Reading Room and Information Center, to be called InfoUSA@BFSU. Info USA will be situated in the American Studies Center (ASC) of BFSU’s School of English and International Studies (SEIS), and…
USCET is excited to host the Study of the US Institute on US Foreign Policy for East Asian Leaders for the second year in a row. This year’s program will be directed by Dr. Balbina Hwang, of Georgetown University. The curriculum of the Institute is designed to enhance students’ understanding of the historical foundations of…
