Event Category Archives: Featured Chinese

《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles

The Book of Swindles 杜騙新書 (1617 preface) is said to be the first Chinese collection of stories about fraud. Addressed primarily to traveling merchants of the late Ming era, the work offers eighty-odd tales of swindles attempted and accomplished, most of which are followed by an author’s comment that drives home the lesson for the […]

How We Mastered Chinese: Tips from Learners

Are you passionate about learning Chinese? Looking for practical tips and strategies to boost your language skills? Join us at our upcoming workshop, “How We Mastered Chinese: Tips from Learners!” This inspiring event is designed for learners like you who want to enhance their Chinese proficiency. Hear from advanced learners as they share their tried-and-tested […]

Taiwan Democracy and the Chinese Humanistic Tradition

2025 Capstone Lectures with Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke Taiwan’s peaceful transformation from authoritarian rule to a liberal democracy in the early 1990s has been praised as a remarkable political achievement. This achievement, despite the many challenges it has faced and still confronts, has been thriving in the face of China’s claim of sovereignty over the island […]

2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library, 1933–1941

The 2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Sophie Volpp (UC Berkeley) Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library, 1933–1941 In fall of 1941, the National Library of Peiping, now the National Library of China, sent 100 crates of rare books to the Library of Congress […]