Event Details
WHAT: Prof. Deborah Davis discusses a new book she co-edited, "Chinese encounters with America: Journeys that shaped the future of China", which profiles Chinese individuals whose American experiences had impact back home, in an in-person talk organised jointly by RASBJ and Yale Center Beijing (YCB).
WHEN: 7.00-8.00 PM, Monday April 27. Doors open at 6.30 PM
WHERE: Yale Center Beijing, 36th Floor, Tower B, IFC Building, 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue.
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ABOUT THE EVENT: "Chinese Encounters in America" (Columbia University Press 2025) edited by Deborah Davis and Terry Lautz tells the stories of twelve remarkable Chinese individuals whose professional lives capture the evolving meanings of "America" as well as China's broader quests for economic prosperity and global engagement. The book's personal narratives speak directly about the complexity of cross-cultural understanding across different generations. Professor Davis will explain how the project evolved from Dr. Lautz's earlier book "Americans in China" (Oxford University Press 2020) and briefly introduce the men and women whom they selected as featured subjects. Prof. Davis' presentation will be followed by a QA between one of the book's profilees, media personality Hung Huang, and Newsweek Beijing Bureau Chief Melinda Liu who wrote the book's chapter on Hung Huang.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Deborah Davis is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Yale University where she previously chaired the Department of Sociology, the Council on East Asian Studies and the Women Faculty Forum. Currently she is a visiting faculty member at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua and an honorary professor at Fudan. She previously served six terms as a Trustee of the Yale China Association and chaired the Advisory Board of the Universities' Service Center Library at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the H panel for the Hong Kong University Grants Council. She has served on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, The China Review, and the Chinese Sociological Review. She holds degrees from Wellesley College, Harvard, and Boston University. Her most recent book, coedited with Terry Lautz is "Chinese Encounters with America," a Tucker-Cohen book with Columbia University Press.
Hung Huang from childhood has been steeped in East-meets-West interaction. Her mother Zhang Hanzhi was a Chinese diplomat; her stepfather was the late Foreign Minister Qiao Guanhua. At age 12, Huang was tapped by Chinese leaders to travel to the US, where she lived with an American family to learn English and embed in American culture. She attended Vassar, and began a career in business just as China's post-Mao economic modernization took off. She became the publisher of a glossy Chinese fashion publication, and then began to blog. Her independent voice made Huang an influencer before the word even came into popular usage. Today her candid comments attract many followers on various social media platforms.
Melinda Liu opened Newsweek's first Beijing bureau in 1980, and has lived and worked in mainland China for nearly three decades as a U.S. foreign correspondent. In addition to reporting on multiple aspects of China's post-Mao modernization, she has covered conflicts and military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Somalia and Haiti. She contributed a chapter on Hung Huang for "Chinese Encounters with America: Journeys that shaped the future of China" edited by Deborah Davis and Terry Lautz.
HOW MUCH: RMB 200 for members of RASBJ, RMB 300 for non-members. Seating is limited.
HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT: This notice covers registration with RASBJ for members and non-members, for in-person participation.
If you are not a member of RASBJ, or are a member of a partner RAS branch, you are welcome to become an RASBJ member. To join, please sign up at rasbj.glueup.cn/org/rasbeijing/memberships/
To register for the event with RASBJ, please click "Register" or "I will Attend" and follow the instructions. Ticket purchase is for one ticket per person. You may find payment via Alipay easier than via WeChat; you can also pay with international credit cards. After successful registration and payment, you will receive a confirmation email. If you seem not to have received it, please check your spam folder.
Members of the Yale community, to register with the Yale Center Beijing please email: yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu
Registrations will close no later than 6 PM on Friday April 24. If payment is not received by 6 PM Friday April 24, the related registration application will be suspended.
REFUND POLICY: If the event is cancelled by the organisers, registrants will be refunded in full. Unless organisers cancel the event or explicitly state otherwise, tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
