![New York – Chinese Students in America – A Transformative Force on Campus with Peggy Blumenthal, Isabelle (Muge) Niu, Siqi Tu, Isaac Stone Fish [Peggy Blumenthal, Isabelle (Muge) Niu, Siqi Tu and Isaac Stone Fish]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PeggyBlumenthal-photo-e1540160508117.jpg)
Sep 28, 2018
There are now roughly 330,000 Chinese students studying at American universities — a more than five-fold increase in just 10 years. The sheer size and rapid growth of this cohort are having seismic effects on American campuses, as well as raising questions about how...
![New York – What Happened When Trump Met Xi? with Orville Schell, Bonnie S. Glaser, Daniel Russel, Susan Jakes [Orville Schell, Bonnie S. Glaser, Daniel Russel and Susan Jakes]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Schell_headshot_0.jpg)
Sep 28, 2018
On November 8, just weeks after Chinese Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping proclaimed he was shepherding China into a “new era,” President Donald Trump will begin a three-day state visit to Beijing. His first trip to China since his inauguration, and his third...
![New York – China, Church and the State: The paradox of Xi’s approach to traditional religion with Ian Johnson [Wednesday, October 18]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/imageedit_2_24809360501.jpg)
Sep 28, 2018
As the 19th Party Congress gets under way on October 18th, we look back at one of the most under-recognized elements of Xi Jinping’s first five years in office: his enthusiastic support of traditional religions and values. Since taking office in 2012, Mr Xi has...
![New York – A Discussion with Susan Jakes, Editor at ChinaFile with Susan Jakes [Wednesday, September 13]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/susan_jakes_round.jpg)
Sep 28, 2018
As China’s government continues to tighten control over Chinese journalists, critics, and its general populace, institutions anchored outside Chinese borders will need to strengthen their resolve to support writers, reporters, and other observers, both Chinese and...
![New York – Gender and Confucianism in Today’s China with Jiayang Fan [Thursday, August 10]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FullSizeRender__1_1-e1540160084639.jpg)
Sep 28, 2018
New Yorker staff writer, Jiayang Fan, has recently written several articles that engage with the evolving nature of gender dynamics, Confucian patriarchy, and feminism in contemporary China. The rapid speed of the country’s economic growth, coupled with its...
