China Institute in America

"You can find a lot about China’s strengths, weaknesses and ambitions in its aerospace power: To go to the Moon, and become a competitor to Boeing and Airbus, etc. I try to argue that everything connected to China, China’s aerospace ambitions stand as a proxy for China’s developments and limitations as a whole. Success in aviation relies on control and trustif they could do that, it would be quite impressive." -James Fallows in last week's Pieces of China on China's aviation industry and a perilous flight he took across the country. Cirrus Aircraft #cirrusaircraft #privatepilot #smallplane #cirrussr22 See more in our recap at: https://www.chinainstitute.org/recap-pieces-of-china-s3-e5/

"The landscape has been changing slowly over the last several decades- I am talking mostly about the US, and the UK too. What was selected used to be the province of academia, choosing books on the criteria on what is important to Chinese literature. Most of the time that overlaps with what we consider good books, but not always. A lot of these books were translated and no one ever heard of them. There is a real disconnect between academic and commercial publishing houses." -Eric Abrahamsen of Paper Republic See more - including a recommended book list - from our conversation on the intricacies of Chinese literature translation in the West: https://www.chinainstitute.org/recap-lost-in-translation-2/

Meet Alvin Lin, the moderator of Thursday's important and timely #climate discussion Getting to Zero: Can the U.S. and China Save the Planet? Alvin Lin is China Climate and Energy Policy Director in the Natural Resource Defense Council’s Beijing office, focusing on analysis and policy advocacy around China’s climate and clean energy policies. He will be joined by climate leaders Jeffrey Sachs and Ma Jun. Do NOT miss this conversation about the future of the environment/future of our shared planet. https://www.chinainstitute.org//getting-zero-can-u-s-chin/ #climatechange #NetZero

Spotlight on Spring Classes: Reading Modern Chinese Literature: Short Stories (III) (1918-2000) Through a sampling of masterpieces by celebrated authors from Lu Xun (1881-1936) to Zhang Ailing (1920-1995), this course offers an extraordinary chance to analyze modern Chinese fiction for anyone who wishes to comprehend why and how China went through a turbulent century of violence, struggles, wars, revolutions and reforms as the birth of a new national language and mass culture seemed to forecast lasting impacts in China. Understand China's path through modern fiction. Sign up before March 5 to save on the registration fee: https://www.chinainstitute.org//reading-modern-chinese-li/

Spring 2021 Class Spotlight- Ben Wang’s Special Course: A Fresh Dawn with New Poetic Styles: From the 19 Old Poems to Tao Yuanming Study the following Chinese masters with CI's master educator Ben Wang: The Nineteen Poems in Antiquated Style: Composed by anonymous poets during the Eastern/Latter Han dynasty (25-221 A.D.), the poems (along with the Ballad) brought in a new dawn in poetry and exerted immense influence on the start and popularity of the pentasyllabic poetry.... Cao Cao (155-220): One of the most colorful and controversial statesmen, militarists, and poets in the history of China Tao Yuanming (372-427): All poets after Tao Yuanming were more or less inspired by him in both spirit and style. https://www.chinainstitute.org//a-fresh-dawn-with-new-poe/ Sign up before March 5 to save on registration!