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All University of Chicago Center in Beijing News items are presented below. To narrow the list down by category, use the links on the left.

Employment: Center in Beijing Looking for Interns

Please send cover letter and resume to beijingevents@uchicago.cn. UChicago (Beijing) Consulting Company Ltd. is a wholly foreign owned enterprise that provides consulting services to the University of Chicago.  UCHICAGO (Beijing) provides an intellectual destination for research, teaching, and scholarly partnerships …
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Center in Beijing Issues Call for Proposals

(This webpage is available as a downloadable .pdf) CALL FOR PROPOSALS To: University of Chicago Faculty and Research Staff From: Dali Yang, Faculty Director of the Center in Beijing and Professor of Political Science Date: November 28, 2011 On behalf …
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Renslow Sherer Wins Hubei Province Chime Bell Award

Initiated by the government of Hubei Province in 1994, the Chime Bells Award honors foreign experts who have contributed to the betterment of the province.  The University of Chicago’s Renslow Sherer was the only American among this year’s ten recipients. …
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2011 Fall East Asian Civilizations Students Visit a Migrants’ Village

The 2011 East Asian Civilizations Study Abroad Program features classes taught by University of Chicago professors James Hevia, Dingxin Zhao and Jacob Eyferth, as well as Chinese language instructors from Renmin University ZHANG Zhi and YU Hechuan. Professor Hevia’s course …
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Center in Beijing Hosts Seoul National University Chinese Studies Program

Seoul National University brought its study abroad program in Chinese Studies to the University of Chicago Center in Beijing.  The nine-day program (from August 19 to 27, 2011) included seminars by Korean CEOs, lectures by eminent professors of Chinese studies …
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2011 Chinese Language Summer Program Comes to an End

Youqin WANG points to two charts from an article she’s recently published.  The first tracks the increase in the number of students enrolled in the University of Chicago Chinese Language Program, which she’s headed since 2001.  The second shows the …
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Henry M. Paulson Jr. appointed distinguished senior fellow at the Harris School

(This is an excerpt from a UChicagoNews story by Sara Olkon.) Henry M. Paulson Jr., former United States Treasury Secretary and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has been appointed as a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Chicago Harris …
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Justin Yifu Lin Wins Alumni Professional Achievement Award

Justin Yifu Lin (PhD’86) is an influential and important economist who has contributed to the field of development economics. He is one of the first UChicago social science PhDs to return to China, introducing the ideas of market economics learned …
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Renmin University Professor Tao Ran Teaches UChicago Economics Course in Beijing

TAO Ran, who earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2002, taught a Social Sciences course entitled “The Chinese Economy in Transition” to UofC students in the Spring, 2011, Social Sciences Study Abroad program.  Professor Tao, …
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Spring 2011 Study Abroad Students Explore Beijing

The majority of students in the Social Sciences Spring Study Abroad program departed from the original topic for a paper in Professor Michael Geyer’s Global Condition class.  Instead of writing on Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing, an assigned reading, …
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