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Brown University Library Acquires Exceptionally Rare Book On Chinese Medicine
The Brown University Library has acquired an exceptionally rare book, the first Western book on Chinese medicine, Les Secrets de la Medecine des Chinois (Grenoble, 1671). The volume is composed of...
China Through Your Eyes
In conjunction with the Year of China 2011-2 at Brown, the China Conversation is launching a “China Through Your Eyes” Media Contest. Submissions are accepted from now till January 31, 2012.
Amitav Ghosh and his addictive empire trilogy
Amitav Ghosh — Indian born and educated, at home in New York — is our epic novelist of empire, then and now. River of Smoke is part two of his trilogy on Opium, the narcotic fuel of the British...
Strait Talk Symposium forges ‘peacemakers’
The sounds of Chinese, Taiwanese and English mingled inside Vartan Gregorian Quad Sunday afternoon during the Peace Project Workshop of Brown's seventh-annual Strait Talk Symposium. Empty coffee...
What Is Strait Talk? An Interview with Alina Kung '12
Alina Kung (Development Studies & Human Biology '12) speaks to the China Conversation about her journey with Strait Talk - how Strait Talk has changed her, and how Strait Talk has changed over...
Strait Talk 2011 Symposium
Strait Talk is a non-partisan dialogue program that seeks to transform international conflict by connecting young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the United States and empowering...
Leslie Chang: “The Dickens of China today is doing real estate.”
Leslie Chang brings a cautionary anti-romanticism and a fine reporter’s eye to the start of Brown’s Year of China. Her story is China turning itself inside out over the last 30 years — about the...
Caught Between Two Countries
Who am I? It's the question that dogs every teenager, but perhaps none as painfully as those adopted by parents of a different race and culture. For these teens, the search for identity is often...
President Wei Yang of Zhejiang University speaks to a full house in MacMillan Hall
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World Bank Chief Economist Visits Brown
The questions came flying, but Dr. Justin Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, remained unruffled. At Brown on a two-day visit last week, the last item on Dr. Lin's...
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