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2011
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Celebrating 45 | Promoting Constructive Engagement Since 1966
<strong>Timeline</strong> of Selected Non-program Funded Outreach Activities
Public Intellectuals Program Fellows – Round <strong>III</strong>
November
Carl Minzner moderates CHINA Town Hall event at Fordham Law School
Phillip Stalley presents at the Houston <strong>Committee</strong> on Foreign Relations as part of CHINA Town Hall
Keith Hand speaks at Hasting College of Law, University of Cali<strong>for</strong>nia <strong>for</strong> CHINA Town Hall event
Jay Carter speaks at CHINA Town Hall program at Saint Joseph’s University
Anthony Spires gives presentation entitled "“NGOs in China: Domestic Challenges and Foreign
Support" at a meeting of the organization Community Business
Carl Minzner publishes China (Country Report) in Countries at the Crossroads 2011: A Survey of
Democratic Governance
December
Taylor Fravel publishes “No, Hu Didn’t Call <strong>for</strong> War” in The Diplomat online
Jessica Teets writes essay on the rise of Chinese civil society in 3 rd volume <strong>for</strong> the popular series
“China: In and Beyond the Headlines”
Sabina Knight publishes Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction with Ox<strong>for</strong>d Press
2012
January
Kay Shimizu gives lecture on income inequality and economic growth in Japan at the Maureen and
Mike Mansfield Foundation’s Japan Moves Forward conference
Taylor Fravel guest posts on Asia Security Watch “PLA Watchers: Beware of Open Sources and
In<strong>for</strong>mation Laundering”
Taylor Fravel is quoted in AsiaTimes online in article about China and its border disputes
Joanna Lewis contributes to the <strong>National</strong> Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2012
February
Keith Hand publishes “Constitutionalizing Wukan: The Value of the Constitution Outside the
Courtroom” in China Brief published by the Jamestown Foundation
Tom Kellogg comments on the Human Rights Watch Report “Labor Abuses in Zambia's Chinese
State-owned Copper Mines” at Seton Hall Law School; the event is hosted by Maggie Lewis (<strong>PIP</strong> II)
Joanna Lewis publishes article in Salon on U.S.-China cooperation in the environment and energy
initiatives
Joanna Lewis sits on panel on renewable energy opportunities at UCSD’s 21 st Century China Program,
an initiative aimed at deepening public knowledge and understanding of contemporary China and
promoting active discourse
Martin Dimitrov gives public lecture at Tulane University on autocratic regime resilience and China
Keith Hand assists in sourcing and recruiting Associate Professor of Law, Wan Yong, of the Shanghai
Jiaotong University KoGuan School of Law to serve as a visiting scholar at UC Hastings
March
Taylor Fravel is minority witness at a House Foreign Affairs <strong>Committee</strong> hearing entitled
"Investigating the China Threat: Military and Economic Aggression"

Darrin Magee helps to edit special journal issue <strong>for</strong> the Asia Network, a consortium of liberal arts
colleges that promote Asian studies
Jessica Teets gives public lecture on the emergence of civil society in authoritarian regimes at
Harvard’s Fairbank Center <strong>for</strong> Chinese Studies
Anthony Spires writes blog post <strong>for</strong> YaleGlobal Online on how the Chinese government receives most
of U.S. foundation grant money; his writing is then quoted in Thailand Business News and an excerpt
is published online in the Democracy Digest
Taylor Fravel is quoted in CNN article “China Rockets Forward in Race to Moon”; the Time article
“China Announces 11.2% Increase in Military Spending”; and in The Economist about the South
China Sea
Taylor Fravel publishes “Clarification of China’s Claim” in The Diplomat online
Tom Kellogg publishes “Western Funding <strong>for</strong> Rule of Law Initiatives in China: The importance of a
civil society based approach” in China Perspectives
April
Jessica Weiss addresses delegates at the 10 th anniversary of the Forum <strong>for</strong> American/Chinese
Exchange at Stan<strong>for</strong>d, which she founded as an undergraduate at Stan<strong>for</strong>d
Darrin Magee is quoted in Earth Island Journal <strong>for</strong> a story on environmental NGO’s in China
Kay Shimizu speaks with colleague Kenji Kushida on the politics of Japan’s financial re<strong>for</strong>ms at the
Stan<strong>for</strong>d Graduate School of Business
Thomas Kellogg speaks on panel about China’s influence on international human rights <strong>for</strong>
RightsLink <strong>for</strong>um at Columbia Law School
Taylor Fravel publishes “Measuring Military Modernization” in The Diplomat online
Keith Hand speaks at the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal’s 20th Anniversary Banquet on the
rapidly expanding legal literature on East Asian legal systems and the Journal’s contribution to this
literature
May
Tashi Rabgey co-chairs the Tibet Governance and Practice Conference at McGill University, which
convenes scholars, researchers and practitioners in a cross-disciplinary discussion of key issues
shaping the region
Joanna Lewis is quoted in an E&E Publishing article on the role of China’s electricity grid in energy policy
Joanna Lewis speaks at the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum
Keith Hand writes about constitutional re<strong>for</strong>m in China after Bo Xilai affairs <strong>for</strong> China Brief,
published by the Jamestown Foundation
Taylor Fravel writes article in Foreign Policy on the Asian arms race
Taylor Fravel publishes “Japan, China’s Maritime Step” in The Diplomat online
Keith Hand publishes a second article in China Brief, entitled “Exploring Constitutional Re<strong>for</strong>m in the
Wake of the Bo Xilai Affair”
June
Jessica Teets writes op-ed in China Daily on Chinese civil society and is also quoted in the cover story
of the same subject
Taylor Fravel is quoted in CNN article “China to launch manned spacecraft in mid-June”
Keith Hand delivers lecture entitled “Comparative Perspectives on the Resolution of Legislative
Conflicts” in both Chinese and English to more than 120 students and faculty at Northeastern
University Law School in Shenyang, China
Taylor Fravel writes op-ed “How to Defuse South China Sea Conflicts” <strong>for</strong> Asian Wall Street Journal
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July
Sabina Knight leads trip to China <strong>for</strong> Smith College alumni and their families and friends
Carl Minzner publishes “China Turns Against Law” in the Asian Wall Street Journal
Taylor Fravel is quoted in the Financial Times article, "Chinese <strong>National</strong>ists Eye Okinawa”
Kay Shimizu participates in a discussion with the Global Times <strong>for</strong> the article “Info Treaty Hits
Korean-Japanese Sore Spots”
Jessica Weiss releases a podcast through Yale University’s SoundCloud exploring anti-<strong>for</strong>eign
protests in China
Jessica Weiss is quoted in the Foreign Policy Journal article, “Guan Xi: Sino-American Relations
Improvement as Economic Migration Occurs”
August
Taylor Fravel is quoted in "China Politics, Oil Needs Risk Conflict in S. China Sea" on
Bloomberg.com
Taylor Fravel discusses "Foreign Entanglements” with Robert Farley <strong>for</strong> bloggingheads.tv
Carl Minzner is quoted in an Agence France-Presse article on the Gu Kailai murder trial
Carl Minzner is quoted in The Daily Beast on Gu Kailai’s suspended death sentence
Keith Hand holds a series of official meetings and lectures in Beijing, Hunan, Shenyang and Shanghai,
as part of a current research project on legislative conflicts
September
Carl Minzner publishes “Rule of Law in China: Past, Present, and Future” in The Diplomat
Jay Carter delivers presentation “Travels with Ven. Tanxu, Meeting Ven. Lokto: Finding Modern
China Through the Lives of Two Buddhist Monks” at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, NY
Jessica Weiss quoted in Los Angeles Times article Anti-Japan protests in China spread to more cities,
she also publishes a blog post in the Monkey Cage about the same topic
He Yinan publishes a blog piece on Sino-Japanese relations at CFR’s Asia Unbound (she is invited to
submit the blog post by <strong>PIP</strong> II Fellow Huang Yanzhong), she also appears on the NPR radio show
Worldview to speak on the anti-Japan protests in China
Jay Carter featured in Philadelphia Inquirer article “The East is Read in Works of St. Joseph's
Professor”
Jay Carter participates in live Huffington Post web discussion on nationalism in Asia
Keith Hand assists the Dui Hua Foundation in planning the visit of a Chinese judicial delegation to
Cali<strong>for</strong>nia <strong>for</strong> a seminar focused on juvenile justice issues
Tashi Rabgey gives a talk on “The Limits of Sovereignty and the Twentieth Century State: Tibet and
the People’s Republic of China” at the University of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan
October
He Yinan is quoted in the Economist online edition in an article about nationalism in China
Joanna Lewis speaks at the World Resources Institute on a panel entitled “Why China Is Acting on
Clean Energy”
Joanna Lewis provides a briefing on climate change and Chinese security issues <strong>for</strong> a group of 15 midcareer
Navy officers in Washington, D.C.
Tashi Rabgey provides a briefing to the same group on Tibet and minority issues in China
Taylor Fravel writes on the South China Sea disputes <strong>for</strong> The Diplomat, in “Something to Talk About,
Again”
Jay Carter reviews Richard J. Smith’s The I Ching: A Biography <strong>for</strong> the LA Review of Books
Sabina Knight speaks on NPR’s radio show “On Point” about Chinese author and Nobel Prize <strong>for</strong>
Literature winner, Mo Yan
Sabina Knight is interviewed by Board Member Jeff Wasserstrom in the LA Review of Books
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Carl Minzner blogs “Chinese Legal Re<strong>for</strong>m: Game On?” <strong>for</strong> The Diplomat
Jay Carter speaks at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, PA about Chinese history post-1949
and Buddhism
Tashi Rabgey blogs “Kurdistan Regional Autonomy and the Twentieth Century State” <strong>for</strong> the blog
anthropologyworks
November
Taylor Fravel publishes “China’s Island Strategy: ‘Redefine the Status Quo’” in The Diplomat
Michael Chang speaks on a panel after a screening of “The Red Detachment of Women” at the Freer
Gallery
Carl Minzner is interviewed by Asia Society in YouTube video titled, “China Leadership Transition:
The Future of Legal Re<strong>for</strong>m”
Taylor Fravel discusses China’s naval power with Kaiser Kuo on the Sinica podcast
Taylor Fravel publishes “Foreign Policy Under Xi Jinping” in The Diplomat
Jay Carter speaks at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, PA to seniors in their World History
and Comparative Religions classes
Carl Minzner publishes “The Social Pressures are Real” in a discussion on the issues confronting Xi
Jinping’s leadership as part of the New York Times’ Room For Debate series
Jessica Weiss is interviewed by The Politic (Yale) on the island dispute between China and Japan in
the East China Sea
December
2013
He Yinan is quoted in the French quarterly Alternatives Internationales
Taylor Fravel publishes “Hainan’s New Maritime Regulations: A Preliminary Analysis” in The
Diplomat
Taylor Fravel is quoted in Reuters article, “Disputes Over Small Islands Pose Big Conundrum <strong>for</strong> US”
Phillip Stalley posts “China’s Green Imperative” in The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch <strong>for</strong>um
January, 2013
Sabina Knight’s book Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction is featured on the Asia Society
blog in Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s China book list
Jessica Weiss co-authors “China and Vietnam: Danger in the South China Sea” on the China-US
Focus website
Joanna Lewis is quoted in Responding to Climate Change (RTCC) article on Chinese carbon intensity
Taylor Fravel is quoted in “Japan Counts the Cost of the Islands Spat” in the South China Morning Post
Carl Minzner publishes “China Legal Re<strong>for</strong>m Hopes are Premature” in the Asia Times Online
Joanna Lewis speaks at book launch and panel discussion on Green Innovation in China at the Wilson
Center’s China Environment Forum
Jay Carter is interviewed by Board Member Jeff Wasserstrom in the LA Review of Books
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