Overseas Young Chinese Forum Bulletin

Call for Application: 2026 OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on U.S.-China Relations

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:32:18 GMT

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to announce the call for application for the 2026 OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations.

Supported by the OYCF-Stilwell Education Fund, this fellowship program was established in 2024 to advance understanding between the U.S. and China. The fellowships support students, scholars, professionals and practitioners who engage in research and/or public-facing projects that explore US-China exchange. These projects include scholarly or policy writing, documentaries, plays, podcasts, and other activities that contribute to mutual understanding and people-to-people exchange between the US and China.

One to two fellowships, ranging from $5,000-10,000, will be awarded in each cycle through a selective process. Fellowship recipients will be announced on the OYCF website as OYCF-Stilwell Fellows, along with their project titles.

For eligibility and application details, visit https://oycf.net/stilwell.

Applications must be received by April 15, 2026 for full consideration.

2026 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship Now Open for Application

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:21:04 GMT

OYCF is delighted to announce that the application period for the 2026 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China is now open.

This fellowship, generously funded by Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow, provides graduate students in humanities and social sciences from U.S. or Canadian universities with an opportunity to conduct fieldwork in China for their thesis projects. Successful applicants can receive up to $5,000 in financial support.

Priority will be given to research projects focusing on contemporary economic, social, cultural, or political issues in China. However, historical or comparative studies with a substantial amount of fieldwork in China are also eligible for consideration.

The names of fellowship recipients will be officially announced on the OYCF website as distinguished OYCF-Chow Fellows.

Don't miss this chance to advance your research and contribute to the understanding of critical issues in China. Apply now!

Happy New Year and Save the Date for OYCF 2026 Annual Meeting

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMT

Dear OYCF Members, Friends and Supporters,

Happy New Year 2026! As we step into a new year, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to you for being part of our community. Your continued support, engagement, and friendship make our work possible, and we are grateful to begin another year together.

As you start planning, we invite you to save the dates for OYCF’s 2026 Annual Meeting, which will take place in Irvine, California, over Memorial Day weekend, May 23–24, 2026. The program will start in the late afternoon of May 23 and end with a dinner reception on May 24. In collaboration with the Long US-China Institute at UC Irvine, we have tentatively set this year's theme to be "History, Politics, and One-Child Policy Making in China". Additional programmatic activities will be announced later.

The annual meeting is always a special opportunity to connect in person, reflect on our shared mission, and look ahead to what’s next. We’re excited to gather together and will share more details about the agenda, location, and registration in the coming months.

For now, please mark your calendars—and once again, thank you for being part of the OYCF community. We look forward to all that 2026 will bring.

With warm wishes for a happy, healthy, and inspiring New Year,

OYCF Board
Overseas Young Chinese Forum

OYCF-Stilwell Fellow Named: Huan YAN

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:00:00 GMT

At the OYCF 2025 Annual Meeting which took place last weekend in San Diego, we were pleased to announce the first awardee of the OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship: Huan YAN, an independent scholar specializing in the history of China-Burma-India theatre during WWII, who is based in China. The fellowship will support Mr. Yan’s research project, “二战中缅印战区史迪威将军统帅下的各组织机构” (“A Study and Research on the Essential Organizations Under the Command of General Joseph W. Stilwell in the China - Burma - India Theater During WWII”).

OYCF 2025 Annual Meeting to be held on August 15-17 in San Diego

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:00:00 GMT

OYCF 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego on August 15-17. This year's theme is "Rethinking Chinese Education: Challenges, Traditions, and Innovations in a Changing World 重思中国教育：在全球变动中的挑战、传承与创新". For the line up of our invited speakers and registration info, visit here.

Announcement: 2025 OYCF-Chow Fellowship Recipients

Mon, 26 May 2025 22:52:21 GMT

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2025 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China. This fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students whose research advances the understanding of contemporary Chinese society through rigorous fieldwork.

We extend our warmest congratulations to the following scholars:

Lingxiao Chen, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Emory University

Everyday Nationalism in Chinese Entertainment: Cultural Governance, Celebrity Agency, and Audience Reception.

Zhuoma(Drolma) Gadou, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, University of Colorado

The End of Yaks? Tibetan Pastoralism at a Crossroads in a Globalized Industrial Food Regime.

Jingyi Guo, Ph.D. Candidate in Mass Communications & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Homemakers of the Datafied State: Women’s Labor in Data-Driven Governance in China.

Zhaorui Lu, Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California, Irvine

Small-Feet Detectives, Gossipy Aunties: A Gendered History of Grassroots Urban Governance in China, 1949 to the Present.

Yixue Yang, Ph.D. Candidate in History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego

Threads of Gendered Knowledge: Silk, Soil, and Rural Women in China’s Export Economy, 1949–1980.

Andrea Zhu, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Greening Infrastructure Development: Transnational Environmental and Climate Finance Advocacy at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

These fellows exemplify academic excellence, interdisciplinary inquiry, and a deep commitment to advancing field-based research in China. We look forward to the insights and contributions they will bring to the scholarly community.

Call for Application: OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations

Tue, 06 May 2025 18:00:00 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to announce the new OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations is now open for applications through May 30, 2025.

We welcome applications from students, scholars, professionals and practitioners who engage in research and/or public-facing projects that explore US-China exchange.

One to two fellowships, ranging from $5,000-10,000, will be awarded in each cycle through a selective process. For eligibility and application details, visit https://oycf.net/stilwell.

Student Engagement Grant Recipients

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:19:15 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the re-launched Student Engagement Grant.

Program Grant

China Reading & innovation Lab, Columbia University.

Sociology Forums and Workshops, joint with The Center for the Study of Contemporary China (CSCC), University of Pennsylvania.

Single Event Grant

Global China Paper Workshop, Northeastern University.

We congratulate the recipient groups and their organizers for taking the lead in creating local spaces for meaningful connections through educational activities that foster a deeper understanding of Chinese culture, society, history, and current affairs across diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

For more information on the Student Engagement Grant, including eligibility and application process, visit https://oycf.net/Students or contact SEG@oycf.net.

2025 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship Now Open for Application

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:18:02 GMT

OYCF is delighted to announce that the application period for the 2025 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China is now open.

The names of fellowship recipients will be officially announced on the OYCF website as distinguished OYCF-Chow Fellows. Don't miss this chance to advance your research and contribute to the understanding of critical issues in China. Apply now!

OYCF Student Engagement Grant Re-launched

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:32:44 GMT

OYCF is pleased to announce the re-launch of our Student Engagement Grant (SEG). This initiative is designed to support students in creating social groups that engage in educational activities related to China. We encourage projects that foster a deeper understanding of Chinese culture, society, history, and current affairs across diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Our goal is to inspire students to take the lead in creating local spaces for meaningful discussions, engagement, and connections.

We offer small grants to support activities and initiatives that are creative, inclusive, and academically enriching. These activities may include, but are not limited to, reading groups, mini-lecture series, film societies, and salons organized by and for students for educational, self-growth and community-building purposes. Existing projects or those that have already received other funding are also eligible, provided that the additional budgetary need is justified.

Two types of grants are available and open for applications:

Single Event Grant: This grant supports a single event with a budget of up to $500.

Program Grant: This grant supports multiple activities throughout an academic year to foster long-lasting local communities, with funding of up to $1500 per academic year.

Applications for the Single Event Grant must be submitted at least one month prior to the event, and are accepted on a rolling basis while funds remain. Applications for the Program Grant for the current academic year must be submitted by September 30 (For the 2024-2025 academic year, the deadline is December 15 2024). Successful applicants will be notified within one month of us receiving the application.

For details about eligibility and application instructions, visit https://oycf.net/Students. For questions, contact SEG@oycf.net.

Press Release: OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:20:57 GMT

OYCF Announces the OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to announce the launch of the OYCF-Stilwell Fellowship on US-China Relations. This new initiative is supported by the OYCF-Stilwell Education Fund and aims to advance understanding between the U.S. and China.

OYCF-Stilwell Fellowships are intended to support students, scholars, professionals and practitioners who engage in research and/or public-facing projects that explore US-China exchange. These projects include scholarly or policy writing, documentaries, plays, podcasts, and other activities that contribute to mutual understanding and people-to-people exchange between the US and China.

Applicants must be currently enrolled in a U.S. university, or, if not a student, must have a demonstrated interest in US-China relations. One to two fellowships, totaling up to $10,000, will be awarded annually through a competition that takes place in the winter quarter.

Stay tuned for application details. A call for proposal will be issued in early 2025.

2024 OYCF-Chow Fellows Announced

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:48:39 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) congratulates the following five recipients of the 2024 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China:

Yingru Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Her project examines the transformation of elderly care in China, focusing on the integration of technological innovation into senior care and its impact on existing care practices and relationships.

Junyi Han is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. Her research examines the rise and fall of the Sino-Vietnamese alliance during Cold War through the prism of Yunnan province.

Shumeng Han is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her project studies the politics of agricultural innovation in modern China by tracing the history of wheat seed development, production, and circulation from World War II (1931–1945) until the 1970s in Shaanxi province.

Pamela Tsui is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her project draws on a transnational framework to explore how Hong Kongers in Hong Kong and Toronto use money to construct and negotiate boundaries during turbulent times.

Liubing Xie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His project explores how China's crafting of the affordable rental housing market is one of the emerging governing techniques to govern the heterogeneous migrant populations in large cities.

2024 Field Report #1: 中国高端养老机构的田野反思

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:06:08 GMT

In this field report filed by Jiangjiang Wu, PhD candidate in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she reflects both on the rise of luxury retirement homes in China today and on the evolution in her own thinking about the institution.

2024 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship Now Open for Application

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 07:38:08 GMT

OYCF is delighted to announce that the application period for the 2024 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China is now open.

2023 OYCF-Chow Fellows Announced

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:11:33 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum congratulates the following five recipients of the 2023 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China:

Niall Chithelen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego. He studies the history of concrete in Mao-era China, and his project examines the relationship between construction, design, technology, and the natural environment in twentieth-century China.

Zhuang Han is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. His project explores the life of Chinese non-workers (San He Da Shen) to review the labor relation in the time of industrial restructuring from the perspective of reproduction.

Hsu Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. His project investigates how technological advances are made in a non-western context, drawing on the case of COVID vaccine development in China and Russia.

Xiangyi Ren is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Adopting a processual approach, her project empirically aims to explain the divergent organizational development of specialized trial organizations in China and theoretically aims to contribute to the literature on legal change.

Tong Xin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. Her research project seeks to understand the making of crisis and hope in contemporary China by following gender and sexuality knowledge production in sex education programs, educational spaces, and children’s everyday life.

2023 OYCF-Chow Fellowship Open to Application

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:50:33 GMT

OYCF is pleased to announce that 2023 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China is open for application.

Since 2018, Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) has provided several fellowships to support field research in China, funded by the generous donations by Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow to OYCF. The fellowship provides up to $5,000 to graduate students in humanities and social sciences in a U.S. or Canadian university to conduct fieldwork in China for their thesis projects.

Priority will be given to research projects focusing on contemporary economic, social, cultural, or political issues in China, but historical or comparative studies with substantial amount of fieldwork to be conducted in China are also eligible for consideration.

Fellowship recipients will be announced on the OYCF website as OYCF-Chow Fellows.

2022 OYCF-Chow Fellows Announced

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 05:30:08 GMT

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum is pleased to announce the 2022 OYCF-Chow Fellows. The fellowship aims to support the following research projects.

Ran Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her project involves multi-method functional analysis of the stone tools from the Peiligang site in North China, to discuss the changes of technology in the origin and development of early agriculture, and explore the dynamic relationships between humans and the environment in East Asia.

Teng Ge is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. His project examines how local stratifications contribute to global sociopolitical hierarchy based on an empirical study of Chinese professional basketball labor market.

Yen-Ting Hsu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His project seeks to illuminate urban character formation in the era of neoliberalism by looking at the urban politics and governance of heritage-making in 21st-century Taipei.

Fan Li is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His project investigates the political economy of conservation and development in contemporary China in its high-profile, new National Park system through the case of the recently declared Giant Panda National Park.

Xiaogao Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Their project examines credibility struggles and jurisdictional conflicts in outlining what constitutes appropriate healthcare for transgender people in China through a multi-sited ethnography.

2022 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship Open to Application

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 06:42:36 GMT

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum is pleased to announce that the 2022 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship is open to application from graduate students in humanities, social science and policy studies.

Since 2018, the Overseas Young Chinese Forum has provided several fellowships each year to support field research in China. The fellowship is funded by the contributions of OYCF members and the generous donation by distinguished Princeton University professor emeritus Gregory C. Chow and his wife Paula K. Chow.

2021 OYCF-Chow Fellows Announced

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:07:49 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum congratulates the following five recipients of the 2021 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China:

Ke Nie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the governance of artistic creativity in China in the context of the rapid digitization of Chinese cultural industries.

Catherine Park is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research probes the phenomena of globalizing education in urban China by discerning how linkages between urban development, novel educational practices in K-12 education, and everyday aspirations of parents and students constitute experimentations towards globality at various different levels of Chinese society.

Danping Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her research traces the anti-cancer efforts of the Chinese Communist Party and the experience of Chinese cancer patients, with a special focus on the case study of esophageal cancer in Linxian, Henan province.

Bolun Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His research explores the similarities and disparities of informational capitalism across different political-economic regimes via a multiple sites ethnography with a Chinese cloud computing company in its various projects overseas.

Mengyang Zhao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research documents and analyzes the rise of platform video game work in China, which includes a wide array of online video game services attracting millions of gig workers during the past decade.

2020 Field Report 4: 教育议题的博士论文田野经历

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:23:54 GMT

In this fieldwork report, Harvard sociology PhD candidate Fangsheng Zhu explains how his turn away from China's education policy led to interesting encounters with schools for migrant children, tutoring agencies, and reformist schools in China.

2020 Field Report 3: Lumian No. 1 and the Science of Cotton Improvement

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:10:14 GMT

University of Chicago history PhD candidate Spencer Stewart explains how he stumbled upon archives about Lumian No. 1 (鲁棉一号), an important variety developed by Chinese cotton scientists in 1961-76, during his fieldwork investigation of cotton science and rural reform in war-time China.

2020 Field Report 2: 记中国NGO里的三个普通人

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:03:05 GMT

University of Southern California sociology PhD candidate Shang Liu shares stories about three NGO workers in China during his 2019 fieldwork in China.

2020 Field Report 1: 中國綠色債券標準的發展現狀

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:49:45 GMT

University of Maryland political science PhD candidate Jiun-Da Liu shares his 2019 fieldwork observations about the development of "green bond" market in China, its role in environmental financing and climate change governance, and the question of coal.

2019 Field Report 4: 温润的南国有彩虹:性/别少数家庭小记

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:11:38 GMT

A 2018 OYCF-Chow fellow, Di Wang is a Phd candidate in the department of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this fieldwork report (in Chinese), she explores the complexities of gender and sexuality by relating stories of gay and lesbian couples in China.

2019 Field Report 3: 土地、国家与政党：以政治社会学视角重探两岸土地改革

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 03:06:17 GMT

A 2018 OYCF-Chow fellow, Kevin Luo is a PhD candidate in the department of history at University of Toronto. In this fieldwork report (in Chinese), he explores the role of land reforms in the state-building processes in mainland China and Taiwan.

2019 Field Report 2: History, Migration and Guangdong's Siyi Region

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 02:57:27 GMT

A 2018 OYCF-Chow fellow, Peter Hick is a PhD student in the History Department at Stanford University. He describes his field trip to Guangdong's Siyi 四邑 region where he tried to track down family genealogies and other local archives that could shed light on the experiences of ordinary people at the end of the Qing dynasty.

2019 Field Report 1: "But Some of Us Are Braver"

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 02:06:17 GMT

A 2018 OYCF-Chow Fellow, Jiling Duan is a PhD student in the department of Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She filed this fieldwork report (in Chinese) after completing her fieldwork in China.

2020 OYCF-Chow Fellows Announced

Fri, 01 May 2020 19:02:22 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to award the 2020 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China to the following four recipients:

Yuan Gao is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her research project focuses on the history of cotton in Xinjiang during the Qing Empire. It compares the history of cotton cultivation in Russian Central Asia (Uzbekistan), and China's Xinjiang region, to explore various shared and different practices of Russian and Qing empires in response to global changes, the clashes between imperial and local practices in frontier zones, and the exchanges of knowledge and material goods across borders.

Chuncheng Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His research project aims to examine the design and implementation of the Chinese social credit system with multiple methods. Building the theoretical framework from science and technology studies, he is particularly interested in the politics of quantification in these processes.

Tiantian Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His research project explores the uneven social impact of the Chinese state’s ambitious project of agricultural modernization. By situating rural land commodification in the context of China’s overall capitalist transformation, it looks at how different dynamics of rural-to-urban labor migration have shaped the development of large-scale commercial farms across regions.

Jiangjiang Wu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research project studies the role of emerging elite retirement homes in producing shifting notions and practices of aging in urban China. It examines how various actors, such as the elderly, their families, the institutional staff, and the state, bring together overlapping and competing rationalities that constitute a novel form of elder care which is also a privileged way of living.

2020 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship Open to Application

Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:18:31 GMT

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum is pleased to announce that the 2020 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship is open to application from graduate students in humanities, social science and policy studies.

For deadline, eligibility and other requirements, please click the link above. You may also view the research page for information on past recipients and their projects.

Anyone who is above 18 and who has lived in both China and overseas for one year or more is eligible for membership in the OYCF. Endorsement or reference from a current member is generally required.

Learn more

2019 OYCF Annual Meeting Successfully Concluded on July 7, 2019

Sun, 21 Jul 2019 06:56:43 GMT

The 2019 OYCF Annual Meeting successfully concluded on July 7, 2019. Interspersed with public talks by three distinguished experts on women in China, three startup “social organizations” from China presented their work to the OYCFers in attendance. These organizations are chosen from a competitive pool of applicants to present their work in the U.S. They have distinguished themselves for working to promote women’s power and gender equality in China today. The annual meeting culminated in the presentation of social innovation awards to the three organizations and fellowship awards to the graduate students.

Click here for Chinese news coverage of the annual meeting, and here and here for English coverage by two local women's organizations in San Diego.

2019 OYCF Social Innovation Contest Invitees Selected

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:23:53 GMT

After a careful review of dozens of high-quality applications, an OYCF committee selected the following three organizations from China to attend the 2019 OYCF Social Innovation Contest at the OYCF annual meeting on July 7 in San Diego. Congratulations to these innovative organizations seeking to bring about positive social change in China.

For more information on these organizations, please read the website's profile page:

同城青少年资源中心中学性别平等教育
西桃女性领导力-西桃共学社区
酉心生提升男性参与，促进性别平等

2019 OYCF-Chow Fellowship Recipients Announced

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 22:35:46 GMT

Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is pleased to award the 2019 OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China to the following five individuals:

Jiun-Da Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. His research project examines the development of a green bond market in China that certifies projects as environmentally sustainable. It aims to explain Chinese green bond issuers’ compliance to global standards by the interaction between domestic regulators and firms’ networks.

Shang Liu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. His research project compares daily interactions within different types of Chinese NGOs with differing relations to the Chinese state and western societies, exploring the complexities and variations of the state-society boundary construction within the everyday work of the civic sector in China.

Spencer Stewart is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. His research project is a history of cotton science and economic development in China during the Second World War. It analyzes how a shifting political economy of science during the war shaped the trajectory of the postwar Chinese cotton industry and contributed to its rise as a leader in the global cotton economy today.

Yingyi Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her research project seeks to understand how projects by gender equality NGOs and LGBT rights NGOs aimed at empowering the marginalized become sites of negotiation and contestation in contemporary China. It critically positions NGOs and NGO workers at the conjunction of state policies, market orientations and transnational flows of capital and ideas.

Fangsheng Zhu is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research project investigates how parents get educational resources for children in the Greater Beijing area, compares how different parents engage the formal and informal rules in getting education, and traces the rules’ historical formation.

2018 OYCF Annual Meeting Successfully Concludes

Mon, 28 May 2018 01:05:34 GMT

2018 OYCF Annual Meeting successfully concluded on Saturday, May 26, at Morgan Run Golf & Resort in San Diego, California. Over 80 participants, including senior China scholars, students, professionals, and community members from the U.S., Canada and China participated in the discussion at the annual meeting.

2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China's opening up and economic reform. Participants heard from three distinguished speakers about the genesis and early history of the reform from economists Gregory Chow (Princeton) and China historian Julian Gewirtz (Harvard).

In the afternoon session, Scott Rozelle (Stanford) gave a sobering assessment of the future of reform in a speech entitled "China’s Invisible Crisis: How a Growing Rural-Urban Divide could Sink the World’s Second Largest Economy."

The Annual Meeting also recognized four recipients of the OYCF-Chow Fellowship for Field Research in China. The four recipients are all Phd students from various humanities and social science fields. They are Jiling Duan (Indiana University), Peter Hicks (Stanford University), Kevin Luo (University of Toronto) and Di Wang (University of Wisconsin). Gregory and Paula Chow presented the fellowship awards to the recipients.

Finally, OYCF held its third "social innovation contest" in the afternoon. OYCF invited three non-profit organizations from China to present their work at the annual meeting. After an extended Q&A period and discussions among the meeting attendees, OYCF awarded the 2018 Award of Excellence to Clover, a students-run program providing peer counseling and companionship to migrant children attending schools in the cities. Two additional Awards of Merit were presented to ProSigner, an organization promoting the welfare of the deaf population in China, and to Zero Waste Villages, an initiative to deal with the rampant solid waste problems in rural China.

OYCF members also heard from the Forum's current president, Professor Sida Liu (Toronto), about the state of OYCF.

邹至庄: "我参与中国经济体制改革的经验"

Sat, 19 May 2018 08:06:43 GMT

邹至庄教授为此次论坛专门在FT中文网发表文章, 转载【思考者】"我参与中国经济体制改革的经验"

"我参与中国经济体制改革的经验"

罗思高教授对中国农村的研究

Sat, 19 May 2018 08:05:30 GMT

微信文章介绍罗思高教授的农村研究: “斯坦福教授花37年死磕中国农村，揭秘了贫苦教育的残酷真相”

Video：Julian Gewirtz on the U.S.-China Relations

Sat, 19 May 2018 08:04:21 GMT

Hear Julian Gewirtz and others at the Aspen Ideas Festival, "Can the next generation in China and America share the future?

OYCF to Hold 2018 Annual Meeting on May 25-26

Sat, 19 May 2018 08:01:56 GMT

OYCF is to hold its 2018 annual meeting in San Diego on May 26. As of May 18, 2018, about seventy five people have registered for the 2018 OYCF annual meeting. Participants include renowned speakers on China, NGO representatives from China, students and professionals from all over the country, and finally, many community members from southern California. See the agenda in English and Chinese here.