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Wednesday Seminars

Coterminous with the Institute, is the weekly Wednesday Seminar, which has been held uninterruptedly for the last four decades. The topics span an enormous range and attract students, experts, practitioners and laypersons alike. These seminars provide an opportunity for interested people to have access to informed discussions on various aspects of China and are ample evidence that the sections within India, which are interested in knowing and learning about China are widening and enlarging.


09 Mar 2022
Wednesday Seminar | China's Nuclear Modernisation and Implications for India | 9th March @ 6:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Hans M. Kristensen, Jayant Prasad

China’s nuclear arsenal is undergoing the most dramatic modernization since China first acquired nuclear weapons 57 years ago. In addition to increasing road-mobile ballistic missiles
Venue: Zoom Webinar
02 Mar 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Five Phases of BRI development: 2013-2022 | 2nd March @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
David Arase

The rollout and development of BRI cooperation is seen as a dynamic process and is discussed in terms of five successive phases: 1) Rollout; 2) Routinization; 3) Community of Shared Destiny
Venue: Zoom Webinar
23 Feb 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Modernisation of the PLA Navy and Response of Regional Navies in the Indo-Pacific | 23rd February @ 6:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, US Navy (Retd), Ms. Darshana M. Baruah, Dr. Collin Koh, Captain Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri, Indian Navy (Retd.)

The People's Liberation Army aspires to be a ‘world class’ military by 2049 in support of China's goal of becoming a global power. Within the PLA, the People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN)
Venue: Zoom Webinar
16 Feb 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion: Decentering the Cold War via China: Four Case Studies | 16th February @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Harryanto Aryodiguno, Chih-yu Shih, Te-Jung Liao, Wei-Chun Liao, Yuzhou Wang

East Asia became what it appears to be today during the Cold War, ironically through the divide and rivalry in the alleged region between members of the two Blocs/camps led respectively
Venue: Zoom Webinar
09 Feb 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Book Discussion: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers | 9th February @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Jenny Chan

Between the wave of 18 young worker suicides at Foxconn facilities in 2010 and the outbreak of coronavirus at the end of 2019, we (Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai) engaged
Venue: Zoom Webinar
02 Feb 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Poverty Alleviation and Local Government in Yunnan | 2nd February @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Ritu Agarwal

Poverty in China is often considered to be a rural problem. The official Chinese view is that the poverty is concentrated in certain geographical regions and Yunnan province is home to a considerable
Venue: Zoom Webinar
19 Jan 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion: Zimbabwe-China Economic Relations | 19th January @ 6:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Veda Vaidyanathan, Prolific Simbarashe Mataruse, Eve Nyemba, Farai Mutondoro, Josephine Chiname

This publication in discussion, ‘A Handbook of Zimbabwe - China Economic Relations’ is the outcome of a research study the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association
Venue: Zoom Webinar
12 Jan 2022
Wednesday Seminar | Kazakhs from Xinjiang in Bhopal during World War II |12th January @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Madhavi Thampi

During World War II, several hundred Kazakhs from Xinjiang took refuge in Bhopal. Based on material culled from the National Archives of India, this presentation will explore
Venue: Zoom Webinar
22 Dec 2021
Wednesday Seminar | Japan’s Quest for Normalisation: A case study of Japan’s Arms Export Policy | 22nd December @ 3:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Shahana Thankachan

It is difficult to define what a “normal” state is in the current global system. One of the more accepted definitions however, of a “normal” state is one that has the ability
Venue: Zoom Webinar
15 Dec 2021
Wednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion: ICS-HYI Doctoral Fellowship in China Studies | 15th December @ 6:00 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Veda Vaidyanathan, Madhurendra Jha, Tiasangla Longkumer, Shanky Chandra

In collaboration with the Harvard Yenching Institute (HYI), the ICS inaugurated the Institute of Chinese Studies-Harvard Yenching Institute (ICS-HYI) Joint Scholarship for Doctoral Research
Venue: Zoom Webinar

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