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.
03 Jan 2024
Snigdha Konar
The novel Northern Girls (2004) written by Sheng Keyi, warrants consideration as avant-garde fiction, as it unravels new themes, new gendered identities, and new narratives in its own distinct way.
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20 Dec 2023
Dibyesh Anand
Reincarnation is a fundamental part of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan and Himalayan socio-political world for many centuries.
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13 Dec 2023
Mary E. John
This presentation will look at the histories and contemporary contexts of child marriage in India and China.
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29 Nov 2023
Subrata K. Mitra
I am a political scientist by training. Comparative politics, foreign policy, rational choice, and South Asia are among my areas of interest.
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22 Nov 2023
Manoj Joshi, Amb. P. Stobdan, Amit Ranjan & Medha Bisht
China and Bhutan held the 25th round of border talks in Beijing on 23-24 October, 2023, and signed a “cooperation agreement” on the delimitation and demarcation of the boundary between the two countries.
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08 Nov 2023
Zhengxu Wang
Democracy and socialism are two important concepts that exercise a profound influence on how people around the world conceptualize politics and public life.
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01 Nov 2023
Shachee Agnihotri
In the backdrop of China's economic deceleration and its geo-political aspirations, the phenomenon of its youth crisis has garnered greater global attention
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25 Oct 2023
Manju Rani Hara
Activism has existed in all societies and its torchbearers have ranged from common people to social or political activists to writers and artists.
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18 Oct 2023
Dr. Shamshad Ahmad Khan
Drawing inferences from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Japanese strategic planners have surmised that a similar war in the Asia-Pacific region cannot be ruled out, especially over Taiwan, which will have implications for Japanese security.
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11 Oct 2023
Dr. Wenjing Gao, Prof. Manish
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), or as the Chinese call it, Yīdài Yīlù, (一带一路), is a comprehensive global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the PRC government in 2013 to invest in various countries ...
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