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Kelli Smith, Natalie Weber and Mary Bernard | Thursday, April 16, 2020
Across the planet, students from the tri-campus community are grappling with the current and lasting impacts of the novel coronavirus. With more than a million cases and over 108,000 deaths worldwide, all lives have been touched by the pandemic in some way. From Brazil to India, from Honolulu to New York City, peruse this map
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, April 15, 2020
I can’t remember the last time I saw a single news article written about China in a positive and encouraging tone. Somehow, the US media (and millions of people they have influenced) are only able to see China as a conglomerate of bureaucracy, plots, darkness, oppression, hoaxes after hoaxes and craziness. As a Chinese person
G. Matthew Molinsky | Thursday, March 26, 2020
Dealing with the effects of coronavirus and COVID-19 is the latest test for American democracy. This crisis will allow us to see some stark differences in the way the world’s two superpowers use their authority, and how each country handles this crisis will have serious ramifications for how each nation governs in the future. China
Letter to the Editor | Friday, February 28, 2020
My hometown is breaking down. The coronavirus has caused over 1,600 deaths within a month, which has resulted in severe economic stagnation and social disorder in many Chinese cities, including my hometown Nanchang. A three-hour drive from Wuhan, where the virus originated, it has over 700 infections already. My whole family lives there. My parents
Alexis Martin | Wednesday, February 26, 2020
A new exhibit at the Snite Museum of Art, titled “Chao Shao-an: Moments Between Worlds,” gives viewers a brief glimpse into the expansive life and work of Chinese artist Chao Shao-an. The exhibit contains 17 paintings that “capture the essence of subtle moments in nature through vibrant brushwork and coloration,” according to an article released
Zixu Wang | Friday, January 31, 2020
The outbreak of coronavirus has killed 213 people and sickened 9,720 in China as of Jan. 30, according to the People’s Daily, the largest official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. The epidemic began in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province. Cases of the virus have since turned up in 19 countries, including the
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Notre Dame has suspended all programming in Hong Kong for the spring 2020 semester in the wake of ongoing anti-government protests, the University announced in a press release Wednesday. According to the release, 14 Notre Dame students were due to study in Hong Kong next semester at three separate institutions — the University of Hong
Anne Elizabeth Barr | Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Ian Johnson, 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, discussed the role of religion in Chinese society during his lecture titled “Religion in China: Back to the Center of Politics and Society.” The event was sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life and the US-China Catholic Association and took place in the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium
Lucy Lynch | Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Yuen Yuen Ang, associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, presented a lecture titled “A Hammer Is Not a Second-Best Screwdriver: Taking Institutional Fit Seriously in Development,” on Tuesday. Ang detailed the argument of her 2017 book, “How China Escaped the Poverty Trap,” focused on the case study of China, where modern
Megan Valley | Friday, March 2, 2018
Two years after being formed by executive vice president John Affleck-Graves in 2013, the Worker Participation Committee (WPC) made its first round of recommendations in its review of the University’s licensing codes of conduct, specifically regarding the University’s prohibition on the production of Notre Dame–licensed products in China. The main recommendation was to conduct a