Announcements
ICI Fellowship on Global Health Recipients 2026
The India China Institute is pleased to announce the Global Health Fellows 2026-2027. Fourteen (14) stood out among a highly competitive pool of applicants with a wide range of research topics. The fellowship is a year-long, international research seminar on the histories, sociologies and political economies of public health in Asia. The fellowship award comes with a $5,000 scholarship and fully paid travel and room and board for the workshops. Learn more about the fellows and their research here.
Starr Foundation Student Award 2026 Recipients
The India China Institute is pleased to announce the Starr Foundation Student Award Recipients for 2026. Awardees will receive up to $3,500 to travel to India or China for independent research on their chosen projects. Learn more here.
Updates
New publication: “Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism”
We are pleased to share that Lei Ping, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies and Chair of Languages Department at The New School and a former faculty advisor of ICI, has recently released a new [...]
Constrained Expertise in India and China Book Launch
Constrained Expertise in India and China explores what kinds of knowledge and knowledge purveyors get mobilized and privileged, and what gets sidelined in policymaking in India and China. Through its detailed empirical studies in [...]
Zha Jianying’s Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival – Part 5
Zha Jianying's fifth of her five-part memoir, Trains: A Chinese Family History of Railway Journeys, Exile, and Survival is here. This installment delves into the harrowing impact of the Anti-Rightist Campaign and Cultural Revolution [...]




