Drawing Near
By JIALEI TANG, 5/11/2016. The semester is ending and as my finals conclude one after another, my mind can draw more attention to my study that [...]
What makes a city a home?
By JIALEI TANG, 4/29/2016. What makes a city a home? As I continue refining my research question, I begin to dig into the heart of [...]
Chapter Two: The Right To Hack The City?
By BAILEY BAERWOLF, 3/28/2016. Can the city be hacked like an iPhone can? If the city is already produced, then is this actually the best [...]
NYU Shanghai Fellowship Opportunities
Two positions, at either the predoctoral (ABD) or postdoctoral level, for the study of intra-Asian interactions areavailable at the Center for Global Asia at NYU [...]
New Pulitzer Center Book ‘Ecological Civilization in China’
As many of our readers know, ICI has been increasingly working more on issues related to religion and ecology in the Himalayas. So it is [...]
Tansen Sen on ‘Chinese lessons from Africa’
We're excited to share the latest post from ICI friend and scholar Tansen Sen in the Times of India. In this post, Professor Sen discusses [...]
ICI Secures $722,000 Grant from Ford Foundation
The India China Institute (ICI) was recently awarded a $722,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support the development of a new, multi-year project called [...]
Tansen Sen on ‘China’s Coming Storm’
We are excited to share the latest "China Man" column by ICI friend and scholar Tansen Sen from the Times of India. In this latest [...]
Mapping the River Deltas ~ New China Exhibition by Victoria Marshall
三角洲的地图 三尚当代艺术馆建筑与艺术工作坊 中国杭州 Mapping the River Deltas Sanshang Workshop on Art and Architecture Hangzhou, China “子在川上曰...”亚洲的哲人讲述的是河流的故事，但河流自身并不容易变成一个具体的视觉艺术主题，因为河流本是关于“变化”的。人类文明滋生于河流冲积而形成的膏腴之地，艺术考究“变化”的载体，科学追寻“变化”的规律，宇宙哲学却倾向于在“变化”的律动中将这一切统统忘却。 藉美国景观设计师维多利亚教授的展览在印度加尔各答CIMA画廊展出的机遇，我们把原本看似不相关的几个领域联系在一起：地理和水文科学，景观设计，制图术，不同文明的艺术家对他们生存世界的表现，其中我们可以看到对两条著名的河流，恒河和长江入海口三角洲的研究。 这是一个跨文类的系列展览，在杭州这一站，展览的内容同时来自艺术文献，既有作品，研究资料和相关工作坊在活动期间的创作。 “Everything flows on and on like this [...]