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2021-2022 Schedule

September 1, 2021: Professor Jerome A. Cohen ’55, NYU Law School, on "The Perilous State of U.S.-China Relations"

September 9, 2021: Jeremy Daum, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow, roundtable discussion on "Criminal Justice Reform and Digital Governance in China's Complex Political and Social Environment"

September 10, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Fall 2021 Open House

September 21, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mid-Autumn Festival

September 24, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

October 6, 2021: Susan Thornton, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow and former U.S. Diplomat, roundtable discussion on "The State of U.S.-China Relations, International Diplomacy, and Careers in U.S. Foreign Policy"

October 7, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

October 15, 2021: Jed Rothstein ’23, roundtable discussion on “Summer Internship Experience in a Chinese Law Firm”

October 20, 2021: Jenny Shi Director of Finding Yingying, documentary screening and discussion on “Justice Across Borders” Moderated by Paul Tsai China Center Fellow Yangyang Cheng

October 21, 2021: Michael Liu, Founder and Executive Director of the Chinese Initiative on International Law, discussion on “LGBT Rights in China: Dawn or Dusk?” Moderated by Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Darius Longarino

October 22, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

October 27, 2021: Viewing and discussion on, “The Chinese Lady” at Long Wharf Theater, Written by Lloyd Suh and Directed by Ralph B. Pena

October 29, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Happy Hour at Mory’s Association

November 3, 2021: Clarisse Girot, Director for Asia Pacific Future of Privacy Forum, discussion on “Data Privacy in Asia” Moderated by Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Samm Sacks

November 5, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

November 8, 2021: Poynter Fellow Raymond Zhong, discussion on “Inside Beijing’s Tech Crackdown” Co-sponsored with Yale Law School Information Society Project

November 12, 2021: Kaiqi Bao ’24, roundtable discussion on “LGBTQ Rights in China” Moderated by Paul Tsai Senior Fellow Darius Longarino

November 15, 2021: Yangyang Cheng, Paul Tsai China Center Fellow, discussion on “Old Divisions and New Realms: Physics Across Borders”

November 18, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

November 29, 2021: Poynter Fellow Jia Lynn Yang, National Editor, The New York Times, Author, One Might and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, discussion on “Immigration, Politics, and Prejudice” Co-Sponsored with Yale Law School Information Society Project

November 30, 2021: Paul Tsai China Center Fellows Roundtable, discussion on “U.S.-China Relations”

December 6, 2021: Poynter Fellow Yi-Ling Liu, discussion on “Metaphors of Online Life in China” Co-sponsored with Yale Law School Information Society Project

December 15, 2021: Book Colloquium with Dr. Weixia Gu Professor University of Hong Kong and author of Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and Their Interactions

February 4, 2022: Book discussion on 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir written by Ai Weiwei

February 9, 2022: Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former U.S. Trade Representative, discussion on “The State of U.S.-China Relations: How We Got Here, and What Now?”

February 16, 2022: Ryan Hass, Senior Fellow and Michael H. Armacost Chair, Brookings Institution; and Non-Resident Affiliated Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center Yale Law School, discussion on “Can the U.S. and China Avoid Conflict? Charting a Path for the Future of U.S.-China Relations”

March 4, 2022: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

March 16, 2022: Dan Zhou, Lawyer, Scholar and Activist and Yanhui Peng, Paul Tsai China Center Visiting Scholar, discussion on “LGBT Rights Advocacy in China”

March 29, 2022: Ambassador Petra Sigmund, Director General for Asia, and the Pacific at the German Federal Foreign Office, discussion on “Will There Be a New Cold War? A European View on the Future with China and Russia”

April 1, 2022: Jerry Ma ’24, roundtable discussion on “Intellectual Property in China and in U.S.-China Relations”

April 8, 2022: Paul Tsai China Center Mandarin Language Table

April 8, 2022: Paul Tsai China Center Happy Hour

April 18, 2022: Rayhan Asat, Visiting Human Rights Fellow, Schell Center at Yale Law School, Professor Michael Posner, Director, Center for Business and Human Rights, NYU and Jim Wormington, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch, discussion on “Combating Forced Labor: Challenges of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act”, Co-Sponsored with the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights

April 23, 2022: Ron Vacarro, Yale College ’04 and NBC Sports, discussion on “Yalies at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022”

April 26, 2022: Nicolas Bequelin, Paul Tsai China Center Visiting Fellow and Susan Thornton, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow, discussion on “China’s Response to the War in Ukraine”

May 1, 2022: Viewing and discussion on, “Secret Love in Peach Blossom” at Yale Vermilion Theater, Written by Stan Lui