Tuesday, November 2, 2021; 2PM – 3:30PM PST
Location: Zoom and Humanities Gateway 1030
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The Forum for the Academy and the Public will be hosting the first “Book Slam” event of the Fall on November 2nd at 2pm. The hybrid event will take place live at UC Irvine in room HG1030 and will be available via streaming on Zoom. All are welcome to attend.
This event will focus on China’s emergence into a new world and ascendance into a new world order. The event will feature the launch of two new books on China in global times, China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu and How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate by Isabella M. Weber.
Joanna Chiu, senior journalist at the Toronto Star, and Isabella M. Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, will introduce their books with commentary and discussion from Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, professor of Asian American Studies and director of the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine and Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Center on Globalization, Law and Society (GLAS) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, will moderate discussion.
The event will begin with two 10-minute presentations by the featured authors followed by discussion from the commentators. A live Q&A session will follow.
This event is sponsored by UCI’s Forum for the Academy and the Public, UCI’s Humanities
Center, the Long U.S.-China Institute, and UCI’s Center on Globalization, Law, and Society.
Joanna Chiu, Journalist, Toronto Star
Joanna Chiu is a senior journalist for the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, and has previously served as bureau chief of the Star Vancouver. As a globally-recognized authority on China, the author of China Unbound regularly provides nuanced and deeply-informed analysis for international broadcast media including CBC, BBC World, Al Jazeera and NPR.
Chiu was previously based for seven years in Beijing and in Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent, including for Agence France Presse (AFP) specializing in coverage of Chinese politics, economy and legal affairs for one of the world’s biggest news operations. She was the lead author of multiple research reports on China’s social media and online censorship systems, such as Forbidden Feeds.
She has also served as China and Mongolia correspondent for the top German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and in Hong Kong, she reported for the South China Morning Post, The Economist magazine and The Associated Press.
As a leader and connector within the global China experts’ community, she is the founder and chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the creative and academic work of women working on the subject of China.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Director of the Humanities Center, Professor of Asian American Studies, Chancellor’s Fellow
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine and the director of the Humanities Center. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University and previously taught at Ohio State University. She authored Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: the Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013). Her forthcoming book, Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress (New York University Press, 2022), is a collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink. Wu is currently working on a book that focuses on Asian American and Pacific Islander Women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference. She co-edited Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 8th Edition (Oxford 2015), Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (Brill 2017), and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (2012-2017). Currently, she is a co-editor of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) and editor for Amerasia Journal. She also serves as chair of the editorial committee for the University of California Press and as a series editor for the U.S. in the World Series with Cornell University Press. She is the co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
Gregory Shaffer, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Professor Gregory Shaffer is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Center on Globalization, Law and Society (GLAS) at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He is President-Elect of the American Society of International Law, and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law, among others. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, his BA from Dartmouth College, and practiced law with Coudert Brothers and Bredin Prat in Paris. His publications include nine books and over one hundred articles and book chapters. The books include Emerging Powers and the World Trade System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law (CUP, 2021); Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice (with Aaronson, 2020); Constitution-Making as a Transnational Legal Order (with Ginsburg and Halliday, 2019); Transnational Legal Orders (with Halliday, 2015); Transnational Legal Ordering and State Change (2013); Dispute Settlement at the WTO: The Developing Country Experience (with Melendez-Ortiz, 2011); When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (with Pollack, 2008); Defending Interests: Public-Private Partnerships in WTO Litigation (2003), and Transatlantic Governance in the Global Economy (with Pollack, 2001).
Isabella M. Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Isabella M. Weber is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Her first book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate is the winner of the Joan Robinson Prize 2021 and has been recommended by the Financial Times and Foreign Policy. For her work on the rise of economics in China’s recent history she has won the International Convention of Asia Scholars’ Ground-breaking Subject Matter Accolade and the Warren Samuels Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Previously she was a Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been the principal investigator of the ESRC-funded Rebuilding Macroeconomics project What Drives Specialization? A Century of Global Export Patterns. Isabella holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and was a visiting researcher at Tsinghua University. German born, she studied at the Free University of Berlin and Peking University for her B.A.