Research Group: Culture and Society
The past two decades have seen an explosion of happiness research around challenges to human flourishing posed by fast-paced social change in a globalizing world.
First convened in spring 2019 by Becky Hsu of Georgetown University in collaboration with Teresa Kuan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the research group brings together American and Chinese scholars across disciplines to explore how citizens in both societies are pursuing and experiencing happiness, with a focus on changing family structure and intergenerational dynamics.
People
Richard Madsen
University of California, San Diego
Gonçalo Santos
University of Coimbra
Yan Yunxiang
University of California, Los Angeles
Events
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China, Unseen: Solving Problems in the New Era
Many discussions about “China” are really about the Chinese Communist Party, but governments and the people are not exactly the same thing. Fewer conversations are about what Chinese people are doing and the ways that they go about solving the new challenges of this era. Five authors are writing a…
Other Events
Publications
Culture and Society in China and the United States Background Report
May 6, 2020
This background report provides a general overview of the evolution of the critical issue of culture and society in U.S.-China relations and its wider implications for world affairs.
Blog Posts
Shared Approaches and Prospects for Peace
June 9, 2020
In this blog post members of the U.S.-China Research Group on Culture and Society reflect on the two societies’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, how those responses have been shaped by systematic and cultural factors, and how it pertains to research group members’ scholarly work.
Responses
The Presence of You in the Making of Me
Teresa Kuan | September 1, 2020
Rainbow Activism in China
Yunxiang Yan | September 1, 2020