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Faculty Senate Passes Resolution Condemning Chinese Partnerships
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The Faculty Senate voted to condemn the repressive actions of the People’s Republic of China.
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“Engendering China” Series Talk Highlights Victims of Japanese Exploitation of Women During World War II
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Xian Wang, a professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Notre Dame, to explore the exploitation of Chinese women during World War II as part of the series hosted by the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative, themed “Engendering China.”
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GUEST ROOM | Cornell Has a Responsibility to the Uyghur People when Collaborating in China
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In light of the ongoing discussions about the lack of awareness, sensitivity and the objectionable response from members of the Brooks School of Public policy in conversations regarding human rights violations against Uyghur people in China, we should assess Cornell’s policies and initiatives surrounding the ongoing genocide. Cornell has extensive collaborations in China, ranging from scholarships such as the Tang Cornell-China program to the Cornell-Tsinghua Dual Degree Finance MBA program, Cornell Institute for China Economic Research and the Cornell China Center. In fact, Cornell has the greatest number of collaborations — amounting to over 10 percent of all international collaborations — in China, including off-campus programs at Peking University. In these numerous efforts affiliated with China, what is Cornell doing to support the Uyghur people and voice opposition to the massive genocide by the Chinese government? Human rights violations against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Muslim minority groups perpetrated by the Chinese government range from denial of the expression of civil and political rights, freedom of religion, to the right to a fair trial.
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Survivor of Chinese Concentration Camp Urges for Solidarity with Uighur Women on International Women’s Day
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Tursunay Ziyawudun, a Uighur Muslim who survived China’s Xinjiang concentration camp, spoke to Cornellians on Monday about international solidarity and her experience of human rights violations at the hands of the Chinese government.
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Students Protest Chinese Government Human Rights Abuses, Drawing Opposition From Fellow Students
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Protesters and counterprotesters assembled on the Arts Quad on Friday at a Hong Kong Action Day Rally.
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YANG | The Unruly Americans
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Well, mainly the Pandemic. Although, unlike the situation in Jan. 2020, being in China right now means being in a place with one of the lowest number of cases on Earth. I even wrote a column then, hoping that this would not turn into a global pandemic. Trust me; as some of the few Chinese students who chose to spend this last year in the U.S. rather than return home, the differences couldn’t be less drastic. While I’m trying to gauge how bad a semester (turned out to be two) of zoom university was going to be back in Sept. 2020, my friends back home in China were already going to nightclubs with no fear.
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Cornell Organizations Protest Genocide of Uighur People
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Aiming to spread awareness on the genocide of the Uighur people, Cornell students formed the student organization Boycott the People’s Republic and hosted a Friday rally outside Goldwin Smith Hall.
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Faculty Senate Opposes Proposed Partnership With Peking University
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The Faculty Senate voted in a non-binding sense-of-the-senate resolution in opposition to the School of Hotel Administration and Peking University proposed dual degree program.
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S.A. Debates Ethics of University Partnership With Chinese Universities and ICE
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Last Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting saw six resolutions passed, addressing issues that ranged from the University’s ties to ICE to international collaborations with countries charged with human rights abuses.
Arts & Culture
YANG | Hear the People Sing
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Chinese people have become conditioned to speak almost exclusively in euphemisms when discussing politics, especially on public platforms. Being straightforward would only lead to getting one’s post deleted, one’s account deactivated, or worse, being “invited” to “have tea” with law enforcement.