1. China Opportunity Fund

    May 23 2013

    The Office of the Vice-President (Research) and U of A International are pleased to announce a call for proposals for Phase I projects under the China Opportunity Fund.

  2. Taiwan in Dynamic Transition Conference

    May 23 2013

    The international conference “Taiwan in Dynamic Transition,” hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta, will take place on May 25-26. At the conference, distinguished scholars from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States will present original research on some of the most salient aspects of Taiwan’s social, political, and cultural transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries.

  3. Imagining Globality

    April 22 2013

    The China Institute at the University of Alberta will be hosting a conference to explore China's global projects in culture and how these projects variously imagine a global world and China's place in it from June 12-14 (Wed-Fri), 2013. Dr. Pál Nyíri, Professor of Global History from Vrije Universiteit (the Netherlands) and Dr. Xinyu Lv fron Fudan University, will give keynote addresses.

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  1. Gordon Houlden talks trade with China

    April 22 2013

    Director Gordon Houlden talks to Alberta Venture about China, its view of the world and what Albertans should know about doing business there.

  2. Is China getting uneasy with North Korea

    April 05 2013

    As rantings from North Korea become ever more belligerent and bizarre, there are signs that China, its only outside friend in the world, is beginning to distance itself, too. Normally reluctant to voice any sign of despair whenever tensions deepen on the Korean Peninsula, the Chinese are now talking about their “serious concern” over escalating developments there.

  3. Alberta oil discount raises investing alarms for Chinese firms

    February 27 2013

    The $15.1-billion (U.S.) takeover of Nexen Inc. by CNOOC Ltd. has yet to receive its final seal of approval. But Chinese firms are already telling the Canadian government they are nervous about the declining value of Alberta crude – concerns that stand to affect the flow of foreign dollars into the western energy sector.

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