Institute for U.S.-China Issues

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The Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma, established in August 2006, engages in research and outreach activities that seek to better understand and improve US-China relations. It also seeks to promote China studies in the State of Oklahoma. The financial support of Harold J. & Ruth Newman endowed a chair for US-China Issues held by Jonathan Stalling and enabled the creation of the Institute co-Directed by Bo Kong.

The mission of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues seeks to establish national distinctiveness and preeminence in enhancing the understanding and management of U.S.-China relations by simultaneously addressing two sets of interrelated issue clusters—the security, technology, economic, environmental, political, and public health (STEEPP) issues, and the instrumental role culture plays in shaping how the two nations perceive and engage each other. To achieve this goal, the Institute works along parallel tracks through public programming, research, publications, symposiums, and teaching to tackle both the STEEPP and Cultural issues confronting the two nations.

The Institute created and hosts several programs: US-China STEEP Issues, Chinese Literature Today, the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, the Newman Prize for English Jueju, the US-China Poetry Dialogue, and the Chinese Literature Translation Archive.