Current NYU Shanghai Global Research Initiatives Fellows

Du’s dissertation, Parenthood and the State in China, 1800-1949, discusses the changing relationship between state legitimacy and legal regulation of parent-child relations in China’s transitional period of the 19th and the early 20th century. Her research is based on both archival research and published documents such as newspapers, code books, and case books. After two summers of onsite research, Du has finished the majority of her archival research. While in Shanghai she plans to complete her research in the Municipal Archives and the Second Historical Archives of China (in Nanjing). 

Professor Cardoso’s research takes place in Luanda, the capital of Angola, at the confluence of various global processes. Analyzing contemporary modes of city making in one of the largest oil economies in the African continent, Professor Cardoso’s inquiries take him to a variety of locations across the world. Given the relevance of its involvement in infrastructure and urban development all across the city, perhaps the most important of those locations has been China. At NYU Shanghai, Professor Cardoso will use the available resources, including connecting with faculty in Global China Studies and Social Sciences, in order to accomplish a number of research-related tasks. Not only will he expand his knowledge of Chinese urbanism, he will also use his time to analyze a few of the various approaches to city making being exported from China to Angola as well as some of the concrete geographical linkages currently being enacted by crude oil shipments going from Angola to China.

Professor Karl will have finished a 4-month teaching appointment at Chinese University of Hong Kong. She will be traveling from Hong Kong to Shanghai to complete some research and see some academic colleagues from various institutes and universities. She will also be participating in two workshops at Shanghai University. The project is funded by Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and is entitled "The Worlds of Economic Thinking in China's Twentieth Century."