In China, recent reforms have aimed at expanding social security coverage, improving healthcare, and addressing rural-urban disparities. India has launched several ambitious welfare schemes aimed [...]
In an era of global democratic decline, elected leaders have tapped economic and other grievances and resentments, harnessed new coalitions, and created popular narratives that [...]
About the Book: China and India have long been central to the world economy. Two and a half centuries ago, they contributed [...]
{IN PERSON} The India China Institute (ICI) was founded at The New School in 2004 with a generous gift from the Starr Foundation to pursue [...]
Governments and powerful social actors have both promoted higher education in the service of national power while seeking to place curbs on the teaching, research [...]
The Chinese government’s emphasis on reducing dependency on foreign technology and fostering homegrown innovation reflects a broader strategy to consolidate its economic sovereignty and global [...]
Remembrance of the past, inscribed in textbooks, museums and monuments, has in large part always been a political act. In our contemporary world, states and [...]
SPEAKERS Prasenjit Duara Oscar L. Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at [...]
{IN PERSON} Join us for our annual India China Day to celebrate this year’s cohort of student fellows and hear about their research [...]
{VIRTUAL BOOK TALK} We invite you to join us for the launch of “Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking”, a publication [...]
{VIRTUAL BOOK TALK} We invite you to join us for the launch of “Constrained Expertise in India and China: Knowledge and Power in Policymaking”, a publication [...]
{IN PERSON} SUMMARY On November 13, 2025, India China Institute (ICI) hosted an in-person panel discussion on the shifting landscapes of news media in [...]