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UCI soc sci spotlight: Beijie Ann Tang

September 4, 2025

Newly appointed director of the UC Irvine Long U.S.-China Institute to drive research, scholarship and engagement

Recognizing Women's Equality Day

August 25, 2025

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Long Institute and Asian American studies, Spectrum News 1, Aug. 25, 2025 (Video)

'Now it's about personal happiness': popular Granny Wang dating show belies China's falling marriage rates

August 16, 2025

Wang Feng, sociology, The Guardian, Yahoo News, Aug. 16, 2025

How activists in Asia have used Western pop culture in their protests

August 8, 2025

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history and Long Institute affiliate, The World, Aug. 8, 2025 (Audio)

'Companions' ease pain of China's bustling, bamboozling hospitals

June 23, 2025

Wang Feng, sociology, Yahoo News (AFP), MSN, June 23, 2025

Rubio vowed to revoke Chinese student visas. Trump now says Chinese students are welcome

June 11, 2025

Emily Baum, UCI Long-US China Institute, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, June 11, 2025

Why federally funded social science research matters: How we understand the world

April 25, 2025

Samantha Vortherms, UC Irvine political scientist and National Science Foundation-funded researcher, provides insight

Long Institute: Call for Graduate Student Research Grants

February 26, 2025

Due by 5 p.m. PT Friday, March 21

China's population declines for 3rd straight year

January 16, 2025

Wang Feng, sociology, The New York Times, Jan. 16, 2025

China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth

December 25, 2024

Wang Feng, sociology, Financial Times, Dec. 25, 2024

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