Ahead of Thursday's U.S.-China summit in Washington, D.C., a UC Riverside lecturer undertook Sino-American diplomacy on a more modest scale. Gary Barnett toured China as a kind of musical ambassador for UCR from June 20 to July 16. Barnett, who teaches music composition and musicianship, gave concerts and master classes across the country...
Xiao Chen, an assistant professor of history at UC Riverside, has been awarded a Luce/ACLS Early Career Long-Term Fellowship in China Studies. With a yearlong research leave made possible by the $45,000 grant and support from UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Chen plans to complete a book manuscript.
