Events

Michelle Miao – Health Code Apps as Social Control in China: Empirical Findings from the Pandemic

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Michelle Miao, Associate Professor of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Fellow, Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Michelle Miao is Associate Professor of Law at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her major areas of research include ethics of technological innovation, comparative law, criminal justice, law and society, and […]

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Christopher Courtney – Heat and the Urban Environment of Modern China

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Christopher Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Durham University Throughout history, people living in Chinese cities have often had to contend with extreme heat. Although this is natural feature of the climate, it has been exacerbated by anthropogenic processes, which have transformed cities into urban heat islands. Drawing upon a variety of sources, […]

Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Introduction: Iza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. The Fairbank Center's Big Waves, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film, China’s First Environmental Film - Big Tree County (1992). Big Waves, Great […]

Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future

Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  Mr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 - 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s(百威啤酒) China market entry team, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问), a Washington, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm, founding […]

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable – Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Panelists:Hyaeweol Choi, C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of IowaIza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityTanika Sarkar, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor, Ashoka UniversityChizuko Ueno, Professor Emerita, The University of Tokyo, Ph.D in Sociology Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry ,Henry Rosovsky Professor of […]

Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China 

CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Bo An, 2023-24 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Andrew Kennedy, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National UniversityModerator:Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard UniversityFeaturing two short research presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. Post-maintenance: the Chinese Software Crisis in […]

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs *PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* Thomas Schelling’s theoretical work on coercive diplomacy carries important lessons for U.S. security policy toward a rising China.  This talk will address the challenges in […]

China and the World Annual Conference: Rethinking China’s International Relations

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

9:00 AM: Greetings from Co-Directors of the China and the World ProgramAlastair Iain Johnston, Harvard UniversityThomas J. Christensen, Columbia University9:10 AM: Introductory RemarksMark Wu, Director of the Fairbank Center; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law Break 9:15 AM: Measuring China’s ‘Influence’ in International AffairsAudrye Wong, USCInjoo Sohn, Seoul National UniversityAndrew Chubb, Lancaster UniversityEnze Han, Hong […]

Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China

Presented via Zoom

Speaker:  Zhang Qinghua, Peking University This talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in China since the 1990s, the empirical analysis reveals that district border adjustments have a significant positive effect on the TFP of manufacturing firms in the […]

Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University With the ascent of China on the global stage, traditional Chinese thoughts, particularly Confucianism, have experienced a resurgence. Over the past two decades, the concept […]

Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Secret Life and Political Significance of the Three-Child Policy

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University After years of rapid fertility decline, China is facing plummeting birth rates, a shrinking work force, and rapid aging. In 2016, Beijing abandoned its notorious one-child policy, allowing two and, in 2021, three children per couple. Outside China, the three-child policy […]