Critical Issues Confronting China Series – China Policy Under Trump
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., CambridgeRead event summary here Dr. Jeffrey Bader, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution Jeffrey Bader is a senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. From 2009 until 2011, Bader was special assistant to the president of the United States for national security affairs at the National […]
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., CambridgeSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]
Infinite Interfusion: The Visible and the Invisible in Liao Pagodas
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University The shamanistic Khitan people were exposed to Buddhism −the Indian religion that reached these nomads mediated by the Han Chinese sedentary culture− when they suddenly rose to power and founded the Liao Empire (907-1125). By exploring the pagodas from the Liao Empire, this lecture discusses how the synthesis of these […]