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Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia. He has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent […]
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Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications
Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications
Speaker: Professor Min Shu, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy, Waseda University, Japan Chair: Professor Daniel M. Smith, Department of Government, Harvard University In the past three decades, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries, the flow […]
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Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.
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Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]
Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire
Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire
Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be discerned in both new and restored Chinese […]
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Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS '16 - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series
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Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history. These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges. While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation, they can […]
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The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair: Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Strategic and Operational Research Department, U.S. Naval War College Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Harvard University […]