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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 […]
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Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.
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Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Speaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
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The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Speaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
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Introducing the Chinese Text Project
Introducing the Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
Panelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)) […]
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Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow as China continues to urbanize and transition to a service economy. China has developed a variety of policy tools designed to reduce building energy consumption […]
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Free admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums