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October 5, 2026

Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia

^{Speaker: Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies...}
October 7, 2026

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong

^{Speaker: Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong...}
October 14, 2026

Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Eyck Freymann — Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China

^{Speaker: Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow, Stanford University Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the...}
October 22, 2026

Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”

^{Speaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of...}
October 26, 2026

China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries

^{Speaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn...}
October 27, 2026

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Treng Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China

^{Speaker: Treng Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone,...}
November 2, 2026

Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)

^{Filmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies,...}
November 3, 2026

Emergent Visons Film Screening & Discussion — Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (自画像：47 KM 2020)

^{Filmmaker ZHANG Mengqi in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies,...}
November 3, 2026

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Jin

^{Speaker: Zhu Jin, Hong Kong University More information coming soon! Zoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 Venue}
November 4, 2026

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi

^{Speaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow,...}

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September 15, 2026

Our Community

Meet the 2026-27 Graduate Student Associates

The Fairbank Center is pleased to announce this year’s GSA cohort of affiliated doctoral students For the 2026-27 academic year, six doctoral students will join…

September 5, 2026

Outreach

Fall 2026 Acquisitions at the H.C. Fung Library

The Fung Library announces its new acquisitions for the Fairbank Center Collection.

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Blog

August 27, 2026

Archaeology, Art History, Digital China

Reimagining the Past: Rhodes Scholar Helen He on Technology, Art, and Chinese History

Helen He ’26 graduated last spring with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and East Asian studies and a secondary in Classics. A 2026 Rhodes Scholar, Helen will continue her studies at…

Archaeology, Art History, Digital China

August 7, 2026

History

Bringing Fujian’s Rural History to Life, One Document at a Time

A group of Harvard graduate students cluster around Jin Huaxia, the 33-year old Communist Party Secretary of Yuhu (Jade Pond), a village in the Fujian countryside, as he proudly shares…

August 7, 2026

Our Community

Spotlight on Fairbank Center Research Grant Recipients

For many years, the Fairbank Center has supported undergraduate students who need to travel to China, Taiwan, or other locations to complete research for their theses with our Research Grants,…

July 23, 2026

Health, Our Community

In Memoriam: Barry R. Bloom (1937-2026)

Barry R. Bloom, a pioneering immunologist, global public health leader, and former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, passed away on March 18, 2026, after a…

Health, Our Community

June 6, 2026

Critical Issues, History, Sociology

Interview | How China Is Struggling to Handle the Urban-Rural Divide – Professor Michael Szonyi

Interview With Professor Michael Szonyi | How China Is Struggling to Handle the Urban-Rural Divide Professor Michael Szonyi (Harvard) reflects on the transformation of rural China, the resilience of village…

Critical Issues, History, Sociology

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