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April 21, 2026

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhao Miaoxi —Mismatched Industrial Land Lease Terms: Urban L...

^{Speaker: Zhao Miaoxi, South China University of Technology In China’s system of public land ownership, industrial...}
April 24, 2026

Gender Studies and Performance Workshop

^{9:00 – 9:15 AM: Welcome Remarks 9:15 – 10:45 AM: Panel One Commentators: Waiyee Li,...}
April 28, 2026

China’s Political Economy: Challenges and Opportunities — Presentations by Fairbank Center Visit...

^{Presentations: Lingang Zhou, Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Affairs, East China Normal University; 2025-26...}

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February 19, 2026

Economy, Environment, Film and Media, History, Inner Asia, International Relations, Law, Literature, Our Community, Politics, Sociology

Updates from Fairbank Center faculty affiliates, Center Associates

Learn more about recent updates from Fairbank Center faculty and affiliates!

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February 12, 2026

Outreach

Winter/Spring 2026 Acquisitions at the H. C. Fung Library: New Publications by Anthony Saich, Andrew S. Erickson, Jennifer Lind

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

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April 16, 2026

Our Community

Hou Family Fellowship in Taiwan Studies — Celebrating 10 Years

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is proud to support innovative scholarship in Taiwan studies through the Hou Family Fellowships. With the Hou Family’s generous support, this…

April 4, 2026

Our Community

51 Years of Service, A Lifetime of Impact: Celebrating Nancy Hearst

After fifty-one years of service to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies as Librarian of the H.C. Fung Library, Nancy Hearst has retired. Nancy has been a steady, expert presence for multiple generations of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and researchers…

March 27, 2026

History

Faculty Spotlight: How Role-Playing is Helping Professor Michael A. Szonyi’s Students Understand China’s Land Reform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYDR2yLPdI Professor Michael Szonyi doesn’t mind that his students sometimes feel uncomfortable in his undergraduate class on rural China. In fact, when it comes to learning about the land reform…

March 9, 2026

Science and Technology, Sociology

Networked Intimacies: Dating Apps and the Social Life of Urban China

Last fall, the Urban China Lecture Series welcomed sociologist Lik Sam Chan, a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, to discuss his book The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics…

Science and Technology, Sociology

February 12, 2026

Government, International Relations

Targeting Taiwan Under Xi: China’s Military Forest Flourishing Despite Toppling Trees

Please Note: The views expressed here are the author’s alone and do not represent those of any organization with which he is affiliated. He thanks anonymous reviewers for thoughtful inputs. Please…

Government, International Relations

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