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October 21, 2026

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?

^{Speaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor, Founding Member, and Former Research...}
October 21, 2026

China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra — Going Out to Catch Up: China and the Globalization of State-Led Development

^{Speaker: Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre Dame...}
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 Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China

^{Speaker: Trang X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a...}
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 4, 2026

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi — China’s New Venture Capitalists? The Transformation of Local Government Financing Vehicles

^{Speaker: Jean Oi, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics, Department of Political Science; Senior Fellow,...}
November 4, 2026

Emergent Visons Film Screening — Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor (庄炜的见证：幸存者归来)

^{Followed by a Q+A with filmmaker ZHUANG Wei. This film is part of a three-part...}
November 9, 2026

China Humanities Seminar featuring Yunxiao Xiao — Writing on Bamboo and Wood: Text Technologies in Early China

^{Speaker: Yunxiao Xiao, University of Washington This talk explores how written information was organized, edited,...}

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October 19, 2026

Government, History, Literature

China-Related Courses at Harvard, Spring 2027

Harvard offers a wide range of courses on China and Chinese Studies from across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and professional schools. Check out our…

Government, History, Literature

September 15, 2026

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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…

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October 2, 2026

History, Literature

Social Status in Ming China: One Pawnbroker’s Struggle to Become a Literatus

Yi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and a 2025-2026 Graduate Student Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Below, she…

History, Literature

October 1, 2026

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Max A. Palys ’26 Awarded 2026 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning

The Division of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences awarded the 2026 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning to Max A. Palys ̕ 26, a…

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

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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,…

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