Recorded Events

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 12:15pm
Countdown to the 18th Congress: Lessons from the Bo Xilai / Wang Lijun Affair

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Richard Baum,professor emeritus of political science at UCLA
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday April 3-5, 2012, 4:15pm
2012 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures - When the Buddha Was an Idol

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Video: Lecture 2
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Donald S. Lopez, University of Michigan
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Monday, November 21, 2011, 4:15pm
Obama Policy toward China and Asia

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Jefferey Bader, former special assistant to the President for national security affairs
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Monday, November 9, 2011, 4:15pm
"China's International Identities" -- Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture

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David Shambaugh, professor of political science and international affairs and founding director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University
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Frdiay-Saturday, November 4-5, 2011
China after Empire: 1911 Remembered

Audio (English-left, Chinese-right) : List of Panels
Conference
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Thursday, September 15, 2011, 4:15pm
Taiwan: Policy Challenges, Choices, and Leadership in the Next Decade
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Video: Lecture
Video: Q&A with Students
Tsai Ing-wen,
chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan and candidate for president in the 2012 election
Moderated by Steven Goldstein, Director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop
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Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:15pm
Election of the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister): A Personal Perspective
Lobsang Sangay
Introduced by Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies 
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Medical Philology in the “Second Rome”: Ancient Learning and the Attack on “Traditional Chinese Medicine” in Tokugawa Japan

Benjamin Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Discussant:
Federico Marcon, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, University of Virginia  
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Philologists as Rogues:Puzzles Concerning the Japanese Recovery of Huang Kan’s (488-545) Subcommentary

Benjamin Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Discussant:
Wiebke Denecke, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Japanese and Comparative Literature, Boston University 
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
The Great Reversal: The “Rise of Japan” and the “Fall of China” after 1895 as Historical Fables
Benjamin Elman, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
Discussant: John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, MIT
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Fresh Ink Symposium
This symposium is organized by the East Asian Art History Program, Harvard University, in conjunction with the exhibition Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund for East Asian Art of the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, S010, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Welcoming remarks, Introduction, "Questions of Ink"
Panel One: Gesture

Panel Two: Subjectivity
Panel Three: Medium
Open discussion
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Wang Jin-pyng, Speaker of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China

Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Wang's Address (English) MP3

Wang's Address (Chinese) MP3

Q & A (English) MP3
Q & A (Chinese) MP3
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Friday, November 12, 2010 
Artful Retreat: Garden Culture of the Qing Dynasty
Audio Recording

Monday, April 5, 2010
President Ma Ying-jeou’s Reflections at Mid-Term
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