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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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