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Symposium: Thinking Between/Through
Historic and Modern China
April 13, 2024.
Events
Faculty Spotlight
Precarious Ties, a new book by Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor of Business, Government, and International Economy at the Harvard Business School, examines business and the state in three authoritarian Asian regimes: Indonesia under Suharto, Malaysia under the Barisan Nasional, and China under the Communist Party.
News
Susan Greenhalgh talks to Newsweek about how China is tackling a population crisis
China is aging, and its birth rates aren’t keeping up. “More and more, young people do not want to have kids or even marry,” said Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor Emerita of Chinese Society, in…
“Partridge Sky” by Yunuo Zhang (Yuan Zhang), calligraphy by Meng Zhang, offered as parting gift as Fairbank Center celebrates Year of the Dragon
During the Fairbank Center’s February 12th Chinese New Year celebration, Yuan Zhang, Visiting Scholar at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies—who will be returning to Beijing this month—presented her poem, “Partridge Sky” (written under her literary name, Yunuo Zhang) as…
The 2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Amb. Robert E. Lighthizer – China and the Trade Trap
For the Fairbank Center’s 2024 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture, we hosted Ambassador Robert E. Lighthizer, 18th U.S. Trade Representative (2017-2021), who argued that China’s goal to become the world’s number one power poses a strategic threat to the United States…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.
Digital Tales
Blog
When China’s Navy Chief Came to Harvard: In Another Time, Admiral Wu Shengli Sought the Academic Gold Standard
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
China’s New Military Commanders Reflect Xi Jinping’s Naval Ambitions
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
A Scholar’s Journey Through Rural China’s History: Michael Szonyi reflects on his first trip back to China in four years
Cross-posted from the Harvard China Fund. Michael A. Szonyi is the Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. I arrived in China in August 2023 after an almost four-year absence, the longest in my professional career…
Taiwan Elections 2024 Recap: Democracy prevailed, and now the DPP has work to do
Fairbank Center experts weigh in: Michael A. Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University; Steven M. Goldstein, Director, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Harvard University; Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Wei-Ting Yen, Assistant Professor of Government,…
A Pilgrimage, Twenty-Five Zhejiang Villages, and Gorillas in Rwanda
Profiling Recipients of Summer Research Grantsfrom the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies This summer, Harvard Graduate School of Design student Robin Albrecht spent two weeks traveling the Taiwan countryside with nothing more than a backpack. “It was fairly small,” he…