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Taiwan’s Former President Ma Delivers Address at Fairbank Center
On Friday, September 27, the former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), MA Ying-jeou, SJD ’81, visited the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies while…
Announcing Our 2024-25 Visiting Scholars, Visiting Fellows of Practice
Now that the fall semester is underway, we would like to take a moment to formally welcome our new and returning class of Visiting Scholars…
Faculty Spotlight
Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry in the Harvard Medical School, recently celebrated 55 years of doing healthcare research in Chinese society. He is the recipient of Shanghai’s Magnolia Award, honoring his work in illness, healthcare, and aging issues in China. In our recent video interview, Professor Kleinman spoke about progress and challenges in China’s healthcare system—too little emphasis on primary care, too much on big hospitals!—and reminded us that the U.S. and China have a lot to learn from each other.
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Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Jason Chan
We continue our series of Q+As introducing you to the Fairbank Center’s new Fellows with Jason Chan, whose research is being supported by a 2024-25 Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship….
Transforming the Work of Literary Sinitic Studies Through Generative AI: A Q+A with the Digital China Initiative’s Kwok-leong Tang
For the great majority of Fridays during this Fall semester, the Digital China Initiative—which studies the impact of digital technologies in the field of China Studies—is offering workshops on Generative…
Support for a New Generation of China Scholars: Spotlight on Yuhua Wang
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and a group of other leading scholars of Chinese politics saw a pressing need:…
Meet Our Fellows 2024-25: Sarah Plovnick
Last week, it was our pleasure to introduce you to Hardy Stewart, the Fairbank Center’s new Hou Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies. We are now happy to introduce you to Sarah Plovnick, our…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: Hardy Stewart
Following profiles on our two An Wang Fellows earlier this month, Shengqiao Lin and David Qihang Wu, we are happy to introduce you to our new Hou Family Fellows in Taiwan Studies. Hardy Stewart is a Ph.D. Candidate…
Publications Spotlight
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies publishes monographs in collaboration with the Harvard Asia Center Publications Program, while also supporting new books from our Fairbank Center faculty and affiliates.
