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Victor Seow wins Sarton Prize for the History of Science from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has won the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Sarton Prize for the History…
Digital China Initiative launches Digital China Worldwide chatbot
The Digital China Initiative (DCI) has launched the Digital China Worldwide (DCW) chatbot, a groundbreaking aid for finding digital resources related to Chinese studies. The platform offers a…
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Faculty Spotlight
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. As a cultural historian and scholar of Asian literature, she believes deeply that literature is a force for good in the pursuit of social justice. Conducting research in more than a dozen Asian and European languages, modern and classical, she has authored six scholarly books, 80 scholarly articles/chapters, several (co)edited volumes, and Japanese literature translations. Her 2024 book, Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures, was the focus of a roundtable at the Modern Language Association’s recent 2025 meeting.
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Remembering Steven M. Goldstein: Taiwan Studies leader, nurturing mentor, friend of the Fairbank Center
Steven M. Goldstein, longtime Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop, died on Monday, February 10, 2025, at age 84. Steve taught…
Heritage Matters: Post-demolition urban redevelopment in China
A Q+A with Anthropologist Philipp Demgenskiand Urban China Seminar co-organizer Li Hou Philipp Demgenski, Assistant Professor in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University. Philipp Demgenski, Assistant Professor…
Faculty Spotlight: To Karen Thornber, literature is a vital force in fighting the world’s greatest challenges
Karen L. Thornber is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, as well as Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok…
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…
