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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 on campus to attend a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the LL.M. program at Harvard…
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 and Visiting Fellows of Practice at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. These experts in…
Announcing Our New Faculty 2024-25
Each year, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies invites faculty members at Harvard University who work on China to join our more than 50 faculty members who advise and support the Center’s research and strategic planning. We are fortunate to welcome…
Faculty Spotlight
Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, will convene the fourth annual New Faces in Chinese Politics conference at Harvard University on September 27th. The two-day conference aims to support the next generation of scholars navigating a highly competitive field. In addition to the conference, Professor Wang is involved in cutting-edge research that explores both historical and contemporary political dynamics in China.
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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 AI for Literary Sinitic Studies. Two sessions from the initial…
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: traditional opportunities to attend conferences and receive feedback had been…
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 Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow. Her dissertation, titled “Listening Through the…
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 in Chinese Language at the University of California, Berkeley, where…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: David Qihang Wu
Earlier this summer, we announced the recipients of our 2024-25 An Wang and Hou Family fellowships. Now, we would like our community to get to know these special scholars a bit better. Like Shengqiao Lin, whose Q&A we published yesterday, David Qihang Wu is a…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.
