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Announcing Our New Faculty 2024-25
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. This year, we are fortunate to welcome…
In Memoriam: Ross Terrill, 1938 – 2024
Ross Terrill, a longtime Non-Resident Associate in Research of the Fairbank Center, passed away on August 2 at the age of 85. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard in 1970, where he studied on a Knox Memorial Scholarship…
Announcing Our 2024 Graduates
New PhDs who were affiliated with the Fairbank Centerduring their dissertation fieldwork and completion Each year, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies awards the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship to a graduate student embarking on an extensive period of fieldwork in…
Faculty Spotlight
Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, is having a busy year: Her latest book, Cinematic Guerrillas, won the 2024 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award; she was named a Harvard College Professor and a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow; and she’s taken on the role as Faculty Director of the new, six-week Harvard Summer School Program in China.
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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…
Meet Our 2024-25 Fellows: Shengqiao Lin
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. First, meet Shengqiao Lin, one of our new An Wang Postdoctoral…
Three Fairbank Center Faculty Reactions to the Third Plenum
On July 18, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concluded the Third Plenum of the 20th Party Congress. The Third Plenum traditionally has tackled economic issues, with several past Third Plenums leading to roll outs of major…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.
