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Professor William C. Kirby’s new article: This Is How Universities Die
Higher ed thrived in Berlin and Beijing. Then government stepped in. By William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor…
Announcing Our 2025 Graduates
New Ph.D.’s who were affiliated with the Fairbank Centerduring their dissertation fieldwork and completion Each year, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies awards the Desmond and…
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Faculty Spotlight
Ellen Widmer has been a Center Associate at the Fairbank Center since 1981 and a driving force behind the Center’s Gender Studies Workshop since 1999. This year’s workshop, ‘The Beauty and the Book: Women, Knowledge, Literature, and Book Culture in Late Imperial China and Beyond’—co-sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Wellesley College, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Fairbank Center—will take place on Friday, April 25. In June, Professor Widmer will retire from her position as Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies & Professor of East Asian Studies at Wellesley College.
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The Great Unity Debate 大一統之辯
English 英文Chinese 中文 “Great Unity” (da yitong 大一統) is an ancient concept defining a unified China of Han and other ethnic peoples under tianxia (天下), or “All Under Heaven.” But…
Sentimental Republic: Why Feeling Matters in Contemporary China
A Conversation between Hang Tu (National University of Singapore) and David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University). Hang Tu (Ph.D. ’21), Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore, recently joined…
Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy: a cinematic fresco of Chinese workers
This piece was originally published on the Harvard Film Archive’s website. The HFA has upcoming screenings of each film in Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy: Youth (Homecoming) (April 25), Youth (Hard…
Faculty Spotlight: Celebrating Ellen Widmer’s Storied Career in Chinese Literature and Gender Studies
Ellen Widmer has been a Center Associate at the Fairbank Center since 1981 and a driving force behind the Center’s Gender Studies Workshop since 1999. This year’s workshop, The Beauty…
Poetic Soundscapes: How Li He (李賀), a “Demonic Talent,” Brings the Quirky to Tang Poetry
A Conversation with Robert Ashmore about the poetry of Li He. Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California,…
