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Professor Michael Szonyi doesn’t mind that his students sometimes feel uncomfortable in his undergraduate class on rural China. In fact, when it comes to learning about the land reform movement in the early years following the Communist Party’s victory in 1949, when hundreds of thousands of landlords were executed and land was redistributed to the poorest, that’s exactly the point.
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Faculty Spotlight: How Role-Playing is Helping Professor Michael A. Szonyi’s Students Understand China’s Land Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsYDR2yLPdI Professor Michael Szonyi doesn’t mind that his students sometimes feel uncomfortable in his undergraduate class on rural China. In fact, when it comes to learning about the land reform…
Networked Intimacies: Dating Apps and the Social Life of Urban China
Last fall, the Urban China Lecture Series welcomed sociologist Lik Sam Chan, a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, to discuss his book The Politics of Dating Apps: Gender, Sexuality, and Emergent Publics…
Targeting Taiwan Under Xi: China’s Military Forest Flourishing Despite Toppling Trees
Please Note: The views expressed here are the author’s alone and do not represent those of any organization with which he is affiliated. He thanks anonymous reviewers for thoughtful inputs. Please…
Our Graduate Research Grant Recipients Reflect on Their Summer
Every summer, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies supports graduate students as they set off to pursue research interests across the world. The Fairbank Center’s Summer Research Grants are open to students across Harvard’s many…
Remembering Jerome A. Cohen (1930 – 2025)
Jerome A. Cohen, a trailblazer in the study of the modern Chinese legal system who taught as a tenured member of the law faculty at Harvard University from 1964 to…