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Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Mitchell Presnick – US-China Business Relations: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Mitchell Presnick, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mr. Presnick will lead a fireside chat about his 30 years in China from 1988 - 2019. Topics will include serving on Budweiser’s(百威啤酒) China market entry team, founding the China practice of APCO Worldwide (安可顾问), a Washington, D.C. based global advisory and advocacy firm, founding […]
Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
Big Waves, Great Earthquakes Screening No. 1 – China’s First Environmental Film – Big Tree County, featuring an introduction by Iza Ding
Introduction: Iza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityModerator: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with filmmaker Hao Zhiqiang. The Fairbank Center's Big Waves, Great Earthquakes screening series presents its first film, China’s First Environmental Film - Big Tree County (1992). Big Waves, Great […]
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Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable – Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable – Gender and Populist Nationalism in Asia
Panelists:Hyaeweol Choi, C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of IowaIza Ding, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern UniversityTanika Sarkar, Retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor, Ashoka UniversityChizuko Ueno, Professor Emerita, The University of Tokyo, Ph.D in Sociology Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry ,Henry Rosovsky Professor of […]
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Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China
Discussion of Technology and Innovation in China
***THIS EVENT HAS REACHED CAPACITY, ONLY PRE-REGISTERED ATTENDEES WILL BE ADMITTED*** Speakers:Bo An, 2023-24 An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Andrew Kennedy, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National UniversityModerator:Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard UniversityFeaturing two short research presentations […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Thomas J. Christensen – Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
Speaker: Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs *PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR CRITICAL ISSUES TALKS* Thomas Schelling’s theoretical work on coercive diplomacy carries important lessons for U.S. security policy toward a rising China. This talk will address the challenges in […]
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Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
Rethinking China’s International Relations: China and the World Program 20th Annual Conference
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is proud to present the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program's 20th Annual Conference, Rethinking China's International Relations, which will convene a roster of experts from top universities for panel discussions on China’s global influence, its economic slowdown, the Belt and Road Initiative, and what China is learning from […]
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Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhang Qinghua – From Government to Governance: Evidence from District Border Adjustments in China
Speaker: Zhang Qinghua, Peking University This talk delves into the impact of within-city administrative border adjustments on individual firm productivity and local economic development. Employing a unique quasi-natural experiment conducted in […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Speaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Speaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University With the ascent of China on the global stage, traditional Chinese thoughts, particularly Confucianism, have experienced a resurgence. Over the past two decades, the concept […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Susan Greenhalgh – The Hidden Life and Agenda of the Three-Child Policy
Speaker: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University After years of rapid fertility decline, China is facing plummeting birth rates, a shrinking work force, and rapid aging. In 2016, Beijing abandoned its notorious one-child policy, allowing two and, in 2021, three children per couple. Outside China, the three-child policy […]
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Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
Taiwan Conference: Tension in the Taiwan Strait: The Role of U.S. Allies
Speakers:Akio Takahara, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of TokyoJa-Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of SingaporeSatu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center; Director, East-West Center in Washington This event examines the risks for conflict in the Taiwan Strait and the implications that the changed geo-strategic environment has […]
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Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution’s initial drafter, Carsun Chang, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study […]
Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements
Join us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles and wontons will be provided! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/coalitionPoF About the Exhibition: While history and society often highlight the prominent male figures, womxn play pivotal roles as […]
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates […]
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Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Film Screening: A Brighter Summer Day (Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian), with introduction by Kalli Peng
Similar to Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989), A Brighter Summer Day also traces the experiences of a large family during a critical historical epoch in Taiwan. Set in the early 1960s, against the backdrop of a society witnessing the consequences of major demographic shifts and political oppression, this film depicts the difficult trials awaiting the simple and harmonious life […]
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Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
Film Screening: A Confucian Confusion (Du li shi dai)
A satirical comedy with biting wit and a romance that is equally suspicious of and hopeful about love, this film ambitiously negotiates the coexistence of Confucianism with capitalism and democracy. In what feels like a second take of his Taipei Story, Yang stages a frantic tango that is danced not with two but twelve. A circle of closely […]