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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
Speaker: Lingling Wei, Senior China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Lingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China's political economy, focusing on Beijing's […]
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Chinese Kinesthetic Forms
Topics: Movement has a distinctively rich tradition in China. Chinese Kinesthetic Forms considers movement as an organizing principle across myriad media and cultural forms—from dance and music, to painting and calligraphy, to theater and martial arts. The conference explores how movement, as both expression and object of perception, opens experiential dimensions, even beyond the corporeal. […]
Seung Wha Chang – An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
Seung Wha Chang – An Arbitration Model for Resolving International Economic/Public Disputes: A (Korean) WTO Appeal Arbitrator’s View
Speaker: Seung Wha Chang, Chairman of Korea Trade Commission & Professor of Seoul National University Venue
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Youqin Hang – Families in Transition: Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Support, and Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
Youqin Hang – Families in Transition: Living Arrangements, Intergenerational Support, and Subjective Wellbeing in 21st Century China
Speaker: Youqin Huang, Professor of Geography and Planning, Research Associate of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New YorkThis paper examines whether the Chinese family is undergoing a Western process of modernization and an associated reduction in previously very high rate of parent-adult child co-residence, and how this […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians’ Perspective
Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Politicians’ Perspective
On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. On […]
Chan Chi-Keung – Pure Sentiment and Strained Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan’s Moral Psychology
Chan Chi-Keung – Pure Sentiment and Strained Reasoning: An Exploration of Neo-Confucian Liu Jishan’s Moral Psychology
Speaker: Chan Chi-Keung, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. This talk attempts to examine the contribution made by late Ming Neo-Confucianist Liu Jishan (1578-1645) in producing lasting […]
China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm – Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
Speaker: Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Nahm's new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China, Germany, and the United States as a window into the political economy of innovation and economic development in highly globalized industries. The book argues that new possibilities for collaboration […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – How to Avert a Crisis Over Taiwan and Stabilize US-China Tensions
Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cornell University Jessica Chen Weiss is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective
Taiwan Studies Workshop – Taiwan Elections 2022: The Analysts’ Perspective
On November 26, Taiwan will be holding elections for nine local jurisdictions ranging from mayors of special municipalities such as Taipei to county magistrates down to the village chiefs. As the 2024 Presidential election approaches, this so-called “Nine in One Election” will be carefully watched for clues to the relative strength of Taiwan’s parties. On […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Benno Weiner – This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion! The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China
Speaker: Benno Weiner, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon UniversityThrough much of the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party considered disunity between ethnocultural groups (minzu)primarilyto be a product of “great nationality chauvinism,” which refered to exploitation committed in the past by the Han majority against “minority nationalities.” In parts of China’s Northwest, however, the Party identified Hui Muslim […]
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Eva Nga Shan Ng – Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
Eva Nga Shan Ng – Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
Speaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng, Assistant Professor, Translation Programme, School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Studies in jury comprehension have hitherto mainly explored Anglo-American courts and focused on examining English-speaking jurors’ ability to understand legal discourse, particularly […]
Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Performing the Ecological Fix Under State Entrepreneurialism in China
Speaker: Fangzhu Zhang, University College London This talk examines the recent green turn in China by investigating a large-scale urban greenway project—'Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu. Using the perspective of the socio-ecological fix, we demonstrate that the local state has seized the opportunity provided by the central state’s ‘ecological civilisation’ to carry out green infrastructure development […]
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Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Linh Vu – The Politics of Martyr Commemoration in Modern China and Contemporary Taiwan
Speaker: Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University This talk focuses on (1) the politics of martyr commemoration in Republican China (1911–1949) and (2) the governance of the posthumous identities of the Nationalist Chinese dead in contemporary Taiwan. The Chinese Republic laid the foundation for the modern nation-state through the governance of these millions of war dead. […]
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Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Speaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jia Qingguo – How China Will Respond to the Renewed Liberal Alliance
Speaker: Jia Qingguo, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University; Payne Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford UniversityModerator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese […]
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang – From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop featuring Junyan Jiang – From Kins to Comrades: Rural Clan Society and the Rise of Communism in China
Speaker: Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University A key paradox of social revolutions of the 20th century is that despite their radical, modernist claims, success often hinges on effective mobilization of the peasantry, who are typically conservative and inward-looking. This paper studies how traditional networks and cleavages within rural society can be […]
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The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
Speakers:John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; author of The Chip War. Moderator: Edoardo Campanella, M-RCBG Senior Fellow This is a hybrid event. Zoom registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxRp90CRRHiaDcFMLJrYWw Venue
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