Homepage
Critical Issues
Confronting China
Spring 2024
News
Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Convenes 20th Annual Conference
In March, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosted the 20th annual conference of the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program (CWP). Founded in 2004, CWP is committed to integrating the advanced study of China’s foreign relations into the field…
Jie Li named Harvard College Professor
Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Fairbank Center Faculty Affiliate, was named a Harvard College Professor in recognition of her “commitment to undergraduate teaching,” the Harvard Gazette announced this month. To many, Professor Li is best…
Mark Wu Interview with CBS News on Countering Chinese Imports
Last month, in a CBS News interview, Mark Wu, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, discussed how the U.S. could work to counter cheap Chinese imports hurting…
Events
No upcoming scheduled events right now.
Faculty Spotlight
This month (April 12 – 13), Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature at Harvard University, convened a two-day workshop, Thinking Through Performance in China, gathering together leading scholars of Chinese performance theory from around the world to look at how theatergoers experienced plays during the Ming Dynasty.
Blog
Let Pre-modern China and Theater Sing: Spotlight on Thomas Kelly
It was Peony Pavilion — the masterpiece of Ming Dynasty opera, written by Tang Xianzu more than 400 years ago — that made Thomas Kelly, Assistant Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese Literature at Harvard University, fall in love with Chinese drama….
When China’s Navy Chief Came to Harvard: In Another Time, Admiral Wu Shengli Sought the Academic Gold Standard
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
China’s New Military Commanders Reflect Xi Jinping’s Naval Ambitions
Andrew S. Erickson is Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); and Fairbank Center Associate in Research. The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and…
A Scholar’s Journey Through Rural China’s History: Michael Szonyi reflects on his first trip back to China in four years
Cross-posted from the Harvard China Fund. Michael A. Szonyi is the Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. I arrived in China in August 2023 after an almost four-year absence, the longest in my professional career…
Taiwan Elections 2024 Recap: Democracy prevailed, and now the DPP has work to do
Fairbank Center experts weigh in: Michael A. Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University; Steven M. Goldstein, Director, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Harvard University; Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University; Wei-Ting Yen, Assistant Professor of Government,…
Digital China
Digital China is a new initiative promoting the adoption of digital tools and practices in Chinese studies.
