Interview With Professor Michael Szonyi | How China Is Struggling to Handle the Urban-Rural Divide Professor Michael Szonyi (Harvard) reflects on the transformation of rural China, the resilience of village
The second annual Taiwan Studies+ Symposium—which was generously supported by both the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the
Critical Issues Interview | Why Chinese Women are Resisting Xi’s Call to Reproduce – Professor Susan Greenhalgh In this interview for the Critical Issues Confronting China Series, Professor Susan Greenhalgh,
Michael McElroy, a pioneering atmospheric scientist who taught at Harvard from 1970 until his retirement and who played a central role in shaping the University’s engagement with China on questions
The Policymakers Series — Dr. Ely Ratner with Mark Wu: U.S.-China Competition in the Indo-Pacific Ely Ratner, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, joins our Policymakers series
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is proud to support innovative scholarship in Taiwan studies through the Hou Family Fellowships. With the Hou Family’s generous support, this
After fifty-one years of service to the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies as Librarian of the H.C. Fung Library, Nancy Hearst has retired. Nancy has been a steady, expert presence for multiple generations of students, faculty, visiting scholars, and researchers
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
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
Wilma Cannon Fairbank was already an accomplished artist when she accompanied her fiancé, John King Fairbank, to Beijing in 1935. During the couple’s years in China, its was Wilma’s work