Anthropology and Archaeology, Art History, Business and Economics, Digital China, Environment, Government, History, International Relations, Literature and Culture, News, Outreach, Religion, Sociology
FRESHMEN SEMINAR FRSEMR 70L: Ancient East Asia: Contested Archaeologies of China, Korea and Japan Rowan Flad How is our understanding of the past determined or framed by the concerns of the present? This course considers this problem with a focus on East Asia. In the...
Environment, Government, History, News, Outreach, Sociology
The Fairbank Center is thrilled to announce our 2018-2019 An Wang Post Doctoral Fellows! Founded in 1981, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships support junior scholars who study China in any discipline across the humanities and social sciences. Fellows are chosen from a...
Digital China, Environment, Government, History, Literature and Culture, News, Religion
The 2018 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference is in Washington D.C. this year, and as usual the Fairbank Center will be well-represented on a wide-range of panels. Below are panels featuring our faculty and current Harvard Ph.D. Candidates working on China,...
Anthropology and Archaeology, Business and Economics, Environment, Government, History, International Relations, Law, Literature and Culture, News, Outreach
FRESHMEN SEMINAR FRSEMR 61M: The Silk Road as History, Culture, and Politics Mark Elliott Description:In 1923, Harvard’s Fogg Museum of Art sought to add to its collections by sending Langdon Warner, the University’s first professor of Asian art, on an expedition to...
Anthropology and Archaeology, Art History, Business and Economics, Digital China, Environment, Gender Studies, Government, History, International Relations, Law, Literature and Culture, News, Outreach, Research Projects, Sociology, Taiwan Studies
The Fairbank Center is thrilled to announce the publication of The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi (Harvard University Press, 2018). Published to celebrate the Fairbank Center’s 60th...
Anthropology and Archaeology, Art History, Business and Economics, Environment, Government, History, International Relations, Literature and Culture, News, Religion, Sociology
FRESHMEN SEMINAR FRSEMR 71D: Zen and the Art of Living: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary James Robson This seminar explores the rich history, philosophy and practices of Zen Buddhism as it developed in China, Korea, and Japan. We will first consider the emergence of...
