Environment, Government, History, Literature and Culture, News, Outreach, Religion, Taiwan Studies
View our October 2018 Newsletter in your browser Welcome to our New Affiliates Welcome to our new affiliates for the 2018-2019 academic year! This year we are pleased to welcome four Postdoctoral Fellows, fourteen Visiting Scholars, ten Graduate Student Associates,...
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...
Government, History, Law, Literature and Culture, News, Outreach, Sociology
New from Harvard University Asia Center Press: Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989, by Jennifer Altehenger The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China...
Literature and Culture, News
Harvard University has awarded seven honorary degrees for the 2017-2018 academic year, which were presented during Morning Exercises on Commencement Day. Hong Kong-based film director and one of “cinema’s most influential auteurs” Wong Kar Wai was among...
Literature and Culture, News
Congratulations to Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, who has been named a 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow! Professor Li’s recent annotated translation with Stephen Durrant and David...
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,...
