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  • China Economy Lecture featuring Yeling Tan — China’s Economic Security Growth Model, and the US-China Security Dilemma

    CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordTraditional conceptions of export- or domestic investment–led growth no longer appropriately capture the dynamics shaping the Chinese economy. Rather, China has adopted a model in which national security logic increasingly underpins economic policy. This talk will outline the main components of this

  • Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China

    Zoom Registration Required

    Speaker: Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaModerator: Thomas P. Kelly, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University In early modern China, a major revival of Buddhism coincided with a surging fascination with theater. Buddhist monastics and laypeople increasingly participated in viewing, discussing, and writing plays.

  • Christian Kaps — Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users, OEMs, and the Grid

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Christian Kaps, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit, Harvard Business School Managing electricity demand is critical for lowering the cost of electrified products, integrating intermittent renewables, and reducing grid expansion needs. With its often flexible demand, electric vehicle (EV) charging has long been considered a promising candidate, yet many managed

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Examining the miraculous rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the surprising downfall of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the early twentieth century, I reveal that domination and mobilization are key for authoritarian parties to seize state power, challenging the prevailing wisdom

  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at 10: Legal Innovation in Multilateral Development Banks

    WCC 3019 Wasserstein Hall, 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein JD '78, AIIB Inaugural General Counsel (retired) Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was launched in 2016, many wondered how this new multilateral development bank (MDB) would be different. China

  • Benjamin Ho — After Liberalism? Political Myths, Order-Building and The Return of History in East Asia 

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor and Coordinator, China Programme; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), SingaporeModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityIn recent years, questions have been posed regarding the durability of the current rules-based (liberal) international order and what this

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Laikwan Pang — A Sense of Justice: The Struggle with Laws in Hong Kong

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural & Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong KongDiscussant: Li Jie, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard UniversityCan a state maintain a sense of justice among its citizenry even as it tightens the legal apparatus of social control?  This

  • Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History

    Presented via Zoom

    Speakers: Emily Baum, Professor of History, University of California, IrvineAlbert Wu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Chair: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor In the early twentieth century, scholars around

  • Beyond Tariffs and Subsidies: Toward a New Framework for U.S. Industrial Policy

    WCC 3016, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Y.S. Lee, West Virginia University College of Law The United States has returned to tariffs and subsidies with renewed force, seeking to rebuild domestic manufacturing, promote strategic industries, and counter geopolitical rivals such as China. This resurgence of industrial policy marks a sharp departure from the rule-based international trade order under the General Agreement

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xu Guoqi — What do we mean by “China?”

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xu Guoqi, David H. Y. Chang Professor of Chinese History; Founding Director, Institute of Transnational History of China, University of Hong Kong Professor Xu Guoqi was born in China and taught both in Asia and the USA before joining the University of Hong Kong’s History Department. He writes and has published widely in both

  • Urban China Lecture Series featuring Treng Ta

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Treng Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County More information coming soon! Zoom meeting link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94120080608 Venue