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  • When Men Marry into Their Wives’ Families: Changing Patriarchy, Intimacy, and Masculinity in Everyday Family Life of Post-Reform China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Guanli Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University Venue

  • Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Eyck Freymann — Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China

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

    Speaker: Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow, Stanford University PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT'S START TIME HAS CHANGED TO 4PMTaiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested--and possibly broken. Beijing believes that "reunification" is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Maria Adele Carrai — Can China Remake Global Digital Norms and Governance?

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

    Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations of China, University of Oxford ***PLEASE NOTE THIS CRITICAL ISSUES TALK TAKES PLACE ON A THURSDAY, INSTEAD OF OUR USUAL WEDNESDAY TIME SLOT*** Drawing on the forthcoming book, China’s Normative Power in Cyberspace, this talk examines China’s growing role in shaping the norms, institutions, technologies,

  • Mapping Global China: Data, Maps, and Stories of China’s Global Presence

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

    Speakers:Adele Carrai, Associate Professor, University of OxfordDavide Zoppolato, Hong Yen Chang Center Fellow, Columbia Law School  Moderator: Iain Johnston, Gov. James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Research Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University  Registration appreciated for planning purposes.  This presentation introduces Mapping Global China, an open-access research initiative that maps and analyzes

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrew Erickson — Are Rampant Removals of Admirals and Generals Harming or Helping China’s Naval & Military Advancement?

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

    Speaker: Andrew S. Erickson, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor, Founding Member, and Former Research Director, China Maritime Studies Institute, US Naval War College Are rampant removals of top officials from China’s Navy and other services, as well as the defense industry supporting them, decapitating its military advancement? Or do the benefits somehow exceed the

  • 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

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Jazmin Sierra — Going Out to Catch Up: China and the Globalization of State-Led Development

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

    Speaker: Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, University of Notre DameChina’s rise is often told as a story of opening to foreign capital and becoming the workshop of the world. But opening up also set in motion a less familiar transformation: China began to globalize state-led development itself. Rather than confining

  • 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

  • China Humanities Seminar featuring Huan Jin — Modularity and Vernacular Knowledge: The Career of “Tao” 套, 11th–17th Centuries

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Huan Jin, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emerging at the turn of the eleventh century out of contact with non-Han people, "tao" 套 (set/module) shows the productiveness of cross-cultural interactions. Rooted in empirical knowledge and everyday life that is not dominated by aristocrats and cultural elites, it is a category that

  • Urban China Lecture Series featuring Trang X. Ta — Scenes of Affliction and Cruel Circumstances in Urban China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Trang X. Ta, University of Maryland Baltimore County In most instances there is a lone, tragic-looking figure with head bowed before an accompanying sign making a silent public appeal. However, to stand out in the midst of urban activity, narration has increasingly included accouterments—boomboxes, microphones, printed posters, photographs, and a moving repertoire that weaves

  • Trans-generational Transmission of War Memories in China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: ISHII Yumi, Associate Professor, Tohoku University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27Chair/Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trans-generational-transmission-of-war-memories-in-china/ Venue

  • Emergent Visions Film Screening & Discussion — New Moon Chapter One (新月一章)

    Carpenter Center Theater 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmmaker Xinyue Li in conversation with Jie Li, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard College Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University. This film is part of a three-part series presenting documentaries from China’s Caochangdi Workstation, a collective of documentary filmmakers and performance artists whose work explores memory, history, and everyday life through