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  • China Economy Lecture Series Panel Discussion — Can China Pay for its Technological Ambitions?

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

    Speakers:Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Moderator: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business

  • Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Wu Jieh-min — Weaponized Interdependence: How Taiwan Is Rethinking its “Silicon Shield”

    Presented via Google Meet

    Speaker: Wu Jieh-min, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Co-founder, Center for Contemporary China, National Tsing Hua University The “Silicon Shield” is often treated as a Taiwan-centered, overly-fixed concept that emphasizes Taiwan’s technological indispensability as a rationale for its defense. This talk challenges that view by situating Taiwan within the deep and

  • Wu Jingxiong, Between Natural Law and Geopolitics: The Insights and Dilemmas of a Catholic Chinese Law Professor in Cold War America

    WCC 3018, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong The life of Chinese legal scholar Wu Jingxiong has long attracted attention given his diverse intellectual interests and high profile in Chinese judicial politics and constitutional reform during the 1930s and 1940s. Like many of his generation, Wu’s education combine traditional Confucian schooling

  • Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate

    Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, what

  • Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia

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

    The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. This year, we are excited to host twelve panels featuring Harvard faculty and participants from around the world, as well as

  • Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge

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

    Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?

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

    Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.China presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach, China’s UN Security Council veto,

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino

    Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, University of California San Diego More information coming soon. Micah Muscolino received his B.A. from UC Berkeley (1999) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (2006). He specializes in the environmental history of modern China. His first book, Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

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

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence of Christians in the Korean independence movement, adding that in Korea “a Christian was practically synonymous with a bomb-thrower.” This talk explores a less

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jennifer Lind

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

    Speaker: Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth UniversityMore information coming soon Professor Lind holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a Master’s from the School of Global Policy & Strategy from the University of California, San Diego; and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Lind is

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Robert Suettinger — Factional Politics in the CCP: Is Change in the Air?

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

    Speaker:Robert Lee Suettinger, Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, National Intelligence CounselMore information coming soon. Robert Lee Suettinger is a historian of contemporary elite politics in the People’s Republic of China. He recently completed a biography of Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), General Secretary and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party of China, published by Harvard

  • China Economy Lecture featuring Panle Jia Barwick

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

    Speaker: Panle Jia Barwick, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison More information coming soon. Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization, Chinese Economy, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics