Events

Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools

Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

Exhibit: Dunhuang and Beyond

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

A major milestone and world-renowned heritage site within Silk Road networks, Dunhuang preserves more than 400 embellished Buddhist cave shrines in present-day northwest China. Dunhuang’s cave shrines date from the fifth to fourteenth centuries. Each encloses visitors within murals and carved figures that depict Buddhist legends and paradises. Chronicling innumerable exemplary works of Buddhist artmaking […]

Taiwan Studies Workshop — The American Election Results: The View from Taipei

Presented via Zoom

Panelists:Christine Lai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, TaiwanKevin Luo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota Twin CitiesAndrew Nien-dzu Yang, Secretary General, Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS)Steven M. Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesThis event takes place at 8:00PM EST on November 11 […]

Urban China Lecture Series featuring Liu Zheng — Chinese Greenways: Innovative Planning, Governance, and Urbanism

Presented via Zoom

Speakers: Liu Zheng, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, South China University of Technology Greenways are linear green corridors that are planned, designed, and managed for multi-use purposes. The introduction of the greenway concept to China, particularly from the American context, can be traced back to the 1990s. However, widespread development of greenways in China only began […]

Haiyang Lin — Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China

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

Speaker: Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project The urgency of addressing climate change is evident, and wind energy plays a vital role in global strategies to reduce carbon emissions and transition toward a sustainable energy future. Accurate assessments of wind resources are crucial for this transition. However, current wind energy development and research heavily rely on […]

Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Tyler Jost — Bureaucracy and Blunder: How Politics Shapes China’s Policymaking

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

Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown UniversityModerator: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center AssociateWhen are China’s leaders able to extract quality information from their diplomatic, defense, and intelligence bureaucracies during international crises? Tyler Jost’s […]

Angela Zhang —U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law In this talk, I will pose the provocative question of whether America is now acting like China in its attempt to contain China’s technological rise. Amid the escalating Sino-U.S. tech war, the United States has built an unprecedented legal machine […]

Conference: Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism and the Institution of the Dalai Lama

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

Reincarnation recognition began in the 13th century as a distinctive practice in Tibetan Buddhism to ensure continuity in spiritual authority across successive lives of religious masters. Over time such recognized reincarnations took on significant temporal power as well, particularly the line of the Dalai Lamas who were instrumental in the formation of the Tibetan Ganden […]

Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools

Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]