Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Li Zhigang, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China ***This talk will be in Mandarin*** China faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance, particularly in old and dilapidated neighborhoods (老旧社区). In this context, some new and experimental approaches to neighborhood governance have emerged. This talk focuses on three representative …
Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Tianhu Hao, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: David Damrosch, Harvard University Shakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases, this article reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on …
Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Reporting on China
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Barboza, Co-founder of The Wire and WireScreen David Barboza is the co-founder of The Wire Digital Inc., a New York-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains. The startup consists of a digital weekly news magazine, called The Wire, and a data and software analytics platform named WireScreen. Previously, …
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yao Yang – China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of 40 Years of Reform
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yao Yang, Dean, National School of Development at Peking University Forty years of reform and opening up have resulted in rapid growth and rising living standards for many Chinese, but also left a series of dire consequences. Professor YAO Yang, Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, explains how the economic agenda …
Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolThis symposium features Professor Ashley Deeks, former Associate White House Counsel and former Deputy legal Adviser to the U.S. National Security Council; and Ambassador C.J. Mahoney, Deputy General Counsel of International Trade and Azure at Microsoft, and former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. The symposium will also feature a host of leading academics, attorneys, and regulators …
Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security
Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions, New Directions — A Two-Day Conference
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDetailed information, including an agenda, may be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lu4_McB0A-USCiJ5uTN7ZyKg-9QgQwc7/view?usp=drive_link Panelists:Mian Chen, Northwestern UniversitySean Xiangjun Feng, University of British ColumbiaBrendan Galipeau, National Tsing Hua UniversityTenggeer Hao, Columbia UniversityKeren He, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillYizhou Huang, Saint Louis UniversityMaciej Kurzynski, Lingnan UniversityMelody Yunzi, Li University of HoustonDylan Suher, University of Hong KongMengyuan Tian, University …
Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions, New Directions — A Two-Day Conference
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Man in Black” by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWang Bing’s first work made outside of China, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse …
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Man in Black” by Wang Bing
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Youth (Spring)” by Wang Bing
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesShot between 2014 and 2019 and compiled from 2,600 hours of footage, Wang Bing’s latest opus centers on young migrant laborers in Zhili, an industrial town near Shanghai that is home to thousands of privately-run garment workshops. Employing his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups, Wang contrasts routine days of sewing, stitching and scissoring …
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Youth (Spring)” by Wang Bing
Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kavinyangang Ancestral Pots, Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chih-Hua Chiang, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University More info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diachronic-analysis-of-human-object-relations/ Venue
Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panelists:William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson, Pao …
Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships …
Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan …