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Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia. He has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent […]
Xie Lingyun and Imperial Performance: Deploying the Language of the Chuci
Xie Lingyun and Imperial Performance: Deploying the Language of the Chuci
Speaker: Harrison Huang, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University The reception of the Chuci anthology has been largely framed around the representation of the attributed author Qu Yuan as a loyal subject. This talk instead traces Qu Yuan 's earlier reception and contested status during the Han dynasty, to show how the Chuci repertoire […]
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Environment in Asia Series: “On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures”
Environment in Asia Series: “On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures”
Speaker: Julie Klinger, Asst. Professor of International Relations, Boston University Julie Michelle Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has […]
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Taiwan Studies Workshop: Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era
Taiwan Studies Workshop: Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era
The Taiwan Studies Workshop reports back from their recent trip to Taiwan, including a closed-door meeting with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen. Check back for more information soon!
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China and the United States After Trump: View From Washington
China and the United States After Trump: View From Washington
Speaker: Dr. Douglas Paal, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications
Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications
Speaker: Professor Min Shu, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy, Waseda University, Japan Chair: Professor Daniel M. Smith, Department of Government, Harvard University In the past three decades, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries, the flow […]
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Modern China Lecture Series: Collecting and Using Diaries and the Writing of PRC History
Modern China Lecture Series: Collecting and Using Diaries and the Writing of PRC History
Speaker: Fan Shitao, Beijing Normal University
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Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era
Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era
Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, US Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor of Political Science, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Resurgent China-Russia relations have formed a new and major factor […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Caring for the Elderly in China – The Building of a Services Society
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Caring for the Elderly in China – The Building of a Services Society
Speaker: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery
Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.
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Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor […]
Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire
Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire
Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of […]
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Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics”
Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics”
Speaker: Sun Peidong (Associate Professor, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) Masterminded by Mao himself and drafted by […]
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China Humanities Seminar: The Poetry Demon – Tensions within Chinese Buddhist Monks’ Literature
China Humanities Seminar: The Poetry Demon – Tensions within Chinese Buddhist Monks’ Literature
Speaker: Jason Protass is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He completed doctoral work at Stanford University in 2016, and was a visiting researcher at Academia Sinica in Taipei and at Hanazono and Ryukoku universities in Kyoto. Buddhist monks in Song dynasty China were visited by a literary impulse that interrupted religious activities […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Professor Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair, the 21st Century China Center, School of Global Strategy and Policy, University of California, San Diego Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]
Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS '16 - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University […]
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Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China
Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented in human history. These driving forces create great opportunities and present significant challenges. While cities have always been engines of creativity and innovation, they can […]
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The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair: Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of […]