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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 Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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 Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series
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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 Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Strategic and Operational Research Department, U.S. Naval War College Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series, Sponsored by the Harvard University […]
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Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.
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Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Speaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
Doubts about the Chinese current of “doubting antiquity” and its critics
Speaker: Rudolf G. Wagner Fairbank Center Associate at Harvard University, and Cluster Asia and Europe Associate at Heidelberg University, Germany. This is a study of the background, impact, and cost of the “doubting antiquity,” or yigu, current associated with the Gushi bian collection that followed a strong political agenda of undoing the authority of the orthodox view […]
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The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Speaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
The Poetics of Communication: Social and Cultural Functions of the Traditional Song Fair of the Bai Ethnic People in Southwest China
The Poetics of Communication: Social and Cultural Functions of the Traditional Song Fair of the Bai Ethnic People in Southwest China
Speaker: Zhu Gang (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Gregory Nagy (Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China Reshapes the Balance of Power: Seeking Peace and Security
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China Reshapes the Balance of Power: Seeking Peace and Security
Speaker: Professor Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University […]
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China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
Speaker: Harriet Zurndorfer Abstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television […]
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Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
Modern China Lecture Series: The Significance of the Frontier in Twentieth Century Chinese History
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The 1890s set off an unprecedented rush for the last remaining unclaimed lands around the world. Developments in the preceding century saw the social sciences and disciplines like geography and agronomy connecting Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The educated elite from around the world increasingly spoke a common […]
Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
From the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century over 6,000 ancestral halls (祠堂) were constructed in Huizhou 徽州, a prefecture at the southern end of Anhui province. Usually understood to represent the growing attachment of families to the establishment of lineage authority in their villages, Huizhou’s ancestral halls soon acquired a variety of functions […]
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Introducing the Chinese Text Project
Introducing the Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded – Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded – Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping
Speaker: Sebastian Heilmann, President, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin; former Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; former research fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
Panelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui […]
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Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated 700 Chinese NGOs to bring lawsuits against polluters on behalf of the public interest. The Supreme People’s Court then issued an authoritative “interpretation” that provides […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Speaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow […]
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Free admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case
Speaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
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