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Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Wen-Yi Huang – Families Divided: Migration and Those Left Behind in Fifth- and Sixth-Century China
Speaker: Wen-Yi Huang, An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In this talk I explore the impact of migration on family members left behind, particularly those whose parents, children, siblings, and spouses were forcibly moved to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from four successive southern states of Eastern Jin (317-420 CE), Liu-Song (420-479 […]
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Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
Tansen Sen – India, China, and the World: A Connected History
Speaker: Tansen Sen, New York University Shanghai By focusing on the early material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies between ancient India and ancient China; the networks of exchange during the colonial period; and some of the less-known facets of interactions between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic of China, this presentation argues […]
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
William Alford – Learn from the Past to Appreciate the Present, That is What Makes One a Teacher 溫故而知新,可以為師矣: Confucius, Cohen (s) and Contemporary China
Speaker: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard University Dean John F. Manning invites you to join the Harvard Law School […]
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Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Jerome A. Cohen – Law and Power in China and in Its Foreign Relations
Speaker: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; Of Counsel, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Founding Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk Series
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Su-Bing Chang – Taiwan Biographical Database: An Introduction
Speaker: Su-bing Chang, Professor, National Taiwan University; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center Please RSVP to Feng-en Tu (hyl.eadh@gmail.com)
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
Tony Saich – Xi’s Policy Challenges: Some Questions for Discussion
Read the event summary here Speaker: Tony Saich, Harvard Kennedy School
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Anna Sun – Turning Ghosts into Ancestors: Ritual, Gender, and the Afterlife in Contemporary Urban China
Speaker: Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and East Asian Religions Lunch will be provided.
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Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang
Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang
Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]
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Andrew Mertha – Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
Andrew Mertha – Externalizing Fragmented Authoritarianism: Using History to Anticipate Challenges for Belt and Road
Read the event summary here Speaker: Andrew Mertha, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins […]
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Alex des Forges – The Examined Subject and the Natural Self in the Eight-Legged Essay
Alex des Forges – The Examined Subject and the Natural Self in the Eight-Legged Essay
Speaker: Alex des Forges, University of Massachusetts - Boston This paper inquires into the rhetoric and practice of the individual voice in Ming dynasty examination essays, commonly referred to as […]
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Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen
Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen
Listen Again: Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. […]
Film Screening and Lecture – Dragonfly Eyes
Film Screening and Lecture – Dragonfly Eyes
The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes on Monday October 15, 2018. Admission is free. Xu Bing will introduce the screening on Monday and will give the 2018-2019 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Arts at Radcliffe’s Knafel Center (10 Garden St., Cambridge) Tuesday October 16, at 4:15pm. The lecture is free, but registration […]
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William Overholt – Myths in Sino-American Relations
William Overholt – Myths in Sino-American Relations
Read the event summary here Speaker: William Overholt, President, Fung Global Institute; Senior Research Fellow Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University […]
Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen
Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen
Listen Again: Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing. […]
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Destination: World – Student Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone
Destination: World – Student Tales From Beyond the Comfort Zone
Harvard undergraduates sharing their stories of personal discovery, intellectual exploration, and global engagement made possible through travel abroad. Reception to follow. Cosponsored by: Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Fairbank Center for […]
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John Osburg – Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC
John Osburg – Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC
Read the summary here Speaker: John Osburg, University of Rochester
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郝春文 Hao Chunwen – 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
郝春文 Hao Chunwen – 敦煌寫本齋文的分類、定名及其文本結構 Rethinking the Structure and Typology of Liturgical Texts From Dunhuang
This talk will be given in Mandarin Speaker: Hao Chunwen 郝春文, Senior Professor, Capital Normal University This talk gives an overview of recent scholarly thinking on the typology and structure of the liturgical texts found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. We can divide the thousands of liturgical texts found at Dunhuang into two main categories: liturgical protocols […]
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Jeffrey R. Williams – Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
Jeffrey R. Williams – Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics
Read the event summary here Speaker: Jeffrey R. Williams, Harvard Kennedy School
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