Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University *Please note early (10 am) start time* Thangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There […]
Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., CambridgeRead event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China. In addition to contemporary Chinese social policy, her research examines its origins in the Mao and the pre-revolutionary Republican periods. Her publications include At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, […]
Zuoyue Wang – Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, CambridgeSpeaker: Zuoyue Wang, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona How have transnational exchanges, especially with the United States, in science and technology shaped and reshaped modern China in the last century since the May Fourth Movement of 1919? This talk explores key players and events in this history from the Science Society of China during the […]