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Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan
Exhibition Opening – Eye Eye Nose Mouth: Art, Disability, and Mental Illness in Nanjing, China and Shiga-ken, Japan
This exhibition at the Harvard University Asia Center explores the intersections of art, disability, and mental health by displaying original works on paper and sculptures created by ten groundbreaking, self-taught artists from China and Japan. Their compelling, formally innovative works come in a wide range of styles and media, from gestural abstractions to proliferating figurations, from […]
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Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]
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David Wang – A New Literary History of Modern China
David Wang – A New Literary History of Modern China
Speaker: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Library Book Talk Series
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Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen – Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
Eric Taglicozzo and Tansen Sen – Borders in Modern Asia: Concepts and Cases
Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History, Cornell University Tansen Sen, Professor of History, NYU Shanghai Chaired by Sugata Bose and Sunil Amrith
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Xiaofei Tian – The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms
Xiaofei Tian – The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms
Speaker: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature; Chair of Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA), Harvard University
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Robert Ross – The Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it Means for East Asia and the United States
Robert Ross – The Rise of the Chinese Navy: What it Means for East Asia and the United States
Read the event summary here Speaker: Robert Ross, Boston College Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, […]
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Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s […]
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22nd Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference – Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia
The 22nd annual Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference will take place at Harvard CGIS-South on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Organized by a committee of RSEA students, this year's conference offers multiple panels on the theme of Voice and Silence: Memory in East Asia. On Friday, February 8 at 5:30 pm Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Faculty Chair of […]
Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century […]
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Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
Contemporary China Film Screening – Art in Fog: A Conversation with Director Lydia Chen
Discussant: Shelley Drake Hawkes, Middlesex Community College Moderator: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University Directed by Lydia Chen, Art in Smog offers an intimate encounter with four artists and a curator in China, as they pursue their dreams over 25 years of rapid change. The pursuit of art takes them from quiet lives in the 1990s to the extremes […]
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Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
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 […]
Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC
Read 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
Zuoyue Wang – Transnational Science in Modern China: From May Fourth to the Cold War and Beyond
Speaker: 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 […]
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Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population
Speaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be […]
Derek Scissors – Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
Derek Scissors – Chinese Investment: State-Owned Enterprises Stop Globalizing, for the Moment
Speaker: Derek Scissors - American Enterprise Institute Derek M. Scissors is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and […]
Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
Wen Chen – China’s Healthcare Reform: Does Restructuring Government Functions Matter?
Speaker: Wen Chen, Professor of Health Economics, Fudan University Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a […]
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William Kirby – Who Will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
William Kirby – Who Will Lead? China and the World of Universities in the 21st Century
Read event summary here Speaker: William Kirby, Harvard Business School William C. Kirby is Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a University Distinguished Service Professor. Professor Kirby serves as Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, the University's academic […]
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Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests.
By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe
By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe
Speakers: Kevin Gallagher, Boston University Philippe Le Corre, Harvard University Thomas Berger, Boston University Grant Rhode, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College Min Ye, Boston University Vesko Garcevic, Boston University Georgios Dimitrakopoulos, former Member of European Parliament Robert Ross, Boston College and Harvard University More Information: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2019/01/23/by-land-and-by-sea-chinas-belt-and-road-in-europe-feb-21-2019/
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Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Speaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western […]
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Stanley Rosen – China’s Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
Stanley Rosen – China’s Pursuit of Soft Power in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
Read the event summary here Speaker: Stanley Rosen, University of Southern California Professor Stanley Rosen teaches political science, specializing in Chinese politics and society. He was the Faculty Master of […]
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Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng – Resistance of the Weak: the Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization
Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng – Resistance of the Weak: the Invention of Dragon Dance Performance in a Chinese Village in the Process of Urbanization
Speakers: Tu Chuanfei and Liu Feng, Jiangxi University
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Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Speaker: Gao Xiaofei, Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Center Discussant: Christian Hess, Associate Professor, East Asian History, Sophia University, Tokyo Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series
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Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Discussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […]