Exploring the myriad material possibilities of clay, Zhao pushes the boundaries of the medium while reworking traditional forms. A closing reception and panel discussion will feature artists and scholars Brad Miller, Jeffrey Moser, Sun Ren, Eugene Y. Wang, and Nigel Wood. Closing Event: Friday, October 25, 2019 | 4:00 - 6:00 PM Room 427 | […]
Speaker: Stuart McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Read event summary here Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University Lucy Hornby, a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, has lived in China for 20 years, most recently serving as deputy bureau chief in Beijing for the Financial Times. She has reported from every Chinese province and region for the FT and […]
Speaker: William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow and Former President, Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong| Lunch will be served Questions: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
Speaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China's national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects […]
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University
Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey […]
Speaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School RSVP required.
Panel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature […]
Speakers: Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Discussants: Manja […]
Directed by: Zhang Lu Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Peng Hai, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As […]
Directed by: Pema Tseden Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the […]
Speaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Asian food will be provided.
Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University Throughout the 20th century, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives, however, it is evident […]
Speaker: Faan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University The rapid growth of cities such as Shanghai in China has presented many transportation, land use and climate change challenges for local government officials, planning and transit practitioners and property developers. These challenges include traffic congestion, […]
The first Taiwan Arts Festival in Boston titled “Reveal” provides a platform for many artwork inspired by Taiwan. Sharing inspirations, the selected artwork display and uncover both similarities and differences of cultural influences and creative expression through the forms of painting, photography, music, architecture, and archaeology. Through this exhibition, we hope to bring viewers from […]
Speaker: Li Jin, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan In the 1950s, Chinese incursion drove Tibetans in Sichuan to launch a guerrilla war. This war led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. Retrospectively assessing this war, Tibet’s monastic leaders have condemned it as a betrayal of the Buddhist virtue of non-violence. This talk seeks […]
9:00 - 10:00am 韩钢 Han Gang, East China Normal University:1980年代中国改革的高层政治格局 China's High-level Political Structures During the Reforms of the 1980s 10:15 - 11:15am: 肖冬连 Xiao Donglian, East China Normal University:农村改革与中国市场的转轨 Rural Reforms and China's Marketization 11:30 - 12:30: Robert S. Ross, Boston College, Fairbank Center Associate: The Origins of the New “Cold War”: U.S.-China Relations, […]
Speaker: Zeb Raft, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica The Shishuo xinyu, the fifth-century collection of anecdotes, is full of echoes. Stories can be repeated, in somewhat different form. Individual entries may juxtapose two accounts that are different, yet similar in certain respects. Common motifs figure prominently. How should we interpret this “echo effect”? This […]
Chair: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Associate and Organizer, Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Mary Alice Haddad, Professor of Government, East Asian Studies, […]
Read event summary here Speaker: Geremie R. Barmé, Editor, China Heritage From late 2018, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations. A century of political, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today, the past is living in to the present in ways that are […]
Co-hosted by International Society for Legal History , American Society for Legal History, The International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies Graduate Student Panel 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Chair: Tahirih Lee (FSU) Yue Jiang (Stanford) Commentator: Michael Szonyi (Harvard) Gender, Property, and Lineage in […]
Speaker: Pan Weilin, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute This talk will examine how the national system of China’s waste recovery and recycling took shape through the mass movements during the heydays of […]
Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Discussant: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore This paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor […]
Speakers: Julia Reichert, Director Steven Bognar, Director Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England The film profiles the launch of the Fuyao Glass factory in Moraine, Ohio, sited in a former General Motors plant. To launch the factory, Fuyao brought in hundreds of experienced Chinese […]