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Exhibition – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Organized by: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College ’20 Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 6, 2020; 4:15 p.m. Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Mahindra Humanities Center with additional support from Migrant Writers Singapore and Migrant Workers […]
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Paize Keulemans – Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History, Fiction, and Videogames
Paize Keulemans – Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History, Fiction, and Videogames
Speaker: Paize Keulemans, Princeton University What are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel? What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game? How is a character developed in text and in pixels, in words, painting, or on a (computer) screen? And how is the noise and confusion of a third-century battle digitally reproduced […]
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Qu Tongli – Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives
Qu Tongli – Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives
Speaker: Qu Tongli, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Amy Clark, College Fellow - Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University China has been the focus […]
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Wang Xiying – Intimacy, Desire, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing
Wang Xiying – Intimacy, Desire, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing
Speaker: Wang Xiying, Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Department of […]
Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power – China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights
Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power – China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights
Watch this event on YouTube: Listen to this event on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017 Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in […]
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Kwok-Leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
Kwok-Leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […]
Lan Yan – The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
Lan Yan – The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
Speaker: Lan Yan, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard; Chairman and CEO, Lazard of Greater China
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Alice Chen and Joseph Fewsmith – The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
Alice Chen and Joseph Fewsmith – The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
You're invited to a panel discussion on Taiwan's January 11th presidential and parliamentary elections with Alice Chen MPA/ID 2022 and Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston […]
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Yong Han Poh – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Yong Han Poh – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Speaker: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College, ’20 Chair: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University
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Wen-Chin Wu – How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data
Wen-Chin Wu – How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data
Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Christina Davis, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach […]
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Sean Sylvia – The Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: Evidence from Mystery Patients
Sean Sylvia – The Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: Evidence from Mystery Patients
Speaker: Sean Sylvia, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia
Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia
Read event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in […]
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Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming […]
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Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party
Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows […]
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Dirk van der Kley – Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
Dirk van der Kley – Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
Speaker: Dirk van der Kley, Program Director for Policy Research, China Matters Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In […]
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Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?
Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?
Read event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the current day CCP.
Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld – The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld – The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
Speakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
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Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
Speaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known […]
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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite – “The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai,” By Mao Zedong: History, Classical Commentary, and Politics.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite – “The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai,” By Mao Zedong: History, Classical Commentary, and Politics.
Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Taking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his "Classroom Notes" as its point of departure, this talk revisits the very early days after the fall of the last dynasty. It ties them to events in post-revolutionary France and the late Han period. It ends and begins […]
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Exhibition – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
Photographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities
Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard […]
Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
Speakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, […]
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Lenora Chu – Lessons from China: The World’s Largest Education System
Lenora Chu – Lessons from China: The World’s Largest Education System
Read event summary here Speaker: Lenora Chu - International Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor; Author, Little Soldiers Based on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems, and detail […]
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Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to […]
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Panel Discussion – Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
Panel Discussion – Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
Watch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speakers: Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public […]
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