Speakers: Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS Selina Ho, Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Shen Dingli, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Faculty Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Kanti Bajpai, Director, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQV-W-SnD-Q&t=1s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/us-china-relations-where-were-headed-with-evan-feigenbaum?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Evan A. Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington, Beijing and New Delhi on a dynamic region encompassing both East Asia and South Asia. He is also the […]
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpd-2hqTopHdfnfVovpSg7mzMWFAZsH8Le After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iAuifWlgM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-crisis-of-chinas-investment-environment-with-lily-wu?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript for the event here. Speaker: Lily Wu, Chief Investment Officer, China Prosper Group In over 40 years of opening and reform (改革开放, foreign and domestic direct investment has been a critical economic growth driver, and change driver. However, both drivers face significant challenges today, which could limit their role or efficacy […]
Via Zoom Meeting Speaker: Olga Lomová, Charles University in Prague It is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry believed to be congenial to their new aesthetics. While Ezra Pound is a notorious example in the English-speaking world, Pauline Yu and others have also […]
Speakers: Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Alex Csiszar, Harvard University Kathryn James, Yale University Presented via Zoom. Registration Required Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C34LVzYgMuc&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/beyond-the-steppe-frontier-a-history-of-the-sino-russian-border-with-soren-urbansky Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Sören Urbanksy, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, was special in many ways. It not only divided the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and […]
Speaker: Audrey Tang, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation Moderator: Joan Donovan, Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system […]
Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars. The Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
https://youtu.be/fwwxMTfMxyE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rising-china-in-perspective-global-threat-or-great-power-competitor-with-ross-robert?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
https://youtu.be/LAi1v3xUTNk https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/long-live-the-digital-scholarship-project Read the transcript for the event here. Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project Helen Hardacre, Harvard University, Constitutional Revision Research Project It is difficult to start a digital scholarship project. Maintaining it for decades is […]
Speaker: Ann Heirman, Ghent University Buddhist texts generally prohibit the killing of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts, which contain strict guidelines on the preservation of all human and animal life. When these vinaya texts were translated into Chinese, they formed the core of Buddhist behavioural codes, influencing both monastic […]
Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]
https://youtu.be/pQ-2N-J47wE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-global-south-from-debt-diplomacy-to-dependency-with-jorge-heine Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa ( 994-1999), and Cabinet Minister in the Chilean Government Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar