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Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Reading the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gK_MwpIZk&t=95s Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road Initiative Read the transcript of the event here. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge […]
Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose
Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose
https://youtu.be/NsS3JeQaEHQ Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 3 Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Sheena Greitens – China’s Approach to National Security under Xi Jinping
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Sheena Greitens – China’s Approach to National Security under Xi Jinping
https://youtu.be/rbTnfU4xTXA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-approach-to-national-security-under-xi-jinping-with-sheena-greitens?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Sheena Greitens, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an associate professor at the LBJ School, as well as a faculty fellow with the Clements Center for National Security and a distinguished scholar with the Strauss Center for International Security and […]
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China Economy Lecture Series featuring Chang-Tai Hsieh – Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
China Economy Lecture Series featuring Chang-Tai Hsieh – Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
https://youtu.be/-Uvi0veG_4w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/special-deals-from-special-investors-with-chang-tai-hsieh?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business We use administrative registration records with […]
Panel Discussion – Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
Panel Discussion – Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
Moderator: Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project Panelists: Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University Han Lu's work at the National Employment Law Project focuses […]
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Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
This event will be conducted in Mandarin. 冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅 與李娟對話 Panelists: Li Juan David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Bilingual reading from Winter Pasture: Li Juan, Talia O'Shea, Lily Sall Co-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China […]
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Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King – Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Matthew King – Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire
Speaker: Matthew King, Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director, Asian Studies Program, University of California, Riverside After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King […]
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Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed […]
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Li Zheng – Decarbonization Pathways of China’s Power Sector
Li Zheng – Decarbonization Pathways of China’s Power Sector
Speaker: Li Zheng, Executive Vice President, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University; Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
Speakers: Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch Thor Halvorssen, President, Human Rights Foundation Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Center Gregory Niemeyer, University Of California, Berkeley Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Martha Minow, Former Dean, Harvard Law School Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar – China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring David Dollar – China’s Economy Faces Domestic and External Challenges
https://youtu.be/y_V_PGvMy7w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-economy-faces-domestic-and-external-challenges-with-david-dollar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: David Dollar, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution China has gotten COVID-19 under control and is poised to bounce back strongly with 8% growth in 2021. But in the medium term it faces daunting domestic and external challenges. On the domestic side, demographic […]
Sarah Laursen – The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
Sarah Laursen – The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are they really? At least one third of China’s dynastic history—from its unification by the first emperor in 221 BCE until the fall of the Qing […]
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East Asian Digital Scholarship Series featuring Matthias Kaun – An Introduction to CrossAsia
East Asian Digital Scholarship Series featuring Matthias Kaun – An Introduction to CrossAsia
Speaker: Matthias Kaun, Director of the East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) has been developing and running the platform CrossAsia (https://crossasia.org) for more than a decade. It was launched in 2005 to provide an easy to use and central point of access to the printed and […]
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Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Featuring Tyler Jost: Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Featuring Tyler Jost: Institutional Origins of Miscalculation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Speaker: Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University Moderator: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Tyler Jost's research focuses on international security and Chinese foreign policy, with a particular interest in the design […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung – Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung – Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago Worshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou – Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou – Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
https://youtu.be/dPpcJSF2k4w https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/leveraging-liminality-shenzhen-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening-with-taomo-zhou?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Taomo Zhou, Assistant Professor of History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Immediately north of Hong Kong, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People’s Republic’s adoption of market principles and entrance into the world […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad – China’s Role in Global Finance
Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad – China’s Role in Global Finance
https://youtu.be/UdZOGL87u3s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-role-in-global-finance-with-eswar-prasad?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University; Senior Fellow and New Century Chair in International Economics, Brookings Institution; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. This lecture will discuss China’s economic prospects, policies, and reforms, and their implications for its role in […]
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Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc--oqzIqGdxB4YY7w9_4_JRVcTfeHNBh
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Gods of Leather and Lilies: Ancestral Spirits and Community Leadership Culture in the Buddhist Debates at Kōyasan
Gods of Leather and Lilies: Ancestral Spirits and Community Leadership Culture in the Buddhist Debates at Kōyasan
Speaker: Elizabeth Tinsley, University of California, Irvine Since the early fifteenth century, the monastic participants in the Risseigi debates at the Kōyasan esoteric Buddhist community have been promoted to membership in the “Myōjin-kō” confraternity. Although debate protocol was based on that of Kōfukuji’s, the process by which the debating priests were qualified for the confraternity […]
China Economy Lecture Series featuring Angela Zhang — Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
China Economy Lecture Series featuring Angela Zhang — Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
https://youtu.be/5uO0_So3Z7o https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinese-antitrust-exceptionalism-with-angela-zhang?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Angela Zhang, Director of the Center for Chinese Law and Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong In this webinar, Angela Zhang will discuss her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford University Press). This book examines the unique ways in which China regulates and […]
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Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar featuring Martin K. Whyte – China’s Hukou System: How an Engine of Development Has Now Become a Major Obstacle
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar featuring Martin K. Whyte – China’s Hukou System: How an Engine of Development Has Now Become a Major Obstacle
https://youtu.be/2H7cFvQqv-4 https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/chinas-hukou-system-with-martin-k-whyte?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Martin K. Whyte, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Emeritus, and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University As the People’s Republic of China has pursued economic development over the decades, a central dilemma concerns how to treat its […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss – A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
https://youtu.be/9WNJ1l1SIfs https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/a-world-safe-for-autocracy-with-jessica-chen-weiss?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University How does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions? The Chinese leadership has been at once a revisionist, defender, reformer, and free-rider in the international system—insisting rigidly on issues that […]
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Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis
Join the Harvard Human Rights Working Group and the Human Rights Foundation for a 2-day conference spotlighting engaging experts on the Uyghur crisis, to gain a holistic and multi-dimensional understanding of the genocide in this region. Panels will explore topics of authoritarianism, digital repression, complicity in the fashion industry, and the separation of Uyghur families. […]
Special Event featuring Xiaotong Feng – Rural Revitalization: China’s “Ace” in Dealing with Western “Competition”
Special Event featuring Xiaotong Feng – Rural Revitalization: China’s “Ace” in Dealing with Western “Competition”
https://youtu.be/JDPcaAYYI2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-revitalization-chinas-ace-in-dealing-with-western-competition-with-xiaotong-feng?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Reading the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Xiaotong Feng, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Discussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University In the past few years, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s […]
China Social and Economic Symposium: The Evolving Role of US and China in the Global Economy
China Social and Economic Symposium: The Evolving Role of US and China in the Global Economy
Panelists: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University; Former Secretary of the Treasury; Former Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; President and CEO of Asia Society; President of Asia Society Policy Institute; Chairman of International Peace Institute Jin Liqun, President and […]
Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos 科幻中國：异形，异次元，异托邦
Sci-fi China: Avatars, Aliens, Anthropos 科幻中國：异形，异次元，异托邦
Panelists: Dingru Huang, Harvard University Jannis Chen, Harvard University Dihao Zhou, Yale University Michael O’Krent, Harvard University Emily Xueni Jin, Yale University Please join us for a workshop on Chinese science fiction with writers Han Song, Egoyan Zheng, Regina Kanyu Wang, and Chen Qiufan. Five young scholars will present their latest research. The event is […]
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Gender Studies Workshop – Acting the Part: Gender and Performance Onstage
Gender Studies Workshop – Acting the Part: Gender and Performance Onstage
Presented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LZDsfUQ1Rwm2YW8IYxGS-A Gender as a form of performance is nowhere more clearly articulated than on the theater stage (and in opera-based films). On stage, the male and female characters are enacted by artistic mimesis based on a set of assumptions about what constitutes maleness and the femaleness. Theater is also […]
Kazunori Mizushima and Mahan Moalemi: Futurisms and East Asian Media Ecologies
Kazunori Mizushima and Mahan Moalemi: Futurisms and East Asian Media Ecologies
Speakers: Kazunori Mizushima, Professor of Cultural Studies, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan Mahan Moalemi, PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University. Kazunori Mizushima's presentation, From Neo-Tokyo to Neo-China and […]
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Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis
Join the Harvard Human Rights Working Group and the Human Rights Foundation for a 2-day conference spotlighting engaging experts on the Uyghur crisis, to gain a holistic and multi-dimensional understanding of the genocide in this region. Panels will explore topics of authoritarianism, digital repression, complicity in the fashion industry, and the separation of Uyghur families. […]
Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture featuring Wang Jisi – China and America: Is Peaceful Competition Possible?
Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture featuring Wang Jisi – China and America: Is Peaceful Competition Possible?
https://youtu.be/fiQ4ZMO9mpQ https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-america-is-peaceful-competition-possible-with-wang-jisi?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Wang Jisi, Professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University Wang Jisi is a professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies(IISS), Peking University(PKU). He […]
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Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Nepal, India, and China
Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Nepal, India, and China
Panelists: Sudha Ramachandran, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai Bhaskar Koirala, Director, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies Frank O’Donnell, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center Xiaoyu Pu, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, […]
Teng Fei – Re-estimating the Stranded Assets of the Coal Power Sector in China: Is It Too Big To Fail?
Teng Fei – Re-estimating the Stranded Assets of the Coal Power Sector in China: Is It Too Big To Fail?
Speaker: Teng Fei, Associate Professor in the Institute of Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University; Deputy Director of the Berkeley-Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change Teng Fei's research […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Luke Patey — How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Luke Patey — How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions
https://youtu.be/Fq1KVYYnIYc https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/how-china-loses-the-pushback-against-chinese-global-ambitions-with-luke-patey?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Luke Patey, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies At a time when many are fixated on US-China strategic competition, how will China’s relations with the rest of the world shape its future power? From its Belt and Road Initiative linking Asia and Europe, to its "Made in China 2025" strategy to […]
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Lu Mai – The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
Lu Mai – The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
Speaker: Lu Mai, Vice-Chairman, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Discussants: Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic […]
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East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
Summer is coming, but field research in East Asia still seems to be quite impossible. How to spend the summer doing research efficiently? How do you utilize the databases in […]
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