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  • Paper Currency in the Early Ming Period Observed via Questions and Answers on the Provincial Examination

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: KAKINUMA Yohei, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26 Chair/Discussant: David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard University This talk has examined some aspects of people’s perceptions of paper currency in the early Ming period, drawing on the questions and excellent answers from the provincial

  • Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. This year, we are excited to host twelve panels featuring Harvard faculty and participants from around the world, as well as

  • Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Fan Dai — Decoupling Crisis: Subnational Climate Action and China’s Domestic Coal Challenge

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Fan Dai, Assistant Professor, International Climate Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, BerkeleyDiscussant: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program; Co-Chair, Arctic Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMore information coming soon.Fan Dai is an Assistant Professor in International Climate

  • Film Screening – Too Loud for the State—Chinese Rock n’ Roll on the March: Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Bastards 北京杂种 (1993)

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US–Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolGuest filmmaker (via Zoom Q&A):Zhang Yuan, Director of Beijing Bastards “Rock music was the only way young people could express what they were feeling.” —Zhang Yuan Join us for a special screening of Beijing Bastards (北京杂种, 1993), Zhang Yuan’s raw, unflinching, and influential portrait of China’s underground rock

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Courtney Fung — Can China Achieve its UN Ambitions?

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Courtney Fung, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Please note the different day and time for this Critical Issues talk.China presents itself as a supporter of ‘true multilateralism,’ with the United Nations as a bedrock institution of global governance. The United Nations’ truly global reach, China’s UN Security Council veto,

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Xiaobo Lü — Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, BerkeleyXiaobo Lü is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the relationships between fiscal policies, party-building, and state-society relations in authoritarian regimes, particularly in China. He is particularly interested in the formation

  • Urban China Lecture Series Featuring Song Niansheng — Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Song Niansheng, Tsinghua UniversityWhat can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? This talk deciphers the unexpected significance of Xita, a half-square-mile quarter in Shenyang, in Northeast China. It shows that over nearly four centuries, Xita has been shaped and reshaped by empire, war, migration, and urban transformation. The history of

  • China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Gangzhen She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate Venue

  • Modern China Lecture Series featuring Micah Muscolino — Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China

    Room K354, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Micah Muscolino, Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, University of California San Diego From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures remade both the arid, erosion-prone landscape of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Drawing from his recent book, Micah Muscolino discusses how

  • Critical Issues Confronting China series featuring Xi Lian — Christian Social Activism in Contemporary China

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xi Lian, David C. Steinmetz Distinguished Professor of World Christianity, Duke University Divinity School; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute In his Asian tour in 1920, Bertrand Russell noted the prominence

  • Peter Dutton

    Taiwan Workshop featuring Peter Dutton — What is the Legal Status of Taiwan and Why Does it Matter?

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Peter Dutton, Senior Research Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center; Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Professor, Government Department, Harvard University Taiwan’s political status often dominates headlines. Yet its legal status — the foundation of U.S. policy — remains underdiscussed. At this event, Paul Tsai China Center Senior Fellow Dr. Peter

  • HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender, Class, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, Publisher, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho, Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim, Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineHyun Mee Kim, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires, Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research