Cheng Li,  Director, John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.    

Speaker: Li Ling 李零, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University 北京大学中文系 Note: This event will be conducted in Mandarin.

Speaker: Nick Psyhogeos Nick leads the IP Licensing function at Microsoft, as President of Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary that owns, manages and licenses Microsoft’s patent portfolio.  In that role, Nick oversees the patent licensing strategy for Microsoft, including the Android licensing program. He manages a team of legal and business professionals responsible […]

Speaker: Tarun Das,  former Director-General and Chief Mentor of the Confederation of Indian Industries Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University Asia Center Seminar Series; co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Institute, Harvard University

Zhang Naiqi, the Minister of Food and democratic party leader, was denounced as one of the three leading "rightists" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) in China. Accusations against Zhang by other intellectuals were actively publicized through the news media. Intriguingly, rather than simply censoring "rightist voices," the CCP allowed the news media to publicize Zhang's contestation against the accusation, even when the CCP had the capacity to completely censor Zhang's rebuttal. The CCP by the early 1950s monopolized the ability to construct publicity and public opinion on party policies and political affairs by gaining tight media control through nationalizing the media and establishing a relatively effective censorship system. Thus, the CCP's effective media control itself does not fully explain Zhang's vulnerability to the accusation. Ultimately, Zhang was unsuccessful in contesting the public accusation, and was ultimately purged from most of his public positions.

Speakers: Professor Syaru Shirley Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Harry Harding, University of Virginia Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard University) This talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a crucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of social policies in three early modern states, England (1550-1700), […]

Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.

Philippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to […]

Speakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach,  Harvard SEED for Social Innovation Moderator:  Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University S354, […]