Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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, […]
Speaker: Mark Sidel, Law Professor, University of Wisconsin; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University (2016-2017)
Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history. This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats, and one former U.S. […]
Speaker:Â Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk This talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous […]
Speaker: Prof. Kobayashi Ryosuke (Toyo Bunko; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Leonard van der Kuijp (Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunch Talk This talk will show how Tibet attempted to participate in the international community around the demise of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 by focusing on its relationships with the US and Japan. The sojourns of […]
Speaker: Dr. Richard Bush, Brookings Institution: Senior Fellow, the Richard H. Armacost Chair, the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center; former Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan Critical Issues […]