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Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]
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Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women, much higher than China’s 23 […]
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Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University *Please note early (10 am) start time* Thangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There […]
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Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests.
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Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Speaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
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Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Speaker: Gao Xiaofei, Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Center Discussant: Christian Hess, Associate Professor, East Asian History, Sophia University, Tokyo Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series
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Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Discussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […]