Events

Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of […]

Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics”

Speaker: Sun Peidong (Associate Professor, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) Masterminded by Mao himself and drafted by […]

Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

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

Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series                                         

Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office

Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.  

Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded – Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping

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

Speaker: Sebastian Heilmann, President, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin; former Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; former research fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia

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

Panelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)) […]