Events

Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy

Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government **Please register HERE no later than Friday, May 12.** NOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in advance to all seminar participants. Joseph Chan is professor of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. A leading scholar […]

Identity Politics and Organized Crime

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history in graduate school. Ramseyer graduated from HLS […]

What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will speak. Arne Westad, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, HKS, will moderate. Refreshments will be served. This event is cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]

Digital Research: Concepts, Current State, and Debates

Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Part of the Digital China Initiative Workshop Series As an introductory session for a series of workshops on digital tools and methods in China studies, this first session will be an open discussion on the nature of data, existing projects and research examples, exploratory exercises of sample DH tools, and debates on the advantages and disadvantages […]

Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992

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

Speaker: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University. Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.

Poetry Reading

Speaker: Dang Zi, Translator: Eleanor Goodman Zang Di, who has been honored three times as one of China’s top ten poets, is a featured poet at the Princeton Poetry Festival on October 5-6, 2017. His new collection, The Roots of Wisdom, translated by award-winning translator Eleanor Goodman, will be published at the same time by […]