Co-Sponsored Lectures
Identity Politics and Organized Crime
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEast 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 StatesPart 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 […]
Co-ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala
Elaine Conference Room 300, Chao Center, Harvard Business School 25 Harvard Way, Bostom, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Kellee Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sino-Japanese Relations: What Went Wrong after 1992
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Book Talk – The Futility of Law and Development: China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah J. Kroncke
China’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions: A Review of Current Bottom-Up Inventories
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Zhang Bo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing) Methane (CH4) is the second ranking anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG), with a global warming potential (GWP) 28 times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) on a mass basis. In contrast […]
Modular Construction: Building Decorated Tombs in Song and Jin North China
Speaker: Deng Fei, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and […]
Embodied Virtue: How Was Loyalty Edited and Performed in Late Imperial China?
Speaker: Chiung-yun Evelyn Liu, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/layered-knowledge-layered-sentiment-encyclopedic-writing-after-fall-dynasty
China’s Future Leadership: An Instant Analysis of China’s 19th Party Congress
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a panel discussion where experts weigh in with exclusive insight and opinions on China's 19th Party Congress. Watch this panel on YouTube: Listen again to this panel on Soundcloud: Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs […]
China Town Hall Featuring Susan Rice
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesChina Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections Join 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China. Featuring an interactive webcast with former UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and on-site discussion with Jeremy Goldkorn. Ambassador Susan E. Rice served President Barack Obama as national security advisor and U.S. permanent representative to the United […]