Co-Sponsored Lectures
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 […]
Longmen Grottoes: New Perspectives
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA UNESCO World Heritage Site filled with magnificently carved Buddhist caves, the Longmen Grottoes are renown throughout the world for their enduring legacy to Chinese art. Join experts from the Longmen Grottoes Research Academy and leading scholars for a day of cutting-edge research, archaeological findings, preservation work, and a special viewing of the Longmen Digital Retrieval […]
Fox’s Spirit under Tiger’s Might: The Struggles for Identity and Integration among the Hakka Community in Southern Vietnam
Speaker: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Advanced Researcher, Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Robert Weller, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University There are around 823,000 ethnic Chinese in Vietnam, of which 95% are living in southern Vietnam. Due to historical and social backgrounds, the […]
Does Neighborhood Urban Form Influence Non-Motorized Transport in Chengdu, China? Toward Walkable Low-Carbon Cities
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Guan ChengHe, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project; Research Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design Sustainable urban form that encourages low-carbon travel can help respond to the environmental challenges associated with urbanization. Non-motorized transport (NMT) effectively reduces the per capita carbon footprint of city dwellers. From the concept of compact cities to smart growth policies, many have […]
River, Governance and Place: Sentiment in The Travels of Lao Can
Speaker: Hsu Hui-Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Sentiment has been viewed as a major force of modernization. Studies in the past decade are inclined to understand modern sentiment in early 1900s China […]