Co-Sponsored Lectures
Ezra Vogel – China’s Development and Its Role in the Global Affairs
Wiener Auditorium, Taubman Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesKeynote Speaker: Ezra Vogel (傅高义）, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Panelists: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Richard Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of […]
David Huang – Accommodating America?: Understanding U.S. Influence in Xi’s Policy Toward Taiwan
The Ash Center invites you to a discussion with David Huang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University for a discussion to better understand how the U.S. has influenced Xi Jinping's policy toward Taiwan. This talk will be moderated by Ash […]
Xu Jian – The Legendary Yelang State in Southwest China, What, Where and by Whom? Rethinking the roles of historical writing and archaeology in reconstructing ancient history
Speaker: Xu Jian, Professor of Archaeology and Art history, Department of History, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University For decades, Chinese archaeologists have searched extensively in current Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan for remains of the legendary state Yelang, which is still out of […]
Jie Li – Gained in Translation: The Reception of Foreign Films in the Mao Era
Speaker: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Discussant: Professor Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Insitute, Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Insitute, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Although […]
Asia Responds to Trump in Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair: Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University Ronak Desai, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, India […]
Daisy Yan Du – Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association, 1937-1945
Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk examines animated filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (Manying, 1937-1945), which played an important role in shaping wartime film culture in Northeast China […]
Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in Beijing? Join Ambassador and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Nicholas Burns in conversation with Jeeyang Rhee Baum, Ezra Vogel, and Odd Arne Westad, moderated by Michael […]
Liao Yang – When Buddha *Tejaprabha Came to Yunnan: Regional Characteristics and His Place in the Local Pantheon
Speaker: Liao Yang (Professor, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute) Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of […]
A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesParticipants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy […]
Colin P.C. Jones – Searching for a Social Order: The Sociology and Afterlives of Law in Japanese-Occupied China
Speaker: Colin P.C. Jones, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Columbia 2017) Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University This talk connects the legal history of the Japanese empire to the broader history of legal and social thought in the twentieth century. It examines the design, execution, and […]
Fu Gang 傅剛 – A Study of the Western Han Bamboo Slip Text, “Fan yin,” in the Collection of Peking University 北京大學藏西漢竹簡《反淫》的整理與研究
Speaker: Fu Gang, 傅剛, Peking University Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, EALC, Harvard University The talk will be given in Chinese.
Xu Lanjun – Leftist Print Culture and New Notions of “Chineseness”: Hu Yuzhi, Shanghai Book Co., and Overseas Chinese Youth in Cold War Southeast Asia
Speaker: Xu Lanjun (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, the National University of Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute Chair/discussant: David Wang (Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk https://harvard-yenching.org/events/xu-lanjun-february-8-2018