Co-Sponsored Lectures
Chen Wei – How well has China’s family planning policy worked?
Speaker: Chen Wei, Professor, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Demography is destiny. China’s economic success has been importantly driven by its demographic changes which might also determine China’s future. At the center of the demographics […]
Huang Chang-Ling – Fighting for Seats: The Politics of Gender Quotas in East Asia
Speaker: Huang Chang-Ling, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar and Radcliffe Fellow, 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Mona Lena Krook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University The level of women’s political representation varies in East Asia. Taiwan is the leader with 38 percent of its national legislature comprised of women, much higher than China’s 23 […]
Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka
Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University *Please note early (10 am) start time* Thangka originally is a kind of scroll painting depicting Tibetan Buddhism images on textile. There […]
Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests
Join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for a discussion with Yao Li, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center, author of Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests.
Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Speaker: Gao Xiaofei, Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Center Discussant: Christian Hess, Associate Professor, East Asian History, Sophia University, Tokyo Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDiscussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and […]
Fred Hu and Graham Allison – Belfer Center Student and Fellow Session
Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student and Fellow Session with Fred Hu, Chairman of Primavera Capital Group, and Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of […]
Yiu Yuk-man Carine – Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes
Data and/in the Humanities
Speaker: Carol Chiodo, Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, Widener Library, Harvard University
China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Peter Huybers, Department of […]
Panel Discussion – Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia, 1919
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History; Interim Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University Heather Streets-Salter, Chair and Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Karen L. Thornber, Professor […]