Events

Jie Li — Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Mao’s China

Speaker: Li Jie, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined […]

Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness

Speakers: Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia. Yao Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have […]

Connecting the World-Island: What will China’s PEACE cable bring to Pakistan and East Africa?

Speakers: Motolani Agbebi, University teacher, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere (Finland) Tayyab Safdar, Post-Doctoral Researcher, East Asia Centre & Department of Politics, University of Virginia Roxana Vatanparast, Affiliate, Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies […]

Panel Discussion – Gaming with Chinese Characteristics

Speakers:  Heather Inwood, Cambridge University Nakamura Akinori, Ritsumeikan University Deng Jian, Peking University Special Guest: Zhu Jiayin, Founder/Editor of Chuapp Organizers: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Yedong Sh-Chen, Harvard University […]

Panel Discussion – Taiwan Studies: New Questions and Challenges

Speakers: Kevin Luo 羅巍, Tsinghua University Chih-Wei Chung 鍾秩維, Fu Jen Catholic University Su-Yon Lee 李時雍, National Taiwan University Jaewoong Jeon 全在雄, Harvard University Lawrence Yang 楊子樵, Yang Ming Chiao […]

Mengmeng Yang – The Syntax of “NP zhi (之) VP” in Old Chinese

Speaker: Mengmeng Yang, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This talk focuses on the syntax of the “NP zhi VP” (主之谓) structure (eg. 皮之不存,毛将安附?), which is one of the most typical and frequently used structures in Old Chinese. […]

Yang Lichao – Children’s Dimensions of Poverty: Qualitative Studies in Urban China

Speaker: Yang Lichao. Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University Poverty is multidimensional but with disagreement as to the most important dimensions. This is especially true of child poverty partly because children are seldom asked systematically to describe […]