Co-Sponsored Lectures
Urban China Seminar Series featuring Tingting Lu – Collaborative Neighborhood Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Tingting Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University The COVID-19 pandemic is a governance challenge for nations and cities across the world. While early observations have primarily focused on nation-scale government actions, our research shows that neighborhood social capital also plays a key role in Chinese neighborhoods. Drawing from collaborative governance theory, we examine the horizontal and hierarchical […]
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower, Renewable Energy, and Rural Development in the PRC, 1949-1979
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard UniversityArunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, transnational history, and China-India history. Venue
Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin – Mitigating COVID Disinfodemic: Health Misinformation, Digital Literacy and Vaccination in Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Trisha Tsui-Chuan Lin, Professor, College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholar, 2022-23; Fulbright Senior Researcher, Harvard University, 2022-23 Chair/discussant: Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media algorithms has facilitated the viral spread […]
Stephen Halsey – Rocks and Bugs: Developmentalism and the Environment in Early Twentieth Century China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Stephen Halsey Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItfuuopzgpH9QA2pFC6FpjH_0wL_Nd7nB1 Venue
Zhou Zhenyu – The origin of ancient Austronesian: from the perspective of archaeological discoveries in Southeast China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhou Zhenyu, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue
Scott Kennedy – Xi Jinping’s About Face: Implications for China’s Economy, Politics, and Relations With the West
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics, Center for Strategic & International Studies. Lunch will be served for those joining us in person in […]
Wei Wei – Family Matters: Chinese Queer Politics Around the Rise of a Family-State
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Michael Bronski, Professor of the Practice In Media And Activism In Studies Of Women, Gender, […]
Evaluating the Impact of the Feed-in Tariffs on Solar PV and Wind Power Development in China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Changgui Dong, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration and Policy, Renmin University of China Dr. Changgui Dong's research focuses on energy and environmental economics, technological change, policy evaluation and China’s […]
US-China-India Triple Entente in Bangladesh
Presented via ZoomPanelists:Anu Anwar, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International StudiesMichael Kugelman, Director, South Asia Institute, The Wilson CenterGeoffrey Macdonald, Senior Advisor for Asia, International […]
Jie Gao – From Planned Economy to Planned Governance: Transformation of China’s Socialist Planning System
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jie Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Discussant: Isabella Weber, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst In China as […]
Li Chunyuan – Contextualizing the Numbers: grain prices in Yuan 元 dynasty China, 1250-1350
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Chunyuan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: David Yang, Associate Professor of Economics, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Seating is limited. Venue
Contesting Territory, Asserting Sovereignty beyond China’s Borders
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Darshana M. Baruah, Fellow, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceAndrew Chubb, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and International Relations, Lancaster UniversityIsaac B. Kardon, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerators:Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian StudiesJames Evans, Ph.D. Candidate in History, […]