Co-Sponsored Lectures
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 […]
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, […]
Texas: From Carbon Emitter to Green Hydrogen Exporter – A Promising Sustainable Future
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment Texas, as the largest oil and natural gas producer in the United States, faces significant challenges in the […]
Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Former Sikyong (President), Central Tibetan Administration; Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Harvard University Asia Center's 17th Tsai Lecture, sponsored by […]
Grey zones: Opium Trade, Migrations, and Empires in Central and Northeast Asia, 1900s-1930s
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Niccolò Pianciola, Associate Professor of History, University of PaduaModerator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies By comparing the border […]
Norifumi Sakai – Between the Canon and the Field: Daoist liturgical manuals in Qing China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Norifumi Sakai, Associate Professor, Keio University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute […]
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, The City College of New York (CUNY) Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature; Professor […]
Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: Jérôme Doyon, Junior Professor at SciencesPo; author of Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao ChinaRespondent: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, […]
Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South […]
Jacob Eyferth – Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chu Xiaobai, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Chloë Starr, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale Divinity School […]