Events

Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous […]

Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians

Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has won numerous prizes for his coverage of China, including a Pulitzer Prize— for a discussion of his new book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle […]

Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons

Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships […]

Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan […]

Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social, Economic, Political Network in the Mongol Empire

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Seol Paehwan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talkMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-%e2%80%95-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/ Venue

Yan Wenjie – Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Yan Wenjie, Professor, Political Communication, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Department […]

Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States

CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work […]

Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, […]

Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Ferris University  Discussant: Kristin Vekasi, Associate Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University […]

Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting  to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949, as […]