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Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Chang-Min Yu — The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Speaker: Chang-Min Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University This talk will address a fundamental issue in the writing of film history: how do we articulate the relationship between modernity/modernization and film history without determination? […]
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Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
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China-North Korea Dynamics: Is Their Bond Eroding as North Korea Draws Closer to Russia?
China-North Korea Dynamics: Is Their Bond Eroding as North Korea Draws Closer to Russia?
Speaker: Seong-Hyon Lee, Associate, Harvard University Asia Center; Former China Director, Sejong Institute, SeoulModerator: Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University The talk will examine the evolving China-North Korea relationship, particularly as Pyongyang strengthens its ties with Russia and how this […]
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Kaiping Zhang — Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Kaiping Zhang — Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Speaker: Kaiping Zhang, Associate Professor, Political Science, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Yuhua Wang,Professor of Government, Harvard University China has carried numerous historical legacies of governance from the imperial and revolutionary eras into the digital age. How do these historical shadows clash with a modernized, networked society? Drawing on computational analyses of extensive data […]
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Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
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Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Fei Huang — Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Speaker: Fei Huang, Professor of Chinese History and Society, University of Tübingen Part of the Science and Technology in Asia series. Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
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Haiyang Lin — Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China
Haiyang Lin — Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China
Speaker: Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project The urgency of addressing climate change is evident, and wind energy plays a vital role in global strategies to reduce carbon emissions and transition toward a sustainable energy future. Accurate assessments of wind resources are crucial for this transition. However, current wind energy development and research heavily rely on […]
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Angela Zhang —U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
Angela Zhang —U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
Speaker: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law In this talk, I will pose the provocative question of whether America is now acting like China in its attempt to contain China’s technological rise. Amid the escalating Sino-U.S. tech war, the United States has built an unprecedented legal machine […]
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Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies. Participants will learn basic database concepts, use Nocodb for data storage, and explore how GenAI can assist in scraping, cleaning, and classifying data. The workshop will also cover fundamental analysis techniques for the resulting digital collection. Target […]
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冷战史研究与档案的开放和利用
冷战史研究与档案的开放和利用
Speaker: Zhihua Shen, Director, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University The presentation will be given in Chinese, with slides and Q&A in English and Chinese. 历史研究者的基本责任就在于揭开历史真相,尽可能地还原历史的本来面貌,而要做到这一点,就必须不断地发掘、梳理和解读原始档案和文献。本次讲座以中苏同盟起草、1958年炮击金门、周恩来与斯大林的黑海会谈、刘少奇与斯大林会谈等有关档案的利用与研究为案例,以此揭示冷战国际史研究与档案文献的开发与研究之间的复杂关系。 Why and how did the Cold War begin? The origins of the […]
Daniel Kritenbrink — America’s Future in East Asia
Daniel Kritenbrink — America’s Future in East Asia
Speaker: Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of StateModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register here. Venue
Eurasia From the East, 2024
Eurasia From the East, 2024
Speakers:David Wolff, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido UniversityNorihiro Naganawa, Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido UniversityAkihiro Iwashita, Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido UniversitySerhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University As we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine, […]
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Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Speaker: Anthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolDiscussant: Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The household registration system (hukou) is widely seen as a major factor contributing to inequality in China. Individuals’ benefits depend on where their registration is located, with rural residents […]
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Speaker: Jeongsoo Shin, Associate Professor, Korean Cultural Studies, The Academy of Korean Studies; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University From the late eighteenth century, Chinese scholars took a keen interest in the steles of early Korea. Some inscriptions on those steles were seen as material evidence of ancient Chinese […]