Co-Sponsored Lectures
Legitimating State Power and Social Policies: A Comparative Study of Early Modern England, Tokugawa Japan, and Qing China
Speaker: Prof. He Wenkai (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI-Radcliffe Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Daniel Ziblatt (Government, Harvard University) This talk employs comparative historical analysis to examine a crucial linkage between the legitimation of state power and the adoption of social policies in three early modern states, England (1550-1700), […]
Xi Jinping: The Three Problems and the Two Issues
Speaker: Professor Joseph Fewsmith, Department of Political Science, Boston University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Tourism, Homeland, and Imaginaries: the percolating role of a Yi Jia Le family in a Sani Yi village in southwest China
Tourism has increasingly become a force that propels economic and social change in a wide range of ethnic villages in China. For the local ethnic minorities, engaging in the business of tourism means not only learning new livelihood skills but also adjusting the community’s imaginaries of their own homeland to outside tourist imaginaries.
Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin
Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPhilippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to […]
Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach, Harvard SEED for Social Innovation Moderator: Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University S354, […]
Living With A China Made Great Again
Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.; Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok […]
The Securitization of Management of Foreign NGOs and Foundations in China: What We Know So Far
Speaker: Mark Sidel, Law Professor, University of Wisconsin; Consultant (Asia), International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Visiting Chair in Community Foundations, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University (2016-2017)
Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history. This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats, and one former U.S. […]
Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition
Speaker: Professor Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
The Historical Geographic Background of the Silk Road
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ge Jianxiong, Professor of the Institute of Historical Geography, Fudan University, as well as the Librarian of Fudan University.
The Mining Industry, Caravan Transportation and Ethnic Mobilization in southwest China from the 17th to 19th Century
Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianxiong (Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/discussant: Prof. Michael Szonyi (Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center) Harvard-Yenching Institute Lunchtime Talk This talk will review the history of silver and copper mines on the borderland between Yunnan and Burma, in particular the social organization of miners in remote mountainous […]