Co-Sponsored Lectures
Graham Allison – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History, Harvard University Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University This event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Listen again:
Wang Jianping – Upholding the Faith in an Atheistic Land: Flourishing Unofficial Islamic Publications in Contemporary China
Speaker: Wang Jianping, Professor of Islamic Studies (retired), Shanghai Normal University; HYI Library Research Grant recipient Chair: James Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/upholding-faith-atheistic-land-flourishing-unofficial-islamic-publications-contemporary-china
Wu Xinbo – Managing growing and expanding competition between China and the U.S.
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Wu Xinbo, Professor & Director Center for American Studies Dean Institute of International Studies Fudan University Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, […]
Victor Seow – Energy Transitions amidst Regime Change: Mining Coal in the Early People’s Republic of China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University The decade after the revolution of 1949 witnessed a China that was being made anew. The material transformation of society and economy that had been the goal of preceding regimes was realized to a hitherto unseen degree in the industrial edifice raised […]
Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and […]
Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and […]
David Shambaugh – Power Shift? America and China in Southeast Asia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: David Shambaugh, George Washington University Professor Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia, with a strong interest in the European Union and transatlantic issues. Before joining the faculty at George Washington, he held the positions of Reader in Chinese Politics at […]
The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
Weld Hill Research Building 1300 Centre St., Boston, MA, United StatesSurrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. Each of his images will be paired with a sister image taken in the same location by Arboretum explorer Ernest Henry Wilson. Then screen highlights […]
Martha Hanson – Heaven and Earth Are Within One’s Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
Room 469, Science Center 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins Part of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel, a PhD candidate from Boston University as they discuss their groundbreaking public opinion survey project in China. Starting in 2003, Saich developed a series […]
Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Part of the Asia Center Seminar Series
Lan Pei-Chia – Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University Chair: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute https://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families in Taiwan and Boston, my new book Raising Global Families examines how parents navigate transnational mobilities and negotiate cultural boundaries to cope with uncertainties and […]