Co-Sponsored Lectures
Household Registration: A Tale of Two Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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 […]
Jeongsoo Shin — Can Korean Calligraphers Write Like Wang Xizhi? The Mujangsa Stele and its Reception in a Sino-Korean Context
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: 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, […]
Mark Baker — 𝘗𝘪𝘷𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢: 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘯𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘡𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘻𝘩𝘰𝘶
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mark Baker, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of East Asian History at the University of Manchester, UK. Moderator: Xiang Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Pivot of China (Harvard Asia Center, 2024) examines spatial inequality […]
Yu Zhao — The Effectiveness of China’s Emission Controls on Air Quality, Deposition and Health Burdens
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yu Zhao, Professor, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Alumnus (Postdoctoral Fellow) and Collaborator, Harvard-China Project Dr. Yu Zhao is a Professor in the School of Environment at Nanjing University. […]
Heejung Seo-Reich — The Emergence of the Aesthetic Subject in Zhuangzi
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Heejung Seo-Reich, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Sun Yat-Sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Director, Asia Center, […]
Webinar: The Global Impact of the United States Election
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Erica Chenoweth, Academic Dean for Faculty Development; Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJay Rosengard, Chair, Indonesia Public Policy Program, Rajawali InstituteAnthony Saich, Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia; […]
Yi-Chieh Lin — AI Meets Journalism: Rethinking Ethics, Efficiency, and Integrity in Taiwanese Newsrooms
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yi-Chieh Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, National Chengchi University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: John P. Wihbey, Associate Professor, Media Innovation and Technology, Northeastern University This study explores journalists’ […]
Michael Beeman — Walking Out: America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Beeman, Visiting Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford UniversityModerator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldeyrqzsvHt1-rpjNby98mM_q0kt89fUF#/registration Venue
Du Ying – The Cinematic Cold War Between the US and the PRC: Hong Kong, 1950s–1960s
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Du Ying, Professor, Chinese Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant, David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University This talk examines the policies […]
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of […]
HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research […]
Margarita Estévez-Abe — Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Advisor, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University Also via Zoom. […]