Events

Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speakers:Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, …

Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?

Liu Wenjin – Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》)

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speaker: Liu Wenjin, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022Chair/Discussants: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityJie Li, John …

Liu Wenjin – Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》)

He Zhaohui – The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speaker: He Zhaohui, Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022 Chair/Discussant: Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard UniversityMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/ Venue

Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen – China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Speakers:CHEN Long, Co-Founder and Partner, PlenumYANG Yuanchen, Economist, International Monetary Fund Moderators:Jinlin Li and Richard Yarrow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Chinese businesses employing tens …

Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen – China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?

In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN …

In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s

Jae-Jung Suh – Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia

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

Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University In this talk, …

Jae-Jung Suh – Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia

Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China

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

Speaker: Zhang Changdong, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Taxation is regarded as an important …

Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China

The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink

Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, …

The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink

Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan

Presented via Zoom

Speakers:Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking UniversityHui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks:William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators:Richard Yarrow …

Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan