Co-Sponsored Lectures
Sophie Ling-chia Wei – A Sage Embellished with Elements of “Chinoiserie”: The Making of Jesus in the Jesuit Figurist Translations of Chinese Classics
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian […]
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Introductory Workshop
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The first workshop, on 23 Feb 2024, will introduce basic GenAI concepts, writing prompts, and examples […]
Daniel H. Rosen – Spillover Implications of a China Growing 0-2%
Wex-434ab Conference Room Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Camrbidge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel H. Rosen, Founding Partner, Rhodium Group Educators, policymakers and business leaders need to decide how to respond to the implications of China’s economic slowdown. Options have not been […]
Ma Ran – Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ma Ran, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair: Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Spanning […]
Julie Tian Miao – State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University […]
Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of […]
The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan Representative to the United States Harvard-ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States, […]
Wu Helin – From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wu Helin, Associate Research Fellow, India Study Center, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, Indian Studies In China Program, 2023-24 Discussant: Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, […]
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local […]
Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines, 1927–1949
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aaron William Moore, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue