Co-Sponsored Lectures
The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Wenchi Yu, Nonresident Research Fellow and international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS televisionEric Huang, Former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party, Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Anthony Saich, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for […]
Feng Song – Progress in China’s Electricity Market Reform and Assessing Its Impact on Generation Efficiency
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Feng Song, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Renmin University of China; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-China Project. Venue
2024 Harvard China Law Symposium – Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges
WCC, Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin the Harvard Law School China Law Association’s annual China Law Symposium, “Longevity: Building Resilient Bridges,” celebrating the Lunar New Year. This three-day event features lunch & dinner panels, concluding […]
Yu Dong – Exploration of Food Resources by a Neolithic Community in Northern China: Perspectives from Stable Isotope Analysis
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yu Dong, Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Noreen Tuross, Landon T. Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology, Harvard University Venue
Mingwei Song – Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Special Guests:Mu Ming, Science Fiction WriterYan Feng, Fudan University Cohosts:David Der-wei Wang, Harvard UniversityJie Li, Harvard Univeristy Presented via Zoom. Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5kFBIXkeQdSBPFNyJkoEAg#/registration Venue
Craig Allen – China’s Economic Development Model: Implications for US-Japan Relations
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Craig Allen, President, US-China Business CouncilModerator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University Venue
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 Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University When Christianity was introduced to China in the Ming and Qing dynasties, translations of sacred texts and stories of biblical […]
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 of domain-specific tasks (language learning, data extraction, etc.). The second workshop, on 5 April, will cover how to use open-source large language models on local devices, […]
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 adequately considered because the extent of the slowdown has not been understood and acknowledged. Even today international organizations, governments, and prominent public intellectuals endorse rosy […]
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 the late 1970s and early 1990s, a series of coproduced documentaries featuring Japanese entities in consistent partnership with China Central Television (CCTV), have emerged. Emblematic […]
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