Co-Sponsored Lectures
Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, […]
Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign Affairs UniversityMasako Suginohara, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Ferris University Discussant: Kristin Vekasi, Associate Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University […]
Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting to record life histories of Deaf individuals and construct the collective memory of Deaf workers in Chinese social welfare factories since 1958. After 1949, as […]
He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates […]
Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era […]
Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Fei, Associate Professor, Sociology, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Students of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated on the structural factors influencing group formation during social mobilization. This conventional model depicts members of opposing factions as pursuing collective interests that are predetermined […]
Chen Tuo – The Pope! A Utopian Model in Late Ming China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Tuo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of History, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program, 2023-2024 Chair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Associate Professor, History, Boston College; Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Venue
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 with a festive Lunar New Year social. For more information, including a detailed agenda, visit https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/cla/china-law-symposium/ Venue
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