Events

Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China

Gund Hall 42 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

This discussion marks the opening of the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China, in the main gallery of Gund Hall at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. With the aim of encouraging further conversation about the present and future state of China’s architecture culture, the exhibition highlights several buildings in five thematic categories—cultural, regeneration, […]

Contemporary Architecture in China: ChinaGSD Forum 论坛

Please join the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's ChinaGSD for a Public Forum in conjunction with the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China. The Forum will be moderated Professor Li Xiangning (Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD Spring 2016, Deputy Dean and Professor in History, Theory and Criticism at Tongji University CAUP) with an opening address by Professor Wu […]

Workshop: China, East Asia and Global Value Chains

Participants: Gary G. Hamilton: Making Money: Taiwanese Industrialists and the Making of the New Global Economy (Co-authored with Kao Cheng-shu) Mark P. Dallas: Fragmented Development: China, East Asia and 'Emergent' Global Production Timothy Sturgeon: Compressed Development:   The Shrinking of Time and Space in an Interconnected World (Co-authored with  D. Hugh Whittaker, Tianbiao Zhu and Toshie Okita) […]

60th Anniversary Symposium

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.

Sinophone Studies: New Directions

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Listen again: “Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then, waves of scholarship […]

Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration

Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies 1:00pm - Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:00pm - Alan Romberg, Stimson Center